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Ep 330: Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the Line

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Education System and the Industrial Revolution

I often feel that there are many frames that we operate within which are artifacts of a time gone by. I think as early as the late 1800s, this was actually widely recognized. We've really been in a situation for a long time where education hasn't made sense but it continues because it's useful for weeding people. And so while it doesn't really teach you what it claims to learn, it does come up with an arbitrary system of tasks and see who's better at solving them.

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