Kicking Ideas: Recent Episodes
Robert Colqui & Yuri Kinjo
“I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.”
– Steve Jobs
"To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world."
- Elon Musk
“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
? Malcolm X
"Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not."
- Jessica Alba
Episode 09: When is it okay to hit your kids? Quando se pode bater nos filhos?
- You can’t teach children to behave better by making them feel worse. When children feel better, they behave better. - Pam Leo
- Children must never work for our love, they must rest in it. -Gordon Neufeld
- Every day our children spread their dreams beneath our feet. We should tread softly. -Sir Ken Robinson
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma Gandhi -
What are the most common cultural differences between the US, Brazil, and Japan?
Can a human being be illegal? A bilingual format discussion on immigration, its pros, and cons.
Does increasing public safety mean restricting liberties? In this episode, we discuss gun control, urban violence, law enforcement duties and individual rights, with focus on Brazil and the US.
Deveríamos abrir mão de tanta liberdade em troca de mais segurança pública? Neste episódio discutimos controle de armas, violência urbana, policiamento e direitos individuais.
Have you ever been discriminated against? Are we exchanging honesty for political correctness?