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10/07/2009
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11,628
Episode: #05129
Alison Gopnik says babies are already as smart as they can be and have incredibly powerful ways of learning about the world. (06:40)

Episode: #05118
Obama indoctrinates America's school children, Tucker Carlson reveals Muslims' influence on textbooks, and Tony Danza teaches high school. (06:18)

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08/03/2009
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13,767
Episode: #05104
Stephen cures Dominic Philip's reading habit by sending him an entire box of books and forcing him to read every last one of them. (02:56)

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07/30/2009
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21,207
Episode: #05103
Educators ban man-words from textbooks, and Stephen discovers America's newest pop sensation, Movits! (03:55)

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07/27/2009
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57,041
Episode: #05100
The local library bans Dominic Philip after spotting a photo of him tooting a kazoo in their summer reading parade. (04:14)

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06/24/2009
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14,765
Episode: #05086
Matthew Crawford explores the dichotomy between "knowledge" work and manual labor. (07:19)

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05/19/2009
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11,422
Episode: #05069
Walter Kirn believes that putting Ivy League schools like Princeton on the web would show those attending state schools they're not inferior. (06:24)

Episode: #05058
Fox News exposes liberal textbooks, AmeriCorps increases its mind control, and a girl is strip-searched for ibuprofen. (06:33)

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04/22/2008
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45,020
Episode: #04053
Susan Jacoby and Stephen debate the importance of reason, the benefits of elitism and how much she owes him in truthiness residuals. (5:58)

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08/01/2007
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62,338
Episode: #03099
Stephen thinks an infestation of pigeons is Michael Bay's latest summer blockbuster. (0:31)

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05/01/2007
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38,690
Episode: #03058
Malcolm Gladwell explains that Colin Powell knew what would happen in Iraq because of his experience and Stephen claims knowledge is elitist. (6:21)

Episode: #03051
English teacher Frank McCourt stresses the importance of books, but if he were a shop teacher he would be stressing the importance of plywood. (0:48)

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12/06/2006
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7,439
Episode: #02153
NYU President John Sexton thinks Stephen is contributing to a disease. (6:28)

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04/20/2006
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3,370
Episode: #02051
Teaching kids Shakespeare will just make them more violent. (3:54)

Episode: #02007
It's inappropriate for Stephen, as the educator/host, to have a relationship with an audience member/student. (3:50)

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01/18/2006
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2,205
Episode: #02007
Training German Shepherds in Germany prepared Frank McCourt to teach high school. (6:21)

 
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