Come voice your opinion.

[Jamil]

What do you think about this video? Do you see the flaws of schooling also?

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[Pandas]

There's only 1 flaw in school, that they invented it.

 

[Amp]

"Governments that preach peace, but endorse wars."

This video has a lot of meaning. Although I feel it's good to get a good education. I don't believe everything should be based on test scores or a certain system.

 

[Fresh]

I actually really like this video, inspirational in my opinion. And schooling does need to change, learn more about real life encounters.

 

[Jamil]

I actually really like this video, inspirational in my opinion. And schooling does need to change, learn more about real life encounters.

True. I had to show my parents that video, they didn't care.

 

[Jamil]

This should get a lot more attention in Media than Nicki Minaj's anaconda.

 

[G550]

I didn't watch the video but I dropped out of school.

 

[Av8]

Do you play CS:GO with someone named flumbo?

 

[Fireworks]

Why does it matter what you get on exam score again? All school does is challenge your memorization skills.

 

[dagger]

I don't think a final test at the end of your school year on different subjects should determine if you pass or not. A pre made test that has certain questions picked out from every lesson of the subject does not test anything, when it comes to that, all that is, is a memorizing game. It's pointless if you ask me.

 

[Captain]

Exams run teens lives. I feel like if they took out exams there would be more Dropouts.

 

[Painkiller]

Random kids on YouTube complaining on having to take tests is irrelevant and pointless. If this kid was actually intelligent and got good grades I doubt he would make this

 

[Gym]

Honestly, I agree that the education system is flawed, I know this may sound ignorant, but instead of teaching students trigonometry, etc., they should focus more on highlighting how to purchase a house and how to truly live a successful life. Learning to find the area of a triangle will not help you very much unless you dedicate your life to a career that pertains to that type of knowledge. So why should the system be generalized to forcing us in a certain direction. Also, about the final exam determining your grade, I understand that the exam is a summary of the entire year/semester, but it is quite unfair that if you get good passing marks throughout, and on the final exam that counts most, you don't do well, shouldnt assume that you didn't understand the education, it just doesn't make sense.

 

[Ari]

It's sad that nobody could give less of a fuck about learning when grades are what matter. High pressure to get high grades just means you learn fuck all, you just stress.

 

[Cann!bal]

One's ability to regurgitate essentially pointless information in a timely manner does not accurately attest to one's intelligence or usefulness as a member of the world. To say otherwise is simply stupid. Your grade is an attestation to how obedient of a drone you are; for that's all our "education" system sincerely is. It's obedience conditioning in the guise of learning, full of theistic and nationalistic undertones, and stupid societal norms. There is a good reason repression and anxiety is commonplace upon the youth, and henceforth the public, and our shit "education" system plays a great role in this complex. So many kids base their self-worth off of their grades and their parents' approval. When a student bombs a test and see that F, they start telling themselves they're never going to make it in life, they're never going to be happy. After being psychologically raped in these places for 12 years of our lives, we passively sit by and drift like zombies when oppressive circumstances come to play. We hate our lives, however unknowingly, we don't even know what it is to sincerely live.

I don't want to wake up to a stupid fucking alarm clock at six in the morning, to get prepared and wait for a stupid fucking bus, that takes me to a stupid fucking place that has the audacity to call itself an educational institute, to listen to stupid fucking teachers who teach stupid fucking things in a room full of stupid fucking people. And repeat this five days a week for hundreds of days a year for twelve years, only to go to another stupid fucking place where I do this until I retire or die. If I haven't made my point clear: it's fucking stupid.

These places are not places of education. They do not educate. They dictate.

 

[Miles]

One's ability to regurgitate essentially pointless information in a timely manner does not accurately attest to one's intelligence or usefulness as a member of the world. To say otherwise is simply stupid. Your grade is an attestation to how obedient of drone you are; for that's all our "education" system sincerely is. It's obedience conditioning in the guise of learning, full of theistic and nationalistic undertones, and stupid societal norms. There is a good reason repression and anxiety is commonplace upon the youth, and henceforth the public, and our shit "education" system plays a great role in this complex. So many kids base their self-worth off of their grades and their parents' approval. When a student bombs a test and see that F, they start telling themselves they're never going to make it in life, they're never going to be happy. After being psychologically raped in these places for 12 years of our lives, we passively sit by and drift like zombies when oppressive circumstances come to play. We hate our lives, however unknowingly, we don't even know what it is to sincerely live.

I don't want to wake up to a stupid fucking alarm clock at six in the morning, to get prepared and wait for a stupid fucking bus, that takes me to a stupid fucking place that has the audacity to call itself an educational institute, to listen to stupid fucking teachers who teach stupid fucking things in a room full of stupid fucking people. And repeat this five days a week for hundreds of days a year for twelve years, only to go to another stupid fucking place where I do this until I retire or die. If I haven't made my point clear: it's fucking stupid.

These places are not places of education. They do not educate. They dictate.

"It's fucking stupid" - what do you suggest instead of how education/life is done now? What would be the ideal?

 

[Cann!bal]

"It's fucking stupid" - what do you suggest instead of how education/life is done now? What would be the ideal?

That's a lot to ask, however, I'll attempt to grasp the simplicities of it.

A sincere implementation of the 'teach me how to think, don't teach what to think' dynamic within our education system. Intelligent teachers. (These institutes manifest teachers as smart since they know the subject which they dictate, or leastly they should, giving them appearance of being smart and sophisticated, however truthfully, the majority of them are under-trained, undereducated, mindless morons who unconditionally obey their authorities.) A reformation of standardized testing and pointless information, guided by honesty with the students.

A reformed approach towards what a career or rather a life really is. Your life is your career, your career is not some convenient occupational title. This, guided by an unyielding honesty with oneself and initiative for refinement can we find this land of ideal.

 

[gunnar]

That's a lot to ask, however, I'll attempt to grasp the simplicities of it.

A sincere implementation of the 'teach me how to think, don't teach what to think' dynamic within our education system. Intelligent teachers. (These institutes manifest teachers as smart since they know the subject which they dictate, or leastly they should, giving them appearance of being smart and sophisticated, however truthfully, the majority of them are under-trained, undereducated, mindless morons who unconditionally obey their authorities.) A reformation of standardized testing and pointless information, guided by honesty with the students.

A reformed approach towards what a career or rather a life really is. Your life is your career, your career is not some convenient occupational title. This, guided by an unyielding honesty with oneself and initiative for refinement can we find this land of ideal.

You are right on with this.
I really agree with you.

 

[NULLNULLNULL]

I agree a lot with what was said above. Most people know the facts because they memorize them, but these same people don't know how to think critically and apply it to other situations. Education is a very complex problem and there is no simple answer really.

 

[Color]

That's a lot to ask, however, I'll attempt to grasp the simplicities of it.

A sincere implementation of the 'teach me how to think, don't teach what to think' dynamic within our education system. Intelligent teachers. (These institutes manifest teachers as smart since they know the subject which they dictate, or leastly they should, giving them appearance of being smart and sophisticated, however truthfully, the majority of them are under-trained, undereducated, mindless morons who unconditionally obey their authorities.) A reformation of standardized testing and pointless information, guided by honesty with the students.

A reformed approach towards what a career or rather a life really is. Your life is your career, your career is not some convenient occupational title. This, guided by an unyielding honesty with oneself and initiative for refinement can we find this land of ideal.

Whether you like it or not, this is not possible, nor would it fully be beneficial. You're trying too hard to bash society. While I agree that drastic change bringing simplicity is highly needed, you're failing to think logically.

You're implying that laziness would be the key to happiness. While you may not realize it, even you, the advocate for such an idea, would be in part against it, correct? Without a lifestyle influenced by work and education, nothing would be done. You wouldn't have the computer you're sitting on all day in which likely lead you to such ideas. You wouldn't have the monumental happenings in history to look back on. You wouldn't have anything, really. Think.

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I agree a lot with what was said above. Most people know the facts because they memorize them, but these same people don't know how to think critically and apply it to other situations. Education is a very complex problem and there is no simple answer really.

This is where a college education comes into play. A lot of the read and regurgitate mentality is thrown out the window. While our education systems can and will be refined, we're doing pretty damn well.