A Better Pill To Swallow
Just a spoonful of humor helps the medicine go down. Inspired by his brother’s suicide David unleashes his outlandish banter and passion for mental health with his good friends and experts alike. He challenges the over-medicated status quo, asking questions and exploring new holistic alternatives with his guests from a wide array of experience and discipline.
A Better Pill To Swallow
34. Teaching Young Teens, Finding Purpose, and Shaping Our Future
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On this week’s episode, I share my conversation with Karl Mauks-Kopke — eighth grade math teacher and not-so-secret philosopher. Karl is a dear friend and one of the most thoughtful people I know. (Some call him heaven.)
We talk about Karl’s work inside the middle school classroom, including how he motivates kids who don’t always see the point of school, or math, and why learning math is a lot like weightlifting. Karl explains his reverence for his students and how he fuels his own sense of purpose in his work.
From there, we zoom out into some of the bigger things kids and adults are dealing with right now, including screen time, AI, and how automation continues to shift our cultural views of education and work. We zoom even further out to discuss his fundamentally optimistic outlook on where we might be headed as a culture. And our shared sense of humor does not take a back seat throughout.
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