27 min

Marine and the Hippie 221016 S03E02- Dumb and Dumber-est-er-est The Marine and the Hippie

    • News Commentary

In this dialogue, the failure of post modern education, in the US specifically, but across the world more generally, to promote excellence, or even standards in education.  The notion that all deserve education is both a good and bad thing.  On the one hand, universal education has led to lifting millions out of superstition and ignorance, and has allowed them to advance in technology, art, music and science.  On the other hand, it has created a one-size-fits-all model which is simply inappropriate for a number of people, especially those whose aptitudes lie in other directions, and the insistence that these individuals remain in the same educational system as those who actually want to learn and have the ability to excel in class tends to draw resources from the students who care enough and have the ability to learn.  But the issue is not "not education" or "private home school" but taking the priorities of industry and putting them on the back burner to restore a sense of education as a dialogue between teacher and student.

Contact us at marineandhippie@gmail.com and @marine_hippie at Twitter.

See our Website at marinehippie.com

Also check out Dylan's blog at observationsfromthespectrum.org

Also check out @supernova_earth (Doc) and @geziandme (Dylan) on Twitter

Show Credits


"The Marine"- Doc Stodden
"The Hippie"- Dylan Netter
Show Direction and Web- Dylan Netter
Show Production- Doc Stodden

Musical Elements used in this show (No samples cleared)


Mozart- "The Turkish March" (segment)
Matthew Sweet- "Sick of Myself" (segment)
David Bowie- "The Man who Sold the World" (segment)
Travelling Flower Band- "Hiroshima" (segment)

#podcast #politics #endtheduopoly #education #truth #criticalthinking #philosophy #ideas #problems #solutions #together #democrats #greenparty #republican #love #change #UBI #GND #M4A #mediocrity #excellence #capitalism

In this dialogue, the failure of post modern education, in the US specifically, but across the world more generally, to promote excellence, or even standards in education.  The notion that all deserve education is both a good and bad thing.  On the one hand, universal education has led to lifting millions out of superstition and ignorance, and has allowed them to advance in technology, art, music and science.  On the other hand, it has created a one-size-fits-all model which is simply inappropriate for a number of people, especially those whose aptitudes lie in other directions, and the insistence that these individuals remain in the same educational system as those who actually want to learn and have the ability to excel in class tends to draw resources from the students who care enough and have the ability to learn.  But the issue is not "not education" or "private home school" but taking the priorities of industry and putting them on the back burner to restore a sense of education as a dialogue between teacher and student.

Contact us at marineandhippie@gmail.com and @marine_hippie at Twitter.

See our Website at marinehippie.com

Also check out Dylan's blog at observationsfromthespectrum.org

Also check out @supernova_earth (Doc) and @geziandme (Dylan) on Twitter

Show Credits


"The Marine"- Doc Stodden
"The Hippie"- Dylan Netter
Show Direction and Web- Dylan Netter
Show Production- Doc Stodden

Musical Elements used in this show (No samples cleared)


Mozart- "The Turkish March" (segment)
Matthew Sweet- "Sick of Myself" (segment)
David Bowie- "The Man who Sold the World" (segment)
Travelling Flower Band- "Hiroshima" (segment)

#podcast #politics #endtheduopoly #education #truth #criticalthinking #philosophy #ideas #problems #solutions #together #democrats #greenparty #republican #love #change #UBI #GND #M4A #mediocrity #excellence #capitalism

27 min