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39 - Gabor Mate

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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Why Kids Aren't Paying Attention in School

The reason we've seen so much more ADD now is not because of some genetic explosion Which is totally implausible. It's because the conditions have become so stressed And that panel conditions have becomeSo difficult That kids are dissociating as a way of dealing with their environment Isn't it also a response to the stultifying, ridiculously boring environment of most schools? I would design the school system we have right now Yeah, there's an internal logic to it all that's pretty frightening Have you ever heard of James Prescott's work on violence? He wanted to see if there was a relationship between On the one hand, the things we're talking about here The amount of physical contact between infants and

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