Abraham Verghese and Denise Pope How Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
Today young people are trying to balance the question of \u201cWhat do I want to do when I grow up?\u201d with the question of \u201cWho and how do I want to be in the world?\u201d Physician and writer Abraham Verghese and education researcher Denise Pope argue that\u2019s because the way we educate for success doesn\u2019t support the creation of full, well-rounded humans. And they see the next generation challenging our cultural view of success by insisting that a deeply satisfying life is one filled with presence, vulnerability, and care for others.\nAbraham Verghese is a professor of medicine, vice chair of the Department of Medicine, and Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor at Stanford University. His books of fiction and non-fiction include \u201cMy Own Country,\u201d \u201cThe Tennis Partner,\u201d and the novel \u201cCutting for Stone.\u201d He received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama in 2016.\nDenise Pope is a senior lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Education and the co-founder of the non-profit organization Challenge Success. She\u2019s the author of \u201cDoing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students;\u201d and a co-author of \u201cOverloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids.\u201d\nFind the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.