Why Do We Have To Go To School?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Why does school exist? When did kids start going, and why is it mandatory? Why are there 12 grades in school? Why do we call teachers by their last names? In this episode, we get schooled on school by sociologist Emily Rauscher and National Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson.
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| 0:00.0 | This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Jane Lintholm. |
| 0:28.2 | In this podcast, we take questions from curious kids just like you. |
| 0:32.5 | From literally all over the world, we've gotten questions from kids on all continents, |
| 0:38.0 | except for Antarctica, which makes sense because there's not really a permanent resident |
| 0:42.2 | population of kids there. |
| 0:43.8 | Anyway, you send your questions on whatever you're curious about from wherever you are in |
| 0:49.6 | the world and we find answers. |
| 0:52.8 | We get to learn something new with every episode. |
| 0:56.7 | For kids here in the United States and Canada, the end of summer and beginning of fall |
| 1:01.6 | often means the start of... |
| 1:04.1 | A new school year. |
| 1:12.2 | New pencils, new desks, new routines, new books and workbooks, sometimes new teachers and |
| 1:17.9 | friends, even new schools sometimes. |
| 1:21.3 | And that's got a lot of you curious. |
| 1:23.4 | Hi, my name is Marcel. |
| 1:26.3 | I'm 10 years old. |
| 1:27.9 | I'm from Bogota, Colombia. |
| 1:30.6 | And my question is, why does school exist? |
| 1:34.4 | I'm Emily Raucher. |
| 1:36.1 | I'm an associate professor of sociology at Brown University. |
| 1:40.6 | In addition to teaching college students, professors also do research and Emily Raucher |
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