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Estudar ainda vale a pena? | Eloísa Paiva e Tabata Amaral
350 statements · 1 politicians · August 13, 2026 · 34 min
Statements by Tabata Amaral. 350 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Education, Social Policy, Legislative Process, Political Representation.
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There's one thing I really love about my job, which is being able to be surrounded by young people all the time.
I grew up knowing that studying wasn't considered cool, you know?
Anyway, when I was in public school, especially, I was ashamed of my high grades, like that.
Because I'd be teased, because that wasn't encouraged.
Like most Brazilians, I grew up in an environment where studying wasn't the most valued thing in the world.
But these young people today, like, it's much worse.
They grow up watching videos of people saying that studying isn't worth it.
that studying is, I don't know, dumb, that so-and-so at 14 started three companies and is a billionaire.
And it's all lies, you know?
So-and-so is an heir, so-and-so didn't create anything, so-and-so has a super easy life.
So I imagine, like, imagine me in high school, I almost quit high school when my father started using crack.
Imagine if on top of all that I had been watching videos of people telling me not to study.
Or worse, saying that I was there suffering to finish high school while many other people had already created their own companies.
So, in short, I think we point fingers a lot and I think it's part of getting older to criticize what you don't understand, but I think as a society we're listening too little to these adolescents and understanding very little of how hard it is to be them.
And if we don't understand what they're going through, if we can't put ourselves in their shoes, or rather, listen to them, we also won't be able to change these things so it's not as hard to be a teenager as it is today.
And because of all that, I saw an opportunity here in the podcast.
to bring some of those collective conversations I have with them, which is really cool, because they're very open to talk about mental health, about pressure, in the classroom, with everyone listening.
But I felt that the people who followed me, or the older ones, weren't learning, weren't hearing those things.
So it was an opportunity to bring those conversations in a deeper, more individual way here, for you to learn and question yourselves with me.
And on that journey I spoke with Heloísa, with André, with Yasmin, you'll see how amazing they are and I hope you like it.
The origin story of pé de meia is very intertwined with my story and with these encounters I have with young people.
I think every really good idea—and here I'll be a bit full of myself, because I think pé de meia is brilliant, at least I think so—doesn't come from a single spark.
It is born from years, from many experiences, from many conversations.
And I think it's important to say that it doesn't come from just one person.
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About: implement a savings program for high school students
Pé de meia, this concept of a high-school savings program, is an old idea actually, that has already been tested in several countries, that has already been tried here in Brazil locally, in different states and cities.
The difference is that it had never been... a big-scale bet, like it is today.
So, I think my first contact with this came from some studies.
About: adopt public policies based on evidence
You know I'm a nerd, that I take evidence-based public policy seriously.
So there are some prominent economists, like Pais de Barros, Laura Miller, Vitor Azevedo, who were producing work that I was consuming, I was reading.
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About: reduce high school dropout
One study that marked me a lot showed how much Brazil was losing financially because of school dropout.
At the time, the study is more than 10 years old, it was 3% of GDP, a figure I'll never forget, that a young person who doesn't finish high school has a life expectancy 3, 4 years shorter.
So I began to understand that this issue of young people not being able to finish high school had a very high cost for them.
And it had a very high cost for society.
About: implement effective policies to reduce school dropout
And then there was another study published, from PB as well, analyzing policies that had been tested and implemented to combat dropout.
There were over 100 analyzed, if I'm not mistaken, and, well, almost none had any results.
Then you think, my God, Brazil with so many problems and so many good ideas that don't work, draining public money.
And then I knew, gosh, they already tested this thing of a high-school savings program, this thing works, dropout is a very serious problem, but I was diving deeper.
And then the pandemic came.
And then the pandemic came and I saw the same stories repeating.
My parents didn't finish, my mother dropped out of high school halfway when she got pregnant with me, and my father didn't finish elementary school because he had to work.
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