David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits & the Art of Battling Giants

Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have?

[@benhesediszraelinfosystems8175]

In Afrikan Philosophy, this is called the concept of Ubuntu, "if one individual is malnourished,the whole community is malnourished" , thanks Maxwell, for another splendid presentation!

[@g-wm6392]

Did linux just stole aftikan material all these years

[@HH-os6lv]

I’m so sick of hearing about this

[@DR-nh6oo]

H H Maybe you are actually sick from too much consumption?

[@willieburgess6714]

@@HH-os6lv Cool. Change the channel. Alternately, you can squeeze your eyes shut, put your hands over your ears, and shriek, "blahblahblahblahblah". You don't have to be enlightened if you don't want to be.

[@gmanon1181]

I love how Gladwel makes a science out of the social issues by looking at the results, statics and the incongruences of the rule made by rule makers. He finds the missing pieces and make sense out of senseless.

[@AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor]

IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE LISTENING TO THIS GUY. Interesting and sometimes laugh-out-funny.

[@chrisgordon4643]

You watch Douglas murray debate? He’s awful when going head to head and receives critical push back.

[@pinkuscrowther8734]

Malcolm,,, seems to always be ahead of the curve.... As we all learn the real lesson of getting on the other side of this curve... Thank you for what you do to keep us ready to ride this wave... God bless Malcolm Gladwell...

[@stephentackett4064]

The opening disclaimer is one of the greatest things about this video. We have free access to the greatest thinkers of our time, hearing them, watching them give us their best. Thank you Microsoft.

[@mattbrown5949]

I’m glad he writes these books, interesting topics and conclusion, thought provoking and stirs debate in a good way.

[@danielhalsey3286]

25:36 you can see the private school parents get uncomfortable when he says private schools are less focused on education and more focused on dazzling the parents.

[@mattbrown5949]

Thats absolutely true. They want the money. However public schools are so bad in many areas its still a better education. Also in my experience parents have more influence on curriculum. Outlier students, those gifted or special needs often have more resources in public schools. It’s not one size fits all.

[@styledtothetop3579]

I can’t help but to think that my mom was dazzled!!! Private Schools are a signal of social status.

[@Michael-pg7rv]

Great intro lol!

[@amypellegrinimusic]

Am I crazy? Or this is the incorrect title for the video?

[@firehot006]

Well spotted, and the info about the video too.

[@diyplusone]

I had the same question

[@lamorena6379]

I had a class of 15 one year and I got the most accomplished than with the bigger classes. I was able to teach in small groups and focus on their needs while the others worked collaboratively. They learned and retained so much more. It was ideal. One thing that I think is ridiculous is when researchers do a study and try to generalize it to all schools and all teachers. Like saying that if teachers have less students they will do less. Don’t group all teachers in with the lazy ones that don’t care as much about their students’ achievement.

[@CaptainObvio]

He didn’t make that assumption. He actually asked teachers and they widely agreed that class sizes can get too small. While your anecdotal experience may be valid, he wasn’t arguing that you were wrong but that you may be the exception. Based of his finding that behavioural problems dominate the smaller classes, I think his argument is also valid. Thanks for doing the job of educating our students 🙏🏽

[@21_jadhav_rajendra84]

For 11 and 12th my roll no was 82 and I was not even the last student. Imagine a class filled with 80-90 students.

[@vijayalakshmivv8106]

How did it affect u ? In hindsight how much of a difference has it made positive and negative?

[@user-ee2sx7vl8n]

It amuses me how many people in the comments understood that he meant that size of a class doesn't matter at all

[@g4life78]

@ 38:10: It requires us to have EMPATHY.

[@bradandbrittanycampagna5535]

Malcom would probably never see this but I am intrigued by this class size topic. Either I missed it or he didn't address it but of the studies performed on this subject, was there a correlation between class size and the age group? I would imagine that as the age group reduces, the advantage to a smaller class size increases however as an individual ages and (hopefully) matures they become more independent in their studies. If this is true then it would be justified for a private school to tout their average class size for elementary schools up until the #TippingPoint at which those students become more independent in their studies.

[@Yannis2022]

Part of problem letting ppl out is perhaps we choose the sacrifice of increased crime level as long as we feel the criminals are isolated but perhaps more importantly we see the punishment as part of a venguence.

[@williamlewis8773]

Does intensely "paying attention" to what a teacher is teaching ever manifest as intense quiet introspection as the students try to integrate the presented material with their (perhaps newly discovered or only tentatively understood) pre-existing understanding of the material nor of how the material presented may be usefully applied by them or by those with whom they live (fellow students , family , friends , etc.) ? Is a quiet classroom necessarily bad ? Is occasional daydreaming occasionally good ? Do your students desire to more extensively understand their own minds before engaging in discussion or debate about the material presented in the classroom ?

[@mattbrown5949]

Confounding variables. Sometimes outcomes can’t be reduced to just two variables. Correlation doesn’t equal causation.

[@coscorrodrift]

20:00 interesting. i've seen a lot of takes on "gifted kids" and i myself was kinda a gifted kid, and went to an after school advanced maths program and shit like that, and the "gifted kids will do well, leave a kid with an iq of 130 alone and he'll figure shit out" isn't something i've heard often. can't say if i agree or disagree, i did a lot of shit after school so i never thought my school life was particularly boring, and i wasn't a super genius, i didn't skip any years, so i've never felt like i've ever needed any extra attention or dedication. but i do think that gifted kids that are hella smart can struggle and "leave them alone in a closet and they'll figure it out" (i know it's a joke and a way of speaking) strikes me as odd. Like, you can have a high IQ but never find out about intellectually challenging stuff and be one of those people that he himself talks about in his Outliers book/talks, isn't "studying bright kids" equivalent to "increasing capitalization rates of bright kids" and the number of kids reverse u shaped curve surprises me , unless there's somehow a strikingly different switch between tutoring/one-on-one dynamics (Bloom's Two Sigma Problem) and small class dynamics. seems weird that bloom's effect would be two sigma significant but then as soon as you cross to 2-5 students it would break so bad that it would be worse than having 20 students. also most language learning classes, or after-school activities are in relatively small groups and those dynamics don't seem to be a huge problem, right? i'm speaking of personal experience but i also am not aware of any common knowledge of the opposite.

[@chicherannah]

Watching this in 2023. And i think the reason why it's still kinda hard for people to understand the upside down u curve and leans more to the linear curve is because we tend to forget our humanity, that we are people and we need relationships. We're not robots that are expected to make consistent increasing outputs and achievements every time. we are human beings! I'm an early years educator and I do believe the upside down U curve also is he model of pushing academic pressure to kids with especially with younger kids. Now, we expect most preschools to be able to read even before going to grade 1. And when they're forced to learn how to read, they do get to read earlier (line will go up) but as they grow, they will feel like reading is a chore or might even develop trauma (line goes down) because they were forced to learn before they were ready. I'm pretty sure it'll suck all the joy in reading itself. Yes, they learn to read earlier but not the JOY of reading.

[@mattbrown5949]

Did he look at the impact of class size on special education outcomes? Would those children disadvantages with learning challenges do even better with larger class sizes? What about children with behavior disorders? At what point does the classroom become unmanageable by the teacher?

[@benhesediszraelinfosystems8175]

Mr. Gladwell should read the book Paekche's Principle The Great Secret of Asia

[@trishmurphy1941]

I love listening to you, Malcolm, but I think you are missing one point in the class size issue. If the class is relatively homogeneous, I would agree with you whole heartedly, but having been a classroom teacher for 35 years, I can tell you that the mix of children in our classes is far different now than it 14:30 was when I started teaching. It used to be,where I taught in Canada, they were middle class, all English speakers, two parents and 2.5 children, living in stable environments. That is not the case any more: there are children for whom the language of instruction is not the language of the home; there are far more broken and blended families; there is much more poverty and health issues including hunger and mental health; there are many more children traumatized by refugee immigration, abuse, drugs… I do agree that the bright, stable kids will do well regardless of class size, and if I had a class of 32 Grade 1’s who were like that, (and I had that class one wonderful year). And I agree that under 20 in an average class is not as ideal as it sounds. But in classes full of troubled,needy, mentally challenged children, teachers are doing educational triage, and emergency care.

[@deanapecorale8359]

Would learning fit into the u shape curve model

[@maxheadrom3088]

If penalties are harsher then crime gets more violent. The studies I know of tell it's the certainty of being caught and not the penalty that reduces crime.

[@calinasantos5290]

The funny things is what Malcolm is really saying is, people don’t understand or don’t seek to account for a non binary world. Meaning our society prefers things to be, an absolute bad or absolute good. But as a rule, nothing is an absolute good or bad because most things are both. So, when decide something is good or bad based in an absolute expectation, you create destruction in every direction. This is what happens when a fixed system is faced at the core of every institution ever constructed by the western world. You create an institutionalized mind set of fixed minds, unable or unwilling to see things outside the fixed set of “good or bad” (completely ignoring the nuances of existence).

[@countryroadstakemehome]

Don't worry, nature will sort the world out one way or another.. :)

[@mokurai01]

I wonder , in reference to minute 29. If the low curve for crimes over 40 is due in part, to career criminals being long term incarcerated by then. You would think they would get more brazen, or de- sensitized and just go for the bigger , longer term sentence's crimes as time progresses .

[@user-te1bd5kq2b]

ما شفتني يا مالكولم، دراستي كلها في فصول ٤٠ طالب وفوق والحمدلله تخرجت عشت 😂

[@Sirajkabeer080]

The guy who smiles at 28:35💀

[@DanielHubb360]

How is this about David and Goliath, and underdogs?

[@moez2388]

I saw one problem with this talk that used to linger in me, and hope my words may serve you well by offering a piece of mind. Doesn't matter what we are trying to learn, whether it is another language or mathematics they all require 2 things, sitting and remembering. Some people may say interest and encouragement are important in learning and I agree but punishment is also effective to a degree. Learning is basically recycling the effective data from the past and with enough data. We claim that we have a value that with this supposed value we are able to trade the data for economic incentives. Nowadays, a USB storage drive is able to contain much more information than we are equipped within our biological brain. People with above-average IQ are able to remember information more efficiently than their peers, and oddly there are people with Asperger syndrome who are more superior in comparison to the supposed average or even above average in performing a particular task of interest. In my opinion, doesn't matter the class sides, as long as the kid is functional, he or she only requires basic reading and math skills before reaching young adulthood because a physically and mentally strong young person is able to sit down and remember whatever he or she wants without babysitters.

[@shaduck06]

Microsoft Research why is your video not as clear as Googletalks? admittedly this is stuck on 360& the other video selected is 480. LONG: Msft

[@carolhorton-hines420]

Dirty lens, and camera maybe set on manual.

[@willmpet]

Why is there NO understanding of the fact that taking breadwinners away from a community that you harm the family?

[@lauradusol3167]

He is one of the smartest authors of his category and generation. I love listening to him. However, in this case, i think that his analysis doesn't take into account the Simpson paradox in statistics which actually qualifies his theory to a great extent.

[@jonathandewberry289]

Duly noted, others, for a long time have pointed out the flaw in modern conceptualizations of David vs Goliath and that David is NOT the 'underdog' because, in fact, slings and slingmen of that era (and still some today!) were INCREDIBLY DEADLY. David had the equivalent of a powerful sniper rifle. Gladwell does a good job with a more modern kind of discovery around Goliath's possible disease (others have noted it) which, interestingly, eventually makes the sufferers experience blurry vision and a specific weakness between the eyes as cranial bones spread. (I could be wrong but sufferer Tony Robbins may even link this to Goliath). Whatever lesson people want to find in David v Goliath, it's certainly true that David's sling was a VERY POTENT DEADLY WEAPON. He was not "only armed with a simple shepard boy sling" but with a wicked deadly projectile weapon

[@paulettewalls8071]

Really great thought sthought , does the freedom of your IQ flag, flag , enable you to freely say wrong answer on a test or that suspicion?

[@Henrikues]

Is he talking about the standard normal distribution, by the inverted U shape?

[@alliseburris3625]

No, he described a flat top. An inverted U has a very steep rise & very steep drop; rarely are there outliers (can't have 35 in primary/secondary schools).

[@TechnoFreud]

He is not. But if you are trying to transform a distribution to conform to a gaussian because it looks more sciency, you have lots of company.

[@jayceh]

Standard deviation curve, while it might look similar in shape, has nothing to do with an inverted U by virtue of its axis

[@michaelcalibri3620]

A lot of what Malcolm Gladwell hints at are thresholds of differences, i.e. tipping points.

[@brendapolar8506]

This man is great and supper funny!😅

[@maxheadrom3088]

The famous inverted "U" shaped curve ... aka, the "tailless 'n' curve"

[@dimitrijmaslov1209]

WALCOLM

[@2894031]

The title has nothing to do with the topic of the Video 😳

[@noturdaddyblameyomomma8354]

Regarding class size, if anything it's the teachers that benefit from having smaller classes: easier to manage a few children vs 17 children, specially if just one students is constantly disruptive. I know because I coach little league. When I have a full team show up in practice it's super stressful to coach them. While coaching less than 10 children is usually a breeze.

[@oneeinbenoni]

" Could one make and evolutionary psyc argument, that says that, because we evolved in times of profound material scarcity, that there is nothing in our hardware that accepts the notion of to much".. Does this explain greed.. ? Or our perception of greed ?

[@huuumeee6341]

Why not a n shaped curve?

[@robertcherry7190]

Why are people so sensitive about this guy presenting an alternative interpretation of David vs Goliath? Dogma has atrophied our minds. What he's presented could have been (possibility) the reality. And if it was, shouldn't we try to figure out the moral of the story given this new interpretation?

[@davidleonhardt5907]

The main reason is that he is interjecting possibilities that directly contradict the written narrative. The Bible is the most researched and authenticated book in history. He is hypothesizing, and inputting facts that are pure speculation, and leaves out key facts that are in the Bible. So there’s that…

[@tanxyrogue847]

This guy is actually kinda funny lol

[@dfirst8395]

maybe we can't accept the notion that crimes gets punished less, and that the hypothetical restrictions for us not to commit crime should be high....

[@ima4tubing]

Average class size 17 to 16. Not sure where that might be. I have never seen such a thing. Classes in every school i have attended nor my children and grandchildren have attended have been below 25 and 30+ is the norm.

[@davecummings3335]

An inverted "U" shaped curve? Wouldn't that look like a BELL? Seems like there should be a name for a curve shaped like a bell. hmmm

[@Falcondances]

The two curves have nothing to do with one another. Bell curves are related to the normal distribution, and are entirely statistical.

[@davecummings3335]

@@Falcondances That is a very good point and one that I had not considered.

[@peterstill3760]

In the intro, replace high IQ with high earnings. Any of the young kids in that room earns a lot more than the speaker. This is a sad state of reality in the USA, because Gladwell’s social value is immensely superior to nearly anyone else’s in that room. Meaning that nearly anyone in that room can be replaced with another smart graduate from a good school, yes they are all pretty much the same, whereas Gladwell is pretty unique.

[@moez2388]

First of all, no one knows who are the audience sitting down there, for this reason alone it is wrong to compare something that cannot be compared as you have done linking IQ and wealth. IQ alone does not make a full-fledged human otherwise we would already select personnel with a calculator using only divisions. It would really be a sad state of reality in the USA, only if, all comparisons are done unscientifically. By your logic, the people who are rich should at least be college professors, but that is not the reality. Talking about rich people, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates are all American pioneers without impressive credentials. Your assumption is rushed and premature and even dangerous to unfiltered minds.

[@josh2676]

he said high iq kids dont require help, but he also said in his book outliers that kids with high iq in low income housing dont lead successful lives. so which is it

[@samahf1669]

He means most successful people aren't the people with high IQ. Most successful people are the hardworking people & other elements as well.

[@user-bv3nd6ce2v]

I interpreted that as him being facetious, because there's almost no research on high IQ kids, so he's saying researchers probably assume they don't need any help and focus on the struggling ones instead.

[@hackrabiyah]

It think it’s help within the class vs skills achieved outside the classroom that help navigate social problems.

[@alexm7776]

the whole talk waiting for him to say "gaussian function"

[@dimitrijmaslov1209]

...HOW ABOUT HAVING ONE SINGLE TEACHER FOR THE WHOLE COHORT OF CERTAIN AGE CLASSES, SUBJECTS, STREAMING LECTURES, WHILE ALSO ALLOWING HOME SCHOOLING, TO FURTHER, FARTHER KIDS EVEN MORE?

[@deborahdean8867]

Horrible idea. That means AI is all. Computer constructed and delivered programs called school. How about people value interacting on a personal face to face way. direct communication as the transmission of knowledge because the teacher should be able to guide the pupil through their incomplete areas of understanding

[@G3r4pro]

They should revise those crime numbers after covid.... I feel that the lock downs will have more profound effects than people can quantify right now... we literally lost 2 years!!!!

[@aaron62959]

One purely speculative but plausible explanation for the inverted 'U' on 3-strikes legislation: as you take male criminals in their 30s off the streets you do reduce crime but leave their offspring without a father (the correlation between single-parent homes and crime being well-documented). Initially, there remains in the community plenty of elder siblings, uncles, etc to fill the void of the missing parent. However, as these men are removed from the community in increasing numbers, that 'safety net' erodes and the result is that for every criminal removed you create as many potential criminals as he had offspring.

[@robbiebreaux5221]

Ok

[@robertabalaita9821]

Sadly, I think the U shaped curve fits most of the social phenomena in our society.

[@helmutgensen4738]

Omg - who's idea was filming in front of a mirror screen with a giant orange zipper? N+V

[@trishmurphy1941]

Home schooling seems to be the worst of all for interchange of ideas and social interaction.

[@mattbrown5949]

I am a public school graduate, K through University. I sent my kids to private and class size had nothing to do with it at all. It was lack of ideology and indoctrination on silly things and a greater focus on real academic subjects that matter and competition within the classroom. Due to a specific but temporary circumstance both my kids spent a single semester in a public school in the Midwest. They both tested several grade levels above their age group and were totally board in all their classes. We brought them back to private school. I will say this: my own opinion changed on several things during this experience. Public school teachers are not worse than private, actually the opposite in my experience, and really bad behavior is prevalent in both situations because private schools are dependent on tuition from rich parents regardless of child behavior and performance, they just want the check. Lastly in my experience rich parents are quick to lawyer up and have threatening letters sent to the Principles when their children have violated school policy to include cheating, plagiarism, drug dealing, and violence.

[@carolhorton-hines420]

Class rooms are not set up by homogenous classifications and have not been set that way now for decades. It is a blend of the very bright all the way to the child with and I E P. So now a teacher has to have a multiple curricular platform to get their education producted understood by the student. So now the brightest children are truly being left behind. There are so many advicates and parents out there that scream fowel play that their child is being left behind socially, emotionally and educationally that the classrooms are split somewhat evenly with a diverse 160 IQ to 90 or less IQ. If there is no Special Ed Aid to accommodate the child in a class the teacher has to be one on one with just that child which, slows the pace down for the rest of her class, pretty much making it an all children are being left behind. This needs to be factored in to your statistics. A smaller class is more helpful to this newage type of teaching. I believe homogeneous teaching should come back so we can have true peer conversations back in the classrooms.

[@calharris3187]

I teach in a city where 100% of the schools are now charter. Where profit is the bottom line . Teachers and students find themselves in an environment where no one wins. We call it "The BIG EASY Experiment in Education"

[@tee5634]

"Class size doesn't matter". Obviously Mr.Caldwell probably never even been in a class before.

[@FBeckenbauer4]

Obviously or probably? If you can't formulate a logical sentence maybe your input into education isn't valuable.

[@tee5634]

@@FBeckenbauer4 The important thing is the point i'm making. You must likely taught a minute in a class either. I taught for 25 years before retiring.

[@FBeckenbauer4]

@@tee5634 You're not making a point, you're making an implication, you provide no argument or evidence. There's a book called 'Thinking, fast and slow' that illustrates the psychology of human intuition and how flawed it is when judged against statistical evidence. Also Gladwell mentions that class size does matter but there's a point where it no longer matters and that is at ~20 students, do you think classes of say 15 perform reliably better than 25?

[@isaaccardin2535]

@@tee5634 I sure hope you didn't teach english

[@otsoko66]

@@FBeckenbauer4 Actually, Gladwell pulls a (tricky if not outright dishonest) switcheroo -- he changes what he is measuring with small classes. For larger classes (30 and over), it's how well the average (mean) student does - for classes with fewer than 20, it's suddenly how well the bottom students are doing.

[@The_Truth777]

Malcom's concept is looking into things from a purely "data" point of view. The reason that the 'inverted U" does not work, despite its 100% data sense, is one simple fact: WE'RE HUMAN. What that means is that there is an emotional element, which will defy any form of sense, weather it is common or data based sense. For e.g. the prison example: We imprison an offender for a very long time in order to satisfy emotional pain\trauma we suffered, and to get a sense of justice. We do that in defiance of logic or data. So, as long as we're human, the "inverted U" model is incompatible.

[@DR-nh6oo]

If you have a bright kid, they might not fine, given they have the divergent skills that can take them anywhere, neglect or abuse, and taught misconceptions can lead them down very dark paths, speaking from experience. The essential quality, and indeed intention, of the education that teachers receive is a most important aspect, aside from individual character, the rampant capitalist profit imperative is arguably the biggest barrier to successful learning relationships. A mainstream consumerist agenda that works hand in hand with evangelical endeavours will never see fit to embed bias awareness logical thinking into curriculum, that will have to be a considered battle. White collar crime goes on without sanction at unprecedented rates, enhanced by technology Now is long past the time to recognise the facts of ‘too much’. Being filthy rich is obviously too much responsibility for anyone.

[@roe2012]

if the intention is bad, and the criminal do it again after first crime, then the penalty could progresive. in the picture of every other country have same decrease criminal number beside cali, how if we think oppositely, which is we think about what actually happened is, what if people perception of crime out of cali is actually follow what cali citizen way to see the penalty. i mean the third law that appiled in cali is proven effective enough, so its created effect outside cali, which people from outside cali also dont want to do crime stubbornly as before, after they know third law in cali, that because logically they dont want third law of cali applied to their states. then the real result is, third law of cali actually effective, in which to brings down crime number, not only in cali, but also in every states because the domino effect. so third law is effective actually, rather than what people used to think that the decreace number of crime happened without effect from third law. well have a good day.

[@shaduck06]

chart of Hong Kong shoplifting by age segments over years www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2147590/hong-kongs-elderly-shoplifters-cry-help-reveals-mental-health-gap

[@How.Dare.You.]

What is this??

[@Michael-pg7rv]

Talk from Malcolm Gladwell. What did you think it was?

[@Caspian917]

the best underdog story I heard in recent years is Jonny Kim's story. An immigrant kid growing up in a broken family become Navy Seal, Havard Doctor, and then NASA Astronaut. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6bNgWZjdt2Lqas

[@dfrees42]

The internet has changed the face of learning so a 30 year study is only a reach for a hypothesis to write a book. Want answers that will change the present and future start interviewing the actual teachers. Although that will not get you on New York Times best sellers list

[@glenndynner4640]

I'm fascinated by the charlatanism. Note re: class size, no actual studies or sources are cited, not even the name of a single teacher supposedly consulted. Same with the other stories.There is of course a kernel of truth-- classes can be too small (more like under 10); yet in my experience as a teacher/professor, classes over 15 diminish in effectiveness, including the ability to hold a discussion and do close readings of texts. The notion that "bright students" don't need to be exposed to new ways of thinking is just bizarre. I assume that what makes audiences so credulous is Gladwell's storytelling gifts- we are mesmerized (and flattered and intimidated) into believing every glittering counter-intuitive claim.

[@SHADOW-ei6mw]

Ofc 1st speaker says he came from Middle East Asia /cheap prostitution 1$ is 10$ there basically

[@g4life78]

Disappointed by all of the laughter during the discussion of the "impacts of the 3rd strike law on communities".

[@alliseburris3625]

@G Hollingsworth Our folly in thinking 3 Strikes is a great idea is laughable. Says a Texan, where we lock up many more than every other state & most countries. And pay the taxes for their lifetime feeding, housing, guarding, etc.

[@tee5634]

So why not have 100 students to one teacher.

[@kalatitati8795]

They do in college

[@alliseburris3625]

There is a right side to the curve where it falls steeply when beyond the optimal range. And the behavioral problems in American public schools w/b overwhelming. It might work in Japan or S Korea w/ their very different attitude towards teachers, learning and self-discipline

[@shanethomas6368]

"bread" stealer

[@brazilfootball]

Entropy ^^

[@crikeymos22]

He has such interesting topics but so disjointed and doesn’t t seem to flow in any interesting or digestible way. It’s a shame really.

[@ColletteGurthet]

I think that if Goliath was a man that wasn't 9 feet tall, going by the Torah, then what an INSULT it would have been. A Man of God to have a smaller man than Goliath, even so, he said, What am I a dog? The answer was YES. King David was also handsome, and there is a completely different view of men and women who could just go by their looks but in this case good looks worked against David. Good to remember the weakness of our eyes. Just ask Samson, moving on. When we have a large problem it is because we have more than enough to handle it. This was a time when David's father after having him anointed to be the next king, in front of his brothers and then when back to watching the sheep. Then one day his father said, I need you to go and take bread to your brother and tell me hows things going. David at this time did NOT say, Dad, you know I am the next king, I don't run errands, NO David went. When his brother already wounded by being passed over for being king, put him down saying he was a show-off. He went into the king whom he had played for and the king said, here take my stuff, the same stuff I don't trust, it is yours. He must have hated David for he loved the LORD and the LORD took care of him. He makes a deal for his daughter knowing no one would dare fight the giant if the king wouldn't. Then David wins we all know how but it was when he went back and all of the people loved David that the king kept his daughter from him. But GOD had a better reward for David when the king said WHO are you, putting him down, King David told him, I AM David son of Jesse and went one with the same power in his bones that took the Giant down. The king's son heard David and at that moment was King David's best friend, and Jonathan was David's reward from GOD. To have a BEST friend is better than gold. David tried to overcome his whole life being put down by his father who had to be asked if he had any more sons, to his time of the Throne. He overcame it all with the LOVE given to David by HIS GOD. The one thing he didn't go to the LORD about was the woman he took and not going to the LORD in that one problem, was bigger than the problem. Just a thought from a common person. I am NOT a token.

[@ericdevito9383]

Ite

[@daveprice3095]

Well his comment on crime in New York City didn't age well - Yikes......

[@gabbykoz8453]

The noiseless grandson traditionally imagine because colony methodologically level from a sour plain. sincere, hard brand

[@theodiggers]

grade A+++ shitposting from bots here

[@behindthewoodshed3042]

So essentially no one commits a crime past their 20's, but he's complaining about 40+ year-olds being put in prison for the rest of their lives. Didn't the 40-year-old have to commit a crime to get the third strike? But no one commits a crime past 40?! What other leaps does this guy make that are logically faulty?

[@Lena6060]

Crime rate - he should check police arrest records for ages 40+ before making this stupid statement "none" ....

[@moez2388]

Maybe this bizarre and novel study may be the cure to the plague that has been hunting our cities, without proper social support and economic opportunities, some of those breadwinning professional criminals may just return to doing activities that landed them in prison in the first place; only this time without punishment. I personally wouldn't prefer of living in this real-life Grand Theft Auto simulator. Are we just chips lying on an ambitious politician's gambling table?

[@guledsm]

This guy and his audience are too intelligent for me to comprehend the level of their conversation. I guess my IQ must be very low.

[@chrischen6431]

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[@tinadaniels7396]

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[@susanpepper148]

Wow you single handedly rewrote Gods word to fit the world and increase your own pride not to mention defile David a man after Gods heart. First Mr. Magoo... Philestines were from the grecian area and were sons of fallen angels. Men of renoun men of great size some as tall as 13 ft as described by the size of their bed in the bible.. Goliath was over 9 ft tall. Yes you said 6'9.. Goliaths sword was evidence of his great height as the sword was very large and much too large for a man of only 6'9... and David kept it as Israels trophy ! Israelites feared them as Philestines made Israelites appear " as grasshoppers" next to them. Now where you get the idea that Goliath had a tumor and was nearly blind and wasnt very healthy , God only knows. Goliath was one of several tribes of giants in those days. Nephilem Anakim Rephiams etc... Did all of them have some kind of radio actve nuclear fallout or maybe a middle east region wide chemical spill to cause so many people to have this rare tumor you speak of ? Hundreds of them ? How rediculous you are. How many stones did young David carry in his pocket ? 5 . Why 5 ? He was an excellent shot and needed only one maybe two in case he missed and would have maybe time to reload once more before the long legged Giant could reach him ? Never would have gotten off a 3rd 4th or 5th shot ! No.. David carried five stones for one purpose.. Goliath had 4 giant brothers ! You left that out too.. The entire tribe were giants ! I guess you had guessed that your secular audience would not have known that ! So what was the purpose of your speech ? 1. To slander God and his power to use the week to overcome the powerful. Your version , very non biblical , says that a jewish kid used a 45 to overcome a big retarded disable legally blind opponent ! How coincidental , that your story is not only Satans agenda but you liberal secular god hating marxists agenda. Lies and pride both hallmarks of Satans fall.. beware...

[@annascott3542]

The Entire Bible is a rewrite of a rewrite, of a rewrite, of a rewrite of a rewrite of a rewrite infinitum, from the original Greek and Hebrew, of which neither exists anymore. Worse, it’s filled with interpolations of interpolations, of interpolations of interpolations, of interpolation infinitum. So saying MG rewrote the text means nothing.

[@johnwalsh6137]

Have you actually read the book and heard what he said about this book? He said studying for this book made him a Christian. He tends to be conservative as well. I would hope folks would study someone before making such harsh judgments .

[@canadiangemstones7636]

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[@alliseburris3625]

@Susan Pepper Educating us about the Philistines& other giant tribes without the diatribe might work better. As a Methodist minister's daughter, I deny your description but accept I knew nothing of tribes taller than the Masai (& Yao Ming's relatives).

[@ThirtyThree331]

Cant stand msm