A common misconception about school is that school is supposed to prepare you for life. When in reality, it just prepares you for work and it was always like this
Idk what you guys are getting but for me our school offers practical real life thing like Business studies (Both household and company works), Technical Graphics (helps designing for houses, computer modelling and artwork), basic financial maths outside of business and now works on personal experience and development. However, alot of students that do complain about the system are the ones who don't try and disrupt class/make the experience worse for others, they complain about all these points but don't actually see how they are there. That might just be me though
I had a teacher that did not do grades. He provided feedback, created an engaging class, awarded participation, and gave us time management skills. His financial status basically forced him to transfer to another school. He is living proof of the flaws in our education system.
School HAS failed me. At a very young age, I was diagnosed with many learning disabilities that I was put in special ed. They eventually decided to put me with the other students. In lower school, my school would not specialize in my unique way of learning so I spent 5 years stuck with different personal assistants who were supposed to keep an eye on me and it felt like I could never be alone, like there was something wrong with me. Why out of all the other kids, am I the only one with my own personal helper? You can imagine as a little kid, it gets very annoying to be watched all the time. Middle school was worse. Ever since private school, I felt like I was trapped in a prison, never allowed to take classes that brought out my strengths and creative side. I rebelled sometimes. It felt like I always had to be obedient and I could never debate and speak back, otherwise detention. High school was the worst of them all. The high school I went to was a school specifically for kids with learning disabilities and autism. They graded not based off of your skill level, but your BEHAVIOR. Safe to say, I rebelled the most once my needs weren’t being met and I got detention nearly every day. There is a happy ending to this story though. The torture of feeling trapped and never taken seriously got too much, that I moved to my last high school. This last school has GOOD teachers, a good curriculum with barely any exams, and the freedom to choose where I can eat and who I can talk to (which my first high school controlled). I graduated never looking back and gained more knowledge in college than any of these 4 schools could ever give me!
@@kaceejones2282 it feels like many people are fast learners and can adapt quickly, it can take awhile to accept that being a slower learner and taking a longer time than most people is ok 🤍
A grading system based on... behavior? Isn't the whole point of special ed schools to help kids who struggle and teach them with an appropriate to their disabilities approach? Behavior is such a subjective thing though, it should NEVER be graded. As a whole I think it's ridiculous to even have a grading system in special ed in the first place, feedback is way more important in this case. Good to hear you moved on with life and had a successful time in college! I am of the same belief that a couple years of college would teach more than eleven ot twelve years of school. It's important to have your own path to knowledge and strive for it. School is just a bunch of pointless information to memorize, as well as putting everyone in the same box, both literally and metaphorically, and it looks like even special ed suffers from similar problems as nobody seems to understand how to teach individuals instead of robots Your learning disabilities are not an indicator of your capabilities and don't define your intellect! It's not kids with disabilities that are broken, it's the society and the school system. Keep thriving and do your own thing! We are all individuals after all
OMG Adults and schools are so fucking awful and evil i'm so happy u moved ur story feels like something that i can relate to on a personal level. The important part was that u survived through it all, and i'm so happy for u. 😮😢
They tell us " Be responsable, don't fight, clean up after yourselves, don't liter, think about your health" Just about all of those things the older generation dose not do!
The thing I hated most in school was having no freedom of thought. We were given books to read and and later write essays or questionnaires on it, everytime there would be a question on ' what do you think the author/charecter meant by saying so and so'. And you could never answer your opinion, because the teacher would give you a bad grade
To expand on that subject the books we were told to read were about abuse and alcoholism in the family, child beatings or childer killing an animal on accident. Like honestly, who wants to read things like that when they're 16-17
I am not from America, or somewhere else, I live in Kazakhstan (a country next to Russian and China), but, we read A TON of books like this. For example of one book called 'Mumu', russian book. It's a book where a man has to drown his friend, the dog Mumu, on the orders of the noblewoman (this book is 124 pages long, and the whole book is literally about a man and a noblewoman and a man's dog.). And we are reading it in fifth grade. Also the book 'Taras Bulba'. It's a book where 'The action takes place in the 16th century, this is a story about the Cossack elder Taras Bulba and his two sons, Andrei and Ostap. Taras leads his sons and their fellow Cossacks in a campaign against the Poles, but the conflict ultimately leads to a tragic and devastating ending for Taras and his family.'. And we also read it in 6 GRADE. Like, for what we are reading it? @@sticer2
@@enderwisper768 just read somebody's comment who was slapped with an ADD diagnosis by their teacher in second grade bc they were drawing at the back of their paper or smth after they finished a test in 5 mins, which was a great example of this comment. it's sad. no wonder why adults of today villainizes younger ppl for wanting to have more rest time after school or work, so on and so forth
*When I was in second grade, the teacher would hand out worksheets full of easy problems and we were supposed to quietly do them while she sat at her desk reading a book for an hour.* *I would always finish mine in 5 minutes (with all correct answers) and spend the other 55 drawing on the back of the worksheet.* *So the teacher gave me more challenging work to do. Just kidding. She told my parents I had severe ADD and demanded they either put me on Ritalin or move me to special ed.* *That's why I had to go to a new school halfway through second grade.*
Oh my... That's actually horrible. As someone who's also been (falsely) recommended to a therapist in primary school, I can relate. It's despicable how much schools have that idea of "everyone must be and do the same, and if anyone has an actual personality, they're broken and need to be fixed"
uhhh???? and they didn't even bother to check or do the first steps correctly to begin with... that level of quick fix is just beyond stupid. stupid beyond the level of understanding or comprehension. glad that never happened to me
As a writer and a student, i am sad to say that my country 'India' fails at promoting any kind of creative jobs. My parents were happy to know that i was writing and publishing my work online but when told that i'd like to pursue writing in my education and career they told me that it was a 'hobby' and that i should first make money and then think about my hobbies. There has not been a single mention of any kind of creative careers (musicians, writers, painters etc)in any school. They are considered to be like really bad options to make a future of. For anyone reading this, my parents loves me dearly and are just afraid of seeing me fail. I have no intention to ever abandon my pen. Edit: yeah so life update, decided that i like teaching too so i decided to go for a phd in literature. Any one from europe who could explain the exams needed to be given in order to be admitted? I am currently preparing for college entrance exams so even if someone sees this after 3 or 4 years you can still tell me. Edit: life update part 2, now i am a first year english honours student. I write daily, joined my college's sports team and am enjoying life.
I am very lucky to be in a school that actually promotes creativity and gives skills that are useful in the modern world, like TV and Video production, computer science, art and animation, etc. (Still sucks about the math, science, history and English classes though.)
I think what schools need to do is put the burden of improvement on the student. I had a math teacher a few years ago that gave students infinite retakes. When the class asked why, he explained that there's more motivation to improve if a student has the chance to redeem themselves. TLDR: Retakes encourage students to study, to get better, rather than wallow in despair and cry about their F grade.
Retakes can be a dangerous tool, though. My music teacher was absolutely terrible, probably the whole class hated her, and part of the reason why is that her tests were EXTREMELY boring and if you failed, you HAD to do them again, only exception was if you didn’t fail by just a bit because yes the teacher did tell you to take a retake if you got like a 6 or something like that
@@victorvirgili4447I think part of the problem in your situation was that the teacher *forced* you to retake the test. From how it’s written, I think that OG is saying the teacher gave the students the choice to retake and do better. This means instead of forcing the retake on the students, the students had to take initiative and ask to retake the test. This of course also would have the effect of making to willing tester want to do better and apply themselves more towards that goal.
Learned helplessness is a powerful thing. If students are forced to wallow in their failures, they will eventually stop trying. I would know personally because I suffer from learned helplessness constantly. Kudos to your Math teacher for fostering a healthy learning experience
God this video unearthed a number of repressed feelings and memories. I remember always being slow at taking notes in school so I always felt like I was getting behind. Oftentimes I felt frustrated and every time I ever tried venting that frustration I often got talked down to. And a major problem I saw in my town was that academic success was often key to individual success. I feel so bad for the kids who struggled cause I remember them being looked down upon. I still remember how wild it was the first time I ever had two tests in one day, and the night more I got yelled at by my parents after they told me to go study everything one last time, despite the fact I was very tired. Even though I had gotten everything right when the quizzed me, they told me “Fine, don’t study, fail your tests.” School often kept me away from spending time with friends since I always had to prioritize studying. My parents always pushed me to study since they understood the best path to success for me was to do well in school. I did well enough to get a great scholarship, and college I would genuinely enjoy as I was taking classes related to my desired career field, and finally got to be more creative and think outside the box with things.
The frustrating part about how schools are kinda made to make kids obedient and turn them into good workers is that if there's something getting the way of your studies (like a disability, lower income, health/mental health problems), you're probably gonna fall by the wayside or succeed inspite of how school is built. And if you fail school, then that's pretty bad, and it's not even your fault. It might not even be your family's fault.
It's always frustrating to think about how powers beyond your control, can change and impact so much of your life.. But simply blaming them for everything isn't a fair excuse either.. You shouldn't simply pile on the hate train, but try & navigate your problems instead
One thing I always think back to about school was how obsessed my teachers were with making us learn to do our work without the Internet, be it for research purposes, or for studying. The reason they always gave was that "you won't always have access to the Internet," and while this was going on, everyone was expected to have email for work and my dad had to have his phone on his person at all times to respond to emails. Eventually I realized that the teachers were more interested in teaching us how to work in the world they grew up in before the Internet than preparing us for the world in which we would actually have to find jobs.
I see a lot of these points you made happening over in Australia but I think the biggest problem is the fact that some people want to do other stuff, you have to get them interested and at an insanely young age and the idea that learning is hard in schools make this hard, I don't know where it's come from but I feel like somewhere between highschool and primary school is when people start to dislike learning.
This is something even middle schoolers are aware of. As students, we always said something like "most of what we learn in school will isn't gonna help us in our lives" and that's true. And then both my parents and teachers would say "you're not applying yourself". Like, no shit! Why would I put so much energy into doing something I am not interested in? Not to mention, they should prioritizing managing finances and refining social/life skills instead of spending a whole week on the Pythagorean Theorem.
@@Ziggyvu Oh, I agree. I just feel that life skills, financial literacy, creative thinking, etc. should be at least a requirement rather than be relegated to specific advanced courses.
Yah there's some math stuff you don't really need to know unless you are SPECIFICALLY going into a job that does need that type of knowledge of the type. It's annoying and its not even because I don't understand it, I'm a "brilliant" person but I also see that it sorta feels useless unless students choose that type of stuff to learn.
This is so true and parents just DON'T GET or refuse to get how pointless school is. I've always said school is a waste of time and it is for the most part but my parents just always looked at me like "ok stupid child, you'll get over that phase" infact school is so ingrained in my brain, I'm having a hard time believing university will be different just because I've gone to school for such a long time
University is good when you're learning useful information related to your career. There's still plenty that doesn't matter, like learning how to solve complex derivative equations by hand when realistically you would just use a graphing software.
I have also realize the school system is bad. I’ve tried to explain to my mom about how school is useless and she doesn’t care. Our parents don’t care they were taught that school is everything. But now with the internet kids are realizing that school is useless and how they aren’t learning anything
I am so grateful for my school district, as they actually care about the students and try to make it enjoyable. Whether it be games, giving out candy for doing well, or just being nice to the students, i got very lucky. (also, history is my favorite subject)
History is my favorite subject too, but for the wrong reason. I like it because it's a lot easier than my other classes... In my history class, we don't have many tests, homework, or even classwork. It's the only class where I can just shut my brain off for an hour and doodle
@@WolfTrot Hehe, I'm from an Arab country, so we take social Arabic and normal social (English), the same thing, no classwork, no homework, and the quizzes are true and false. The WHOLE thing! Dis is in Saudi Arabia
i just graduated this year and really don’t know what i’m doing. Without peers in my life i genuinely think i’d be lost. I feel like the only valuable classes i took in highschool were economics and wilderness science and i think that says a lot
@@Ziggyvu knowing Abraham Lincoln's birthday and the quadratic formula ain't gonna help you succeed in life, goofy. a lot of people are in that same boat too because school clearly doesn't build you up to live a good life and just be "average". I can tell you were a teacher's pet just because of that statement lmao
Elementary and Middle school was the worst for me because most of my teachers were really hateful, nothing was done about bullying, the food most of the time wasn't even cooked throughly, and they disbanded both art and band class! And a lot of my friends are very passionate about art.
I feel you dude. My middle school is so strict, if like some hair cover ur eyebrows u literally get punished and each Friday for me has a little test where if u fail it u go to school again on Saturday and the teacher is really hateful and not helpful. They just gave us homework speak random stuff and giving us any motiviation yelling at us for no reasons.
Dude, I have a passion for art, specifically animation but my high school's art department is getting their budget cut more and more because stem and sports are seen as more important. It sucks a lot. Our teachers are also getting demotivated and we lost AP art history :(
My school is full of stupid brain kids I need to shut down mental illnesses I send a message to Greek prime Minister Those Mental illnesses Serious Problems was caused by Entertainment and Family abusism
It isn’t all bad news though! Lately I’ve been seeing schools trying to make classes more enjoyable and have more thought related methods of learning leaving some to think and put ideas for the students which I find very good! The system still has a lot of flaws but it seems we are starting to improve, or at least try to
I remember being in 8th grade and my stem teacher was amazing. He joked with the class, taught stuff in a fun way, made us have debates about energy and was overall made class fun. We need more teachers like my 8th grade stem teacher
My school is full of stupid brain kids I need to shut down mental illnesses I send a message to Greek prime Minister Those Mental illnesses Serious Problems was caused by Entertainment and Family abusism
This is why I'm lucky I went to a well-organized school where the teachers were very friendly, trained to help out students and teach us life skills. We even had charities reach out to us for fun opportunities 😢. It was a silver lining to my school life and I wish it was like this elsewhere.
@@naresh6181 I won't disclose the name for privacy reasons, but it was a special school (yes I have autism). Despite all the negative stereotypes out there about them, special ed is actually very interesting and you can meet the most unique, brightest people in your life. Most of them are quite peaceful, considering they shouldn't be overwhelming unlike mainstream schools. And due to their importance, that's why they usually receive support from charities. The teachers had to be trained properly to be educated about autistic students and as such, they show empathy for them. I will forever miss those times...
@@naresh6181 Indeed I was bro, it's a shame I'll never experience something like this again. It was literally the best era of my life, and also you get to learn life skills which was very good. I hope other kids will have something like this one day
I think i've just found my new favourite serious youtube video. Like, everything you're saying is so right, and i particularly found myself in the goals and procrastination argument
Another problem with school is how it plants in you the idea that suffering is the only way to succeed. It often encourages you to spend your free time studying for a future test over spending that time on other enjoyable activities, while also encouraging unhealthy habits like overworking and not taking breaks. Does anybody remember when was the last time a teacher told you to take a break?
"Lacking enjoyment" might not be the correct statement about schools, I think "actively seeks to sap all the enjoyment out of those who participate in it" is a more accurate terminology
Where i am if you didn't go ti school for over a 3 years,then you wouldnt be able to go to school again and the only way to get employed is to have a degree
I was JUST talking about this with my friends! My idea for the most bare minimum solution is that senior year of high school there should be a class called something like "life readiness." In which you learn your rights and responsibilities as an adult (such as paying taxes).
Idk about your school/country but we had civic classes where we learn more life nuance situation, for example the death penalty if we agreed or disagree and we debated with each, most didn’t care about the class and usually every passe😢
Unpopular opinion: Schools are slowly improving at this. In high school, I had to take half a semester of economics, which taught me a lot about how money actually works. I also had to take half a semester of civics, which taught me how the government functions. My community college physics teacher designed his tests so that some of the questions that we would see on the exams would not be anything like the questions on the homework so we actually had to think. I am sure that many people disagree with me but I personally feel like school has prepared me well. I think that the type of teacher we are given matters more than the actual curriculum itself as the curriculum was designed with a goal to teach kids something valuable and if the teacher fails to convey that, then it seems useless. I also think that it is the duty of the student to try and gleam what they can learn from what is taught, even if they aren't given a grade for it.
As a new teacher myself, I certainly agree. My training built up many of these core practices (like teaching critical thinking and creativity in the classroom) and many districts/school require these in a teachers curriculum.
I can attest to this. While it isn't much, in high school where I live, in certain grades you can choose a couple of subjects that you can attend during a year. Among them was entrepenourship for example. There are a couple of others, related to health, other cultures and debate, but it is still better than nothing. Kinda wished it was a bit like how my parents described their education back in the day.
Peaking in high school is one of the worst things that can happen to people. My post high school has been amazing. I have more freedom as an adult than I did in high school.
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Honestly Andrei has been teaching me more than school could ever teach me, props for the dedication honestly.
You need to be actually be paying attention in school if you think youtube is close. You probably in middle-high school right? Go to an Ivy League university then try to say that 😂😂😂
I was in three schools. 1-4 class I was in a Village school… In second grade of it my opinion was destroyed… School really sucked and approved bullying me 😭 In 5-7 and half of 8 class I was in other school, the teachers were kind and wanted for me to be a real person. But classmates really hated me because there was a bully from my secondary grade. And he told everyone that I “dig in nose”. Now, other half of 8th grade and currently in 9th grade. Teachers are rude, yet, some are kind. The classmates are good, expect like 5 people. I wish to breath again like before someday…
As a new teacher, I wanted to point out that at least in the American Northeast, many of these practices (especially critical thinking and creativity) are not only encouraged but sometimes mandatory for teachers to include in their curriculum. The field has made great strides and I'd be interested to hear perspectives from others currently in school/recently graduated from not only the U.S. but all over the world. Do/did you see these in your classes?
Private high school school kid talking but I will say that my teachers do try to engage thinking in our class but it sometimes backfires cus a point that the video made was the fear or failure. I have hope that your years of teaching will be wonderful :)
Just graduated Finnish history teacher here. I’d say our national curriculum is pretty ambitious on things mentioned in this video like critical thinking and trying to see events from the perspectives of different people (we call it historical empathy). However some of these goals are somewhat vague and don’t old teachers to overhaul their ways. The other issue is resources especially for younger teachers who would like to see change. Planning lessons according to the new curriculum takes time and effort outside of working hours so we have a problem of younger teachers burning out.
In highschool yes, however I think it's because of the teachers I had and in some part the school itself. I got to choose my highschool and I picked the one I thought was best for me. The teachers also seemed like they actually liked their job, or at the very least my class, because they would either try to make it entertaining, put lots of effort into the lesson plan, or would meet up with you outside of class if you were struggling. Of course there were still teachers that did none of that and mostly just made you read the textbook but that was the minority. My junior high (middle school) experience was different. I was a smart kid so I was in the pre-AP so I still got the good teachers but the teachers for the other classes clearly didn't care to teach and I would see some of that through my options classes where the classes mixed. That school also had a problem of the teachers treating the pre-AP class nice and everyone else like delinquents, bad school. My highschool experience was kind of surprising because my first year I was in the IB program (smart kid shit) but decided to drop it in my second year because I wanted less homework and the regular classes had more of the good, in my opinion, teachers. For the teachers for IB, while they were still good at their jobs, the classes were harder to sit through because it was almost like you were expected to understand. IB most teachers referred to the class but regular classes more teachers paid more attention to the individuals. Kinda forgot what the original comment said at this point ngl, but having teachers that try to teach and don't give preferential treatment is when I learned the most and showed up to class the most (I had a bad habit of being late/skipping). Also school funding is important, don't let your government's first reaction to budget cuts be gunning for education (and healthcare). Harder for teachers to like and do their job if they can barely live off their wages. My country ain't America bad but still not the greatest.
As an accountancy student, tax is one of the hardest subjects to teach due to changing law provisions but can be taught in its most basic concept to schools. I also agree that financial literacy is a must in the world's education system.
Money does not do the right for the Jerk Teachers My school is full of stupid brain kids I need to shut down mental illnesses I send a message to Greek prime Minister Those Mental illnesses Serious Problems was caused by Entertainment and Family abusism
I was a good student at the start of middle school, getting A or B on most of my exam I wanted to try after failing elementary a lot from getting D and C, I thought I got my shit together but right at 9th grade I found out that I was into creative stuff, It was a new discovery for me making animation and art from buying a drawing tablet with the money I saved. this was never encourage at school at all, I was just inspired from youtube videos and fanarts I saw in the internet. But the more I was into making this passion improving my skill the more I failed my exams I didn't have much enjoyment memorizing textbooks for exams or paying attention in class at all. All I did was day dreaming thinking what should I do next to improve on my art and many different Ideas. It become really depressing that I went really downhill just because I found out what I wanted to do. I failed miserably in high school though I did my best to just graduate It didn't feel like I achieve anything from that. All I can think of after that was "thank fucking god" I now make commissions with my drawings and any other request I could get to support my family none of the knowledge I got from high school were ever translated to me making money. Also I didn't go to college because I don't want to experience something like that again, and hearing my friends that went to college said they are learning unrelated math stuff for computing coding was funny and sad, I don't know If I dodge the bullet for not going to art school but I'm doing happier and better than when I was in high school at least,
I have symptoms of ASD and ADD (going around like crazy in my family tree). Life doesn't feel fair but usually I accept my flaws since we are all flawed in some way. After doing so good in high school and above average in my first year of college I noticed some things were still off. After all that, I realized how bad I am at socializing and trusting people. I'm almost 21 for crying out loud. Almost if I hated talking to people. I'd stutter a lot when talking to strangers and people I already knew. My biggest fears would be job interviews, presentations, and showing off. Loneliness also isn't helping me either. I feel like I want one or two very close friends to socialize with after stressful days, but I only see them for like 15 minutes a week. I also suck at calling and texting. By 2019, I stopped relying on school to fix those skills and wanted to fix them on my own but the more I try, the more I stop trusting people because there are a lot of fake people out there and people who rather socialize on social media. I feel like stress and loneliness will kill me first before anything else does since I suck at dealing with stress and anxiety. Taking anti-stress/anxiety supplements doesn't help much either. They are better than nothing though. I also forgot to mention how much I hate Gen Z. My own generation. We lack so much critical thinking, reasoning, and understanding.
@GlitchyIsCool1910 You are planets away from ignorant. 👍People in this time would get offended at the most innocent and stupidest things out there. So, feel free to ask questions and if they get offended at a question you ask, they are the problem. Now to answer your question. ASD is Autistic Spectrum Disorder. I was diagnosed with Autism at birth. Luckily, I have the high functioning one so I can function well. Autism affects people in many ways and the spectrum is so big that you may not even tell is some people while you can see it is obvious in a few people. Autism can delay your ability to learn, develop, and do adult things. It can also make you prone to social anxiety which is why people may generalize autism with lack of expression, and inabilities to socialize. I currently use caffeine to get rid of most symptoms. But caffeine definetly comes with some side effects. You can learn more about it on google. ADD is Attention Deficit Disorder. ADHD is the hyperactive version of ADD. This one is going around my family tree like mad. I haven't been diagnosed yet but other in my family have. It can affect your attention span and make you more impatient. It kind of affects relationships in a negative way. I been doing bad with paying attention when I was a kid, and it still affects me in college. You can learn more about it on google.
I'm also Gen Z and the only reason I hate my generation is because most zoomers can just mindlessly watch tiktok for 3 hours and brush it off like nothing has happened
@@mihailoaleksic3330 I'm also worried about my computer obsession. But when I am in public spaces like college, no matter where I look, everyone or at least 98% of people are doing something on their smartphone. Being able to socialize now days is more difficult than it should be. I also have issues with social anxiety. I shared to some of my teachers and friends how much actual REAL friends I have and they told me that I have more actual real reliable friends than most people. And I have social anxiety! I was shocked!
I agree with you on the Gen Z part. THE ADULTS are always treating me like I’m one of my rabid little cousins who love staring at their screen watching skibidi toilet and copying it and acting it out in real life. They always talk about how “omg this child messed up once, it must be because of instagram and tiktok!” when they don’t know jackshit. I don’t even have those apps!
I’ve been needing to hear this. I have been slowly but surely more miserable when I’m in class and it’s more so how school felt so boring and 95% of what you learn that isn’t what you want to do in life is useless. I’m lucky I have some friends that I can hang out with, but if it wasn’t for them, I would have probably drop out during high school
A bit late on this video but i hope people still get to see this. I was attending one of the more renowned high schools in my state, hell, they even earned the title of college at some point. I want to speak on the subject of atreperneurship, lessons i was REALLY looking forward to since they were our first lessons that were money focused. Little to say my excitment was extinguished when i was met with a 60 y/o, depressed woman that did nothing but give us paragraphs to note and watched do it.
Proper ways of arguing can carry you through life. Knowing when to push a topic, knowing when to concede a point and knowing when you just can’t win no matter how right you are, all of those points are important to navigating life. For instance, if you have a problem in the workplace and your boss just wont budge on dealing with it despite the evidence being on your side, it might be time to concede and find a new job. You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.
Getting a new job is not that easy. I had an interview scheduled for every day of the week and got nothing back. If getting a job was so easy I'd have a better job.
They should also teach people how to get a job and the importance of trades work. College is not the best option for everyone, not because some kids aren't smart enough for college, but because college doesn't teach you all of the necessary skills for certain jobs and certain types of jobs. You can make just as much money working in a trade as you can working in a job you got through college.
Bash me for this if you want, but I think school should prioritize specialization in every way possible. The main problem with our education is that many is disregarded if they do not fit with the status quo put before them, and it will only create discontent people who could never find the fields they belong to or what they actually love.
Trust me in school I found History so boring and I taught it myself, through the way of going backwards starting with local histories and go back as well as tracing my own family tree, I ultimately found some cool history within in digging and turns out I descend from multiple royal families
History is like: lblnmsjfhndjhfnfbabdjdhjsjdhkdhdhkdbdhjdbbffjdjdbjsjdbbd 9:15 jejiwjebgrhsjbe Bro history really needs a upgrade. Like u, present to past is a good idea.
Finland seems to be doing this pretty well, I got taught about economics, arguing, critical thinking and our history lessons weren't entirely about specific dates. We still do standardized testing, but it's less stringent and demanding. To be honest, I never really studied for my tests in middle school, I just didn't have to. We also have goals in every class, though not rewarding hard work with more work would be preferable, would've led to me working faster so I could relax. That last point is why I sort of just dragged out whatever work I was given to make sure I wasn't just handed more work than everyone else.
I feel like in recent years schools have kind of tried to fix some of these issues, but not very well. For example, when I was in junior high, it was required to make a goal for what you would do in the study class period. But they attached the goal to a grade, and the goal was unimportant and simple. They also required us to make goals in a very specific way, to the point of where it was more copy and paste then thinking for ourselves.
most things in school feel like a side effect. say you learn to do what your told BECAUSE you didnt do that and got in trouble for it. and (in some cases) learn to stand up for yourself when a bully wont leave you alone rather then you learning how to stand up for yourself from school
My high-school taught all it's students to weasel your way out of work. Didn't do your homework? Who cares, we are gonna read the answers out to the class then just ask if you got it right, did you put the effort in and actually do it? Jokes on you no one will ever see your efforts. Oh no you didn't do the ridiculously long tedious art history project and they are asking for it to be turned in, just say you left the USB at home and will bring it in tomorrow and you will never have to hear about any of it again. Students catch on fast, and now no one does homework there. You can either rip your hair out for hours trying to do the stupid amount of work for no reward, or put on a fake smile for two seconds and not have to do a thing.
Am having a phone addiction and its getting way worse bc of school when i gone to school when i leave i got a feeling that i need phone more then before i got back then it kept making my phone addiction worse and worse.
I think mental health/conditions should also be an important topic in schools (in a different, more grounded way) since many people have different conditions, not even just neurodivergents. A part of school that completely screwed me is not learning I was autistic sooner, so I beat myself up for not going after opportunities, social situations, or falling behind on grades. Because I didn't take opportunities (and didn't have room for many due to my parents), I got stuck focusing in school's memorization loop. At the end of school, I was having the worst time since I didn't have the means/experience to figure out what I would be doing and it became so much harder since my brain was too used to school's framework. My mom tried pushing me towards college, but I wouldn't have made it financially or mentally.
I've noticed that nowadays school systems just insert the most shallow definitions of depression, anxiety, and suicide and never talk about it again, just for regulation compliance I guess. nothing for other conditions such as adhd or autism (which is I think, inborn in the person who has it)
I'm pretty sure I forgot 95% of what I learned in school about history. I recently started getting very hooked on learning more and the truth is, history is actually very interesting. Military leaders that brought glory to their nations, empires that triumphed with an iron fist, the dark ages of humanity, centuries of backstabbing and corruption that still manages to exist, so many of these things are what shaped today's society, countries, culture, everything. It might even make you form new beliefs that you didn't care about before
Hell yeah man! I started learning History on my own a long time ago, for some reason nobody in the entire school system knows how to teach History properly (except for maybe like a handful of teachers.)
@@declanjones8888 it's really unfortunate. History is one of the most fascinating subjects in.. well, history And if it's not taught in such a way that makes people want to learn more, we'll never be able to learn from history And we all know what happens when people don't learn from history
History is always a W class. You get bad math teachers. English is just annoying. I haven’t had a science teacher in 2 years, so I can’t speak for that. But I have yet to have an actual issue with history.
One big problem is how much of your early life is centered around school. Like im going into my 4th year of high school from September and im completely lost in my life. Back in 9th grade i used to have a friend group, karate lesseons 3 times a week and english course twice a week. Now i only have one friend, spend most of my time inside and wondering what the of going to school even is. Every day, over and over. The same mind numbing school. When i was a kid i used run around and be happy. Was creative and liked drawing. Now i just watch videos and sometimes leave lengthy comments cause i have nothing to do. Also tik tok is cancer.
Whoever is reading this comment, I pray that whatever you’re going through gets better and whatever you’re battling with makes your situation better as you’re continuing to be a better person each day. I have faith that you’ll turn out stronger as your circumstances will improve. Have a great day! You got this! 🤗💪🏼❤😍😉
i appreciate this message im going threw a lot like family problems, school, etc. thank you man really i truly hope both you, and everyone who sees this has the best life possible
100% agree with you that schools need to teach kids about financial literacy and responsibility. I’m fortunate enough to have a personal finance college professor in my family and learn from her about what it takes to be financially successful. That said, not many people do and often we see people get in bad situations because they don’t know how to manage their money effectively. So to that end, I believe financial education in schools should be a requirement instead of an elective.
In Finland, we are experimenting with an individual-centered approach and phenomenon teaching to reform teaching in Finnish schools because the world is digitizing at a fast pace and computers are becoming an even bigger part of our lives all the time. In practice, this can be seen in the way that the amount of traditional and attendance-requiring teaching has been reduced, but the independent and distance learning of students has been increased. However, a new problem is that some children and teenagers are too lazy to do schoolwork independently and alone, even though these are important skills they will need when working in the world of the future.
I remember in elementary & middle school being completely bored and telling my parents "school is absolute bs" & they told me "School isn't bs; IT'S 1 OF THE BIGGEST SCAMS IN HUMANITY"
I remember one time in college, my art history, professor set us down, and he was telling us about how stressful it can be with being a student, especially with how we had a lot of complaints about how we were taught and how we were doing it as scholars I even rose my hand and said yeah, I was having a problem with my English professor because she didn’t really help us out, and he legit got up put down his pen and went on a 30 minute rant about how really it’s baffling to him how are College can’t teach kids when does the whole point. Love that guy but seriously why is it that now we have to figure out life when we should’ve had a good view of it
I work in a completely unique school myself, their name is "Spaghetti Bridge". Practical learning and Social development is majorly ignored and is a main focus in our school. Check out our schools and our systems to see how we treat school differently.
School has been making me depressed over the last year or so and this video really made me feel better that somebody finally understands. I can't thank you enough for making this video
Having kids going to school in the near future seems evil, better not even have one tbf I regret saying "seems", because you're not going to hell for that. Devil won't accept you
I remember back when I was a wee boy, my parents didn’t pay much attention to me, so I started doing well in school to earn their praise. Sadly, it didn’t work the way I wanted to since I was never “good enough”… I wish I’d got it through my head that most of what you learn in school is a waste and that there was more to life than good grades and school… Maybe things would be different for me.
I try to do that too I am going in 11 grade and….truth be told I myself never care about grades it just me doing it for my parents 😭 but that the problem sometimes hard work doesn’t pay the way you think..
@@simsimmer3040 For you, it’s not too late to make the most of the rest of your high-school life. Live it the best way you can, and keep that work-life balance.
I took a financial literacy class in my US highschool and the teacher tried teaching as much stuff about finances as possible and it was an amazing class. But that is extremely rare.
as a child myself, i agree with a lot of your ideas. Knowing how to argue and respect each other's opinions would probably make society a lot better, and knowing how we could manage our money would be VERY helpful in the rest of our lives. but i really think school should also teach us respect and that others will threat you in the same way you treat them, since that would stop a lot of the hate we usually see on social media, and because most of my classmates learned to speak like their parents who i think mocked other people behind their back.
I'm actually just about to get into digital art, but I was a little nervous about people telling me my art is terrible, so this is helping me gather my motivation to get started! Thank you!
I don't know about that last point, growing up the only thing I heard is that my future mattered and today was temporary and all that and its not about me etc. I went to public schools and a magnet for a brief period, my friendships were constantly berated and I understood very well that they were temporary, friends and I had to fight life to stay in touch. I felt no connection to the schools ecosystem, ever, all the clubs in high school felt very detached from reality and whenever I attended one it felt like something I was wasting my time on, last thing I wanted to do was be in school after all.
This video hits right on the spot, especially about the points of critical thinking and history. I wasn’t really taught how to critically think in school, and only learned it once I taught myself how to program, and I cannot say how much this has helped me out in my education. And about history (my personal favorite subject), I just find it sad that such an interesting subject is mishandled so poorly in the modern education system
Thank you for talking about something that everybody else has been quiet about. I support every bit of this and already love the start of video. I would love to be in school if the teaching methods were better, and not out of date
In school basically I get all of these crushes and sadly get ripped off by a swift reject or mixed signal, I try to retake a test and get an F grade, I go to class and have to pretend that I am literally not capable of emotions so people will leave me alone, and I also have no friends, I’m a loner, and I constantly think I’m just pissing everyone off every second of the day
Schools should teach kids about mental health/disabilities way more, but at the same time I feel like schools need to teach themselves more about mental health since a bunch of kids are stressed and depressed bc of school, and many "special needs groups" mistreat mentally disabled kids Edit: I don't know why I feel the need to say this but I'm autistic
I feel that the "Special Ed" program treats the disabled worse than the normal kids.I am autistic and in 6th grade (I was a special ed kid) My counselor didn't give me any freedom.Everytime I wanted to do something,she would force me into doing the same thing that the rest of the special ed kids are doing.For example,she will force me into going into the special ed room when I actually wanted to stay and play with the normal kids.She also prohibited me from using my phone just because she thinks its "distracting".
@@tknapawittrue for that instance, special ed students are in a different building than ours. I don't think they'll be ready for college or senior years due to them being in their own paradise instead of practicing or socializing with other people
Me who has finished all 12 levels: so glad that's not me anymore. Those of you still trying to beat this game, keep fighting on, don't let it get the best of you, you can do it!
It's ironic for Andrei to post this kind of video At the same time that I'm getting close to come back to school What I do want with schools is for them to teach children the safetys of being in the outside world on your own And their would be schools that would teach children on a certain subject that they would be found about
I don't like school NOT because it's difficult, it's pretty easy for me. i don't like it because for some reason i have a headache everytime i get from school and also all the students and teachers drive me crazy.. The students are way too immature, literal 10th graders acting like toddlers. And the teachers are all super rude, they scream for absolutely no reason, and some of them have no idea how to teach at all. And i absolutely HATE having to wake up early. When i come from school, not only do i have a headache, i also basically forget everything I've learned, so i basically learn nothing everyday.
Only thing I enjoyed in my school life was joking in classroom with my friends, destroying school property and playing volleyball which later on was replaced by another stupid class of some shit subject. I don’t like the way I approached the studies in high school and now i realize how messed up our system was.
Honestly shop class and home economics should be added to School as Core curriculum cuz they play way more in life later down the road such as for home economics learning how to properly cook budget and having basic household management while shop class teaches basic mechanics Woodwork and and other factors of manual trade would become way more useful then some abstract academic subjects
My input 1 is being taught 2 is bring taught 3 is being more or less taught in school 4 is being taught 5 is still the same 6 is being taught 7 the same 8 the same The majority of issues that he pointed out are already being worked on or are have been solved however there are new problems that I have no comment in. Something i do want to say is that i see only adults commenting on these problems when i feel it should be the people who are in the schools, not the people who were in them 10-20-30 years ago just because you hear stories and see articles means literally nothing if you arent in that inviroment unless you have done major research and talked to people in that inviorment in a large scale because education changes inbetween schools i am someone who has moved schools many times so ive seen a lot of stuff change
I’m so glad that you brought up how popularity in the end doesn’t matter. I was thinking about what I was like in 2nd or 3rd grade, and it was just me trying to fit in with the popular kids. Now looking back on it, I wasn’t happy, all I wanted to be heard instead of overlooked. I eventually found a group of friends that were nice to me and the year my friend group came together, the popular kids were the gossip queens. (Also school should not make students write a 5 paragraph essay every single time they have to write a report, it’s an important skill to have, but sometimes people just want you to get to the point.)
1: Sciences - Got to know how the world works 2: Trade Skills - Help people be a "Do it Yourself" Person 3: Agriculture/Nutrition - So People know how to grow food and how to balance their diet
2:00 We did this at my school with standards and learning targets, but they were always so hard to read and follow, so nobody used them expect when the administrators came in and forced us.
I remember my English teacher in my senior year of high school, Mr. R, he was the youngest teacher I had, being in his mid-20s and still going to college. He did exactly what you said, he said why we had to learn it and how we were gonna do it. He let us have fun, especially when we did Hamlet, by allowing us to do whatever sound effect we wanted and allowed us to do basically anything. But when it came down to writing an essay, he told us to write WHATEVER we wanted for it. Some people analyzed of Hamlet was gay, some analyzed if he was hallucinating. I made an essay on the different references and inspirations Hamlet had, using The Lion King and Fire Emblem Three Houses as a source. I still remember emailing him asking how to write MLA sourcing for it since it was a video game. He knew the characters already since he was a massive fan of Kingdom Hearts and Fire Emblem, but it was funny that when I came in the next day, he told me to just try my best with it. He also found it a bit funny since he basically gave no parameters outside of making it three(?) pages long and being in MLA formatting.
I feel like one thing that’s really important and is looked past a lot is how you aren’t taught laws or your rights and freedoms in school. My school offered a course in Canadian law and almost everyone between the grades 10-12 took that class. Some didn’t even need the credit but took it because this is stuff we should know. A lot of people end up getting involved in the legal system while having absolutely no idea how it works. A lot of people have no idea what their rights are and those who do may not even know how they are supposed to protect them. People need to know this stuff.
Hey Andrei thank you for making amazing content! I used your video on family TH-camrs as a credible source on my communications class presentation. We had to persuade our classmates on a subject and your video inspired me :)
I love the video and the Ideas presented in it. A very interesting perspective on the many flaws of schools that are explained in a very well understandable way. Good job with the video
4:03 I live in italy and school here is ABYSMAL and as my dad always says: "if you want to cripple a country, you cripple the schools" and italy is a prime example for that.
I sell candy at school, and because I am VERY VERY young it has helped me understand money better. I’ve made almost 50 dollars from now to the start of school and it has taught me about how to work with money. I think selling things at school shouldn’t just be allowed at school, but encouraged. Ever since I have been selling those candies I have seen other people selling things too. I have told some of my friends how much money I gained, and they were the ones who started selling different things. If I can make 50 bucks in under a month and a half, I think you can too. As long as you know how much money it cost YOU to get the candy/item, you can sell it for a slightly larger price. Overpricing is also something I have learned from selling candies. I once sold all my candies for 2 dollars, but when I noticed no one was buying the candy, I slightly decreased the price.
I especially resonate with what you said about history curriculums. I have a love for history, but only because I was introduced to it very young by my parents (who both have history backgrounds) and was taught how different events affect us now. I love History however the way it's taught in schools is boring, lifeless, and frankly I understand why so many people loathe the subject. History classes suck all life out of things, and are generally taught back-to-front: past to present. so you start off with a foundation thousands of years removed from you, that's just difficult to think about compared to 50, or even 100 years ago. and as you go through things, yes sometimes you need to teach things past to present for the sake of understanding, but I think having more interactive learning and connect the dots moments would help so much in education!
Every school I've been in allways tryed to use the "what" "Why "How" by righting the same thing on a board 3 times for advanced classes, for non advanced classes, it was also writen everyware in the lessons, schools also try to address "its ok to fail" by saying "It's ok to fail" once a school year on the inercom at the end of announcements no one pays attention to, for Critical thinking the teachers will randomly say a question is a "critical thinking question" and its literaly the same thing as the question above it
Sometimes, I feel like a total outcast in these online discussions. I love school, I love my classmates and my teachers and yet everyone seems to not be that keen on it. I'm probably just lucky to have an enjoyable environment, and for those that don't, don't let that discourage you.
This was the comment I was looking for. I love everything about school, from the way information is presented, to the topics themselves. School is honestly great. (This is coming from someone who's been to both public and private schools btw)
Same here, I disagreed with most of what Andrei said, because all of that has changed since the last time he was in school in most states of the U.S. To the point where I thought he was straight up talking about a school system in a Developing Country.
I remember I would run into argumets with one teacher a lot back in school, and at some point he decided to teach me about different levels of arguments to get less annoyed by me. He regretted it as I actually listened to his advices and started turning our arguments into some deeper disscussions or debates (wasting class time as a result). But shout out for him, as it really is a useful skill how to argue with people.
Figured this out years ago Entire system for the most part is made to create the perfect workers Crushes creativity, punishes anyone that dares think outside the box and labels those that speak out It’s why I chose not to go to sixth form and did a vocational college course. More freedom and flexibility
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A common misconception about school is that school is supposed to prepare you for life. When in reality, it just prepares you for work and it was always like this
Idk what you guys are getting but for me our school offers practical real life thing like Business studies (Both household and company works), Technical Graphics (helps designing for houses, computer modelling and artwork), basic financial maths outside of business and now works on personal experience and development. However, alot of students that do complain about the system are the ones who don't try and disrupt class/make the experience worse for others, they complain about all these points but don't actually see how they are there. That might just be me though
@@JacksiloutionOk, rich kid
@@UnprofessionalProfessorThe stuff that person said is standard in every school in my country.
@UnprofessionalProfessor Its public education where every school offers very similar stuff, changing on facilities 💀
@@Jacksiloution We only have that good shit in private school.
I had a teacher that did not do grades. He provided feedback, created an engaging class, awarded participation, and gave us time management skills. His financial status basically forced him to transfer to another school. He is living proof of the flaws in our education system.
Now that's what I call being a teacher. Kudos to you and him.
Yeah from what I hear, teachers aren't paid enough. Which is probably contributes to the Teacher shortage.
@@mr_hobbitI hope it gets so low schools done for good
This is random but the longest someone has ever peed is 508 seconds or 8 minutes and 47 seconds
@@FurryProtogen-were they refueling midflight, so to speak, or flying solo?
School HAS failed me. At a very young age, I was diagnosed with many learning disabilities that I was put in special ed. They eventually decided to put me with the other students. In lower school, my school would not specialize in my unique way of learning so I spent 5 years stuck with different personal assistants who were supposed to keep an eye on me and it felt like I could never be alone, like there was something wrong with me. Why out of all the other kids, am I the only one with my own personal helper? You can imagine as a little kid, it gets very annoying to be watched all the time. Middle school was worse. Ever since private school, I felt like I was trapped in a prison, never allowed to take classes that brought out my strengths and creative side. I rebelled sometimes. It felt like I always had to be obedient and I could never debate and speak back, otherwise detention. High school was the worst of them all. The high school I went to was a school specifically for kids with learning disabilities and autism. They graded not based off of your skill level, but your BEHAVIOR. Safe to say, I rebelled the most once my needs weren’t being met and I got detention nearly every day. There is a happy ending to this story though. The torture of feeling trapped and never taken seriously got too much, that I moved to my last high school. This last school has GOOD teachers, a good curriculum with barely any exams, and the freedom to choose where I can eat and who I can talk to (which my first high school controlled). I graduated never looking back and gained more knowledge in college than any of these 4 schools could ever give me!
Sorry to hear and me personally sometimes I feel that way cuz I myself feel like I have a condition holding me back from learning and adapting quickly
@@kaceejones2282 it feels like many people are fast learners and can adapt quickly, it can take awhile to accept that being a slower learner and taking a longer time than most people is ok 🤍
A grading system based on... behavior? Isn't the whole point of special ed schools to help kids who struggle and teach them with an appropriate to their disabilities approach? Behavior is such a subjective thing though, it should NEVER be graded. As a whole I think it's ridiculous to even have a grading system in special ed in the first place, feedback is way more important in this case. Good to hear you moved on with life and had a successful time in college! I am of the same belief that a couple years of college would teach more than eleven ot twelve years of school. It's important to have your own path to knowledge and strive for it. School is just a bunch of pointless information to memorize, as well as putting everyone in the same box, both literally and metaphorically, and it looks like even special ed suffers from similar problems as nobody seems to understand how to teach individuals instead of robots
Your learning disabilities are not an indicator of your capabilities and don't define your intellect! It's not kids with disabilities that are broken, it's the society and the school system. Keep thriving and do your own thing! We are all individuals after all
OMG Adults and schools are so fucking awful and evil i'm so happy u moved ur story feels like something that i can relate to on a personal level. The important part was that u survived through it all, and i'm so happy for u. 😮😢
They tell us " Be responsable, don't fight, clean up after yourselves, don't liter, think about your health" Just about all of those things the older generation dose not do!
The thing I hated most in school was having no freedom of thought. We were given books to read and and later write essays or questionnaires on it, everytime there would be a question on ' what do you think the author/charecter meant by saying so and so'. And you could never answer your opinion, because the teacher would give you a bad grade
To expand on that subject the books we were told to read were about abuse and alcoholism in the family, child beatings or childer killing an animal on accident. Like honestly, who wants to read things like that when they're 16-17
What were you thinking having THAT as your profile picture?
I completely agree.
I am not from America, or somewhere else, I live in Kazakhstan (a country next to Russian and China), but, we read A TON of books like this. For example of one book called 'Mumu', russian book.
It's a book where a man has to drown his friend, the dog Mumu, on the orders of the noblewoman (this book is 124 pages long, and the whole book is literally about a man and a noblewoman and a man's dog.). And we are reading it in fifth grade.
Also the book 'Taras Bulba'. It's a book where 'The action takes place in the 16th century, this is a story about the Cossack elder Taras Bulba and his two sons, Andrei and Ostap. Taras leads his sons and their fellow Cossacks in a campaign against the Poles, but the conflict ultimately leads to a tragic and devastating ending for Taras and his family.'. And we also read it in 6 GRADE.
Like, for what we are reading it?
@@sticer2
I would answer some questions wrongly even though i knew they were wrong just because I didn't agree. And it sucks.
"school lacks enjoyment" is one of the most accurate sentences said in history
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School is just prison in disguise as a happy fun playground
Don’t you teach chemistry?
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its not that bad ngl
I think the worst part about school is that they made a system where it hinders creativity rather than rewards it.
Yeah... i don't think creativity is going to be encouraged in an office job, where specific details matter
@@enderwisper768 just read somebody's comment who was slapped with an ADD diagnosis by their teacher in second grade bc they were drawing at the back of their paper or smth after they finished a test in 5 mins, which was a great example of this comment. it's sad. no wonder why adults of today villainizes younger ppl for wanting to have more rest time after school or work, so on and so forth
yeah!
Considering the current model was made with the intention of boosting Prussian military, I can sort of see why.
*When I was in second grade, the teacher would hand out worksheets full of easy problems and we were supposed to quietly do them while she sat at her desk reading a book for an hour.*
*I would always finish mine in 5 minutes (with all correct answers) and spend the other 55 drawing on the back of the worksheet.*
*So the teacher gave me more challenging work to do. Just kidding. She told my parents I had severe ADD and demanded they either put me on Ritalin or move me to special ed.*
*That's why I had to go to a new school halfway through second grade.*
sorry to hear
Oh my... That's actually horrible. As someone who's also been (falsely) recommended to a therapist in primary school, I can relate. It's despicable how much schools have that idea of "everyone must be and do the same, and if anyone has an actual personality, they're broken and need to be fixed"
false diagnosis is miserable. especially having to be in special ed with it. it's so alienating and dehumanizing
My school had a similar case of child abuse on my part :)
uhhh???? and they didn't even bother to check or do the first steps correctly to begin with... that level of quick fix is just beyond stupid. stupid beyond the level of understanding or comprehension. glad that never happened to me
As a writer and a student, i am sad to say that my country 'India' fails at promoting any kind of creative jobs. My parents were happy to know that i was writing and publishing my work online but when told that i'd like to pursue writing in my education and career they told me that it was a 'hobby' and that i should first make money and then think about my hobbies. There has not been a single mention of any kind of creative careers (musicians, writers, painters etc)in any school. They are considered to be like really bad options to make a future of.
For anyone reading this, my parents loves me dearly and are just afraid of seeing me fail.
I have no intention to ever abandon my pen.
Edit: yeah so life update, decided that i like teaching too so i decided to go for a phd in literature. Any one from europe who could explain the exams needed to be given in order to be admitted? I am currently preparing for college entrance exams so even if someone sees this after 3 or 4 years you can still tell me.
Edit: life update part 2, now i am a first year english honours student. I write daily, joined my college's sports team and am enjoying life.
Same. Never give up the pen or computer or phone if you like it.
Do not hold back, spread your wings and fly!
Sorry but I kinda think jobs should be about benefiting society THEN getting money. But I still HATE the fact that financial stuff ISNT being teached.
@@JojoJere writing betters the entertainment district
Exactly man it's so sad
Hit the nail ON THE FRICKEN HEAD you are completely right about the ineffective school systems across the world, keep being awesome andrei.
I am very lucky to be in a school that actually promotes creativity and gives skills that are useful in the modern world, like TV and Video production, computer science, art and animation, etc.
(Still sucks about the math, science, history and English classes though.)
Do you live in the netherlands or a Scandinavian country perhaps.
@@nargen5419 The land of guns and burgers, my friend. (The U.S)
@@BRNG2042 than that is indeed a wonder a miracle even.
My highschool was like that too (Australia)
@@BRNG2042my friend that is a miracle
I think what schools need to do is put the burden of improvement on the student. I had a math teacher a few years ago that gave students infinite retakes. When the class asked why, he explained that there's more motivation to improve if a student has the chance to redeem themselves. TLDR: Retakes encourage students to study, to get better, rather than wallow in despair and cry about their F grade.
Giving people the opportunity to fail and improve themselves makes them better at things? No way
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Retakes can be a dangerous tool, though. My music teacher was absolutely terrible, probably the whole class hated her, and part of the reason why is that her tests were EXTREMELY boring and if you failed, you HAD to do them again, only exception was if you didn’t fail by just a bit because yes the teacher did tell you to take a retake if you got like a 6 or something like that
@@victorvirgili4447I think part of the problem in your situation was that the teacher *forced* you to retake the test.
From how it’s written, I think that OG is saying the teacher gave the students the choice to retake and do better. This means instead of forcing the retake on the students, the students had to take initiative and ask to retake the test. This of course also would have the effect of making to willing tester want to do better and apply themselves more towards that goal.
Learned helplessness is a powerful thing. If students are forced to wallow in their failures, they will eventually stop trying.
I would know personally because I suffer from learned helplessness constantly.
Kudos to your Math teacher for fostering a healthy learning experience
God this video unearthed a number of repressed feelings and memories. I remember always being slow at taking notes in school so I always felt like I was getting behind. Oftentimes I felt frustrated and every time I ever tried venting that frustration I often got talked down to.
And a major problem I saw in my town was that academic success was often key to individual success. I feel so bad for the kids who struggled cause I remember them being looked down upon. I still remember how wild it was the first time I ever had two tests in one day, and the night more I got yelled at by my parents after they told me to go study everything one last time, despite the fact I was very tired. Even though I had gotten everything right when the quizzed me, they told me “Fine, don’t study, fail your tests.”
School often kept me away from spending time with friends since I always had to prioritize studying. My parents always pushed me to study since they understood the best path to success for me was to do well in school. I did well enough to get a great scholarship, and college I would genuinely enjoy as I was taking classes related to my desired career field, and finally got to be more creative and think outside the box with things.
The frustrating part about how schools are kinda made to make kids obedient and turn them into good workers is that if there's something getting the way of your studies (like a disability, lower income, health/mental health problems), you're probably gonna fall by the wayside or succeed inspite of how school is built. And if you fail school, then that's pretty bad, and it's not even your fault. It might not even be your family's fault.
It's always frustrating to think about how powers beyond your control, can change and impact so much of your life..
But simply blaming them for everything isn't a fair excuse either..
You shouldn't simply pile on the hate train, but try & navigate your problems instead
@@thetangaledbug7670this aswell
@@thetangaledbug7670a great way to put it. It’s good to see it in a critical view but also not jump to the other extremer side
@@thetangaledbug7670indeed
High iq, good at almost everything but failed exams...
One thing I always think back to about school was how obsessed my teachers were with making us learn to do our work without the Internet, be it for research purposes, or for studying. The reason they always gave was that "you won't always have access to the Internet," and while this was going on, everyone was expected to have email for work and my dad had to have his phone on his person at all times to respond to emails. Eventually I realized that the teachers were more interested in teaching us how to work in the world they grew up in before the Internet than preparing us for the world in which we would actually have to find jobs.
Because that’s what they understand
Looks like they needed a software update. Get it? haha..
okay I’ll leave.
@@mrbigsta4221no don't leave that was an amazing joke.
So relatable
@@Princess_Blue380Real
I see a lot of these points you made happening over in Australia but I think the biggest problem is the fact that some people want to do other stuff, you have to get them interested and at an insanely young age and the idea that learning is hard in schools make this hard, I don't know where it's come from but I feel like somewhere between highschool and primary school is when people start to dislike learning.
This is something even middle schoolers are aware of. As students, we always said something like "most of what we learn in school will isn't gonna help us in our lives" and that's true. And then both my parents and teachers would say "you're not applying yourself". Like, no shit! Why would I put so much energy into doing something I am not interested in? Not to mention, they should prioritizing managing finances and refining social/life skills instead of spending a whole week on the Pythagorean Theorem.
Kids need to have a base knowledge of history science math and language arts.
@@Ziggyvu Oh, I agree. I just feel that life skills, financial literacy, creative thinking, etc. should be at least a requirement rather than be relegated to specific advanced courses.
Yah there's some math stuff you don't really need to know unless you are SPECIFICALLY going into a job that does need that type of knowledge of the type. It's annoying and its not even because I don't understand it, I'm a "brilliant" person but I also see that it sorta feels useless unless students choose that type of stuff to learn.
Because career choices change a LOT. They want to teach you the basics for when you make your official decision in college if you plan on it.
If you wanted to go into a career in STEM and you had never been taught basic algebra, you would have a much harder time learning calculus.
This is so true and parents just DON'T GET or refuse to get how pointless school is. I've always said school is a waste of time and it is for the most part but my parents just always looked at me like "ok stupid child, you'll get over that phase" infact school is so ingrained in my brain, I'm having a hard time believing university will be different just because I've gone to school for such a long time
Most parents just want a trophy child that they can brag about to others, and there’s no immediate glory in thinking outside the box.
Went to university, you are a 100 spot on and I got a masters, can’t get a job, you win the argument
School are making us stupid, not all, just some
I hate those propaganda and traditionalist and chauvinist tendencies
University is good when you're learning useful information related to your career. There's still plenty that doesn't matter, like learning how to solve complex derivative equations by hand when realistically you would just use a graphing software.
I have also realize the school system is bad. I’ve tried to explain to my mom about how school is useless and she doesn’t care. Our parents don’t care they were taught that school is everything. But now with the internet kids are realizing that school is useless and how they aren’t learning anything
I am so grateful for my school district, as they actually care about the students and try to make it enjoyable. Whether it be games, giving out candy for doing well, or just being nice to the students, i got very lucky.
(also, history is my favorite subject)
History is my favorite subject too, but for the wrong reason. I like it because it's a lot easier than my other classes... In my history class, we don't have many tests, homework, or even classwork. It's the only class where I can just shut my brain off for an hour and doodle
@@WolfTrot Caught lacking in a 9 month comment. Yeah. History is by far the most or one of the most easiest class
@@WolfTrot Hehe, I'm from an Arab country, so we take social Arabic and normal social (English), the same thing, no classwork, no homework, and the quizzes are true and false. The WHOLE thing! Dis is in Saudi Arabia
i just graduated this year and really don’t know what i’m doing. Without peers in my life i genuinely think i’d be lost. I feel like the only valuable classes i took in highschool were economics and wilderness science and i think that says a lot
How was wilderness science valuable? Do you live in the middle of a forest of smth?
Yea it says you didn’t pay a lot of attention. How is not knowing history or math helpful 😂😂
@@Ziggyvu knowing Abraham Lincoln's birthday and the quadratic formula ain't gonna help you succeed in life, goofy. a lot of people are in that same boat too because school clearly doesn't build you up to live a good life and just be "average". I can tell you were a teacher's pet just because of that statement lmao
@@afriking I can tell you got a straight C average barely.
Go to construction they have labor shortages and you will use maths.
Elementary and Middle school was the worst for me because most of my teachers were really hateful, nothing was done about bullying, the food most of the time wasn't even cooked throughly, and they disbanded both art and band class! And a lot of my friends are very passionate about art.
I feel you dude. My middle school is so strict, if like some hair cover ur eyebrows u literally get punished and each Friday for me has a little test where if u fail it u go to school again on Saturday and the teacher is really hateful and not helpful. They just gave us homework speak random stuff and giving us any motiviation yelling at us for no reasons.
Dude, I have a passion for art, specifically animation but my high school's art department is getting their budget cut more and more because stem and sports are seen as more important. It sucks a lot. Our teachers are also getting demotivated and we lost AP art history :(
My school is full of stupid brain kids
I need to shut down mental illnesses
I send a message to Greek prime Minister
Those Mental illnesses Serious Problems was caused by Entertainment and Family abusism
Totally agree. I actually started to enjoy school once I started my A-levels, and uni will be better still.
Bro youre just soft
It isn’t all bad news though! Lately I’ve been seeing schools trying to make classes more enjoyable and have more thought related methods of learning leaving some to think and put ideas for the students which I find very good! The system still has a lot of flaws but it seems we are starting to improve, or at least try to
As a student,nothing has changed at all. All i do is write shit down and we never read anything
Where do you live?
however they have failed at it
9:10 😮 9:10 😅 9:11 9:11
I remember being in 8th grade and my stem teacher was amazing. He joked with the class, taught stuff in a fun way, made us have debates about energy and was overall made class fun. We need more teachers like my 8th grade stem teacher
My school is full of stupid brain kids
I need to shut down mental illnesses
I send a message to Greek prime Minister
Those Mental illnesses Serious Problems was caused by Entertainment and Family abusism
Wait you go to stem to.Welp lucky you at my school one of my stem teachers called a student stupid.
instead of some dumbass karen who makes us memorize all the dates and times
I need a new physics teacher😭
I don’t have an honors math teacher, and I haven’t had a science teach in 2 years. Even the subs don’t stick around in science class…
This is why I'm lucky I went to a well-organized school where the teachers were very friendly, trained to help out students and teach us life skills. We even had charities reach out to us for fun opportunities 😢. It was a silver lining to my school life and I wish it was like this elsewhere.
Which school did u study in?
@@naresh6181 I won't disclose the name for privacy reasons, but it was a special school (yes I have autism). Despite all the negative stereotypes out there about them, special ed is actually very interesting and you can meet the most unique, brightest people in your life. Most of them are quite peaceful, considering they shouldn't be overwhelming unlike mainstream schools. And due to their importance, that's why they usually receive support from charities. The teachers had to be trained properly to be educated about autistic students and as such, they show empathy for them. I will forever miss those times...
@@VenomousVortexProductions u were sooo lucky to study in that type of school
@@naresh6181 Indeed I was bro, it's a shame I'll never experience something like this again. It was literally the best era of my life, and also you get to learn life skills which was very good. I hope other kids will have something like this one day
Noice
I think i've just found my new favourite serious youtube video. Like, everything you're saying is so right, and i particularly found myself in the goals and procrastination argument
Another problem with school is how it plants in you the idea that suffering is the only way to succeed. It often encourages you to spend your free time studying for a future test over spending that time on other enjoyable activities, while also encouraging unhealthy habits like overworking and not taking breaks. Does anybody remember when was the last time a teacher told you to take a break?
Actually some of my teachers put breaks into our class time
Agree
yea my LA teacher has a 5 minute break halfway through the block
I’ve never had a teacher tell me to take a break ever
Learning is the only way to succeed, not suffering!?!
"Lacking enjoyment" might not be the correct statement about schools, I think "actively seeks to sap all the enjoyment out of those who participate in it" is a more accurate terminology
True
Yeah
What’s terrible is that school has not changed in over 50 years its probably better if most kids were just homeschooled
If I had a child , I’ll have them homeschooled when they reach highschool
im hybrid schooling my children. home school till 8th grade. mandatory rec leagues for sports for social life.
Where i am if you didn't go ti school for over a 3 years,then you wouldnt be able to go to school again and the only way to get employed is to have a degree
I’m currently homeschooled and I think (mostly) it’s way better than the current school system!
@@serenib33 yeah bro same
I was JUST talking about this with my friends! My idea for the most bare minimum solution is that senior year of high school there should be a class called something like "life readiness." In which you learn your rights and responsibilities as an adult (such as paying taxes).
Idk about your school/country but we had civic classes where we learn more life nuance situation, for example the death penalty if we agreed or disagree and we debated with each, most didn’t care about the class and usually every passe😢
In my school there’s a class called life skills where we learn mostly about jobs and money
Unpopular opinion: Schools are slowly improving at this. In high school, I had to take half a semester of economics, which taught me a lot about how money actually works. I also had to take half a semester of civics, which taught me how the government functions. My community college physics teacher designed his tests so that some of the questions that we would see on the exams would not be anything like the questions on the homework so we actually had to think. I am sure that many people disagree with me but I personally feel like school has prepared me well.
I think that the type of teacher we are given matters more than the actual curriculum itself as the curriculum was designed with a goal to teach kids something valuable and if the teacher fails to convey that, then it seems useless. I also think that it is the duty of the student to try and gleam what they can learn from what is taught, even if they aren't given a grade for it.
agreed
As a new teacher myself, I certainly agree. My training built up many of these core practices (like teaching critical thinking and creativity in the classroom) and many districts/school require these in a teachers curriculum.
I can attest to this. While it isn't much, in high school where I live, in certain grades you can choose a couple of subjects that you can attend during a year. Among them was entrepenourship for example. There are a couple of others, related to health, other cultures and debate, but it is still better than nothing.
Kinda wished it was a bit like how my parents described their education back in the day.
Yeah it definitely depends on the teachers/schools I had a rough elementary and jr high but high school was awesome
That's not an unpopular opinion, that's a unpopular fact!
Peaking in high school is one of the worst things that can happen to people. My post high school has been amazing. I have more freedom as an adult than I did in high school.
Honestly Andrei has been teaching me more than school could ever teach me, props for the dedication honestly.
You need to be actually be paying attention in school if you think youtube is close. You probably in middle-high school right? Go to an Ivy League university then try to say that 😂😂😂
@@Ziggyvuuniversity is overrated
@@Ziggyvuyoutube has the same resources as an ivy league school has but through ad based paid professionals.
@@prix6294 Khan Academy is my friend
@@orangesfpopyes but it has lots of lies
I think this is the most accurate video I've seen, and I think it deserves more attention because is almost...a reflection of society.
I doubt that but I think you're kinda right
I was in three schools.
1-4 class I was in a Village school… In second grade of it my opinion was destroyed… School really sucked and approved bullying me 😭
In 5-7 and half of 8 class I was in other school, the teachers were kind and wanted for me to be a real person. But classmates really hated me because there was a bully from my secondary grade. And he told everyone that I “dig in nose”.
Now, other half of 8th grade and currently in 9th grade. Teachers are rude, yet, some are kind. The classmates are good, expect like 5 people.
I wish to breath again like before someday…
As a new teacher, I wanted to point out that at least in the American Northeast, many of these practices (especially critical thinking and creativity) are not only encouraged but sometimes mandatory for teachers to include in their curriculum. The field has made great strides and I'd be interested to hear perspectives from others currently in school/recently graduated from not only the U.S. but all over the world. Do/did you see these in your classes?
Private high school school kid talking but
I will say that my teachers do try to engage thinking in our class but it sometimes backfires cus a point that the video made was the fear or failure. I have hope that your years of teaching will be wonderful :)
Unfortunately things in the south are still clinging into the old ways…at least where I live
Just graduated Finnish history teacher here. I’d say our national curriculum is pretty ambitious on things mentioned in this video like critical thinking and trying to see events from the perspectives of different people (we call it historical empathy). However some of these goals are somewhat vague and don’t old teachers to overhaul their ways. The other issue is resources especially for younger teachers who would like to see change. Planning lessons according to the new curriculum takes time and effort outside of working hours so we have a problem of younger teachers burning out.
In highschool yes, however I think it's because of the teachers I had and in some part the school itself. I got to choose my highschool and I picked the one I thought was best for me. The teachers also seemed like they actually liked their job, or at the very least my class, because they would either try to make it entertaining, put lots of effort into the lesson plan, or would meet up with you outside of class if you were struggling. Of course there were still teachers that did none of that and mostly just made you read the textbook but that was the minority. My junior high (middle school) experience was different. I was a smart kid so I was in the pre-AP so I still got the good teachers but the teachers for the other classes clearly didn't care to teach and I would see some of that through my options classes where the classes mixed. That school also had a problem of the teachers treating the pre-AP class nice and everyone else like delinquents, bad school. My highschool experience was kind of surprising because my first year I was in the IB program (smart kid shit) but decided to drop it in my second year because I wanted less homework and the regular classes had more of the good, in my opinion, teachers. For the teachers for IB, while they were still good at their jobs, the classes were harder to sit through because it was almost like you were expected to understand. IB most teachers referred to the class but regular classes more teachers paid more attention to the individuals. Kinda forgot what the original comment said at this point ngl, but having teachers that try to teach and don't give preferential treatment is when I learned the most and showed up to class the most (I had a bad habit of being late/skipping). Also school funding is important, don't let your government's first reaction to budget cuts be gunning for education (and healthcare). Harder for teachers to like and do their job if they can barely live off their wages. My country ain't America bad but still not the greatest.
In minnesota. it's like what you said.
As an accountancy student, tax is one of the hardest subjects to teach due to changing law provisions but can be taught in its most basic concept to schools. I also agree that financial literacy is a must in the world's education system.
Money does not do the right for the Jerk Teachers
My school is full of stupid brain kids
I need to shut down mental illnesses
I send a message to Greek prime Minister
Those Mental illnesses Serious Problems was caused by Entertainment and Family abusism
I was a good student at the start of middle school, getting A or B on most of my exam I wanted to try after failing elementary a lot from getting D and C, I thought I got my shit together but right at 9th grade I found out that I was into creative stuff, It was a new discovery for me making animation and art from buying a drawing tablet with the money I saved. this was never encourage at school at all, I was just inspired from youtube videos and fanarts I saw in the internet.
But the more I was into making this passion improving my skill the more I failed my exams I didn't have much enjoyment memorizing textbooks for exams or paying attention in class at all. All I did was day dreaming thinking what should I do next to improve on my art and many different Ideas. It become really depressing that I went really downhill just because I found out what I wanted to do.
I failed miserably in high school though I did my best to just graduate It didn't feel like I achieve anything from that. All I can think of after that was "thank fucking god" I now make commissions with my drawings and any other request I could get to support my family none of the knowledge I got from high school were ever translated to me making money.
Also I didn't go to college because I don't want to experience something like that again, and hearing my friends that went to college said they are learning unrelated math stuff for computing coding was funny and sad, I don't know If I dodge the bullet for not going to art school but I'm doing happier and better than when I was in high school at least,
How you doing now did you get a job??
I have symptoms of ASD and ADD (going around like crazy in my family tree). Life doesn't feel fair but usually I accept my flaws since we are all flawed in some way. After doing so good in high school and above average in my first year of college I noticed some things were still off. After all that, I realized how bad I am at socializing and trusting people. I'm almost 21 for crying out loud. Almost if I hated talking to people. I'd stutter a lot when talking to strangers and people I already knew. My biggest fears would be job interviews, presentations, and showing off. Loneliness also isn't helping me either. I feel like I want one or two very close friends to socialize with after stressful days, but I only see them for like 15 minutes a week. I also suck at calling and texting. By 2019, I stopped relying on school to fix those skills and wanted to fix them on my own but the more I try, the more I stop trusting people because there are a lot of fake people out there and people who rather socialize on social media. I feel like stress and loneliness will kill me first before anything else does since I suck at dealing with stress and anxiety. Taking anti-stress/anxiety supplements doesn't help much either. They are better than nothing though.
I also forgot to mention how much I hate Gen Z. My own generation. We lack so much critical thinking, reasoning, and understanding.
sorry for being ignorant
But what's ASD and ADD?
@GlitchyIsCool1910 You are planets away from ignorant. 👍People in this time would get offended at the most innocent and stupidest things out there. So, feel free to ask questions and if they get offended at a question you ask, they are the problem. Now to answer your question.
ASD is Autistic Spectrum Disorder. I was diagnosed with Autism at birth. Luckily, I have the high functioning one so I can function well. Autism affects people in many ways and the spectrum is so big that you may not even tell is some people while you can see it is obvious in a few people. Autism can delay your ability to learn, develop, and do adult things. It can also make you prone to social anxiety which is why people may generalize autism with lack of expression, and inabilities to socialize. I currently use caffeine to get rid of most symptoms. But caffeine definetly comes with some side effects. You can learn more about it on google.
ADD is Attention Deficit Disorder. ADHD is the hyperactive version of ADD. This one is going around my family tree like mad. I haven't been diagnosed yet but other in my family have. It can affect your attention span and make you more impatient. It kind of affects relationships in a negative way. I been doing bad with paying attention when I was a kid, and it still affects me in college. You can learn more about it on google.
I'm also Gen Z and the only reason I hate my generation is because most zoomers can just mindlessly watch tiktok for 3 hours and brush it off like nothing has happened
@@mihailoaleksic3330 I'm also worried about my computer obsession. But when I am in public spaces like college, no matter where I look, everyone or at least 98% of people are doing something on their smartphone.
Being able to socialize now days is more difficult than it should be. I also have issues with social anxiety. I shared to some of my teachers and friends how much actual REAL friends I have and they told me that I have more actual real reliable friends than most people. And I have social anxiety! I was shocked!
I agree with you on the Gen Z part. THE ADULTS are always treating me like I’m one of my rabid little cousins who love staring at their screen watching skibidi toilet and copying it and acting it out in real life. They always talk about how “omg this child messed up once, it must be because of instagram and tiktok!” when they don’t know jackshit. I don’t even have those apps!
I’ve been needing to hear this. I have been slowly but surely more miserable when I’m in class and it’s more so how school felt so boring and 95% of what you learn that isn’t what you want to do in life is useless. I’m lucky I have some friends that I can hang out with, but if it wasn’t for them, I would have probably drop out during high school
A bit late on this video but i hope people still get to see this. I was attending one of the more renowned high schools in my state, hell, they even earned the title of college at some point. I want to speak on the subject of atreperneurship, lessons i was REALLY looking forward to since they were our first lessons that were money focused. Little to say my excitment was extinguished when i was met with a 60 y/o, depressed woman that did nothing but give us paragraphs to note and watched do it.
Proper ways of arguing can carry you through life. Knowing when to push a topic, knowing when to concede a point and knowing when you just can’t win no matter how right you are, all of those points are important to navigating life. For instance, if you have a problem in the workplace and your boss just wont budge on dealing with it despite the evidence being on your side, it might be time to concede and find a new job.
You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.
Nice reference to the gambler
Getting a new job is not that easy.
I had an interview scheduled for every day of the week and got nothing back.
If getting a job was so easy I'd have a better job.
They should also teach people how to get a job and the importance of trades work. College is not the best option for everyone, not because some kids aren't smart enough for college, but because college doesn't teach you all of the necessary skills for certain jobs and certain types of jobs. You can make just as much money working in a trade as you can working in a job you got through college.
Experience is one of the best teachers
Bash me for this if you want, but I think school should prioritize specialization in every way possible. The main problem with our education is that many is disregarded if they do not fit with the status quo put before them, and it will only create discontent people who could never find the fields they belong to or what they actually love.
Trust me in school I found History so boring and I taught it myself, through the way of going backwards starting with local histories and go back as well as tracing my own family tree, I ultimately found some cool history within in digging and turns out I descend from multiple royal families
Same here, but it's not actually that uncommon for my ethnicity
It’s almost as if learning about what you want to is more enjoyable than learning about a random guy at a random time doing a random thing
@@foam3132indeed
@@MrFishio gotta agree on that
History is like:
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Bro history really needs a upgrade.
Like u, present to past is a good idea.
Finland seems to be doing this pretty well, I got taught about economics, arguing, critical thinking and our history lessons weren't entirely about specific dates.
We still do standardized testing, but it's less stringent and demanding. To be honest, I never really studied for my tests in middle school, I just didn't have to.
We also have goals in every class, though not rewarding hard work with more work would be preferable, would've led to me working faster so I could relax.
That last point is why I sort of just dragged out whatever work I was given to make sure I wasn't just handed more work than everyone else.
I feel like in recent years schools have kind of tried to fix some of these issues, but not very well. For example, when I was in junior high, it was required to make a goal for what you would do in the study class period. But they attached the goal to a grade, and the goal was unimportant and simple. They also required us to make goals in a very specific way, to the point of where it was more copy and paste then thinking for ourselves.
most things in school feel like a side effect. say you learn to do what your told BECAUSE you didnt do that and got in trouble for it. and (in some cases) learn to stand up for yourself when a bully wont leave you alone rather then you learning how to stand up for yourself from school
My high-school taught all it's students to weasel your way out of work. Didn't do your homework? Who cares, we are gonna read the answers out to the class then just ask if you got it right, did you put the effort in and actually do it? Jokes on you no one will ever see your efforts.
Oh no you didn't do the ridiculously long tedious art history project and they are asking for it to be turned in, just say you left the USB at home and will bring it in tomorrow and you will never have to hear about any of it again.
Students catch on fast, and now no one does homework there. You can either rip your hair out for hours trying to do the stupid amount of work for no reward, or put on a fake smile for two seconds and not have to do a thing.
Am having a phone addiction and its getting way worse bc of school when i gone to school when i leave i got a feeling that i need phone more then before i got back then it kept making my phone addiction worse and worse.
I think mental health/conditions should also be an important topic in schools (in a different, more grounded way) since many people have different conditions, not even just neurodivergents. A part of school that completely screwed me is not learning I was autistic sooner, so I beat myself up for not going after opportunities, social situations, or falling behind on grades. Because I didn't take opportunities (and didn't have room for many due to my parents), I got stuck focusing in school's memorization loop.
At the end of school, I was having the worst time since I didn't have the means/experience to figure out what I would be doing and it became so much harder since my brain was too used to school's framework. My mom tried pushing me towards college, but I wouldn't have made it financially or mentally.
I've noticed that nowadays school systems just insert the most shallow definitions of depression, anxiety, and suicide and never talk about it again, just for regulation compliance I guess. nothing for other conditions such as adhd or autism (which is I think, inborn in the person who has it)
3:00 schools does say that but they never act like they mean it
I'm pretty sure I forgot 95% of what I learned in school about history. I recently started getting very hooked on learning more and the truth is, history is actually very interesting.
Military leaders that brought glory to their nations, empires that triumphed with an iron fist, the dark ages of humanity, centuries of backstabbing and corruption that still manages to exist, so many of these things are what shaped today's society, countries, culture, everything. It might even make you form new beliefs that you didn't care about before
Hell yeah man!
I started learning History on my own a long time ago, for some reason nobody in the entire school system knows how to teach History properly (except for maybe like a handful of teachers.)
@@declanjones8888 it's really unfortunate. History is one of the most fascinating subjects in.. well, history
And if it's not taught in such a way that makes people want to learn more, we'll never be able to learn from history
And we all know what happens when people don't learn from history
@@declanjones8888henry belcaster knows how
@@scmbgoogle7790 I'll search him up.
History is always a W class. You get bad math teachers. English is just annoying. I haven’t had a science teacher in 2 years, so I can’t speak for that. But I have yet to have an actual issue with history.
One big problem is how much of your early life is centered around school. Like im going into my 4th year of high school from September and im completely lost in my life. Back in 9th grade i used to have a friend group, karate lesseons 3 times a week and english course twice a week. Now i only have one friend, spend most of my time inside and wondering what the of going to school even is. Every day, over and over. The same mind numbing school. When i was a kid i used run around and be happy. Was creative and liked drawing. Now i just watch videos and sometimes leave lengthy comments cause i have nothing to do.
Also tik tok is cancer.
Same bro wtf 😳
Same for me except remove the social life aspect in the first half add on some depression and remove tik tok and you have me going into high school
I didn’t even study for exams ( besides pe ) and I still passed
This is final year exams and Csec exams to bruh
In my country he have a like three after afternoon or mornings off , so it your problem if you stay inside
God damn...
Why does this hit so hard home? Except the friend part?
Whoever is reading this comment, I pray that whatever you’re going through gets better and whatever you’re battling with makes your situation better as you’re continuing to be a better person each day. I have faith that you’ll turn out stronger as your circumstances will improve. Have a great day! You got this! 🤗💪🏼❤😍😉
i appreciate this message im going threw a lot
like family problems, school, etc.
thank you man really
i truly hope both you, and everyone who sees this has the best life possible
100% agree with you that schools need to teach kids about financial literacy and responsibility. I’m fortunate enough to have a personal finance college professor in my family and learn from her about what it takes to be financially successful. That said, not many people do and often we see people get in bad situations because they don’t know how to manage their money effectively. So to that end, I believe financial education in schools should be a requirement instead of an elective.
In Finland, we are experimenting with an individual-centered approach and phenomenon teaching to reform teaching in Finnish schools because the world is digitizing at a fast pace and computers are becoming an even bigger part of our lives all the time. In practice, this can be seen in the way that the amount of traditional and attendance-requiring teaching has been reduced, but the independent and distance learning of students has been increased. However, a new problem is that some children and teenagers are too lazy to do schoolwork independently and alone, even though these are important skills they will need when working in the world of the future.
I remember in elementary & middle school being completely bored and telling my parents "school is absolute bs" & they told me "School isn't bs; IT'S 1 OF THE BIGGEST SCAMS IN HUMANITY"
IT IS
I remember one time in college, my art history, professor set us down, and he was telling us about how stressful it can be with being a student, especially with how we had a lot of complaints about how we were taught and how we were doing it as scholars I even rose my hand and said yeah, I was having a problem with my English professor because she didn’t really help us out, and he legit got up put down his pen and went on a 30 minute rant about how really it’s baffling to him how are College can’t teach kids when does the whole point. Love that guy but seriously why is it that now we have to figure out life when we should’ve had a good view of it
I work in a completely unique school myself, their name is "Spaghetti Bridge". Practical learning and Social development is majorly ignored and is a main focus in our school. Check out our schools and our systems to see how we treat school differently.
Oh? That’s great ? Whats the schedule(for certain grades),what do students learn,what do they eat?
Do they like the school?
And there you have it! Well Done!!
I totally agree with the history part. I LOVE learning about history, but that is only by comparing how different my life is from that time.
I adore learning about history as well.
History is cool when it’s taught right
My schools treated me like shit. The last two schools I went to before getting homeschooled almost pushed me into going postal
If it was like that for me, here in Serbia, I would still suffer because homeschooling doesn't exist here
@@mihailoaleksic3330 OK that actually sucks
Same, i literally got harassed into homeschooling because the school couldn't be bothered helping students
@@RubyJunee damn
Okay unpopular opinion: homeschooling is worse than actual school
School has been making me depressed over the last year or so and this video really made me feel better that somebody finally understands. I can't thank you enough for making this video
And this is why my child will be homeschooled
Hello dimucc
Having kids going to school in the near future seems evil, better not even have one tbf
I regret saying "seems", because you're not going to hell for that. Devil won't accept you
Just please do it well
Wow only 5 comments hi dimucc
Bro what the hell are you doing here😂😂😂😂
I remember back when I was a wee boy, my parents didn’t pay much attention to me, so I started doing well in school to earn their praise. Sadly, it didn’t work the way I wanted to since I was never “good enough”…
I wish I’d got it through my head that most of what you learn in school is a waste and that there was more to life than good grades and school… Maybe things would be different for me.
I try to do that too I am going in 11 grade and….truth be told I myself never care about grades it just me doing it for my parents 😭 but that the problem sometimes hard work doesn’t pay the way you think..
@@simsimmer3040 For you, it’s not too late to make the most of the rest of your high-school life. Live it the best way you can, and keep that work-life balance.
@@Ibatronic thank you so much ❤️❤️
This is the reason why I believe summer break should start on January 1st and end on December 31st.
I took a financial literacy class in my US highschool and the teacher tried teaching as much stuff about finances as possible and it was an amazing class. But that is extremely rare.
as a child myself, i agree with a lot of your ideas. Knowing how to argue and respect each other's opinions would probably make society a lot better, and knowing how we could manage our money would be VERY helpful in the rest of our lives. but i really think school should also teach us respect and that others will threat you in the same way you treat them, since that would stop a lot of the hate we usually see on social media, and because most of my classmates learned to speak like their parents who i think mocked other people behind their back.
You sir, have just earned yourself a subscriber. Keep up the good work.
I'm actually just about to get into digital art, but I was a little nervous about people telling me my art is terrible, so this is helping me gather my motivation to get started! Thank you!
I see that you may post soon, so I subscribed :)
@@mihailoaleksic3330 Thank you so much! It might be a couple weeks, but hopefully you enjoy it!
This is one of the best videos I have seen on TH-cam, I think you hacked my mind. I profoundly agree with you Andrei, well done!
I don't know about that last point, growing up the only thing I heard is that my future mattered and today was temporary and all that and its not about me etc. I went to public schools and a magnet for a brief period, my friendships were constantly berated and I understood very well that they were temporary, friends and I had to fight life to stay in touch.
I felt no connection to the schools ecosystem, ever, all the clubs in high school felt very detached from reality and whenever I attended one it felt like something I was wasting my time on, last thing I wanted to do was be in school after all.
This video hits right on the spot, especially about the points of critical thinking and history. I wasn’t really taught how to critically think in school, and only learned it once I taught myself how to program, and I cannot say how much this has helped me out in my education. And about history (my personal favorite subject), I just find it sad that such an interesting subject is mishandled so poorly in the modern education system
Thank you for talking about something that everybody else has been quiet about. I support every bit of this and already love the start of video. I would love to be in school if the teaching methods were better, and not out of date
In school basically I get all of these crushes and sadly get ripped off by a swift reject or mixed signal, I try to retake a test and get an F grade, I go to class and have to pretend that I am literally not capable of emotions so people will leave me alone, and I also have no friends, I’m a loner, and I constantly think I’m just pissing everyone off every second of the day
Schools should teach kids about mental health/disabilities way more, but at the same time I feel like schools need to teach themselves more about mental health since a bunch of kids are stressed and depressed bc of school, and many "special needs groups" mistreat mentally disabled kids
Edit: I don't know why I feel the need to say this but I'm autistic
my old school keeps telling kids to be "mindful" but they act like they half care 💀
@@xstar4698Ironic right 😂
I feel that the "Special Ed" program treats the disabled worse than the normal kids.I am autistic and in 6th grade (I was a special ed kid) My counselor didn't give me any freedom.Everytime I wanted to do something,she would force me into doing the same thing that the rest of the special ed kids are doing.For example,she will force me into going into the special ed room when I actually wanted to stay and play with the normal kids.She also prohibited me from using my phone just because she thinks its "distracting".
@@tknapawit I was one of those kids but a Good Student at the same time. In Special ED There are Good Students.
@@tknapawittrue for that instance, special ed students are in a different building than ours. I don't think they'll be ready for college or senior years due to them being in their own paradise instead of practicing or socializing with other people
Me who has finished all 12 levels: so glad that's not me anymore.
Those of you still trying to beat this game, keep fighting on, don't let it get the best of you, you can do it!
half way there
@@ballslover-es9gw good luck
I really am tired
i really just want to press the "Quit" button
It's ironic for Andrei to post this kind of video
At the same time that I'm getting close to come back to school
What I do want with schools is for them to teach children the safetys of being in the outside world on your own
And their would be schools that would teach children on a certain subject that they would be found about
I don't like school NOT because it's difficult, it's pretty easy for me. i don't like it because for some reason i have a headache everytime i get from school and also all the students and teachers drive me crazy..
The students are way too immature, literal 10th graders acting like toddlers.
And the teachers are all super rude, they scream for absolutely no reason, and some of them have no idea how to teach at all.
And i absolutely HATE having to wake up early.
When i come from school, not only do i have a headache, i also basically forget everything I've learned, so i basically learn nothing everyday.
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The central problem is disinterest in the subjects being taught, students would remember more about a topic they were passionate about
@@SierNotsruht I basically always ace math, and i never forget math, so I think you're right
Facts
How early do you wake up? I usually get up at 6:00 AM.
Only thing I enjoyed in my school life was joking in classroom with my friends, destroying school property and playing volleyball which later on was replaced by another stupid class of some shit subject. I don’t like the way I approached the studies in high school and now i realize how messed up our system was.
Honestly shop class and home economics should be added to School as Core curriculum cuz they play way more in life later down the road such as for home economics learning how to properly cook budget and having basic household management while shop class teaches basic mechanics Woodwork and and other factors of manual trade would become way more useful then some abstract academic subjects
5:43 I love the little detail that one generation married between cousins, which is more common than people think or like to recognise 😂
Videos like these makes me happy that my School is a bit better with learning from criticism.
My input
1 is being taught
2 is bring taught
3 is being more or less taught in school
4 is being taught
5 is still the same
6 is being taught
7 the same
8 the same
The majority of issues that he pointed out are already being worked on or are have been solved however there are new problems that I have no comment in. Something i do want to say is that i see only adults commenting on these problems when i feel it should be the people who are in the schools, not the people who were in them 10-20-30 years ago just because you hear stories and see articles means literally nothing if you arent in that inviroment unless you have done major research and talked to people in that inviorment in a large scale because education changes inbetween schools i am someone who has moved schools many times so ive seen a lot of stuff change
I’m so glad that you brought up how popularity in the end doesn’t matter. I was thinking about what I was like in 2nd or 3rd grade, and it was just me trying to fit in with the popular kids. Now looking back on it, I wasn’t happy, all I wanted to be heard instead of overlooked. I eventually found a group of friends that were nice to me and the year my friend group came together, the popular kids were the gossip queens. (Also school should not make students write a 5 paragraph essay every single time they have to write a report, it’s an important skill to have, but sometimes people just want you to get to the point.)
1: Sciences - Got to know how the world works
2: Trade Skills - Help people be a "Do it Yourself" Person
3: Agriculture/Nutrition - So People know how to grow food and how to balance their diet
2:00 We did this at my school with standards and learning targets, but they were always so hard to read and follow, so nobody used them expect when the administrators came in and forced us.
I remember my English teacher in my senior year of high school, Mr. R, he was the youngest teacher I had, being in his mid-20s and still going to college. He did exactly what you said, he said why we had to learn it and how we were gonna do it. He let us have fun, especially when we did Hamlet, by allowing us to do whatever sound effect we wanted and allowed us to do basically anything. But when it came down to writing an essay, he told us to write WHATEVER we wanted for it. Some people analyzed of Hamlet was gay, some analyzed if he was hallucinating. I made an essay on the different references and inspirations Hamlet had, using The Lion King and Fire Emblem Three Houses as a source. I still remember emailing him asking how to write MLA sourcing for it since it was a video game. He knew the characters already since he was a massive fan of Kingdom Hearts and Fire Emblem, but it was funny that when I came in the next day, he told me to just try my best with it. He also found it a bit funny since he basically gave no parameters outside of making it three(?) pages long and being in MLA formatting.
2:51, “The best teacher, failure is.” -Yoda.
I feel like one thing that’s really important and is looked past a lot is how you aren’t taught laws or your rights and freedoms in school. My school offered a course in Canadian law and almost everyone between the grades 10-12 took that class. Some didn’t even need the credit but took it because this is stuff we should know. A lot of people end up getting involved in the legal system while having absolutely no idea how it works. A lot of people have no idea what their rights are and those who do may not even know how they are supposed to protect them. People need to know this stuff.
Hey Andrei thank you for making amazing content! I used your video on family TH-camrs as a credible source on my communications class presentation. We had to persuade our classmates on a subject and your video inspired me :)
I love the video and the Ideas presented in it. A very interesting perspective on the many flaws of schools that are explained in a very well understandable way. Good job with the video
Another problem is some schools don't provide assistance to neurodivergent children
4:03 I live in italy and school here is ABYSMAL and as my dad always says: "if you want to cripple a country, you cripple the schools" and italy is a prime example for that.
I sell candy at school, and because I am VERY VERY young it has helped me understand money better. I’ve made almost 50 dollars from now to the start of school and it has taught me about how to work with money. I think selling things at school shouldn’t just be allowed at school, but encouraged.
Ever since I have been selling those candies I have seen other people selling things too. I have told some of my friends how much money I gained, and they were the ones who started selling different things.
If I can make 50 bucks in under a month and a half, I think you can too. As long as you know how much money it cost YOU to get the candy/item, you can sell it for a slightly larger price.
Overpricing is also something I have learned from selling candies. I once sold all my candies for 2 dollars, but when I noticed no one was buying the candy, I slightly decreased the price.
I especially resonate with what you said about history curriculums. I have a love for history, but only because I was introduced to it very young by my parents (who both have history backgrounds) and was taught how different events affect us now. I love History however the way it's taught in schools is boring, lifeless, and frankly I understand why so many people loathe the subject. History classes suck all life out of things, and are generally taught back-to-front: past to present. so you start off with a foundation thousands of years removed from you, that's just difficult to think about compared to 50, or even 100 years ago. and as you go through things, yes sometimes you need to teach things past to present for the sake of understanding, but I think having more interactive learning and connect the dots moments would help so much in education!
Every school I've been in allways tryed to use the "what" "Why "How" by righting the same thing on a board 3 times for advanced classes, for non advanced classes, it was also writen everyware in the lessons, schools also try to address "its ok to fail" by saying "It's ok to fail" once a school year on the inercom at the end of announcements no one pays attention to, for Critical thinking the teachers will randomly say a question is a "critical thinking question" and its literaly the same thing as the question above it
I’m sick and I’m still forced to do homework ,this is written on the last week of school before getting our grades
Sometimes, I feel like a total outcast in these online discussions. I love school, I love my classmates and my teachers and yet everyone seems to not be that keen on it. I'm probably just lucky to have an enjoyable environment, and for those that don't, don't let that discourage you.
This was the comment I was looking for. I love everything about school, from the way information is presented, to the topics themselves. School is honestly great. (This is coming from someone who's been to both public and private schools btw)
Same here, I disagreed with most of what Andrei said, because all of that has changed since the last time he was in school in most states of the U.S. To the point where I thought he was straight up talking about a school system in a Developing Country.
Boy I wish I had the experience you guys had.
@@lharenai That's what I thought, but why did he not specify to begin with? I feel like he only really made the video for the sponsorship.
@@lharenai I agree, he should've brought that up in order to remove any bias he may have had.
5:27 I legitimately studied for a History exam by acting like I'm watching a show
I got a better grade then usual, so it worked
I remember I would run into argumets with one teacher a lot back in school, and at some point he decided to teach me about different levels of arguments to get less annoyed by me. He regretted it as I actually listened to his advices and started turning our arguments into some deeper disscussions or debates (wasting class time as a result). But shout out for him, as it really is a useful skill how to argue with people.
Figured this out years ago
Entire system for the most part is made to create the perfect workers
Crushes creativity, punishes anyone that dares think outside the box and labels those that speak out
It’s why I chose not to go to sixth form and did a vocational college course. More freedom and flexibility
Did you know the bell is similar to a factory worker oi vey