Jul 1, 2026 · 30 min · 10 segments
##### July 1, 2026 * * * # Raising Reflective Rebels We’re faced with a silent epidemic of obedience, a pervasive failure to become outraged by outrageous things. Adults whose highest accolade for…
Alfie KohnHost
The reality is that you need a questioning stance just to think well for intellectual progress.
The people who have made great strides in our understanding across all different disciplines are people who refuse to take things at face value, to accept everything they've been told.
Richard Feynman actually defined science as the belief in the ignorance of authority.
This podcast proceeds from, how should I put it, a need to scrape down and ask the radical questions, the root questions, rather than taking those for granted and just fiddling around with the details of implementation.
I'm critical of traditional school instruction, partly because the intellectual disadvantages it presents to students get in the way of deep thinking.
But at the same time, traditional instruction tends to discourage kids from objecting.
In other words, it makes for shallow learning, but it also makes for passive acceptance.
If the emphasis is always on right answers that kids are supposed to swallow and then spit back on command, they're not doing any thinking.
The reality is that you need a questioning stance just to think well for intellectual progress.
The people who have made great strides in our understanding across all different disciplines are people who refuse to take things at face value, to accept everything they've been told.
Richard Feynman actually defined science as the belief in the ignorance of authority.
This podcast proceeds from, how should I put it, a need to scrape down and ask the radical questions, the root questions, rather than taking those for granted and just fiddling around with the details of implementation.
I'm critical of traditional school instruction, partly because the intellectual disadvantages it presents to students get in the way of deep thinking.
But at the same time, traditional instruction tends to discourage kids from objecting.
In other words, it makes for shallow learning, but it also makes for passive acceptance.
If the emphasis is always on right answers that kids are supposed to swallow and then spit back on command, they're not doing any thinking.
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