The Rogue Academic - How To Change How You Think About Education
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- A brief explanation of the principles of being a rogue academic.
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Someone said---
Formal education will make you a living,
Self education will make you a fortune.
Truth. Mentor under someone who has the lifestyle you want, use their brain to make decisions, read and grow.
Was that someone you?;)
Jim Rohn!! The best
@@danarzechula3769 jim rohn
@Ahmad Hany it's a different kind of fortune, not literally money, but a subjective one that means it enriches and uplifts the mind and soul
Yooooo. You're putting all the things I've been feeling since a kid into words. I always disliked how it was "cool" to say things like "haha, i didn't study” or "haha, i didn't do anything this semester." But.... that's lame? Lol. I felt like I had to hide my passion for learning, but I'm in my "3rd" year at university(CIS major, JPN minor) now and I love it here. Exams are kind of fun, like a game to see what I know inside and out and what I don't. And since I started thinking like that, my exam grades haven't been lower than a 90. It's really true that the less I worry about the number, the more mental space I have to just learn about the subject and keep asking why. Professor Google exists, so it's really possible to learn anything. I also love to meet professors who are passionate about their field and are open to curious students. I just finished my finals and I already have things I'm ready to study this break just because I want to. It's so exCITING.
I totally get that. Same with me
Great video. Three things that I picked up from it.
1. I think this sounds like the beginnings of a theory of education, where the drive to understand is the basis for our individual and communal learning.
2. Secondly, as a father, this video is excellent. I just need to find a way to communicate a passion for learning and understanding to my children.
3. I think the drive to understand/ curiosity for how the world works led me to ultimately give up a career of fear based education as a pastor ( I studied in seminary to be a pastor but i just had to many nagging questions) for one that was less glamorous as a truck driver but allows me time to learn as I work through audiobooks and podcasts.
my new favourite channel!!!
Covid time school and college life make more self learners but it made prblem for one who only needs assistance from formal schools
As a homeschooling mother, I am learning a lot about the actual purpose of testing. Because I only have two students, my own children, I have no need to test them. Because, ultimately, a test is a tool for an educator. Through testing you figure out what your students know and what they need to study more. Because I am with my children every day, I don't need to test them because I can see firsthand what they are still grappling with and what they are ready to move on from.
By making a test the goal of a student rather than a tool for the educator, the education system gets it backwards. When a "failed" test is a detriment or hindrance to education rather than simply a marking out of a path of what still needs to be done, something is wrong.
The pressure that is put on students to check all the boxes and ace all the tests doesn't make them learn better or become more wise. It merely makes those students who may not be naturally good at memorization and test taking hate school and hate learning and feel worthless because of it.
You basically just called out standardize test lmaoo
As a public high school teacher who homeschools ...well, my wife does the schooling, I agree. We actually prefer the term home education for the reasons you and RC mention. We are teaching them to be excited about learning, not making a certain grade on an exam. My son is almost the same age as my students now and the amount he has read and his writing ability is years beyond them....not to mention his creativity. I would never subject my kids to the schooling they would receive in a public school, or even most private schools.
And they wonder why students cheat
I agree so much! The last part is especially true for me. And I’ve been having very similar thoughts about testing over the past year too. Your kids are incredibly lucky to have a teacher like you :)
I feel myself becoming what you have described in your last paragraph. I’m in nursing school. The amount information I have to understand, and within a short timeframe a that, is so unrealistic (& crazy) to me.
I hear some my peers saying that their “sleeping careers”(lol) are over. I see that as a red flag. I don’t believe school should be making you lose sleep. I, for one, ain’t losing sleep over school. My health is my wealth. I’m not becoming a zombie.
So I'm an Indian teenager, I did science for the last two years of my life( 11th and 12th). I was a very good student and scored well enough in my entrance exams to do pretty much every stem subject that's the craze these days. And I shocked everybody who knew me by giving that up to do English Lit and Philosophy. This whole video summarises by reasons. I love science, I always will, frankly though I detest the way its taught. Education of any sort should give you an irrepressible sense of wonder. An education in science, in today's world is always financially motivated. It's so focused on the monetary benefits that most people forget the whole entire concept of an education. I love English because of how diverse it is. To have conversations with people of old and understand the social and political undertones through people, It fascinates me. That being said, I of course don't plan on living under a bridge. But the things I learn through literature and philosophy far outweigh my concerns of having a more moderate income as compared to stem. Also humanities kids remember, science will give you nuclear weapons and crispr cas9, humanities gives you the ethics and the moral code against their malignant use.
I totally relate to this. I studied science so passionately throughout high school, I even joined one of the NEET coaching centres for four years even though I never saw myself becoming a doctor. Just the whole idea of acquiring knowledge when I'm not obligated to do so, when it's not motivated by a certain tangible greedy aim, is so fulfilling in itself. In 11th, I gave up Math because I never saw myself fitting in the bedlam that the engineering students were portrayed in. I was always told that I was exceptionally good in Math. I still take pride in the one thing my Math teacher told me, which was along the lines of 'I wish I had a brain like yours'. In 12th, I have my science altogether because the whole idea of studying literature (even though I wasn't an avid reader) just swayed me with it. I'm in my final year of UG now, kind of confused as though if I should go for a master's or not. I hope this uncertainty passes away and I don't remain a puppet of such shallow societal motives.
I'm malaysian and this is exactly my experience 2 years ago. I was a science kid, passing with flying colours in high school. Everyone told me to be a doctor. Instead, I'm now almost done with my 1st year of undergrad Business Psychology. Just do what feels right for you💕
I wish you would become a science teacher and bring the sense of wonder to your students!!
Hello Nalina (didi)! I am in dire need of your advice because I'm in the same boat. For a little background, I have had a really good academic record which dipped in the last years of my high school. So I took PCM because science interested me, went to an IIT coaching just to study the subjects (a bad choice) which I gave up in 11th grade because I got caught in a vicious cycle of getting bad results which made me mildly depressed. I'm currently in 12th grade, and still trying to recover from the rock bottom I was in for months. I want to study english literature because I am a voracious reader and language intrigues me. The problem is, I'm finding it hard to study the subjects I chose because of how much is at stake (as my result will affect the college I get eg: DU) I'm somewhat having an existential crisis because a) I'm not putting in efforts which will b) result in me not getting the good colleges. How do I convince myself to put up with learning organic chemistry reactions which no one will ask me ever? I do not want to rote learn nor am I good at it. I hope to hear from you. (Edit- Are you my soul sister or something? I stalked your playlist and you like Grace Vanderwaal? And Conan Gray? And Taylor Swift? I do too!)
@@user-vb3cu4me3w Hey, I wasn't expecting this at all, thank you so much for trusting me to answer your query!
First of all let me just say that I totally understand where you come from, and in a way doing science at school definitely made it harder for me to get into the college which I wanted.
I think you ought to know that most colleges have a different method of calculating the cut off for English lit. It's your avg in your best of four plus two times your marks in Eng lit. So if you scored an avg of 96 percent in four out of five subjects and 98 in English, the cutoff will be 96+(2×98).
What I mean to convey through this extensive rambling is that you have the option to do bad in one subject xD But it's absolutely necessary that you pay attention to Eng lit and make sure that you score really high. Again, in India, it so happens that no one cares about how creative your essays are, or how much you researched for your answers. Unfortunately, no matter how much you rail against this, no one is going to listen to a 18 year old . It ergo becomes necessary to do what it takes to get to a place where you can spread your wings. Believe me college is better, honestly, but to get there in India, you have to do well here, even if it means lugging away at organic chem. Personally, the way I learnt it, I wrote it over and over again until I knew I wouldn't make a mistake. Inorganic chemistry is even worse, it really doesn't have a method to it, atleast for the portions we learn. So there is no other way to it then learning it up. I wish I could tell you that it doesn't really matter and you don't have to score well or any other comfortable lie. If you've seen the cutoff for DU this year, you already know the answer. So my final point, is to keep your eye on what you want and really just do what you have to do to get there, there's no shortcut to that, okay?
I like the sound of soul sisters xD
Really lovely to meet ya, have a great day!
This channel excites me but I can't understand exactly what excites me other than the fact I also love murakami.
The feeling of belonging? Japanese humor is more about dealing with grief.
Interesting. Rogue Academic is not a term I've heard before but it lines up with my philosophy quite well. It's actually part of the reason for my own channel. As a less industrialised, regimented and profit driven venue for education
I also always wondered when my former class mates didn't use the discoveries we made in our philosophy classes in their lives
@@user-te7ti3wv8u same. it's actually baffling to me how they can't seem to break the disconnect between learning for grades and learning for self-development.
it's sad, really.
This video really conceptualized what my mind’s been riffing on for over two years now. People don’t really understand when I tell them that I appreciate education for the sake of it, not as a means to an end (=a job). Understanding the world around you the best you can - from multiple angles, disciplines, delving into what special people in history have concluded about it, understanding where their theories have come from and hopefully, continually keeping forming your own understanding. To me, that’s a beautiful thing. The world is so rich and so many of us keep ignoring it and ignoring what it’s offering us. Perhaps I got a little carried away there, but yeah, those are some of my thoughts on this matter. That being said, I am and have always been a mostly straight As student - and I feel conflicted about it because on one hand it has taught me to work hard, on the other I keep asking myself why do I do it? Why do I place so much value on a letter? As I said, mostly I love learning but that genuine curious spirit doesn’t always translate into the grading system. For that, you have to know about the way your teacher is and so many other unrelated things that have nothing to do genuine curiosity. And yet I still take all those strategic steps to achieve the best grade I can. Why though? I suspect it’s because of my self-image and need of validation. Which I guess is another topic.
Honestly i feel this, like why does getting a grade letter on your paper even matter?? School has changed the whole meaning of what education is and im dreading it.
Indians know about this the best don't we
For me, the game changer was connecting thoughts in a hierarchical manner. By this single metric, I've changed my whole studying behavior and got my way out of the traditional education system. In my country, education is given by completely separate subjects. We can't see how chemistry relates to biology and geography, for instance.
That's why I like the trivium and quadrivium approach so much. On trivium, first you learn how to call things and distinguish one thing from another (grammar). Then you learn how to reason about those things you named (logic). Lastly, you learn how to make other person understand the conclusion you got from your reasoning process (rhetoric).
On quadrivium, you learn about numbers and how they relate to each other (arithmetic), then you learn about numbers in space (geometry), numbers in time (music) and numbers in space and time (astronomy/physics).
If someone can distinguish things and extract conclusions by observing how things relate to each other, that person is learning.
If I analyse my country's education process, it's like they stop on "how to name things". They just say "this is called speed, and this formula is what you use to get the number that represents it", but then you stop there. And there are so much new things to name that they don't give you enough space and time for doing the rest of the job yourself.
this is such an enlightening comment! thanks for sharing this :)
Thanks for this comment i didn't have a name for it but now i do and i want to do this 😄
I always feel a sense of regret for learning being interested in learning mathematics, physics, chemistry but I think it was this boring, plain incomplete method that ruined it for me. I just couldn't place those subjects in a bigger context like yeah i am learning this formula but what's its use out of the classroom? And i suck at rote memory that's another thing... But i am sure if they even used half of the methods you just described i would loved to learn about those subjects! It's kinda sad.
@@nikhatparbeen8661 I remember the first time I heard about relativity. It was such a complicated concept that I just couldn't wrap my head around it. I just learned how to use the formula and got to the next thing.
Then, years later, on my leisure time, I watched a documentary on Einstein's life. There was a section showing how he came to the concept of relativity. If I remember it correctly, he just was sipping a cup of coffee after lunch and looking through the window. It was in Bern, Switzerland, and he was looking at Zytglogge, a clock tower. Then he just thought: "What would happen if I went at light speed to that clock?" And, basically, he would see the clock stopped as he was moving, because he was moving too fast. So, he posted that maybe his speed would make time go slower from his point of view (and from this assumption he would develop everything).
I don't know if the story is real, but you may find versions of it everywhere, and this is a very simple way to describe the concept, because it connects something you already know with something you don't. This is what makes the things we're studying "click".
I had the same feeling you had with things related to language in general (in my country they teach language focusing on grammar structures, syntactic analysis and things like that), but I loved reading stories. After growing up, I came to love learning new languages just because I can read the stories from other countries. Most of the time we have a hard time learning something just because we don't know how to connect it with our own experience, but there's always a way to do that. It's hard to find it, but when you find it... it's even harder to stop studying.
Wow. This really resonates with my educational experience. You have to teach yourself all the really important things like how your bits of knowledge connect.
Can't wait until you're a really famous writer so i can tell people I've been following you since 2017 on youtube
Yeah then we can say “oh yeah that guy, we’ve been rocking with him since before he was famous” and then laugh at the normies 😊😂
Yeah
@@Saber23 😂
@@aaryapurii3584 🙏
@@Saber23 totally
This guys honestly need to have his own TEDx talk
@Pedro Abreu why?
@Pedro Abreu why?
Please yes
@Pedro Abreu why?
@Pedro Abreu why?
off topic but am I the only one who has the biggest crush on this guy?? I can't _possibly_ be
Sophia
You're not alone...
ya im definitely simping for him
Nah he's cute lol
Same here girl 😔
I work for a university in admissions, I help transfer students enroll into college. I had the privilege of earning my Bachelors at my top school that is a historic private institution. I am also currently enrolled in grad school to earn my Masters degree. With this context in mind, I’d always felt conflicted in my feelings for higher Ed.
I always loved the idea of being a student but I hated the reality of it. Education was just turning in assignments, regurgitating information, checking boxes, and ultimately going to school for future financial gain & meeting societal expectations. I love learning and believe education is so valuable, but it has become exactly what you described. It is astounding to know that some people would consider my Bachelor of Arts degree useless because it can’t help me get a high paying job. That shouldn’t be the point of going to college and I could never quite put my finger on why I felt so uneasy until I watched this video.
I love your perspective and agree as well! Because now, I also see why people think college is a scam; it’s such a high price for something that isn’t truly, ultimately, for you so much as it is for the society and system you’re apart of. If we only go to college to earn a degree that will allow us to make more money so we can live in & contribute to society, then did we even learn? Such a high cost yet gives so little in the area of personal growth and wisdom. If getting a job was the sole purpose to life, I would agree that I don’t need college or even go to the length of devaluing it.
I am quite excited to try out living life as a grad student who is a rogue academic. Especially in COVID times, I am all online and I miss in person interactions, the traditional setting of being in a classroom and listening to my professor teach. I am currently just teaching myself which wouldn’t be an issue if I didn’t love learning under a professor, who is a master of the subject, and build on the foundation they’ve set. I’m excited for this new shift and I want to say thank you for loving academia the way you do
Learning shouldn’t be a chore or a duty; it’s a privilege to be able to educate yourself. I’ve always loved it, but recently my mindset has completely changed, and I realize that I used to be focused on things that would help me make money and get into a good position in our society. I think that a part of the reason why some people view education the way they do is because of the lowered attention spans that have kinda taken over due to social media. We’re always jumping from one thing to another, trying to “check boxes” as you say, and trying to ‘complete’ things. The idea of learning has shifted from wondering and discovering to knowing and achieving grand undertakings and reaching limits. It’s quite humbling to know that I ‘know’ next to nothing about a subject and that maybe there’s no limit to how much one can learn about said subject; I learn because it feels like I’m pouring cement into a bottomless pit. That might sound discouraging to some, but to me it’s quite satisfying to know that I will never be satisfied and the pit will never get filled. What happens if the pit gets filled up with cement? If I know all that there is to know? Will the cement cure and make me the most formidable master of knowledge? Or will I just have a cinderblock instead of a brain? Either way, I can’t imagine ever being okay with being “finished”. Great video!
This video made me realise how much your channel has affected me. Your videos have completely changed my viewpoint on education, and I can’t thank you enough for it. I just turned 15, and now I try to spend more of my time allowing myself to read and explore subjects I’m interested in. I’m trying to let myself wonder about different things and then learn about them. I even started learning German like you’re learning French. As if now, I think I’m going to read Das Kapital (and then a capitalism book afterwards just to compare them).
Wow, 15 already reading Das Kapital 😅. Sokay, not being demeaning but keep up the good work 👍
The thing about Marx's Capital Vol 1 is that Marx is not trashing capitalism, but is instead looking under the hood to think more deeply about some of capitalism's internal contradictions. I don't know that you need to read a book on capitalism because you're kind of soaking in it already, but Marx is always bringing in/engaging with the pro-capitalist economists of his time.BTW: I found it helpful to read a chapter of Marx and then attend the class given by David Harvey that has been uploaded onto TH-cam.
Hey dude, love your videos. I'm going through a crisis of confidence atm vis a vis career choices, and it's so nice to see someone successfully transition from science to literature (the change I think about all day, every day!). Keep up the good work!
I actually developed a stress related illness because of how much I couldn't handle bad grades.
I am curious, I wanna know more, can you elaborate? what do you think could be done to prevent stuff like this
really that's the story. I don't know a lot more either.
same. sent me to the hospital even
psych ward in my case. I'm sorry that happened to you.
me too. am currently diagnosed with depression. it sucks
I feel like this would actually make me get better grades cause I'd actually try to understand instead of just taking notes
Now I’m doing subjects I like it’s so much easier to study Cos u WANT to understand
9:50 I really feel this, I'm in my third year, I was really excited about entering university, then in my first year, I did great, but in my second year, something happened that I couldn't study anymore, I barely passed my courses, I procrastinated a lot in everything and had to drop some courses, I was trying so hard to understand what was the reason, why I procrastinated so much, why it was so hard to study, I thought it was only my bad studying habits, I've been trying this whole year change my habits but I still wasn't able to stop procrastinating. But I recently discovered your channel, and I realized the main reason was that I wasn't studying to learn, I was studying only to pass my courses, that I didn't care about learning anymore, then I remember that in my first year, I used to study all these calculus and physics and being really excited about it. So when I was focusing on trying to only pass my courses, it was giving anxiety to actually studying, I realized I have fear of failure. But I'm really glad I found your channel, all those other channels with a lot of subscribers, giving you advice about how to stop procrastinating and stuff, always gave me the feeling that they're trying to sell me something, but with your channel, I feel that you're talking about something you really believe in. I really want to change my perspective, and stop studying for grades, which made all my motivation for learning just disappear, I want to study to learn and discover, how I used to do two years ago
Good afternoon, Robin. As always, I am impressed by your passion about your subject and by the intensity of your comments. As a university professor, I know how hard it is to motivate many students to open up for acting as what you called rogue academics. Apparently, not everybody has the personal strength to cross the boundary, and many just cannot afford to loose a year or more by putting exploration over completion.
In the end, your approach resembles an elitist concept of education that was possible, but of course not always realised, in times when much fewer people went to university. The introduction of the Bologna system aimed at making a division between the many who need to complete (bachelors) and the few who want to explore more (masters), but tragically failed, as almost every bachelor consecutively adds a master programm.
Personally, I cherish everybody who learns outide the classroom.
this is true, although I want to stop caring about grades because it gives me anxiety and it made me lose my motivation for the subjects, I can't really afford to lose another semester (since I'm already one semester behind), but at least, I want to have this new perspective and start studying for the explorations and the actual process of learning
“This video is longer than the shorter videos” ...sounds like an academician alright
I wish I could have a guru that taught me to accomplish something more than just grade like the way you do. New generation really need educators who has, at least some of your perspectives. Thank you for being one of our best mentor, Robin.
Having many interests is hard. I have to say, my high schools & universty were of high level. It's academic research & its soul-killing politics and mobbing that disgusted me of the whole thing. 😡
... they never tell you how disgustingly political higher education is. :/ Or research opportunities ... grants 😩
Such an interesting concept and I think it's so true. I did English Literature at uni and spent a lot of time worrying about how it would make me unemployable (it hasn't) and not a lot of time actually delving deep into my course material and all the knowledge on offer to me. It was only after I graduated that I realised I hadn't chosen to study English because I thought it would get me a job, I had chosen it because I genuinely loved the subject (not true for the majority of university students in all kinds of disciplines) and wanted to study it for its own sake. University degrees have become commodified to a huge extent and so we are taught that it is just a qualification that you need in order to pass through the gates into the next step of your life. But you're right that this is a reductive way of looking at education and honestly it weighs heavily on the minds of people doing financially 'useless' degrees like the humanities. I actually feel more interested in learning for its own sake now than when I was at university, which I feel embarrassed about sometimes, that I wasted all that time at uni not getting on with the business of learning. But I was so paralysed by this idea of it not being 'useful' that I never engaged with the course properly. I'm now returning to all the classics that I skipped lectures on when I was at university! I agree that a utilitarian approach to education, especially in the humanities, is dangerous and dampens the quality of education and the opportunity for self-improvement. Sorry for the long message but this video really resonated with me. If you ever start a university one day I'll be one of your first students!
I'm in my sophomore year at college studying English literature right now and I'm currently going through the exact same thing you went through. So glad I found your comment. It's so easy to get caught up in the utilitarian approach to humanities so much so that you forget why you joined the course in the first place.
@@Shreyaa81 I'm actually a diploma student in accounting. I'm interested too with literature. Pynchon, Faulkner, Steinbeck, are among writers , I admire. If possible , I'm planning to take French and linguistic as ba after I finish my diploma next year. Do you think I should stick to Accounting or pursue french instead?
@@Shreyaa81 it's kinda comforting to see that there are people alike me ^_^
@@suf3799 You should absolutely go for it. Doing a humanities course is definitely a transformative experience even if it doesn't guarantee you a lucrative career
The appropriate response to loving literature is NOT to major in it
hey, im a new subscriber n honestly am so glad i found ur channel, as literature has always been one of my interests, it's refreshing to hear an authentic intellectual in such a candid way😄 could u please make a video on how to read scientific articles/ heavy reading, write summaries, reviews? academic stuff some of us struggle to break down.... bc thatd be so helpful, love ur content, keep up the good work🙌
I'm currently working on a video on philosophical/literary reading and that's in the pipeline. :)
Beautiful suggestion....😍
I am final year medical student and deep inside I really wanted to drop out. But, I didn't because I worked really hard to become medical student. There was always a void inside me and gradually medicine became so uninteresting, rather I liked fashion, painting and singing. I was confused and stressed out. Today, I have answer and an approach to get back to learning medicine. Thank you so much! Sir, I am following you.
good luck mate!
i so badly want to be a rogue academic but i don’t have the self discipline to or motivation to actively learn things on my own anymore
There’s this quote that goes, “The true purpose of education is to build minds, not careers.”
Grades have a biggg impact on me to the point that it has become part of my personality. Ya know the smart kid blabla (but im not really the top of my class or anything and the fact that im so bummed about that is kinda fucked but eh). But i mention this because i have a hard time viewing tests as a way to know what i need to learn more of. I mean i do like the idea of finding out about things i didnt know and learning about it but i dont like doing that at the risk of sabotaging my grades. And dont get me wrong even tho i have a completion kind of mindset towards school i still have that desire to learn. Its just that my grades are a big deal to me and while i am still passionate about learning and im really having trouble getting out of that mindset.
:')
I'm in my sophomore year at college and I've been going through a hard time with my grades recently. The progress I made with my personal education before online classes started went completely down the drain once I got loaded with assignments and tests. I lost sight of why I loved the subject in first place because I was dragged into the pit that is standardized education. I'm so glad I found your video. Thank you, it really helped me sort out my priorities.
I've always been so frustrated with the fact that education is something you 'get' instead of something that transforms you. One of the ways I try to stress the latter in the way I approach my schooling is to imagine what the people who worked to get all this knowledge would want done with it--would the writers of transformative works of literature appreciate my viewing them as obligations to check off? Would the people who died without ever knowing that there were planets beyond Saturn take kindly to the fact that I don't give them more than a passing thought? It's much more crucial that I treat this stuff with the respect it deserves if I feel I owe something to generations past.
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had a chief hand in their own education”
Sir Walter Scott
Dude, despite lots of your premises being true, you have one false one, which makes your conclusion fallacious: the point of the modern education system is not to enhance the knowledge of those in it; as you said, independent reading is meant to fulfill this task. The aim of modern schooling is instead to get an individual used to learning, memorising & working towards useless facts.
You correctly identified the period of change as mid 20thC, but you failed to cite the cause. The reason for this shift was contemporary to the idea of "getting a job in the city" ideology of the 50's&60's. As this ideology became more pervasive, the education system moved further.
The reason they were co-symptomatic (and also with huge rises is world GDP), is because people's aims were no longer "have food, better yourself, be smart", they were "get a job, get a house, live in the "modern" world". The education system had to shift away from people's interests, because in the real world, most people deep down are not truly fascinated by their job. The education system is no longer for education, it is one massive mass-conditioning unit, training people to do things they don't like.
Also, it will never change back to a more academia-focussed style, because the vast majority of people don't like academia, and are only there to get a job at the end of it.
Yeah. The modern (20th century-now) school system is dedicated to teaching obedience because obedient people are easy to control.
Any tips on lazy days and how often they’re okay? I find myself having days where I have 0 motivation to read
Hey there, it's totally okay to relax from time to time!
If your lack of motivation persists, that may be caused by fatigue (make sure to sleep well and also stay hydrated!!)... Try to stop social media (or at least limit your daily social media usage) because they bomb your head with lots and lots of information, which in the end exhaust your brain because it can't process it all (not using social media also helps getting rid of toxic thoughts).
If you're really lazy/tired and can't do anything I've found that going for a walk (or exercising) is the best way to recharge your batteries. When going for a walk I take advantage of the opportunity to take lots of pictures to hone my photography skills, killing two birds with one stone :)
I'd love to have a discussion sometime about different perspectives on education. I like the self-motivated approach, and I did sort of what I call a DIY business/art school during my 4 years as a bio major. Taught myself personal finance, TH-cam growth principles, other odds and ends of making and properly thinking about money, and got back into graphic design/drawing/videography. I'd skip my bio classes to work on freelance commissions or to read articles/watch podcasts about how to think about money/art/monetizing art. I learned more outside of class than in, but not at all related to my major.
My critique with your argument is your value in tests. I agree that they point out gaps in knowledge, but at what cost? Unfortunately our current system overvalues performance and undervalues learning. The students who can memorize things faster or have already been exposed to a subject excel, while those for whom it is brand new end up getting (in some cases, like pre med or law) career ending Bs and Cs. In an ideal world where learning is paramount and GPA is for the birds, the rogue academic approach would work. It's a fantastic idea, and it absolutely would produce masterful students (especially with the internet... could you imagine the depth of mastery people can achieve these days when self motivated?), but with our system that churns out GPAs and grades, unfortunately it's just not something everyone can do.
I really recommend John Taylor Gatto’s book, “Weapons of Mass Instruction.” The basic idea of it is that modern (20th century-now) schooling is highly industrialized to produce obedient, rule-following people because they are the easiest to manipulate. Gatto brings up things like the perpetrators behind modern school, how school influences materialism, how school squashes curiosity, etc. He even talks about how schools can thrive off of ruining children’s self-esteem. School lunches are high in calorie and fattening to hold kids back, keeping the kids too lethargic and tired to think for themselves. Schools teach children to be insecure about intelligence through constant testing, reading levels, math time tables, and grades shoved in their faces. Schools were meant to be detrimental to the psychological well-being of their students.
It was a very eye-opening read.
@@evadietz7359 I’ve read some essays by him I think, the name is super familiar. All I can say is I’m sort of going my own way, off the beaten path to try and make something in this world on my terms
You got +1 follower from France!
Keep going, your channel is interesting,
Btw, I think we can do a dark academia club, so that all our theories and thoughts can be discussed, sharing some poems and books titles, an artistic litterature club where we will feel alive !
Since it's much easier by internet, Discord or a Whatsapp group will be great.
This is a lil idea I got, I feel so lonely that nobody understands me in my society, I hope people who understand each other, who share the same interests and activities can get along and share.
Thank you so much for creating this wonderful channel.
Amicalement, Maram la marseillaise.
J'ai modifié quelques fautes d'orthographe pas plus, merci.
I was taken out of school after 3rd grade and was educationally neglected. I was at home but I wasn't homeschooled. I take fewer college classes to completely absorbe the material. I don't go to school to check boxes and it is very obvious that I am the rare bird just because I am not there to check those boxes. I am always trying to catch-up on not having a formal education.
The way I view classes is that they are only making me aware of the bare basics of a topic. History of Russia? Here are the main events. Now that I know them I will not be confused if I try to learn more about the history of Russia. But by no means do I think I know it all just because I took a class on it. I don't do research out of the classroom immediately. I go back to it later. So when I go back to the topic, the things I learned in class gets kicked back in when I probably wouldn't remember it otherwise.
"Rouge Academic", i like the way that sounds^^ i've never came across something like that, but i like it.
"The rogue academic" today is the one who actually cares about what they are learning about. kind of messed up that that's the case lol
Yes, education is getting worse. And one of the reasons is the constant need for innovation in education. They are trying so hard to innovate for the sake of it that they are changeing the things that did work in the education system. To improve somthing you have to have a very clear image of what needs improvement and what is good just the way it is.
The education system is being changed through ideology instead of through rigurous work. And this is hurting education a lot.
Bad pedagogy and bad psychology are part of the problem too. We need more rigurouse studies that focus of learning and less ideologies' propaganda.
As a 65 year old, experiencing both learning and as a teacher, I have lived the shifts in learning culture. People now are being taught definitive outcomes rather than learning the processes of understanding and knowledge seeking. This breeds a dangerous conformity and a maladaptive attitude to accepting the limits of understandings and a fear of being wrong and subject to challenge, both internally by self judgement and outwardly from others. This is a closing of the book and not it’s opening.
I love John Taylor Gatto’s books on this. He was a teacher for 30 years and quit due to frustrations about the school system. He really goes in depth about the foundations of our modern school system and how the current system destroys children and their curiosity.
Albert Einstein even said, “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
I have this saying where anytime people tell me that I'm actually really clever, my instant response is that "yeah, I just don't test well", but you've opened my mind into the possibility of being "Rogue", truth is I love learning, I'm considered a bit of a "jack of all trades", but putting a number on it just stresses me out.
I do a degree that's more preferable in the job market (chemical engineering) and I quickly found that I was one of the very few people who picked it because they enjoy it, I know most people picked it because it was hard and they didn't want to do medicine, and honestly it sucks, every interaction is grade-based, if it's not relevant to the module you don't bother.
I like you're thing of being a rogue academic- it has a nice ring to it and it's allowed me to understand and view things in a different way
Great thoughts! What saddens me is how uni really saps your time and energy for independent learning. If I were to do it over again, I'd probably aim for "good grades" vs "excellent grades" and not put in as much time as I did. Then use the extra energy for self-learning.
Not sure if anyone mentioned this yet, but the completion focused education system is actually causing children to become habitual under acheivers. I noticed it while I was going though the system myself and it really pierced my soul.
Many people only do the bare minimum to pass the tests and assignments, often copying each other's work verbatim if they can get away with it. It has become a cultural attitude among many students, and it is causing people to learn less and less. In essence, I think we have become "dumber" as a population because of it, than say 100 years ago.
This was one of the most beautiful things I have heard in years... I am living in fear of education since I was a kid, and it was always such a huge part of my life, it was pushed onto me like a threath... I hope I can apply this new perspective, it's so freeing and it brought me so much joy to even hear about *the spirit of discovery* which I completely forgot about... I pray to reconcile the kid in me who loved being in awe.
"Education is something that I take very personally, and I don't want a very dry number to determine that for me". I have never felt more understood.
you should read the rediscovery of learning by gert biesta
Noted :)
I think you'd really enjoy "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire as for problems with the education system
The question here is, how would we balance it out with living the 'reality'? I've always believed in this idea(?) that you've been talking about, but how would we divide our time and resources into deep-diving and following our gut (for the lack of a better word), if the society require us to complete and check off certain tasks?
University is a place for knowledge and learning, but what about after it? How would you earn money if you've been deep-diving in an area where there is relatively less demand for? How would you sustain yourself enough to continue following that passion and thirst for knowledge throughout your whole life?
There are just so many uncertainties that I am reluctant to follow the path that I want to, and thus will probably end up conforming to the path that society tells us to follow, which is really unfortunate. However at a stage where our family is not financially well-off, and when I do not trust myself enough to make such bold decisions for my future (and my family's future), I'm afraid to follow such paths.
I find this well-intentioned, but kind of offensively idealistic.
One problem with education in the US is that it's a meritocratic institution, and meritocracy is a zero sum game. Meritocracy produces expertise, but only in relation to competitors that didn't achieve the same success. This unquestioned assumption of meritocracy was written into the NEA Council of Ten's different curricula recommendations, presumably to sort college track students from other students of lower social class or different race. Much has changed in how the US does education since then, but the history of education is of an institution that operates in bad faith: while the ostensible purpose of education is educate, its real purpose is to sort.
This is exacerbated by the painfully Fordist mode of producing students. The student is a product, produced by commodity exchanges between school districts and textbook publishers. The curriculum itself is a commodity -- and while I'm sure that some educators are perfectly capable designing their own curricula, putting them in a historical context with John Dewey and Susan B. Anthony, and defending them against peer review -- I'd be surprised if any such educator was able to get in the way of money changing hands between school boards and textbook publishers in any real way.
Much hand wringing has been done about Kamala Harris threatening the most vulnerable parents with jail time; but the fact is, all primary schools are carceral institutions. All schools operate with truancy laws, and the legal system is as likely to show restraint for those violations as with any other misdemeanor. Educators, scholarly as they might be, are primarily engaged in crowd control for holding pens, between 40-minute sets of bad standup routines.
The student is a subject of an institution somewhere between a jail and a factory or call center, that isn't primarily engaged in its supposed purpose. And the school is a set of social relations only capable of reproducing the same set of social relations.
I think this is an important message, but it’s really sad to see you telling people that legislation can’t be changed and we should just give up on reform because we have no power. Maybe this is your philosophy perspective versus my sociology perspective, but I hope everyone understands that all of these systems are made by PEOPLE, and any progressive or revolutionary changes to society have been achieved by PEOPLE who resisted their current situations. Uneven levels of power means that there are people or groups that have the ability to manipulate systems more easily, and make it harder for others to influence systems. What this means is that if you can leverage what power you can collect, and if you can snip away flows of power to powerful individuals or groups, you can influence systems! And you might no lt see the results of your efforts in your life time, but change is built on a continuum of struggle. Also, this romantic idea of interest-driven wisdom building - something that is great to advocate for - has often been exclusive to elite groups in society (the rich, men, higher castes, etc). While this type of learning is inspirational, I don’t think there’s anything “rogue” or “radical” about being a nihilistic academic that doesn’t try to change conditions for the benefit of all.
I'M AN ENGINEERING STUDENT BUT I KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF PSYCHOLOGY BECAUSE OF MY GENUINE INTEREST ABOUT THAT SUBJECT... I WOULD OFTEN SEARCH ABOUT RANDOM STUFFS RELATED TO PSYCHOLOGY IN MY FREE TIME... I THINK I NEED TO APPLY THE SAME FOR ENGINEERING.
I could really delve deeply into the major issues with the education system coming from a student perspective but also as a teacher with years of experience. I do know there are some fields that you must get actual training and go to school for; that being said, do you really need to spend 8+ years to become a doctor or could you spend say 2 years doing bookwork and then 4 years hands-on apprenticeship. Speaking of apprenticeships there are still loads of trade fields that could be under an apprenticeship program but are now requiring higher education such as certificates and degrees even. So, in many areas, there are just better ways one could be educated. Also, I'm an autodidact and I greatly believe in self-learning, as well as online learning. There are many people that do so much better by self-study or online studies with say a book, lectures and then just writing an essay on what they have learned or journaling what they are learning rather than actual tests with questions like true or false, multiple-choice, etc., which really does not tell me whether a student really understands and is then able to apply the concepts to their field of expertise.
I could go on about tests and especially standardized tests, they are the largest downfall of the education system anywhere! I feel essays are a far better way of my judging whether a student really does understand because they must think deeply and critically, chose their words wisely, and also use their creative minds in order to explain the topic discussion. I am an advocate of education and many fields need a deep education in the standard way but I realize there are many fields that could be done by self-learning or an online education without tests and at the students' own pace. Also, don't get me started on the cost of higher learning, it is absolutely outlandish! This is truly a great topic and one that is very dear to my heart. To be honest I am a high advocate of self-study for the humanities fields and for many students who just can't function in the traditional clinical form of schools and academia.
I say for those in humanities or wanting to self-study, the best thing is to find a very good mentor, find high-quality resource books and study them thoroughly, also take online courses (some free or just chose the courses you know will help you), and engage in deep discussion with fellow peers and professionals in the field. Then begin practicing your skills and just keep learning all that you can. You will be able to save so much money over time and I feel be far more educated. Thanks for the great discussion!
Times have changed. Education in the past were about educating the people- but in modern times it’s literally about getting a job. If you want to educate yourself and fill your brain with knowledge there is internet, books etc. We don’t need to jump back in time instead we need to adapt to the modern society. Going to university just to educate yourself in a certain subject is a privilege- most of the time you are not getting a job studying ancient history. Honestly there are so many worthless subjects in university that people are studying it’s insane. University is about getting a job, not to higher your wisdom.
Awesome!
I first began to question the education system when undiagnosed dyslexia tripped me up and I began to seem to be not so 'gifted' anymore.
I learned over the next several years that my grades were completely capricious and arbitrary.
In eighth grade, I learned that the real benefit of school for me was to put me into contact with smart kids. One of them asked if the 'bullet' at the end of '1984' was real or just metaphorical. So we all read 1984. Not as part of any assignment but to try to answer the question.
After that, I often found myself studying and researching (at the time, early '70s) modern political history and science fiction (which was undergoing a renaissance at the time).
So I went into high school following two parallel curriculums, the school's and my own.
My own was much more stimulating. We read Marx 'for fun' (no, it wasn't fun, but very enlightening).
When I got into college I really didn't know what I wanted to do. Few of the offered programs held much interest for me. I completed my Basic Education Requirements by taking introductory courses in physics, early anthropology, psychology, philosophy, current trends in art, the history of science, political science, analyzing Shakespeare… A wide variety of interests, mostly to answer questions of my own. I still didn't find anything I wanted to study in detail. Astronomy was (and still is) very interesting. I took a class, Advanced Topics in Astronomy, designed to be an introductory course, without all the math and physics, in the more advanced topics in astronomy usually studied by grad students after they had taken all the foundational math and physics. It was taught by the head of the department and it was wonderful.
History of astronomical discovery, how we learned what the stars were, that the Sun is a star, that those nebulae are actually other galaxies, that everything is moving away from us at great speed that implies a Big Bang, Einstein's trouble with that, Hubble's trouble with that though it was his discoveries that led to it. The life cycle of a star and how we know. How supernovae work and how they create Everything we know including the structure of the Universe. The amazing career of Subramanian Chandrasekhar who studied chemistry until he made a discovery that was so wild he was thrown out (and later proven right), then studied physics until he discovered something so wild he was thrown out (and again later proven right) and studied astronomy and stellar evolution and discovered the possibility of black holes and was thrown out of astronomy (and of course later proven right).
Simply amazing and the prof clearly expressed his passion for the subject and eagerly showed how each of these principles work mathematically, though we didn't need to know the math, he just wanted to show it worked.
And he implored up to NOT get into astronomy because while it's very interesting and they have really lerned a lot (he himself didn't really believe in black holes yet, in 1978) but it's the only subject where you can never even hope to touch or even get close to your subject. In every other subject you can get close enough to make very careful measurements but in astronomy you can only LOOK. At the very highest resolutions the stars still only resolve to single little points of light. So we can measure the light and infer an amazing number of things about the stars, these are big and those are little, but we can never GO there to tell for sure. It's great that the Sun is close enough to study well, but we're still only guesing that the other stars are similar but different in certain ways. It's still only a bunch of theories based on the subtlties of the varrying wavelengths of light.
I eventually became interested in computers, ditched university and went to the local trade school for hands-on experience.
Checking boxes wasn't working for me anymore. The checkboxes weren't anywhere I wanted to be. In those days I could easily get a job because I was 'familiar with computers' (a CS degree wasn't a 'thing' yet). Working in a computer room gave me lots of time to study (whatever I wanted) on my own. Life long learner, there's the ticket.
Some of the stupidest people I know have PhDs.
I was passionate about learning Italian but uninspired by the class, which I found boring and pointless - very much focused on grammatical minutiae, irrelevant vocabulary, and leaping through fiery hoops. At the same time, I was reading Italian novels and very much enjoyed that. Others asked, "How can you read that book if you do so badly in Italian". Generally, my success at learning languages has been due to what I did OUTSIDE of class.
School enforces understanding in an unhealthy way, especially in the humanities. I think you talked about this where your goal in your first read is to get the bigger picture. Even with things like fiction, there seems to be this need to envelop the whole experience into one realm of reasoning, if that makes sense. Of course, school isn’t the only reason why some reading sounds frightening, but there’s surely room for improvement.
After learning some topics with some people online, I discovered that the testing method most schools used is quite biased because people learn differently and in different lengths... One person might take a year and the other might take 4 months, but that doesn't mean the one who takes a year isn't worthy
This is true, but of course it is true for men and not for women. In general, education for women has almost always been means to economic ends. Education was the thing that women had to acquire to be seen as an asset in the marriage.
Your view on tests made me think about something that I learned about when I was doing an internship as a teacher. I don’t know if this is the same in other countries, but in the Netherlands many teachers are working on using different types of testing/assessment in their courses. You have the so called summative assessment which is the well known test that gives you a grade to reflect how much you know and then you (or at least most people) move on. On the other hand there is formative assessment which shows what you’ve learned and where the gaps are in your knowledge. Normally this type of test is not graded but focused on giving the student feedback and helping him/her forward in the learning process. I think this is a really good development since it allows students to actively be a part of their learning process. And I hope that it can also inspire some students to think about education in a different way.
I absolutely adore all the content you put out. Like seriously.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Its fucking interfering with mine cause they making us go to school for 11 fucking hours because "the children arent learning enough"
HOLY. FUCK.
I resonate so much with what you say about treating studying as an end and not a mean to something else. I do want to deeply understand things, but university (specially in STEM subjects) doesn’t really let you time to do that. This is my first year of uni (computer-related engineering) and I feel profoundly let down. I want to understand the stuff we work with but everything goes too fast, it seems like they just want us to know how to solve the exercises not really understanding what we are doing. I’ve tried to deeply understand the things that we study but there’s no physical time to do that. This makes me think if I should just drop out and try to find a lifestyle that lets me study on my own, because the idea of spending 4-5 years in this hole is something I can’t stand.
Proof that the education system should be re-emagined because all of it's main principles are based on an era where children were trained to become factory workers:
I always remind myself of a certain quote from a Bengali writer named Pramatha Chaudhuri which would roughly translate to -----
"A well educated man is nothing but a self educated man" .
Enough said ladies & Gents... Now it's time to walk the walk ...💛💁♂️💛
Thank you. I just finished my first term in college, and this video is going to shift my learning experience going forward. I appreciate it.
Thank you for the great video.
My personal experience was that I had a really strong drive and interest in the subject (math, physics) while in high school, and that completely went away during university. I hated most courses but stuck through the honours program. I just graduated a few months ago, and ironically I'm finding myself drawn to learning & discovery again.
How am I supposed to be excited about maths 😭
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Thank you for the video. While I would love to fully embrace the pursuit of knowledge from a place of genuine desire to discover and to learn, I can’t help but feel that at times there is nothing that interests me to that extent, such that I feel passionate every time I pursue knowledge in that area. My question is, how does one identify the knowledge area where they can genuinely enjoy learning and studying? Can one learn and develop an interest in your opinion or does it come down to exploring many fields and simply choosing something that you instantly feel a connection to?
When I went to grad school I promised myself that I would always keep reading fiction and books unrelated to my class material and research. Even though I read an intense amount of books and articles, I did not want to associate reading/learning with "work" only. That was just a small thing, but it made a world of difference for me. I love the concept of "rogue academia" and really think that needs to be the title of a book or your memoir ("Rogue Academic"), but is it really a new concept? Or a very old concept?
I normally don't comment on videos, but I recently came across your channel and I think you're an extremely insightful and mature person (especially for your age; if I'm not mistaken you're only two-three years older than me).
I thoroughly enjoy your videos and hearing your perspective on things, and happen to agree with many of them. Wishing you all the best, keep making great videos and being the interesting person you are!
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I absolutely love this. I feel so strongly about this but I feel so trapped in the system. I'm so worried about learning the curriculum that I become so exhausted I have no energy to put more time into actual learning. This is better articulated than what I said, but I wrote my common app essay on this topic!
I’ve been extremely lost in life for a multitude of reasons- battling between two ideas that include two different forms of sacrifice, one in terms of genuine comfort and other in terms of finance, etc. thank you... I really am stuck between a crossroads, and I appreciate finding you
You just dropped the red pill of the educational system. The matrix we live in extends to all facets of life, education is no exception. Keep it up man This is the first vid of yours I’ve seen and I subscribed because of it
I loved this a lot and am looking forward to more 'lectures for life' from Professor Waldun c:
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I watch a handfull of self help videos and learning videos. I came accros your videos several times and watched them. I began to have less interest in self help on youtube because It felt like people are doing this very artificially and for marketing... Yours... I feel like it's so genuine . I have great pleasure to listen to you talk about litterature and your thoughts while cooking, makeup, getting ready etc... Thanks for being on youtube :)
"I’ll tell you how I feel about school, Jerry: It’s a waste of time. Bunch of people runnin’ around bumpin’ into each other, got a guy up front says “2 + 2,” and the people in the back say, “4.” Then the bell rings and they give you a carton of milk and a piece of paper that says you can go take a dump or somethin’. I mean, it’s not a place for smart people, Jerry. I know that’s not a popular opinion, but that’s my two cents on the issue."
- Rick C-137 Sanchez
You’re quite confident for a 19/20 year old. You present your thoughts very well, and they are pretty high quality thoughts also.
Idk how to express how much I love your mannerisms... You are very cute and intelligent but also so much more
When I grow up I want to be as smart as R.C. Walden. (Cries because I’m probably older than him).
Thank you so much! I agree that we have lost sight of the beauty of learning and discovery!!!
I left science for commerce in 12th cuz I thought it would help me with entrepreneurship. Not sure if it will. I have started working as a software developer cuz software really excites me, I used to play with electronics when I was younger
I don't know what degree I'll go for, possibly that makes me rogue
have you read alan bennett's the history boys? it's a dark academia-esque play that explores the theme of culture vs "education" in the process of studying. this video reminded me of it, highly recommend.
Very well said mate.
Last week someone asked my professor what we needed to know for our upcoming philosophy of science exam. He answered that it was not up to him to decide that. He said we should study what we personally would like to know. I thought that was interesting to hear, as my other teachers are always so focused on exams and grades. It was good to see that not every teacher thinks that way!
As a T.A I spent a year repeating to my students "Don't care about your grades. It's more difficult to learn that way."
They never understood.
this is just a suggestion but maybe reserve a class session or part of the class time to show them this video and then discuss it? I think it would highly beneficial and they get a better understanding of "Don't care about your grades. It's more difficult to learn that way."
That's because the grades still impact them. Their future employers or the future admissions team at their graduate school isn't going to care about how much they learned with a 2.5 gpa or below. It's nice to say, but reality very much still cares about grades and gpa. Perhaps they did understand, but they couldn't see how they could practice it since the consequences are still real. This would be different if you was at a University that found a way to equip students with the knowledge and a degree to show for it without having to worry about grades and gpa.
@@_VISION. You've given a brilliant perspective. Thank you.
@@benjaminsetor_ np
1. (11:36) Learn everything organically & from a place of genuine interest
2. (13:35) Learn outside the classroom
3. (15:39) Don’t worry about tests, assignments, and grades
Yep, that's basically how I envision the learning process :)
y’all I’m 15, and love studying philosophy, history, and languages, and I’m learning my 4th language rn. I’ve managed to make money, friends, and seratonin (after that one dip into existential nihilism but we’re not gon talk abt that). My question is why do I need to do well in geometry class? Every answer has not satasfied me, and I’m not doing well in that class (I have a 74 and a test I didn’t study for today). I’ve no motivation to learn or study geometry, like at all. I’m well aware how incredibly important maths and science are, but the personal appeal is not there. Y’all got any ideas or anything?
To be honest, the only answer I've found is that they teach you problem solving skills (at least, math does). Education cant be specific to everyone individually, at least not at your age in high school, and so things like math and science, as well as humanities subjects, give a decent grounding in everything before you specify what you want in college.
The more you learn a new skill, concept (or anything) the easier learning in general becomes. In other words, think of geometry has working out your “learning muscle”. You learn philosophy and more languages easier 😅.
I just collect sources about how to elaborate geometry and arts. Geometry can coduct in painting and music and seems lot of fun!
Thank you for articulating this idea, which is at the core of my own disillusionment with the education system; "the promised idea of education and the reality of education are two very different things". There have been movements that address and dance around this such as "unschooling", but your description hits the nail on the head, and I'm happy I stumbled across it.
I don't know what to do . I'm confused still I'm fighting . I'm crying still finding .this is life .good luck to you .
Interestingly enough, many people "up there" (such as Malcolm Gladwell, Jordan Peterson, and John & Hank Green) are proposing their own ideas of how the education system should be changed. I really hope we as a collective society would slow down and take a step back to re-evaluate the humanity as a whole...Thank you for creating this channel and inspiring people, including me. Really give me hope on what the world could be when individual acts.
From today on out, I self identify as a Rogue Academic!! Love this video!
In my high school years, I remember my piano teaching telling me that grades are not everything. I took it to heart, because I really did not pay attention to my grades that much. I did believe that goal is to learn, not to get good grades. However, in my senior year of high school, I realized that you do need good grades to get into good colleges. Since that point, I have been developing the mindset of completion. In my Engr 101 class, a motivating guest speaker viewed his Bachelor's in Engineering as going through a list of checkboxes. His mindset is very goal-oriented. It is encouraged by the engr 101 textbook we have and from many 'productivity' TH-camrs and writers, too.
I think it is an enlightening point that you bring up about "the rogue academic." In fact, it is so true when I think of my dad, who was the top math student at his university, because he had that mindset. Since the beginning, he was very interested in math and would read up on it on his own. The tests came too easy to him.
I am going to rethink my plans for education, because by golly I have been pursuing a completionist mindset nowadays!