Scott Barry Kaufman
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697 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2019
last heard Jul 2022
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It's a natural reaction.
to any normal human being saying that you're not capable of doing anything in your life.
Therefore what we need to do, our task is to reduce his anxiety by showing him his highest strengths.
Now that's a whole different way of framing the whole IEP, the whole purpose of education of of that child than the way that it normally is treated.
Absolutely is.
I mean, that's why there's prejudice.
You know, it is a uh it serves us well in a lot of instances.
Like imagine going through the world where you couldn't categorize anything into any category, you would be sitting on people instead of chairs.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um, so clearly that's not uh it it it did serve us well in the course of human evolution, but it
It leads us astray and it especially in a school system where the categorization purpose is to is to really target certain level of challenge, level of content based on a a paucity of information about the child, that's very problematic because you're setting up uh self-fulfilling prophecies.
without you even realizing it.
You know, and then, you know, it's like I stay in um remedial classes till eighth grade and then I say, Hey, you know, I'm still in remedial classes they're like, Ha ha, we told you.
It's like But you're the one who put me in remedial classes for eight grades.
The SPK school.
It would look like a school that are exists called Bridges Academy.
Um I visited them and um they uh just started a training program for Toys Exceptional.
One of their early faculty members, one of their first faculty members, and they really get those kids.
You know, I I feel like when people ask me to design a school, you know, I feel like it takes a lot of hubris to say you
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