Steve Levitt
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962 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
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Actually, the way I pitch it is,
was deeply affected by another one of the guests that we had on the show, David Yeager, who's a psychologist at University of Texas at Austin.
It's interesting, when you can get a set of parents and kids into the room who are potentially interested in going to your school, I talk only to the students.
Everyone else in the room talks only to the adults, but I just turn to the kids and I say, hey, I'm really embarrassed to have to say this, but my generation, me, your parents,
We all have been telling you a complete set of lies.
We've been telling you that if you work hard and you get good grades and you do a little bit of volunteering, then you'll get into a great college and you'll go to college.
And after you graduate, you'll have a great career.
And it's all a set of lies.
Because it is.
What we're teaching kids doesn't make sense.
By the time they get to high school, nobody's engaged.
And the saddest part for me is watching some of my students at the University of Chicago.
These are the students who've won the high school lottery, right?
They've done all the things right.
They've been valedictorian and they've gotten great SATs and ACTs.
And they get to the U of C, one of the most exclusive schools in the world.
And they don't want to learn.
They don't care the slightest bit about learning.
All they want to do is get A's.
They want to check boxes.
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