November 16

Ep. 0173: DHP Heroes: John Taylor Gatto (w/Richard Grove & Brett Veinotte)

John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018) was an award-winning public school teacher before leaving that career to become an outspoken critic of conventional schooling.

In this episode, CJ is very pleased to be joined by Richard Grove of Tragedy & Hope and Brett Veinotte of School Sucks to discuss Gatto’s life, legacy, and influence.

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November 7

Ep. 0172: The Voluntary Difference (What CJ said at Harvard)

This episode contains CJ’s presentation from the Sound Education podcast conference held at the Divinity School of Harvard University in November, 2018.

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • The differences he’s noticed (for both teacher & learner) between a conventional classroom setting on the one hand, and podcasting on the other
  • His belief that these differences are largely due to the fact that a typical classroom setting is less voluntary and revolves around extrinsic motivations, whereas something like podcasting is purely voluntary (for both teacher & learner) and revolves around intrinsic motivations, and why the latter is superior in most important ways to the former

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  • “Teacher Liberation” (an excellent Ted Talk by Joel Hammon that also addresses some of the ways in which voluntary educational relationships are superior to nonvoluntary ones, for both teachers and students)
  • A Ted Talk by Daniel Pink, author of Drive

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