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Radical Personal Finance

The Untold History of School That You Probably Don’t Know (2 of 2): Interview with Brett Veinotte, Founder of the School Sucks Project RPF0090

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today we have Part 2 of my interview with Brett Veinotte on the history of school. If you haven’t heard it yet, start with yesterday’s show! Joshua Links: Brett’s website: www.schoolsucksproject.com Gatto’s book: An Underground History of American Education Dorothy Sayers: The Lost Tools of Learning The Story of Two Buses

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host. Today is Tuesday October 28, 2014.

0:06.3

And today I'm releasing part two of my interview with Brett from the School Sucks Podcast.

0:17.0

Yesterday it was all about the history of school. Today is about some of the solutions and a continuation of our conversation. I hope you enjoy today's show.

0:24.0

I think this is one where if you didn't hear yesterday's show, you will want to go back and

0:29.2

hear it.

0:30.2

If you need to find it online yesterday part one can be found at radical

0:33.6

personal finance dot com slash 89 and today is episode 90 and today is

0:40.1

radical personal finance dot com slash 90 if you need to reference the show notes.

0:44.0

Stay tuned at the end of the interview.

0:45.6

This interview portion is just about an hour long, but I'm releasing an essay just simply

0:51.1

that I found that I think would be interesting to you also at the end of today's show.

0:55.2

So feel free to just simply stop after the interview or feel free to continue on and enjoy the

1:00.9

essay that I just thought was incredibly thought-provoking about what color of bus do your children ride?

1:10.0

What I just observed is I observed that the average three or four year old that I knew was

1:16.6

precocious and interested in life and happy and loves learning. I have a one yearyear-old son and he loves to learn.

1:24.2

You can see it.

1:24.8

Children love to learn.

1:27.0

And then I noticed that the average 18-year-old that I knew,

1:30.2

or even many of the average 30-year- olds that I knew, hate learning.

1:34.8

And I said, what is wrong here?

1:37.0

The only thing that we've effectively done is to taught people to hate learning.

1:40.8

And how did this happen?

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