Screen with you and we can get right started. Ok, great. So as always, what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, withfitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not a particularly fit nation. And if anything in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the kind of overarching arc of the class. Today, we turn to the 1980s. So the name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories that i have done for the Book Research im doing, on which this course is based. It is i would have been a pe teacher. We will get there to the end of class. I will tell you who said it, but that idea that in another historical moment, the people who became architect
And figured if i dont write a book like this, who will. Host did you have an education experience that made you think like this . Guest if they can both be back in kindergarten sitting in class, teaching all these subjects and some of them i understood there were others like why do we have to learn this stuff and adults would say you need to learn this to get a good job. That seems true because all of you adults had to go through the hoops to get through where you are. I was always puzzled until i started reading more about why education pays and now i understand the answers mystery ive been wondering since kindergarten. Host big part focuses on the Human Capital so most of the audience might want to do with t that is. Before we get to the substance [inaudible] guest is basically the one teachers and parents tell you which is you go to school and the poor skillthey pour skills a result when you graduate you are a skillful person employers will want to give you a good job and pay you a
Fitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not. Particularly fit nation and if anything in the past 75 to 100 years we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the overarching arc of the class. Today we turn to the 1980s. The name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories i have done for the Book Research im doing, on which this course is based. It is i would have been a pe teacher. I will to you who said it tell you who said it. In another historical moment, the people who became architects of the Fitness Industry would have been physical education teachers is an important idea as we talk about the 1980s. I would have been a pe teacher, 1980s fitness culture in the United States. I want to talk about the united broad in the 1980s
This is i believe our third week together virtually. I hope you all are doing well. I will share my screen with you and we can get right started. So as always what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, cutler fitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not a particularly fit nation. And if anything in the past 75 to 100 years we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the overarching arc of the class. Today we turn to the 1980s. The name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories i have done for the Book Research im doing, on which this course is based. It is i would have been a pe teacher. We will get there to the end of class. I will tell you said it. In another historical
A poll about how liberal whites in theory would like quality education for all children but they dont want busing and i so lets just begin there we we know what works. We do and one of the things i think i discovered reading this book because youre to research the book to write it and it wasnt that i knew all of this before i started to research the book how well we know how to educate kids who are poor kids who are black kids who are let next how many teachers experiments schools superintendents weve head who have done it well and so looking over time again of the book is actually goes back to reconstruction post reconstruction and makes this argument from polls reconstruction up to the 21st century and and what i found is that there is generally support for. Educational experimentation for idiosyncratic forms of education for things that sound right to people who are not in those schools not in those communities that make sense to them but the actual things that we know building up s