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Ep 301: Natasha Badhwar Lives the Examined Life

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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How Do You Protect Your Kids From Toxic Situations?

Sally Kohn: I've always sort of believed that the just the way that we think about schooling is fundamentally wrong and broken. The current system was designed in the early 19th century to turn out workers for the industrial revolution so you have kids of the same age starting together starting the same bunch of subjects everything proceeds in a particular way. Today it doesn't seem to really do anything for the kids, much of their education comes from outside either through living life or through the internet but there is a lot of toxicity even within schools as well. She says when she finally came out of her own school she was in many ways full of rage for the system that marginalized a majority of the children

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