Scott Barry Kaufman: What type of smart are you?
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Humanistic psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman started thinking about human potential as a teenager, when he realized he and other students in his high school's special education program were not being given the tools they needed to learn and self-actualize. In this episode, Scott sits down with Andrew to share his journey, discuss our education system, and re-define Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We spent so much time in our school system right now |
| 0:02.8 | evaluating, evaluating, evaluating |
| 0:05.2 | that we have no time left over to actually activate |
| 0:07.7 | the potential at all. |
| 0:08.6 | It's like, what are we doing here people? |
| 0:11.4 | We're devoting virtually 100% of our time to be like, |
| 0:15.6 | okay, you know. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's stuff, did you learn it? |
| 0:18.5 | Here's stuff, did you learn it? |
| 0:19.6 | Here's stuff, did you learn it? |
| 0:20.4 | Exactly, here's your test. |
| 0:22.2 | Here's your score, here's your score next. |
| 0:23.9 | Here's your next score, here's your next score. |
| 0:25.5 | It's soul, it's, I mean, for these students, |
| 0:27.8 | it's soul sucking, right? |
| 0:29.5 | So I want to kind of put the soul back into, |
| 0:31.9 | or the human, that might have sounded too willow, |
| 0:34.6 | but I want to put the human back |
| 0:36.4 | into the education system, |
| 0:39.3 | where we treat students as human first, |
| 0:41.0 | and I think that we could have self-actualizing schools, |
| 0:44.6 | where the schools care first and foremost |
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