Dr Thaddeus Russell
Today we get to meet Thaddeus Russell who has launched his online university, Renegade University, to great success with students logging on from all over the world. Thaddeus is a man who truly understands the possibilities only now just coming to life, when, in today`s connected world, a bored student is able to drop out of school one day and log on to study Plato`s Republic the next.
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During This Conversation You Will Discover
In this far reaching conversation, Thaddeus goes back to the 1970s and his Berkeley home life, the boring and meaningless drudgery of school, how the podcast culture is changing paradigms of pretty much everything and his cautious optimism about the future of education.
Dr Thaddeus Russell
Thaddeus Russell has taught at Occidental College, Columbia University, Barnard College, Eugene Lang College, and the New School for Social Research. Born and raised in Berkeley, California, he graduated from Antioch College and received a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. Thaddeus´s book “The Renegade History of The United States” received worldwide acclaim for the provocative perspective on America’s history, claiming that the country’s personality was defined not by the ideals of the elites and intellectuals, but by those who throughout have lived on the fringes of society history—slaves, immigrants, gangsters, and others who challenged the conventions of their day. He has published opinion articles in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Salon, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as scholarly essays in American Quarterly and The Columbia History of Post-World War II America. Russell has also appeared on the History Channel and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.