Seth Godin on Reinventing Education (Stop Stealing Dreams)

Seth Godin is one of the most generous people I've ever met. He's an American entrepreneur, speaker, and the author of 21 bestsellers that have been translated into 39 languages.

Seth Godin, most of all, is a teacher. A few years ago, he wrote a manifesto on education titled "Stop Stealing Dreams: What Is School For?" This free e-book has been downloaded over 4 million times.

Because I'm a teacher too and because, without exaggeration, Seth Godin is one of my heroes, I invited him to have a chat with me about some of the ideas in his manifesto.

I'm so grateful I had the chance to talk to Seth for 40 minutes and I hope you'll enjoy listening to him. I always do.

(You can watch the episode on YouTube -- https://youtu.be/DivRzYrs8BY)

Links

• Download and read "Stop Stealing Dreams" (illustrated version) - https://static.altmba.com/share/Stop_Stealing_Dreams_altMBA_200506.pdf
• "Stop Stealing Dreams" (text-only version) - https://seths.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/stop-stealing-dreams6print.pdf
• Read "Stop Stealing Dreams" on Medium - https://medium.com/@sethgodinwrites/stop-stealing-dreams-4116c7dbff7b
• Watch Seth Godin's "Stop Stealing Dreams" TED talk - https://youtu.be/sXpbONjV1Jc?si=iknhlQMf7tSePJmX
• Seth Godin's website - https://www.sethgodin.com/
• Seth Godin's blog - https://seths.blog/

• My website -- https://fabiocerpelloni.com/

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:26 Stop Stealing Dreams

06:15 Solving interesting problems

07:40 What to teach

13:00 The Drinking Bird

15:24 Teachers

19:30 Textbooks

25:40 Choosing what to study

28:50 Conforming

32:05 Passion

35:23 Creating

38:48 What is school for?