EP75 Education, Expectations and Critical Thinking - Juwana Jenkins

Juwana Jenkins is a professor at the University of New York in Prague.  She began teaching as a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea, where she was also an instructor at the Seoul National Language Research Institute. With a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Honors in Media Studies.   Juwana also trains executives in international companies in communications and presentation skills. On this episode we discussed the status of education as there have been so many changes to education over the past decades.  Much more availability, greater equality when it comes to access but at the same time one might ask if there are too many people getting a degree? Are the schools leaving out some important things that prepare people for life?   How does school prepare people for innovation and entrepreneurship? Is there enough focus on critical thinking? Why can’t people pay off their student loans? And a lot more

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Welcome to The Bla Bla Bunker, a podcast featuring interviews with regular people who have extraordinary stories to tell. The host, Almar Hilmarsson, is one of them. In 25 years he’s gone from Icelandic lawyer and airline CEO to tattooed, bearded meat enthusiast with a startup in Central Europe. On the way, he’s made plenty of stops, and cultivated a habit of running into interesting people and asking them interesting questions. Nothing is off limits in the Bla Bla Bunker, and Almar may ask questions that most people wouldn’t dare to ask.