José Andrés
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675 appearances
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3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
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But the schools and education go way beyond America and go back in time. There was always an interest for... writing and teaching and sharing knowledge. And obviously the very few lucky ones, centuries and centuries ago, were the ones that were able to acquire that knowledge.
Yes, but I think starting people off at five years old and sitting them in classes all day, that's relatively new in human history. This is what I'm talking about, this sitting people in classrooms all day as children. This is relatively new in human history. This is not something that people did hundreds and hundreds of years ago.
When you think about all the great scholars of the past, yes, they certainly learned in school. They didn't do it the way they're doing it today.
I'm not an expert on that front, but I can tell you when my daughters began going to school, my wife decided to take them to Montessori school. That's where everybody's in the same grade, right? Very much. But the type of learning and the type of teaching and the method of Montessori, I was fascinated by.
I was so fascinated that I almost felt like as a dad, I had to go to a school to learn the Montessori system myself because I thought it was great. I thought it was giving my daughters a great framework to understand how to be themselves, how to grow, how to organize themselves, giving them the freedom to become the young woman they are becoming.
So for me, just watching them going through, when they were four or five, going to Montessori, I thought that was amazing because I saw little human beings that they were far away smarter, I think, than when I was at their same age. Was not a system of education that was used guiding them like cows or like horses when they put, how do you call this thing? The blinders? No, it was the contrary.
It was... opening their world, not only 360, but almost three-dimensionally, giving them options for them to be their own owners of their destiny, I will say. I think that's why my daughters became so highly opinionated. And so, Daddy, thank you for your opinion, but let me tell you, it's something else here. Okay, okay, all right? And I love it. So...
Yeah, I'm not an expert on education or ICU point. But still, I'm not going to lie to you. I wish that in the same time, the same way I told you I didn't go through proper education. In many ways, I wish I received a slightly more proper education. Like I learned business hitting the wall every time. You know, Winston Churchill said,
They claim, he said, that success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. I had a lot of successes, but they had my share of failures too, like I'm sure everybody does. But what makes the difference between looking down and never... moving again or... Picking up the pieces. Picking up the pieces and let's do it again is enthusiasm. That's a great quote.
Failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. That's a great quote. Well, I don't know about skis.
You know, every phrase that is a good phrase and they don't know who did it. Right. Let's give it to Worcester Church.
Or Socrates. There's always a bunch of those. But whatever it is, it's accurate. It's definitely accurate. I just think that there's a lot of different roles in life. And the problem with traditional school is that they're preparing you for a job.
And I think there's a lot of very creative people that would be served better if they had a more open-ended education and they were allowed to just pursue their interests and be excited about certain things and just get a rudimentary education in other things. That's just my opinion because I think there's certain people that are – they just don't fit in with the regular nine-to-five life.
It's just not for them. And like I said, you can call it ADHD, whatever you want to call it. All my friends, everyone I hang out with, I don't know anybody that's like built for regular life.
Yeah, on that I feel I'm more in your club. I think the best university is the university of life.
Yes. As long as you're really engaging. As long as you're really doing something and really challenging yourself and really applying yourself to something. That's, yeah, I agree with you. And, you know, you have to have a lot of, I think the more interest you have, the more things you're fascinated by, the broader your understanding of human beings will be and the better your life will be.
Yeah, and engaging. Yes, engaging. I know lately I've been... you know, taking the taxi ride or the Uber ride. I drive myself sometimes, but I'm realizing, for example, the most fascinating moment is when I go back to use the subway. It's just... And just talk to people.
Or see people, people watch. Well, I mean, in your case, everybody will recognize you. In my case, yeah, people may recognize me too, obviously in D.C., New York. And then things happen. So you have to engage for all these things of education, as you said, to happen. Because, yeah, it's the only way things happen. I mean, you know, I have this new book.
This is another commercial, Change the Recipe, which I'm touring right now. And I say one of the quotes I give is very important to me. I mean, it's a phrase probably you heard often many times before that life starts at the end of your comfort zone. You and I were talking about education. That means that the true education happens at the end of your comfort zone. Right.
Because if you are not pushed to the limits... What it is is what it is and that's it. You don't need to know anything else. You don't need to learn anything else. You're in a safe space. You're in your cube. You're in your room. Everybody's protecting you and the system protects you and you are okay. The only thing, the only moment will become interesting is when you leave that room of comfort.
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