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Lol, you were so on point with this one that TH-cam themselves got triggered and shut down the comments lmao. ( but seriously, amazing job on this video. I’ve been trying to start researching the issues with the school system and how to improve on them, and this is a great start. )
Thank you for the enlightening! The Home Economics statement hit home with a number of us. You’re right about not being prepared for the real world. #JunoAlex, America’s Private and Public Eduction are [both] much worse than in other countries.
What people also need to realize: Parents are the first educators for their children. But with how wages haven't kept up with inflation, some parents have to work 2 jobs just to keep the roof over their heads. They're exhausted and expect an education system to do all the teaching and in some cases, discipline.
Yes. Working in an after-school tutoring program a long time ago, I learned that many kids cannot learn without help from their parents at home, no matter how good the teacher is.
Yeah most do. We used to have free daycare or at least family/grandparents, but we are isolated and overworked now. Ideal would be part time stay at home parent or trusted community schooling
I hated school, got good grades, liked my friends, but it was so brain-numbing. I learned how to fall asleep at a desk and my drawing skills were pretty good because I literally drew on everything- all my tests, hw, etc. If you're not an excelled learner, you fall behind, if you excel, you'll be bored, there's really no winning.
My husband has adhd, he fell asleep in almost every class cause he was a night owl and a gamer, however he hated homework but had a B average in high school, and he does love learning so he got good grades even by falling asleep in class and skipping homework, this is proof that no one learns the same way
@@antonyandrewson5803 Learn to do what you want, money is irrelevant when your happiness is at sake. You need money to buy food, you need food to survive; don't ever go in debt without a necessity. Eat well, sleep 8 hours at least everyday. Don't impress society and only buy what you need. Make friends and accept anyone no matter your beliefs. Just be a good person and good people will be there with you. School has always been both a waste of time and necessary to learn; find the line and play around with it. Life is about enjoyment and survival. Don't focus on your financial rewards but do not be upset with making money. There are always people who need help and anyone is more than capable of helping, no matter how unprepared you feel. Be a good person... and troll the haves as a have-not 🙂
@@j.c.2240 Public school taught me, that it doesn't matter how you succeed - only success itself matters. And that your only mistake would be getting caught.
One of the underlying problems that keeps American education from changing, is lack of comprehension or understanding by parents. Parents have been conditioned by culture, and pushed by economic forces, to look at public school as free child care. The most important thing it does for them isn't prepare their children for the future - rather its real value is getting the kids out of their hair, or watching them while the parents work. I've known several people who work in public education and the story is always the same. Too many parents just don't care as long as the school locks their kid up for 8 hours a day. Because parents don't care about the school, they are uninvolved in local politics. They don't even know who is on their school boards. They won't back people who want to increase funding for schools and reform policies. "All politics is local" is never truer than with public education. For all the top-down forces poisoning the well, parents themselves deserve a significant chunk of the blame.
Thank you as a current substitute teacher looking for full time teaching this is a point I've been making for years. A lot of parents dont care about their kids education and when something doesn't go their way they often blame the teachers. Parents have a responsibility to work with their school and make sure that what they are teaching and reinforcing at home is at the same level as the school. Sure a school and a parent won't agree on everything but the stark diffs I see in students who have parents who care and are active in their children's education compared to parents who either don't care or are actively telling their kids things that go against a school is baffling. I've been blamed multiple times for things I felt the parent was just against me on or for things I felt were out of my control but of course a school doesn't want to incur the wrath of the parents so they put all the blame on us teachers.
Sometimes I do think there can be a lack of understanding on the part of teachers too. I grew up poor and I feel like a lot of middle class people don't understand how different their lives are and they make up the marjory of teachers and parent organizers in my experience. I considered my teachers rich people when I was younger because they had way more money and no noticable understanding of class. Things like a teacher telling the class we should be grateful we can all afford to eat breakfast. Didn't even consider that there might be a student dealing with food insecurity. If they knew I was dealing with food insecurity, their solution wouldn't be some charitable fundraiser either, it would be calling CPS. They called them on me because I had bad grades and my teacher decided "the problem is at home". They also called the cops one day to meet us driving home from lunch. It was all unfounded. That's not even mentioning my only parent would work up to 70+ hours a week doing manual labor + at one point dealing with cancer, while making the time for multiple hour long meetings almost every other week where the blame was solely placed on him. By people who I know enjoy a much better quality of life, but don't have enough self awareness to realize it. If they do realize it then they usually think you deserve to be poor bc we live in "meritocracy". The education system is still a place that upholds white supremacy, classism, etc. and looks out for it's own. I'm white so you can imagine these situations are only worse for people who aren't, especially when it comes to CPS and police involvement. But still, the blame is put on us when we don't engage with systems and organizations that usually hostile to spesific groups of people. We're just supposed to tough it out for the greater good I guess. That's not even half of what happened during my time in school, I'm just hoping that someone considers a perspective that's often overlooked by people within the system.
Judging by the useless stuff they teach, plus a biased view of history (wasn't until high school that my american history teacher gave us an unvarnished version, teaching directly, not from a book), it's the goal for sure to just keep us away until 18.
They surely didn’t do any secret indoctrination at my school-Robert E. Lee high school-in West Texas. On second thought, maybe the whole school itself was an indoctrination. They had me playing “Dixie” on the trumpet every time our Rebels football team scored, as men dressed in white ran across the field waving a large Confederate flag. I can still hear that song now-“Look away, look away... Dixie Land!” (I wonder what that means?).
I’m a high school science teacher in upstate New York. During grad school, we were taught how to use active learning techniques to create engaging and relevant lessons. The reality is that if you don’t teach to the test, it negatively impacts your evaluation. If the students don’t pass the right tests, they can’t graduate. This means that a bunch of test writers, who have likely never taught, decide what is important for students to learn.
High School -> Wake up - Go to classes - Go home - Do homework/projects - Repeat College -> Same thing only that you have to payout year to year. The curriculum and learning method have gone untouched for decades that it's almost not worth it anymore.
@@TheLightShines Nah the good thing about college is that you can make it into almost anything you want. Take the time to really look over your school's catalog, and understand what your goals are and what the requirements are for them. If you get a little bit creative with it, you can have a great time in college. For me, it was way better than HS.
It's amazing how going to school can end up ruining your life. Perhaps the worst realization we have is not knowing how excellent we could have been; how we could have reached our maximum potential at a much younger age if school and college weren't there to spoil it.
“...gone are the days when people understood Jesus to be a brown communist from the Middle East, who railed against the rich and preached inclusion, decency and the value of living humbly...” was my favorite part. 🙌🏾💯
@@dennisp8520 yes but after that, teachers will being forced to teach useless things instead of sparking curiosity to students and this leads them to loosing interest
Meeting Americans goes one of two ways: Either they're really well educated but they're waaay too confident, OR stunned by how under-educated they are. The extremes are shocking.
☹️ As a part of the latter, this hurts for how true it is. I dropped out in my *second* year of 9th grade. Got my GED at 16, but never really had the opportunity to use it. ☹️ (Things are fine for me currently btw, I left the US the first chance I got. Married an Indian man & now live in India, lol. ❤ But I got extremely lucky. So many are still stuck in Appalachia where I'm from/the US. 😞 I hope everyone has the opportunity or luck to get out!)
My problem is that the school system is that in history everything is presented in black and white. There are never shades of grey, it also focuses too much on a single nation rather than exploring other nations and their individual histories. We learn very little about Rome, Greece, Persia, China, and other ancient civilization which is the reason I think more and more people think people didn't build the pyramids, and it's getting worse. We know little of the great minds nor do we ever see a book they wrote. Worst yet we are usually taught that the little nation is always eaten by the bigger one a mentality that I believe carries over into our politics causing people who argue for things like this channel does seem impossible as the Big fish dictate what is passed and what is not so people don't even try. We learn little of the small nations who fought, kicked, and raged just to exist.
Whenever I critique America in anyway whatsoever a load of people just type this "America is the best" right at me. As someone who isn't American it scares me how much propaganda and indoctrination is going on in your country.
@Roman Dodia Yeah cuz indoctrination is found in every country for their own agendas?? Does the US education teach you that George Washington was a slave owner who prided himself at that? You can't say yes definitely cuz literally everyone uses different curriculum to teach. See, it happens with most countries. What you're asking for as education is very rare, maybe countries like Germany are honest about their education but not every country is the same. Ironically the US is the worst example for this.(I literally can't point it out with the staggering amount of indoctrination in the education system)I can say as someone who studied in both countries too that the US education is absolutely dogshit. Maybe if you said like the rote memorization found in Indian education of maybe 20 years ago, atleast it would hold water. Not anymore though, the landscape is changing quickly. I mean you can see yourself at people who say "USA #1", when except for wealth, literally the entire country is not even comparable to other developed nations, how bad the indoctrination is.
All my Cousins in Canada own homes, theyre YEARS younger than me, no college degree and here in the US Im 30 still living at home. This country is a joke, its hollow and lifeless
@@HelloOnepiece Any attempt to 'fill a vessel' necessarily fails at almost everything but obedience because children will automatically learn things from the world outside school.
I think my perspective on this might be interesting. I was a teacher in Idaho, the second worst state in the US for education. I worked for 5 months, unpaid, as a teacher before I was allowed to take the license test. Idaho has a high poverty rate and that requirement already knocked out most people who couldn't afford it. Then I worked full time in an elementary school. I was paid $11.25 an hour. The school librarian (a good friend of mine) made $9 an hour. I was working two jobs and I had almost 30 kids with no assistants. Admin told me to put up with it or quit. I loved my kids, with all my heart, but I was being taken advantage of and knew it, and knew that I would become a bad teacher if I stayed. These problems are why you likely had dismissive and unhelpful teachers growing up in the US, we were just stretched too thin. I left the field and now I can leave my work at work, not having it control every thought and decision I make. On that note, I'm gay, and my friends at the school district were scared for us to be seen at Pride because there was a good chance we would be fired if a parent saw us
I'm a teacher (trying to get out) the system sucks and I see a lot of comments from people putting the blame on their teachers. When the reality is that teachers are just as much fucked and hate the system and are constantly at odds with it.
That sounds so awfull, we cannot demand better clases until we pay our teachers what they deserve, but like everything in a capitalism business,teachers are just another lost of money,not the ones that will create the future of our country.
lol when was this a century ago? only qualification you need to be a teacher these days is claiming a letter in their cult.. theyre always looking for pawns to indoctrinate kids and brainwash them into thinking theyre another sex.
The system fails its students. I'm currently stuck in the middle of it. It's ridiculous how broken the system is and how it focuses on competition for memorization rather than cooperation for a greater understanding. Recently, I've noticed that teachers have begun to notice this and they've taken change into their own hands. I want to thank every teacher of mine who's fought the system to better teach their students for real life problems.
yeah those are the teacher that care ive been out of school for about 20 years now and i noticed that those teacher are rare and that tried to fight the system get put into put into place where they cant really do much like a math teacher i once had she was one of those the like to make class fun and didnt teach from the book but she got moved to being a librarian in the school
I’m one of the quicker students and I agree that the system sucks. Good teachers certainly help but the system needs to change. My friend in a computer genius and once in our computer class I got stuck on this problem and I noticed he was done. When I asked him for help he showed me both where I was going wrong and how to get out of it. After the teacher rewarded him for helping a classmate rather than just sitting at his table doing nothing. Some of my other teachers would’ve punished us both for talking
It replaces the natural childlike curiosity we have with the motivation of grades and eventual money .... it's so sad. And then there's the subtle condemnation of that curiosity that pervades the handling of things like questions and 'remedial' studies.....
Honestly, seeking out books, TH-cam documentaries, and google scholar articles taught me more in 1 year (quarantine year sldfkjd) than my 12 years of public education
@MX 3 Yeah, I was also on the debate team in high school; that was a big part of my getting interested in economics and politics, but unfortunately, it has incredibly low funding, despite it's obvious value. I mean ... the actual event was full of pretentious white centrists, but the practice teaches valuable skills. The saddest thing was our high school football team having the money for 6 coaches and our music and theater departments and all their various events and classes being run by two guys and the occasional community volunteer...
pro tip is to look up course literature for a university course and reading up, if you can't get in for whatever reason. or if you want to focus on work. 90% of college is reading books anyway, so it's a good tip for those who don't have access but still have an interest.
@MX 3 alot of people end up doing the jobs that require math and science. but I think what should be done is people who want to pursue those careers (professor, engineer, chemist, physicist,rocket engineer, doctor, virologist, genetist etc) should study them. By the way saying something is useless for everyone because you don't have a future in those fields is pretty biased. They are what 14% Americans rely on to earn their livelihood.
@@sadpee7710 just spending a year working hard and studying the field that interests you by using things like Khan academy or some free books available on the internet can give you twice as much expertise on that subject than 4 years of college.
As someone who has struggled with ADHD for my entire life and had the privilege of attending a montessori school at a young age, It's hard for me to explain how much I appreciate seeing this. Transitioning from montessori elementary education to public middle school when my family moved was one of the toughest experiences of my life as a kid. Suddenly I was forced to be active and attentive at all times with no help from any of my classmates, who were all in the same boat and competing with me for grades and immediately fell drastically behind. I developed a massive inferiority complex about having to work twice as hard just to get by and I never really shook it. The kinds of questions I used to build entire chunks of my education around landed me in detention over and over again. Public school actively punishes you for thinking and doesn't accommodate anyone's learning styles.
I would hope that you would continue to spread the message that publicly funded one-size-fits-all education is a blight on the minds of our future generations.
This is exactly how I felt although I left montessori school at 5. I really like word problems because it helps me visualize how things work in real life. Which clearly relies on having a connection to how I can use it in real life. The question of "When would I use this in real life?" for some reason is apparently rude or something, and that ruined a lot of opportunities for me.
My kids were traumatized by public school when they were little. 1. Our oldest got a concussion and also needed a hernia surgery when he was 6 due to being hit by a ball too hard in his groin. That was just the beginning. School got worse for him. 2. Our second son has an annual delay and is on the autistic spectrum and in second grade, he told us he is stupid because everyone else gets their work done before him. (He is actually highly intelligent!) 3. Our daughter grew up in a rough group of peers. There were so many classroom disruptions, bullies, and trauma (desks, chairs, and scissors flying across the room, etc.) that by grade 3 she ended up making herself throw up so we would have no choice but to take her home when the school called. She still refuses to go to school to this day, 4 years later. Needless to say, we school on-line at home.
Don't people get sentenced to prison for doing bad things. Since when is being yet educated, bad? If being born without an education is such a crime, people need to do their kids a favor and either educate them BEFORE they are born or don't bother having getting them a "prison sentence".
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398It's not the lack of education that's the bad thing. It's the actions people without education do. (Some examples that just came to mind: Crime, No using condom, Not caring enough, Not making the best decisions when raising their kids, Not being able to solve everyday problems with as much ease as someone with 2 years of schooling etc)
I think you hit the nail on the head. The ruling class does not want a world filled with well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They want less educated peons to do the menial tasks that the corporations need to get goods to market. Also, the harder worked people are the less time they will have to question the system or their place in it much less do something about it.
That might have made some sense 200 years ago in 1821, but it's clearly a terrible plan now. We live in a world that's more high tech, where you need more quality education and critical thinking skills to fill the jobs of the present and future. If a society doesn't see that and realize the importance of a good education they will fall behind. Still wonder why China is moving up in the world?
It’s specifically the American education system which unfortunately failed you because the US is Not the world. There are like these whole other countries that exist that are Not the US and in many of these other countries, education is excellent.
@@Abitibidoug actually... that is how medieval/feudalist society was! why do you think Shakespeare said the life was a stage, because that what it was, you born a farmer you die a farmer even if you had great ideas there was now way to be something else...
American schools serve as "free" daycares as well. A lot of working parents can't afford care during traditional business hours, and schools pick up that slack
Yeah, that's a large part of the reason many schools were so stupidly reopened ... the sooner the kids were back in school, the sooner the corporations could make profit again....
Aside from this. Many American parents aren't educators. You can not teach what you don't know and not knowing how to teach can cause more harm than good in the long run.
I'm a high school teacher in Ontario. We are in the early days of fighting these kinds of attacks on education. And still people want to teach. Ontario public education scores in the top 10 of every international testing and yet, we are attacked, defunded, and have our resources given away in tax credits to the private system.
Most of the younger generation - atleast everyone I talked to - believe education to be very important. Better education means a smarter and more driven population, leads to innovation, advancement in technology, economic growth, a happier population etc. The more you invest into the general public the more you get back in return. This would mean people would be more knowledgeable on who to vote. It's crazy to me how little the government cares about education. As an ontario university student, I am shocked. It's gotten to the point where OSAP doesnt even cover the entire cost of enrolling for class. I had to pay money out of pocket. I dont know how much aid I'll get, so coming up with 100s of dollars to fill the gap is difficult.
"Students forgetting everything they crammed into their heads immediately after taking a test" The worst part of that is when the teachers make you take a test at the end of the year of "all the things you learned that year" and you have to cram everything back into your brain and you forget it again by summer.
@@LewtableTo their defense, students don't really have any incentive to truly learn things. They are graded at one moment alone on some arbitrarily chosen subjects which are usually not visited again thereafter. So this method of not actually trying to learn but for one single occasion very much is the appropriate method.
It doesn't help that 90% of the stuff they teach is useless trash that serves no purpose in the real world. It also doesn't help that you are conditioned to repress the things you're actually interested in. Personally as someone who is more interested in history, politics and literature school was useless for me, I had to study those things on my own and even though I wanted a career in one of those fields I still had to go to school every day and waste my time learning useless garbage that I still cant remember four years later
@@TheDillidl > students don't really have any incentive to truly learn things. They never do. The part that is seemed "fun enough", most of the times, is really basic. Like, "you can do homework in 5 minutes before the class" type of basic. "No kids left behind" and "education must be fun" are the greatest banes on the quality of the education: with former, couple idiots slow down whole class. With later, you don't teach pupils patience and delayed gratification and you dumb shit down to the level of pop-science for it to even be fun in the first place, and it's cringy most of the times.
@@toddthegod2196 >90% of the stuff they teach is useless trash that serves no purpose in the real world. To teach maths and physics that apply in the real world, teachers would have to cram fucking calculus and vector algebra into students. I, as CompSci student, had a TRIVIAL task in the exam of analytics geometry. (A Trivial real-life one, that is), and I utterly failed it because it required extensive knowledge of integration - something that I struggled with. Also >literature, history, and politics With such choice the school really is a waste of time. You can learn how to take my order in Starbucks without all of that LMAO.
The irony of listening to this while I prepare lessons for my students is not lost on me. Very, very true. It’s so hard to work within the boundaries of school for even good teachers, it’s very messed up...
As the son of a middle school teacher, a particularly egregious practice in my opinion is making teachers purchase their own classroom supplies. Public school teachers already make so little money, taking a cut out of the income you're paying them in order for them to do their job is a whole other level of income inequality for a job the usually requires an expensive, high level of education meaning disgusting student loans.
"Home Economics and Basic first aid should be taught in school" They were taught in my high school, we even got to pretend to invest in the stock market! All thanks to my awesome Principal.
Same here in Finland, except we googled companies stock prices and "bought" them using "3000€" of money days before Christmas break (I was in hospital so I didn't participate, and I was the most interested in stock market) and days before grade 9 ended, we checked the stock prices and looked what profits we "made"
I did this in middle school. But I do live in a high income area with a high property tax that funds our schools. Some teachers make 6 figures or are ex employees at some major tech companies. I also went to an experimental middle school.
I’m a high school math teacher and I am SO proud of my school because we will be offering “geometry in construction” which literally teaches students geometry by teaching them how to build a house. I am really hoping to see a lot more changes, especially in math, over the years.
@@persephone9307 yeah, and with most math classes. That’s why math education is trying to change to a more discussion-based class, but it’s going to take some years to actually build up students’ math and productive discussion abilities to get to a good point for that.
My kid was put on an IEP in second grade because his handwriting and math skills weren't up to standards, he was slow to test, and would get distracted and was diagnosed with ADD. You know what he would do for fun at home? Calculus and Trig on Khan Academy in elementary and middle school, coding and history in high school. He's a very smart cookie but because he doesn't conform to the education system he was always left behind and now he's a second-year senior in high school who is short two classes- Health and History. It's been painful to watch and even more frustrating to be ignored as a parent too.
Same although I'm a student I love computers anything about them is interesting and I also love all kinds of science and other stuff But school is all about Urdu which I don't even understand after basic (That's very embarrassing as it's my mother tongue) And islamiat had to be in Urdu and it's a choice between Urdu and English interms of books Yet our ""English"" school chose Urdu And guess which subjects are thought in the bare basics or not even at all
I don’t know if you’ll see this because you posted a long time ago. but I wonder if you would have any advice for elementary teachers? what do you wish your child’s teachers would have done better?
Here in finland the schooling is actually kinda fun and also effective and most important of all is its free until like the age of 20, but mentally and physically disabled are given free schooling for most of their lives.
Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall comes to mind when looking at current education systems. The U.S. and the rest of the world need to modernise education systems.
Why "the U.S. *and the rest of the world* "? Do you think we here in Europe are stupid enough to let our education systems go down the toilet, too? Speak only for yourself, please.
@@hape3862 Why are you pretending Europe is a homogenous cluster of countries?! Not all of Europe has the syme type or level of quality between their educational systems.
School failed me. Not repremanding bullies, yelling at creativity, stepping out of line, or constructive arguements about topics not touched on during the class. Ive almost completely lost my creativity and will to stand out, this is completely because of middleschool and the beginning of highschool
Try your best to find a group of like minded, good friends to be around. That will boost your self confidence, make you more happy and maybe give you the energy to look into topics you're actually interested in learning about.
It also taught us that half of American parents were willing to sacrifice the life of their kid to make a political statement, will scream about CRT but cannot begin to tell you what it is, and want to make sure only the WHITE history of the US is taught.
Don't even mention being in the actual school: getting up at times earlier than our parents, literally not talking all day, being fed food that makes people sick, and more
I moved from Jamaica to NYC and I got dumber. I am still a top student as I was in Jamaica but I have no challenges. They dont even teach grammar here, so I pass my English class with ease while the American raised students struggle with it if they don't have a natural gift
I immigrated as an adult here. Looking back, I noticed as well that my 13 year old average self can keep up with kids here that people consider "elite". I also hear people look down at my education because Im from a 3rd world country. 🤔
@@CyclingMartialartswithMusic same, they refuse to believe that since I am from a 3rd world country that my education system is actually better than the U.S. Some Americans need to learn that some of us are economic refugees, our education system isn't lacking, we just don't get job opportunities after
Over the years they have been teaching less and less content beside Math and certain ELA concepts in NY. Most schools are focused on teaching to the NYSESLAT. I learned learned how to write in script, tell time on an analog clock, and count money. I find that most of the children I see now are not proficient in these things.
During one year on Khan Academy I learned more maths concepts than in 11 years in school (even though I had B+). And it was completely free. And doing this I significantly lifted up my English.
Oh yeah, definitely. I've been using it to supplement my education since like 5th grade, and my senior year I used it for my APUSH class because they gave us a textbook that was basically American exceptionalist propaganda and Khan Academy is just so much less biased.
@@josecipriano3048 the pretzel you are twisting is fearsome indeed. Nationalized education was never given a chance. How are public schools supposed to improve with parents shopping around for the best education for thier children that they can afford? Nothing can be certain, except that capitalists are always the problem.
And even then, the system only cares about memorization in order to pass judgement. If a student hasn't memorized enough, it's not like they're given resources to help them commit more stuff to memory. Nah, they're just punished and then class moves on.
@@guy-sl3kr This was me, if I understood it the first time *click* it's there. If I didn't understand it we were onto the next thing. I'd miss that too trying to comprehend the first thing. You can see how it doesn't help when it's all regimented and standardized to an obsolete system.
That's the difference between public and private schools, private schools prioritize life skills over everything else. I went to a private, Christian school. In 8th grade, everyone I was friends with in public school was planning their 8th grade class trip to Disneyland. Me and my classmates were prepping for two weeks of camping in the Sierra mountains. Private school has a different, and in my view, better, educational focus.
My freshman year of highschool (which I finished a few weeks ago) was so mind-numbing and boring. I almost became depressed again because the environment was so depressing and the work pointless. So much of my time in my classes was spent reviewing over and over again for tests that served no good purpose. My school's standards are so low, I was considered an "excellent student" because almost everything was easy for me and I almost always did well on my tests. I've been tempted to homeschool because I'm learning basically nothing. I likely won't, though, because I'd probably lose my social life. UPDATE [3/19/23]: I'm now homeschooled and taking CLEP courses to test out of some classes for college. I did in fact nearly take my own life in sophomore year because of the stress, and that is why I am now homeschooled. I have no friends anymore, but at least I don't want to die. Hopefully I'll make some friends in college. :/
Heres a funny story and I think I'm not the only one. I learn more about History (Wars, Events, Cultures, Countries) watching TH-cam History Videos and listening to Sabaton than in a classroom
you wanna know something funny? I use this channel to send to my conservative family members, while being very careful about what videos' you post because socialism is still a very dirty word in my family. I am so glad I found this channel, because I used to be a conservative until I started watching three arrows. TH-cam algorithm did its thing and before you know it I was sent here. Proud leftist now. You're doing some good things here keep it up.
I do this with my friends! Its actually pretty interesting how many ppl will agree with a lot of socialist values/goals but if they heard the same explanation but with the word socialism involved people suddenly close up to it and get mad. These videos are very low key and perfect to send to others to kinda plant the idea in their heads without being explicit about it
Speaking of education I’ve converted a few friends and family members away from centrism using your videos. Thanks and wish you and your family the best!
I moved 15 years ago to Finland and I am been a teacher for most of that time. The solutions suggested in this video are all addressed with the Finnish education. Not everything is perfect here but education is free, equal and with quality.
Asking to go to the toilet is truly the most evil of control. Seriously, is the kid supposed to shit or pee their pants if you say no? Just let them go to the bathroom instead of flexing your ego. And then the kid gets mocked for it, just cause the teacher wants to flex their immense authority.
Wish that were me... my high school had a system where you had to get back from the bathroom in 2 minutes or you got a 'strike' and you were given lunch detention after 3 strikes...... It was hellish.
My middle/high school (they were the same) had no idea how to deal with neuroatypical people. In 7th grade, I made an attempt on my life, and made the mistake of thinking that the school counselor would help me cope with my feelings. Instead, a police officer was called. She handcuffed me, put me in a cop car, and took me to a mental hospital where I was involuntarily hospitalized for nine days. They did it again when I was in 9th grade. I'm almost graduated out of college, and I'm still trying to cope with the trauma that these events gave me. Our 'education system' is just a pipeline to mental illness and prison-- I am convinced that if I was Black, that police officer would have had an entirely different reaction to my distress.
My school put me in a lot of 'counselling programs' in elementary school, which basically meant being isolated from my friends for hours a day, and while nothing that extreme happened to me, the school systems why of dealing with neurodivergent children is god awful.
I'm in the UK and my gf is in the US and the difference between our schooling is insane. My school was not focused on academics, it was for people with minor learning difficulties with no huge focus on acadmic brilliance, and we definitely did not spend every waking hour doing work. They did however at my gf's school, she said she regularly got 6-7 hours of homework and started school at 7:30 am. I just finished my first 3 years at Oxford studying maths with a high 2:1, and she has anxiety from her school experience, a very different attitude to problem solving, and doesn't even have a huge breadth of knowledge to show for it (she's very clever as well, one of the top chemists at her uni, so it's not like she's stupid)
Im in the US and never did 6-7 hours of homework. That's not representative of "the US." She either went to a very unusual school, or she was just extremely slow at doing homework. If she's at a university now, then she's at an age where there was actually a shift away from assigning any homework, during the years she went to school. What she's describing isn't normal.
Only the OGs remember when the comment section was turned off on this video. Haha still love your videos as they inspired me to start my own channel on social and political issues!
@@SecondThought well at least they are on now lol! I was worried you had switched to being one of those political channels that turns the comments off haha
@@SecondThought didn’t expect a response! Thanks for so many great inspirational and educational videos. I’ve educated my conservative friends with them and they seem to work!
May have missed it, but i think he failed to mention how the private schools can, in certain loopholes, declare better results than they actually accomplished. Thus, they are purposely driving it this way. No stupidity, just malice.
That's nice! Though, if you wanto be a teacher, please try to be careful with non-evidence-based claims about education, as there are a lot even within progressive circles, sadly
School, especially public school, in the U.S. SUCKS. I graduated from high school in the U.S. a bit over a year ago and let me tell you, that left me with mental scars so obvious I feel like Zuko. I started out loving school. For all of Elementary school I felt happy and smart. Once I got to middle school, everything changed. More... EVERYTHING. More students, teachers, things to learn, tests to take, assignments to do, homework to complete, academic and social pressure, stress, sleep deprivation, mental health struggles, and more advanced and confusing lessons. It was too much all at once and where I was once proud and one of the smartest students in my classes, my grades plummeted with my self esteem. I couldn't keep up anymore. Turns out I had (and have) undiagnosed ADHD and autism which the school system never cot (can't remember how to spell it, English spelling is confusing). I had to figure it out all on my own and suffer through all of my school years with no help or accommodations, feeling like a burden and a pathetic failure. Really it was the school system that failed me, and so many others. So many useless classes forcing information down our throats that we will never use after graduation. Insane amounts of homework, stupid end of year tests, the attempted step-by-step squashing of individuality, creativity, and independent thinking. Zero tolerance bullying policies that punish the victims. Sexist school dress codes. Biases towards teaching Christian and republican beliefs rather than plain facts. Getting mad at students for being tired or falling asleep in class even though the school is the reason they are tired because they made them get up so early even though many studies have shown that teenagers naturally have circadian rhythms that are shifted later. Forcing teens to get up so early even makes it more dangerous and irresponsible to give them no choice but to drive to school. Being car centric is wrong in SO many ways. And so many other things. I graduated extremely burnt out, barely passing, depressed, anxious, traumatized, and with my identity and love for learning and curiosity barely intact. The school system needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt from scratch because THIS, is not working. No one should have to go through this cruel and unusual torture they call education. I only liked ONE of my high school classes, Financial Literature, because it was the only one that I felt like would actually be useful after I graduated. That class was the only reason I could get myself to go to school many days.
I'm currently studying to become a teacher and in our current course, there was a particular question that stood out to me. It asked: "Would you rather your students graduate with a new set of TRUE beliefs, or a new set of JUSTIFIED beliefs?" I personally chose "justified", because even if they're wrong, someone with rational or logical beliefs can be reasoned with, whereas someone who only believes whatever happens to be "true" will be stuck in their ways. A lot of my classmates agreed and had similar ideas, so there's at least this small group of uni students that value critical thinking. I guess I just wanted to share that.
Something I really appreciate in this video is the way it handles religion. Identifying the corruption of Christianity by Conservative and Capitalist ideas, while comparing it to a more biblical look at Christianity and not just straight up condemning religion itself. A lot of leftist content comes across more interested in just condemning religion, especially Christianity, rather than looking at it as another part of life that unfettered Capitalism tries to turn towards its own advantage.
"Communism and Christianity are one and the same religion, it seems." I don't know how many leftists friends of mine I have trolled with this catchphrase.
I hope we have more content with regards to Religion and Socialism, I'm still waiting on Hakim to release his video on how he can be a practicing muslim and a Marxist-Leninist at the same time.
@@Tinky1rs Yes and no. I am from Europe, and though a significant part of Christians are so-called "leftists Christians" trying to stand by ideals of sharing with and helping others, the majority still are pro-life anti-gay conservatives (that is a bit of a caricature, but not so much). But then you have to take in account the part of Christians that are not churchgoers, and would not even declare themselves Christians, but still have Christian heritage and values (I am one of those). And accounting for these, the share of leftists are far higher. But there is still this tendance : the more left you are, the less Christian you want to be, because Christianity is still linked to conservatism, which seems insane to me, but it is what it is.
I went back to college in my 40's...I finished my Bachelor's in history and a education Master's. I got 30k in debt, and sighed on to teach at an inner city school. So, my lesson plans were at least 30 hours a week, for 2 subjects. Then I spent hundreds of dollars for supplies, had weekly staff meetings, a lot of professional development. That doesn't include morning duty for bag searches, and x ray machines. Oh yes, grading papers (especially papers!). I was always working at home! Kids didn't care about standardized tests, administrators were putting kids in my Sociology, college lvl class, even though many kids weren't at that lvl. I left the next year, after we started remote learning... which again increased the workload! Sheesh!
@@EB-du3vh You saying that the problem is not the corporations, it's the government, is as if you said that the problem with the car accident that you just had was not because of the 12 beers you drank just before driving, it was because there was a forest "in your way"...
I love learning but school made me hate it, i miss being able to sit down and read through novels in a single setting or just open a book and be able to read without feeling so burnt out i miss it lol :')
In our country we don't really have to ask permission to use the restroom, we just use hand signals to tell the teacher that we're going out because it's a courteous thing to do.
When you were describing the similarities btw schools and prisons, I legit thought you were going for another similar institution: factories. Which, of course you got to later.
As someone who went to a Montessori elementary school as well as S.T.E.A.M Middle and highschools, I can 100% vouch for more open learning styles. Often found myself more well-adjusted when it comes to my College learning style in contrast to most of my peers. I found myself being a lot more competent at different fields of interest across the board. Because of the way that those schools teach I feel that my propensity for knowledge was expanded as a child making me find interest in the most niche of topics. Is a person who likes to help people I find that it's a lot easier to do that being raised in the system with a greater educational diversity.
Im glad Im not the only one who was somewhat happy in school. My high school was three schools in one (PCEP), and it is very lenient and has a lot more of the open learning styles you said
It's just a standard problem in America: there are big problems caused by privatization, but progress is slow, then it becomes a political issue and nothing gets done for 25 years due to political gridlock
@@beaus3911 But that is very expensive and there aren't enough teachers to do that in public schools. Not to mention that most one to one education is reserved for children with learning and/or violence disorders such as ADHD.
That school has the potential to revolutionize our education system when more people hear about the idea, the more in favor they are going to be as well
I'm not even a socialist(at least not completely) and I do the same. At least the arguments made here are logical and based on facts. Sadly such basic foundations for arguments have become rarer and rarer as the years go by.
@@AsobiMedio Don't worry, I used to be a social Democrat like you, but then I took a class consciousness to the brain 😉 All jokes aside, the more you learn about how 99% of our species' problems today can be traced back to capitalism, the more you realize that big changes are needed and one of the best ways is via socialism ✊🏼
@@TheAmericanAmerican To me it simply isn't fast enough. Humanity, as it is now, is on the brink of catastrophe and the changes necessary to save us would take too long if we also tried to change our economic system at the same time. Capitalism does have one advantage over socialism, and as a system, I think it's one of its few positives. It is very fast-acting. Give a government, even a benevolent one a blank cheque and they'd finish a major construction project in a few years. Give limited resources to a man with a profit motive and they'll do the same work in a few months, albeit at a lower quality due to cutting costs. Not corporatism mind you, corporatism is a parasite causing the world to stagnate. Capitalism isn't sustainable, at least not while we remain a one-planet species, but it is much quicker than changing to socialism. A temporary evil to prevent catastrophe and buy us some time. What I'm saying is that both systems have their uses, and a balance between the two needs to be struck for any serious progress to be made in the coming decades. Ideally, it would be socialism on a grand scale with capitalism on the local level. Preventing the consolidation of power by the few while still stimulating the economy for the many. So basically the opposite of what the U.S has now.
@@TheAmericanAmerican May I ask what you are referring to? Because it was the creation of property rights and factories that were major factors to the huge rise in technologic innovation since the 18th century.
This really recalled a lot of bad memories of my school days. My public education definitely was lacking. Thankfully, I was able to learn a great deal about science, one of my favorite subjects later in life.
My highschool did teach a class on using money in the real world like filing taxes and how to buy a car called quant lit. Problem was that no one gave a shit.
I think thats the unfortunate part. A teacher could really care and know a lot about a topic but you can't force a teenager to learn. You can't force them to be excited about the subject. Teachers try really hard (hopefully) but not all kids are going to take the bait. And that's true of teenagers in every country.
The problem is the traditional school environment, there are two schools where they teach one teacher to one student all of the time brightmont and fusion academy where the students feel so much better going to school and could give the U.S. the competitive edge it needs to outcompete and lead the world
I remember the first time I stumbled into a prageru video. I thought it was some kind of joke, like an onion article. It's truly horrifying to hear that some students actually watch them in class.
Oh my god I remember I watched a PragerU video once and I almost believed it! However, this was going against everything I thought I knew so I needed to confirm things. I very quickly realized what PragerU was and I immediately distanced myself completely form those videos. I just wish other people would check their facts before they completely dedicate themselves to something
With prageru going around brainwashing people, it’s great that we have content creator like you, who actually address the problems honestly and provide possible solutions.
Indeed. PragerU was founded by fracking brothers and so try to creat division between the working class. That’s why most of their videos demonize “the left” and thus solidarity in the working class is never made.
They should just play a second thought video right after the prageru video so they get both sides of the argument. I think students should be allowed to discover what they believe rather than being told. It would be just as big of a problem if our schools brainwashed children to be socialists. Schools shouldn’t teach political ideology and when it does it should teach it in a balanced way. Like when you cover capitalism in an economics course you should then teach socialism and then compare the two
@@a_human8489 brainwashing = lies. why would you show a video of the truth and then show a video of lies? i agree that two sides should be available, but conservative channels very often say things that are lies. it’s so harmful and creates so much division and hate
My parents were debating moving to America when I was a child, we went on holiday there and knew a teacher so I got to spend a day in school. Even at 11 years old the kids were waaaaaay behind in education. Even the best in class would have been rock bottom in a UK classroom.
as a homeschooled kid I'd be hard-pressed to find a curriculum I've used that isn't subtitled "from a Christian perspective" so yeah, there are some issues
To a fellow homeschooler, and a Christian, the Christian ones just try to sell you into going to their college in some classes (I'm talking about you liberty University and abeka) lots of the time they also have many logic flaws like, "because the bible says so"
YES! That's why I like to learn from the internet myself Other kids in my class can barely type in English and even if they do they just type Urdu but with English letters خ ش ق گ ٹ ڑ ظ ط ح غ ں (should I even continue) are not even have equivalents in the English alphabet and all of them are unaware of the Urdu keyboard (Also I'm the youngest one and I don't even get the awards And positions) That's because the education system has just been super bare bones We're in 6th grade and we haven't learned about WWII... I can ramble forever about the things we haven't learned even in 6th grade yet I'm the one with bad marks
@@dr.syedmuhammadmanazer-ul-414 the internet has some good knowledge ti be found...in trivia. A lot of knowledge on the internet is just trivia, and while there's good places like khan academy to learn; supplements to a system are just that. The system needs to be good, and it isn't - which is why it fails you most likely. Just keep on trying man, that's what I'm doing and I just try to get through school as fast as possible to focus on everything else in my life. - 8th grade Texan
I knew there was a reason my most unpleasant nightmares are often accompanied by the narrative of being back in school. I've actually been in jail and school is still one of my worst memories above even that. How messed up is that?
Far messed up then thou can think M’friend. Ya know how young lads are, they are forced to work everyday until the “weekend” comes, they are tightly controlled every day with very little breaks, they are even told “failure is good it’s apart of learning” and yet we are punished for it. Hel even they are governed by bells and when to eat.
There are a lot of things I've grown tired of over the course of my school life. The only classes that ever actually intrigued me were a few electives in high school, like Culinary class, the unfortunately sparse TV/Video Production, or Creative Writing. All of the things taught in the core classes left me completely emotionally exhausted when I was more interested in other things. I'm sick of hearing about World War 2 when I want to learn more about various mythologies from around the world. I'm sick of reading Shakespeare and other works from centuries ago when I want to read more of authors from genres I enjoy. I'm sick of hearing about the inner workings of cells and atoms when I want to learn more about actual animals and species that have same-sex relationships. I'm sick of complex math equations and "explaining my answers" or "showing my work" when the answer itself does not and SHOULD not require such a thing.
Which animals have same sex relationships I’m pretty sure there are only sexual reproduction male and female and a sexual reproduction one creature has both male and female body parts
@@joshwhite5730 That's the thing. Penguins, lions, albatrosses, walruses, swans, giraffes, koalas, even other primates all have shown many instances of same-sex relationships. There's even a species of lizard that's all-female and reproduces by a process that's more like cloning. And that's just to name a few.
Same, but I wanna learn about the world wars/old politics of the America's (or just old crappy politics so I can laugh at thier face), creative writing (bc Shakespeare's doodoo), and literally anything creative!
My highschool was literally designed and built by prison architects who had never built a school before, but one was the brother of someone on the board. In short: it was the worst building you could imagine. It was a punchline. No, actually you can't imagine it, no one could have done it on purpose.
@@AfroAsiaticLanguages Yeah, the current one is too long and vaguely written, especially the first two amendments! The new one needs to give all demographic groups equal rights, forever, even in a national emergency! Everyone who can afford it pays income tax, even churches and rich people, without exception. Under freedom of speech, censorship should be limited to hate speech, false advertising, fraud, defamation, false alarms and terrorist threats. So, that leaves obscenity and blasphemy legal, with trigger warnings and a rating system, of course. Corporations would be legally groups, not "persons."
@@darlalathan6143 Guys.... who gest to decide what its ok to said and what doesn´t? Don´t treat freedom of speach so easy, yeah some ppl can use it for bad motives but then agains it also stops the goberment to silence u guys. Just ignore it. I'm from Perú and my friend from Venezuela who came here 3 years ago told me how their friends were silent for "false advertising or defamations , even terrorist threats" by the goverment. He doesnt know about him since them, ask any ppl from cuba or venezuela.
@@darlalathan6143 Limit the first amendment to stuff you don’t like? This is why I’m happy even as a Democrat that Trump was elected. Not because he was a good president, good man, or even semi-competent...he wasn’t any of those things. But because we have a right-leaning Supreme Court who will protect my freedom as I get older from your generation of authoritarian socialists.
@@ismaelapellido2666 We voters and the politicians we elect get to decide what is said. The average person cannot ignore sexual harassment, cyber-bullying, or shock jocks.
I spent a year at an American school as a German and learnt absolutely nothing. They even had to put me up from 10th to 12th grade. Even English classes are harder in Germany. Tough the extracurricular activities in the US were kinda nice. We don’t really have these in Germany.
Hey Latin isn’t entirely useless! It creates a better awareness of the interworkings of language, opens up a whole new world of literature, encourages perseverance (cuz Cicero is hard), and helps kids understand how translation works. My best high school class was Latin.
I agree with you. One comment that sure missed the mark in this video was the implication that Latin is regularly taught in our high schools. This creator's newspaper subscription must have expired in 1970. It hasn't been easy to find a Latin class for decades! My daughter went to a top-notch Catholic high school, and Latin was nowhere in the curriculum. That alone should tell you something. As a substitute, I sometimes mentioned Latin word roots to the kids, and they were fascinated.
@Alex G. Not sure you know this, but this guy is an ideological lunatic, who would rather die at the hands of Stalin in a gulag under torture, than live in, contribute to and be grateful for a modern prosperous society. I mean, he is still living in 1910s, clinging to Socialism to somehow finally succeed somewhere. For God's sake, man ...
@@AbdunK99 Forgive me for assuming, but if you're talking about America, your prosperous society is a joke of a nation that exploits it's citizens at every possible turn. Your prisons are motivated to actively fail at their jobs of rehabilitation and your education and healthcare systems are the butt of almost as many jokes as your politicians are. You are the laughing stock of the world, and your ignorance of that fact is genuinely saddening.
@@Chris-te6gc I love your description of America (precisely what I think). But I was talking about modern life in general. By the way, I am from Pakistan, but the wonders of modern technology are universal, so that should not be a factor.
@@AbdunK99 Apologoes, i assumed you were an american coming to blindly defend capitalism's flaws. Out of curiosity, who were you referring to in your first comment? I've seen no inclination about Second Thought being a lunatic, but it came off as you referring to them.
Im a teacher who works internationally. I have worked with a lot of American teachers. If they are any indication, part of the problem is your teachers are poorly trained too. Loved your point about a localised curriculum
I believe American teachers have focused on well care student training which how to make students happen instead of teaching tough stuffs. There is no way to make students happy and teach them a lot.
One of my good friends became a full time Kindergarten teacher before she even graduated from college. Honestly, she's pretty great (I may be biased), but think about how many people aren't so great and yet get an opportunity like that. And as stated in the video, so much of it is because there's a huge demand for teachers (ya know since they barely get paid).
From a student's POV (I'm still a high school student), I think schools shouldn't be focusing on instilling disciplines or dictating what a child must learn. I, or rather, everyone learns better when they're passionate about something. I agree with your statement on different learning styles. Most classroom do not allow this. They all follow the exact same technique on different types of people. It's like painting multiple type of surface with one type of brush and one type of paint and expecting it to be beautiful. Of course, we can't meet everybody's need so why not make them the captain and schools become the navigator, giving guidance and help along the way. I often find that I learn better with autonomy anyways. One subject I excel at, maths, is thanks due to no part in my autonomy. I have a passion for maths and science, and given maths is the easiest subject to experiment with (all you need is a pen, a piece of paper, and a bit of creativity), I achieved a lot in maths and I often retain information better because I truly understand the material. For the most part of our society, it's all about "fake it until you make it", except you rarely, rarely, rarely ever make it (like 1/inf chance). This is reflected in schools too. You don't need to understand everything, you have to understand *just* enough. It is what makes a mediocre worker, mediocre. There is also the issue where schools force feed information to students instead of letting them learn naturally. If food were information, schools are shoving them down students' throats, which is dehumanizing and when you really think about it, unethical. The only way we're going to accept more knowledge is when you become curious about the subject and/or find a use for it in real life. Another criticism that I have for most education system is that it is based on memorization. Although I believe some memorization is necessary, I don't think we should put too much weight on it. Instead, we should be focusing on creative and critical thinking, the foundation of modern society. If history has taught us anything, most revolutions are sparked by those who could think both creatively and critically, and in this day and age, I don't think rote memorization would be required within the next few decades. My final criticism of the education system is that it often makes us conform instead of showing who we are. Sure there are some things that are socially unacceptable (i.e murdering, raping, using drugs that harm your health etc...), but I would draw the line at that. This, however, is not readily accepted into our caveman brains that if ooga-booga weird, ooga-booga not us. This in turn make us judge other people and you either become the victim or the bully. Instead of this, I think schools need to first and foremost teach kids to not judge out of fear or any other strong emotions, but to understand, learn and take action. So this is my ideas on why school systems (for the most part) suck. Not only the U.S but countless other countries as well. P.S I'm sorry if I made any grammatical/spelling errors as I am not a native speaker. (and yes, you may add more ideas to this if you wish. the more POVs, the better.
Your English is written better than English of children born here. I’ve been questioning, especially since this pandemic began if I should just homeschool my kids. Instead of being aggravated they are home, I’ve actually found it less stressful and much more calmer having them home. They are elearning, but with me watching them, I’ve noticed some flaws with having the curriculum entirely on an iPad or chrome book. My little one was just pushing anything just to satisfy whatever question the app threw at him. No wonder my kids where struggling with reading. Those applications read everything to them. So where my older girls struggled, my little one didn’t because I nipped it early. Instead of working on a reading app, I pulled him aside and taught him old school style. And I have spoken about topics and subjects to my children and I enjoy getting in depth with the matter too. Thank you for your input and good luck in your studies. Like my dad told me when I was a little girl, always keep learning something new everyday. Don’t ever stop learning. That has always guided me with how one should live their life.
Unfortunately, that wouldnt work (and hasnt yet worked when tried). You see school from the perspective of someone who is motivated, passionate about learning, and enjoys being challenged. The simple fact of the matter is that those characteristics only compose a very small portion of the population, so things that work for you likely wont work for a majority of others
My mother was a Montessori teacher for preschool-aged kids for around 30 years and I attended a Montessori school up to 2nd grade, myself. They're pretty much superior by every conceivable metric. When I had to transfer into a public school I just kept doing shit the way I did back in Montessori. I asked the teachers for all the reading and assignments at the beginning of the week or month and then just ignored all the lecturing and did the assignments during class time. Once I was finished I'd just read whatever the Hell I felt like that I brought with me. By the time I went to high school I just stopped showing up for most classes more than a few times a term to turn in assignments and ace the tests.
I think one thing I subconsciously learned in school is that no one cares about me or anything that interests me and I kinda phased out and stopped caring about everything as a result? There was a long period of time when all I wanted was to be left alone to focus on my interests.
i feel the exact same way, my interests are completely disregarded and even if they aren’t, i’m not given the guidance i need so i learn to hate what i enjoy
same thing happened to me. I love drawing, but im autistic and have a multitude of other mental illnesses. After a while of neglect in school, I just focused entirely on drawing, during every class, because I just didn't have the energy to care about anything else.
That where your family is supposed to actually come in. A teacher cannot “care” about 30-100 students on any real level. One person just can’t. There’s 21 kids in my son’s 3rd grade. I don’t expect his teacher to be involved with him or care about him. She doesn’t have time. The average person just can’t juggle the emotions and personalities of that many people.
That's not including the hundreds, if not thousands of dollars spent going towards the sports teams, particularly football here in Texas, that could be spent on literally anything of importance
I think team sports bear importance in the fact that they are arguably the most accurate representation of an actual modern work environment in most comprehensive school systems when it comes to teamwork and flexibility. They don't need all the ridiculous funding put behind them, certainly. What should be done is a diversification of funding to allow more programs that encourage co-operation and teamwork, including sports, as well as individual growth and mastery, which can and will also include sports for many children. There's no need to turn your nose up at it because it isn't personally your thing and pretend it's not 'of importance', when in truth it represents the model for what all children deserve in terms of extra-curricular activities that's been excessively applied to a small sub-set of students.
@@Rmuda agreed; parental background and peer social comparisons play a significant role as well. I was the one kid obsessed with getting the highest grades, the best scores, and chasing success all the damn time at the expense of building anything worthwhile or useful that I could’ve used in life. Was always trying to do whatever it would take to get into the Ivy League tier school, and it’s taken the pandemic for me to really sit back and just process the genuine disrespect/lack of funding that certain student groups in my school received in favor of the traditional Friday night lights football experience
same situation here in California. we still have chromebooks from 2013, our band is like top 5 in the state but fails to get enough funding for even a container for the equipment, but our football team receives free summer camp, new uniforms, and a state of the art gym.
@@Rmuda yeah... Just one thing though: it's proven that playing American Football which induces a lot of micro-impacts in quick succession to the head and shoulder region over multiple years will permanently damage your brain to the point where it looks comparably to an Alzheimer patient at the age of 35, which can cause serious problems for your thinking skills, motor control or memory and can even lead to depression and suicidal tendencies. The American Sports Association (I don't know if it's the correct term, I'm not from the US) knows that, however they still allow schools to practice that sport religiously all throughout the country and willfully let the most vulnerable people - children with developing brains - engage in an activity that _will_ hurt them later on down the line. These children simply can't yet comprehend what they're doing to their brains, they're not qualified to make that decision that early on in life, when all immediate effects they see is the glamour of being "on the team" and celebrated by the entire town. So, yes, while sports is important and every school should have a sports program (especially in a country where 40% of the population is obese these days), they shouldn't allow such behaviour to go on and sometimes even be the most well-funded group on campus. Here in Germany, the only people who really care for school team sports events are the children themselves, their parents and - depending on the size of the town - the local newspaper who has to fill the sports section somehow. For us it is really strange to see how the behaviour we only see in American sports dramas is what really happens there, with cheerleading and half-time shows and how insanely invested people are in kids playing a game. I mean, it's kinda great, but we also see how it fostered a complete disregard for the safety and well being of children for the sole sake of some 15min of fame, sometimes pushed by the parents and not the even the kids themselves. So, long story short, it's like everything in the US. Yes, it is benificial under certain circumstances, but the way you guys are doing it, it just got out of hand completely.
I live in a country where nobody is asking schools to learn taxes because the government makes tax apps that let you file your taxes for the year in less than 30 minutes. Almost everything is already filled out, they tell you where you can check the information yourself and everybody with even mediocre reading skills should be able to do it.
I think the teaching methods is part of the problem. I live in Finland and for a while we had a teacher from the US in my school, but she was fired shortly after due to "questionable teaching methods".
The real reason schools are a failure (especially high schools and colleges) is the fact that you learn nothing of importance. You are taught to memorize facts and take test on those facts to see if you are paying attention. In reality kids and younger adults should be learning skills that they can use for a lifetime (cooking, finances, acceptance of others, negotiating skills, conversational skills so on). The only thing I remember about being in high school was how much I wanted to be out of it and also having been in both the public and private schooling there isn't much difference besides cost. I was picked on in both institutions and its worse when your at a private school believing that people there have higher morals. Stop with the babysitting of kids and information that is not relevant to life; teach them valuable skills so they can actually become well versed adults who can think for themselves and can talk their problems out.
The problem we have is that older generations believe that all those life skills should be taught by the child's parents. Well how do parents do that when nowadays most people can't support a household on a single income? Meaning both parents are working outside the home most of time, thus relying on public or private educational facilities to raise their children basically. Then think of the children who don't have stable, healthy, or caring parents. Those children start out disadvantaged and have to spend their 20s trying to catch up. This is a sick society.
@@perezismaray "Then think of the children who don't have stable, healthy, or caring parents. Those children start out disadvantaged and have to spend their 20s trying to catch up." Literally me right now in my early 20s... trying to catch up...
@@subject8776 I speak from experience. We are not the only ones. I'm in my late 20s now and finally having some semblance of normalcy and stability. Hang in there and keep working toward your goals 💙
Imagine living in a socialist country and thinking democratic countries' schools are the ones requiring unquestioned obedience. It is like learning how to speak from an animal.
😄 Hello. I am a retired teacher in England 🏴. I have learned much about the education system in Finland and find it very impressive. You allow your students a great deal of freedom in the managing of learning. You also require your teachers to be educated at Masters level throughout the system. Bring both together and the results are very good indeed. In particular, your students describe being very happy at school as they learn in an enjoyable and effective manner. There is no reason why this scheme cannot be applied elsewhere, other than political ideology.
I was homeschooled. I have mixed feelings since I was very, very isolated and I did come from a religious family. Despite that, I was able to cultivate my creativity and because I was alone with my thoughts, I could reflect on myself and I’m self critical, but in the good sense. It’s honestly shocking to me how many people aren’t self aware or have any empathy. I honestly feel like it’s because our society is built around always being distracted.
Sounds like you were fortunate. Isolation is exactly what most children need in these modern days. Social assimilation in childhood is overrated, especially if there are a slew of negative influences.
@@cliftonharmon2403 I’m sorry but you have no idea what you’re talking about and it shows. My life as an adult is very hard because of this. You can’t know what that’s like since you obviously didn’t experience it.
Yea that sucks especially the isolation like when COVID 19 started.I couldn't get used to the isolation either because I wasn't really taught how to study and the homework was overwhelming. I lost my math and writing skills due to COVID 19 that in my homeschooling college so far it's been torture that I have to go to library for the entire day (1pm to 6pm)in order to focus on getting the work done, to actually learn something,and catching up to make up for the failure of COVID 19
Absolutely! I love individual EXPRESSION! but individualism as a foundation for economic and cultural policies is disastrous. We will either thrive, or fail, as a species together, never individually
“Gone are the days when people understood that Jesus was a brown communist from the Middle East. Who railed against the rich, preached inclusion, decency, and the value of living humbly.”
My friend just bought a house, he's only 24, because he comes from a not well off family he was not prepared for all the nuances. This is an example of something they should be teaching in school.
In Massachusetts they don't want homeowners to figure out anything or fix anything. They just want you to pay out the ass to have a licensed trade to come in and take advantage of a homeowner and so called fix the issue. I have a lot of experience with this. I taught myself (over 20 years of owning my house) how to do framing, electrical, plumbing and more. I know how things work and where things are located but whenever I had to called in a so called professional (because my city said I had to) I noticed they make up problems out of thin air and don't know how to actually fix things. They are programmed to go to the path of least resistance, so they don't think things out and they just throw things in with the least effort possible (half-ass). Then on top of this they pad the bill with crazy hours that they weren't even working and product prices rounded way up (which sometimes are new tools that they wanted but didn't want to pay for out of their own pocket and didn't even need for the job). To bad most Americans don't notice this and are just taught to be compliant and not to ask questions, just blindly pay and don't cry about the burden of debt you're in and just find a way to make it work.
@@randyrobineau2699 in mass you only need a licensed contractor on a commercial building or a residential of three units or more ....single family home you can do whatever you want...just need to pull permit and get inspected...
@@workingshlub8861 I always pull permits and always ask for inspections (through email only because the commissioner asked me to not call or come into city hall anymore). I pulled my electrical permit myself but that meant nothing because not only do they say I can't do any of the work they also refuse to allow me to ask for an inspection. They say that only a licensed electrician can call in and request inspections. So, I did just that and because the electrician was so busy he asked if it was alright for the homeowner who pulled the permit could do the rough-in inspection walk through. The city said "no" and because it wasn't allowed the inspection didn't end up happening untill weeks later. I know all this sounds like I must of done something to be treated like this. But I swear I've only been open and polite to all the city officials. The only thing that I know of so far about all this is they didn't like that I did all this construction while living in the house. We always kept a finished bedroom, bathroom and kitchen while going through the construction. They told me that none of the matters when doing construction on a house and if they wanted they could fine use for squatting. They told my wife and me that we needed to move out of the house immediately and if we were caught living in it they will treat us as squatters. We complied with everything they asked and i have been attempting to work with them so I can complete and move back in. But it's not looking good for me knowing that my permit time is almost dried up.
Good point. In my family, my parents taught me about finances as I was growing up, and I did the same for my daughter, because you sure won't get it in school. When she was in high school, she was nonplussed at the ignorance of some of her peers about the most basic personal money concepts.
Same story here in France .. they say a master degree today from public university is equivalent to a baccalauréat (high school graduation) from 40 years ago
Hey friends! I hope you all enjoy this week's video. Not sure what's going on with the comments section. It keeps getting disabled, despite me using the same upload default (all comments allowed) as always. TH-cam up to their usual nonsense 😒 Anyway, if you're looking for ways to help support the channel, please consider checking out CuriosityStream! It's a great streaming service and you'll also get free access to Nebula.
If it only happened on this video, then it’s probably because it’s about kids and theres too much stock footage of kids in it, but if you were able to turn them on I’m pretty sure TH-cam automatically turns off your comments section because the whole anti-capitalism thing.
Lol, you were so on point with this one that TH-cam themselves got triggered and shut down the comments lmao. ( but seriously, amazing job on this video. I’ve been trying to start researching the issues with the school system and how to improve on them, and this is a great start. )
Whenever Second thought has a new video there’s going to be some deep topics covered
Thank you for the enlightening! The Home Economics statement hit home with a number of us. You’re right about not being prepared for the real world.
#JunoAlex, America’s Private and Public Eduction are [both] much worse than in other countries.
Conservitards have ruined this country....
What people also need to realize: Parents are the first educators for their children. But with how wages haven't kept up with inflation, some parents have to work 2 jobs just to keep the roof over their heads. They're exhausted and expect an education system to do all the teaching and in some cases, discipline.
Exactly why I’m afraid of being a parent, because I don’t think I’ll ever be a good teacher
Yes. Working in an after-school tutoring program a long time ago, I learned that many kids cannot learn without help from their parents at home, no matter how good the teacher is.
Not to mention orphans, the foster care system, abusive parents, addicted parents, incarcerated parents, etc.
Well Said. 👍
Yeah most do. We used to have free daycare or at least family/grandparents, but we are isolated and overworked now. Ideal would be part time stay at home parent or trusted community schooling
I hated school, got good grades, liked my friends, but it was so brain-numbing. I learned how to fall asleep at a desk and my drawing skills were pretty good because I literally drew on everything- all my tests, hw, etc. If you're not an excelled learner, you fall behind, if you excel, you'll be bored, there's really no winning.
Agreed.
Im an excelled learner but im so bored that i cba to excel anymore. Some1 help
Same here I literally was drawing everytime I was bored
My husband has adhd, he fell asleep in almost every class cause he was a night owl and a gamer, however he hated homework but had a B average in high school, and he does love learning so he got good grades even by falling asleep in class and skipping homework, this is proof that no one learns the same way
@@antonyandrewson5803 Learn to do what you want, money is irrelevant when your happiness is at sake. You need money to buy food, you need food to survive; don't ever go in debt without a necessity. Eat well, sleep 8 hours at least everyday. Don't impress society and only buy what you need. Make friends and accept anyone no matter your beliefs. Just be a good person and good people will be there with you. School has always been both a waste of time and necessary to learn; find the line and play around with it. Life is about enjoyment and survival. Don't focus on your financial rewards but do not be upset with making money. There are always people who need help and anyone is more than capable of helping, no matter how unprepared you feel. Be a good person... and troll the haves as a have-not 🙂
Public school only taught me how to do the bare minimum to scrape by and showed me that I have a great disdain for authority.
Why not. That's exactly how public school teachers behave.
public school made me fear authority lol
It only taught me that titles mean nothing
@@j.c.2240 Public school taught me, that it doesn't matter how you succeed - only success itself matters. And that your only mistake would be getting caught.
Good, I mean look at what and who the authority is, if you didnt have a disdain something would be wrong.
One of the underlying problems that keeps American education from changing, is lack of comprehension or understanding by parents. Parents have been conditioned by culture, and pushed by economic forces, to look at public school as free child care. The most important thing it does for them isn't prepare their children for the future - rather its real value is getting the kids out of their hair, or watching them while the parents work.
I've known several people who work in public education and the story is always the same. Too many parents just don't care as long as the school locks their kid up for 8 hours a day. Because parents don't care about the school, they are uninvolved in local politics. They don't even know who is on their school boards. They won't back people who want to increase funding for schools and reform policies.
"All politics is local" is never truer than with public education. For all the top-down forces poisoning the well, parents themselves deserve a significant chunk of the blame.
Thank you as a current substitute teacher looking for full time teaching this is a point I've been making for years. A lot of parents dont care about their kids education and when something doesn't go their way they often blame the teachers. Parents have a responsibility to work with their school and make sure that what they are teaching and reinforcing at home is at the same level as the school. Sure a school and a parent won't agree on everything but the stark diffs I see in students who have parents who care and are active in their children's education compared to parents who either don't care or are actively telling their kids things that go against a school is baffling. I've been blamed multiple times for things I felt the parent was just against me on or for things I felt were out of my control but of course a school doesn't want to incur the wrath of the parents so they put all the blame on us teachers.
Sometimes I do think there can be a lack of understanding on the part of teachers too. I grew up poor and I feel like a lot of middle class people don't understand how different their lives are and they make up the marjory of teachers and parent organizers in my experience.
I considered my teachers rich people when I was younger because they had way more money and no noticable understanding of class. Things like a teacher telling the class we should be grateful we can all afford to eat breakfast. Didn't even consider that there might be a student dealing with food insecurity. If they knew I was dealing with food insecurity, their solution wouldn't be some charitable fundraiser either, it would be calling CPS. They called them on me because I had bad grades and my teacher decided "the problem is at home". They also called the cops one day to meet us driving home from lunch. It was all unfounded. That's not even mentioning my only parent would work up to 70+ hours a week doing manual labor + at one point dealing with cancer, while making the time for multiple hour long meetings almost every other week where the blame was solely placed on him. By people who I know enjoy a much better quality of life, but don't have enough self awareness to realize it. If they do realize it then they usually think you deserve to be poor bc we live in "meritocracy".
The education system is still a place that upholds white supremacy, classism, etc. and looks out for it's own. I'm white so you can imagine these situations are only worse for people who aren't, especially when it comes to CPS and police involvement. But still, the blame is put on us when we don't engage with systems and organizations that usually hostile to spesific groups of people. We're just supposed to tough it out for the greater good I guess.
That's not even half of what happened during my time in school, I'm just hoping that someone considers a perspective that's often overlooked by people within the system.
Judging by the useless stuff they teach, plus a biased view of history (wasn't until high school that my american history teacher gave us an unvarnished version, teaching directly, not from a book), it's the goal for sure to just keep us away until 18.
@@jazzycat1 my mother seemed to be concerned for my education...until i turned 18 and she wanted to kick me to the curb
@@sprockkets as a Mexican I didn’t know that usa school system had so many flaws like Mexico school system.
"Students forgetting everything they crammed into their heads immediatelly after taking a test"
Gee man didn't need to call me out like that
Its not just you
Its all of us
They surely didn’t do any secret indoctrination at my school-Robert E. Lee high school-in West Texas. On second thought, maybe the whole school itself was an indoctrination. They had me playing “Dixie” on the trumpet every time our Rebels football team scored, as men dressed in white ran across the field waving a large Confederate flag. I can still hear that song now-“Look away, look away... Dixie Land!” (I wonder what that means?).
I forget a lot of things I learn after a regular class lesson.
I remember a little bit of the Spanish we were forced to take... not enough to be fluent though
in school, you learn to test, not learn to learn.
I’m a high school science teacher in upstate New York. During grad school, we were taught how to use active learning techniques to create engaging and relevant lessons. The reality is that if you don’t teach to the test, it negatively impacts your evaluation. If the students don’t pass the right tests, they can’t graduate. This means that a bunch of test writers, who have likely never taught, decide what is important for students to learn.
exactly, the curriculum is the problem
But what is written on those tests has a basis in G, ie fluid intelligence, its a very sterile method but one that has results.
Old educational truism - assessment drives the curriculum.
High School -> Wake up - Go to classes - Go home - Do homework/projects - Repeat
College -> Same thing only that you have to payout year to year.
The curriculum and learning method have gone untouched for decades that it's almost not worth it anymore.
Really? I graduate this year I plan on going to community college but idk. I literally dread school at this point
@@TheLightShines Nah the good thing about college is that you can make it into almost anything you want. Take the time to really look over your school's catalog, and understand what your goals are and what the requirements are for them. If you get a little bit creative with it, you can have a great time in college. For me, it was way better than HS.
I think you did college wrong.
Public Education is an illegal but totally necessary Monopoly. A country full of critical thinkers isn't good for national defense unfortunately.
@@vincegonzalez2171 Yeah, they didn't take enough Shrooms to actually enjoy it.
It's amazing how going to school can end up ruining your life. Perhaps the worst realization we have is not knowing how excellent we could have been; how we could have reached our maximum potential at a much younger age if school and college weren't there to spoil it.
I agree 100%
Correction: We like to pride ourselves at CLAIMING we are the best at things.
"We" because online Americans speak English and use TH-cam 😅
@@Tom-vt4pw well, yeah. That too
exactly
I am the best president
@@icebreaker9995 Get out, Abe. 😝
“...gone are the days when people understood Jesus to be a brown communist from the Middle East, who railed against the rich and preached inclusion, decency and the value of living humbly...” was my favorite part. 🙌🏾💯
Jesus was a brown commie.. that fact really leaves a lot of conservatives triggered af..
Lol. The irony
It's not right to place a worldly label on our Savior.
@@sammyg.8532 😅
@@sammyg.8532 isn’t “savior” a worldly label?
When I can proudly say TH-cam has taught me more then all my years of school, you know something's wrong.
Trueeeee
Schools are only good for the diploma/credentials. You don’t learn critical thinking cause they don’t want you to think outside the box.
@@dennisp8520 yes but after that, teachers will being forced to teach useless things instead of sparking curiosity to students and this leads them to loosing interest
So trueeee
Same from Canada 🇨🇦
Meeting Americans goes one of two ways: Either they're really well educated but they're waaay too confident, OR stunned by how under-educated they are. The extremes are shocking.
OR, they know they’re under-educated and have no confidence
As an American I can say I found awareness of our poor care for citizens when I dropped religion. I'm sad all the time now.
☹️ As a part of the latter, this hurts for how true it is. I dropped out in my *second* year of 9th grade. Got my GED at 16, but never really had the opportunity to use it. ☹️
(Things are fine for me currently btw, I left the US the first chance I got. Married an Indian man & now live in India, lol. ❤ But I got extremely lucky. So many are still stuck in Appalachia where I'm from/the US. 😞 I hope everyone has the opportunity or luck to get out!)
I mean, if you surround the most educated people in the world with the least, overconfidence is basically inevitable.
It is, and this is coming from a native.
What wasn't mentioned was the time spent being indoctrinated with: "America is the best country in the world, you're so lucky to be born here".
I remember so many teachers telling me this but luckily I decided to step back and really look closely 😬
My problem is that the school system is that in history everything is presented in black and white. There are never shades of grey, it also focuses too much on a single nation rather than exploring other nations and their individual histories. We learn very little about Rome, Greece, Persia, China, and other ancient civilization which is the reason I think more and more people think people didn't build the pyramids, and it's getting worse. We know little of the great minds nor do we ever see a book they wrote. Worst yet we are usually taught that the little nation is always eaten by the bigger one a mentality that I believe carries over into our politics causing people who argue for things like this channel does seem impossible as the Big fish dictate what is passed and what is not so people don't even try. We learn little of the small nations who fought, kicked, and raged just to exist.
Whenever I critique America in anyway whatsoever a load of people just type this "America is the best" right at me.
As someone who isn't American it scares me how much propaganda and indoctrination is going on in your country.
@Roman Dodia Yeah cuz indoctrination is found in every country for their own agendas?? Does the US education teach you that George Washington was a slave owner who prided himself at that? You can't say yes definitely cuz literally everyone uses different curriculum to teach. See, it happens with most countries. What you're asking for as education is very rare, maybe countries like Germany are honest about their education but not every country is the same. Ironically the US is the worst example for this.(I literally can't point it out with the staggering amount of indoctrination in the education system)I can say as someone who studied in both countries too that the US education is absolutely dogshit. Maybe if you said like the rote memorization found in Indian education of maybe 20 years ago, atleast it would hold water. Not anymore though, the landscape is changing quickly. I mean you can see yourself at people who say "USA #1", when except for wealth, literally the entire country is not even comparable to other developed nations, how bad the indoctrination is.
All my Cousins in Canada own homes, theyre YEARS younger than me, no college degree and here in the US Im 30 still living at home. This country is a joke, its hollow and lifeless
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch
Essentially learn how to think, not what to think
This is @fire of learning
But when your education falls even with filling vessels, then you know you truly fucked up
If they want to me to learn
They're gonna have to inject straight into my brain
@@HelloOnepiece Any attempt to 'fill a vessel' necessarily fails at almost everything but obedience because children will automatically learn things from the world outside school.
I guess the "school feels like a prison" is a literal fact.
It is bascially student prison
And just like prison, it makes you worse
Not better
School is a prison indeed.
Schools also have violent individuals and gangs, just like prisons. Snitching is frowned upon, just like in prison.
It feels like a prison but far from it
Teachers feel that too.
I think my perspective on this might be interesting. I was a teacher in Idaho, the second worst state in the US for education. I worked for 5 months, unpaid, as a teacher before I was allowed to take the license test. Idaho has a high poverty rate and that requirement already knocked out most people who couldn't afford it. Then I worked full time in an elementary school. I was paid $11.25 an hour. The school librarian (a good friend of mine) made $9 an hour. I was working two jobs and I had almost 30 kids with no assistants. Admin told me to put up with it or quit. I loved my kids, with all my heart, but I was being taken advantage of and knew it, and knew that I would become a bad teacher if I stayed. These problems are why you likely had dismissive and unhelpful teachers growing up in the US, we were just stretched too thin. I left the field and now I can leave my work at work, not having it control every thought and decision I make. On that note, I'm gay, and my friends at the school district were scared for us to be seen at Pride because there was a good chance we would be fired if a parent saw us
I'm a teacher (trying to get out) the system sucks and I see a lot of comments from people putting the blame on their teachers. When the reality is that teachers are just as much fucked and hate the system and are constantly at odds with it.
That sounds so awfull, we cannot demand better clases until we pay our teachers what they deserve, but like everything in a capitalism business,teachers are just another lost of money,not the ones that will create the future of our country.
lol when was this a century ago? only qualification you need to be a teacher these days is claiming a letter in their cult.. theyre always looking for pawns to indoctrinate kids and brainwash them into thinking theyre another sex.
The system fails its students. I'm currently stuck in the middle of it. It's ridiculous how broken the system is and how it focuses on competition for memorization rather than cooperation for a greater understanding. Recently, I've noticed that teachers have begun to notice this and they've taken change into their own hands. I want to thank every teacher of mine who's fought the system to better teach their students for real life problems.
yeah those are the teacher that care ive been out of school for about 20 years now and i noticed that those teacher are rare and that tried to fight the system get put into put into place where they cant really do much like a math teacher i once had she was one of those the like to make class fun and didnt teach from the book but she got moved to being a librarian in the school
People are slowly starting to wake up in this country.
I’m one of the quicker students and I agree that the system sucks. Good teachers certainly help but the system needs to change. My friend in a computer genius and once in our computer class I got stuck on this problem and I noticed he was done. When I asked him for help he showed me both where I was going wrong and how to get out of it. After the teacher rewarded him for helping a classmate rather than just sitting at his table doing nothing. Some of my other teachers would’ve punished us both for talking
It replaces the natural childlike curiosity we have with the motivation of grades and eventual money .... it's so sad. And then there's the subtle condemnation of that curiosity that pervades the handling of things like questions and 'remedial' studies.....
Simple Fact : American schools have made students very very poor at basic world GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY etc. over the past century.
Honestly, seeking out books, TH-cam documentaries, and google scholar articles taught me more in 1 year (quarantine year sldfkjd) than my 12 years of public education
@MX 3 Yeah, I was also on the debate team in high school; that was a big part of my getting interested in economics and politics, but unfortunately, it has incredibly low funding, despite it's obvious value. I mean ... the actual event was full of pretentious white centrists, but the practice teaches valuable skills. The saddest thing was our high school football team having the money for 6 coaches and our music and theater departments and all their various events and classes being run by two guys and the occasional community volunteer...
pro tip is to look up course literature for a university course and reading up, if you can't get in for whatever reason. or if you want to focus on work.
90% of college is reading books anyway, so it's a good tip for those who don't have access but still have an interest.
Simple Fact : American schools have made students very very poor at basic world GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY etc. over the past century.
@MX 3 alot of people end up doing the jobs that require math and science. but I think what should be done is people who want to pursue those careers (professor, engineer, chemist, physicist,rocket engineer, doctor, virologist, genetist etc) should study them. By the way saying something is useless for everyone because you don't have a future in those fields is pretty biased.
They are what 14% Americans rely on to earn their livelihood.
@@sadpee7710 just spending a year working hard and studying the field that interests you by using things like Khan academy or some free books available on the internet can give you twice as much expertise on that subject than 4 years of college.
As someone who has struggled with ADHD for my entire life and had the privilege of attending a montessori school at a young age, It's hard for me to explain how much I appreciate seeing this. Transitioning from montessori elementary education to public middle school when my family moved was one of the toughest experiences of my life as a kid. Suddenly I was forced to be active and attentive at all times with no help from any of my classmates, who were all in the same boat and competing with me for grades and immediately fell drastically behind. I developed a massive inferiority complex about having to work twice as hard just to get by and I never really shook it. The kinds of questions I used to build entire chunks of my education around landed me in detention over and over again. Public school actively punishes you for thinking and doesn't accommodate anyone's learning styles.
Stay at home
I would hope that you would continue to spread the message that publicly funded one-size-fits-all education is a blight on the minds of our future generations.
This is exactly how I felt although I left montessori school at 5. I really like word problems because it helps me visualize how things work in real life. Which clearly relies on having a connection to how I can use it in real life. The question of "When would I use this in real life?" for some reason is apparently rude or something, and that ruined a lot of opportunities for me.
Get rid of school
They wanna make you forget
My kids were traumatized by public school when they were little.
1. Our oldest got a concussion and also needed a hernia surgery when he was 6 due to being hit by a ball too hard in his groin. That was just the beginning. School got worse for him.
2. Our second son has an annual delay and is on the autistic spectrum and in second grade, he told us he is stupid because everyone else gets their work done before him. (He is actually highly intelligent!)
3. Our daughter grew up in a rough group of peers. There were so many classroom disruptions, bullies, and trauma (desks, chairs, and scissors flying across the room, etc.) that by grade 3 she ended up making herself throw up so we would have no choice but to take her home when the school called. She still refuses to go to school to this day, 4 years later.
Needless to say, we school on-line at home.
I'm sorry about your kids
Don't people get sentenced to prison for doing bad things. Since when is being yet educated, bad? If being born without an education is such a crime, people need to do their kids a favor and either educate them BEFORE they are born or don't bother having getting them a "prison sentence".
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 yea I feel you an prison system is fucked up too smh our whole system needs to start over
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398It's not the lack of education that's the bad thing. It's the actions people without education do.
(Some examples that just came to mind: Crime, No using condom, Not caring enough, Not making the best decisions when raising their kids, Not being able to solve everyday problems with as much ease as someone with 2 years of schooling etc)
You can excel at home if you learn more about something you love.
That's the adult leading by example
I think you hit the nail on the head. The ruling class does not want a world filled with well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They want less educated peons to do the menial tasks that the corporations need to get goods to market. Also, the harder worked people are the less time they will have to question the system or their place in it much less do something about it.
That might have made some sense 200 years ago in 1821, but it's clearly a terrible plan now. We live in a world that's more high tech, where you need more quality education and critical thinking skills to fill the jobs of the present and future. If a society doesn't see that and realize the importance of a good education they will fall behind. Still wonder why China is moving up in the world?
Exactly what I was thinking!
It’s specifically the American education system which unfortunately failed you because the US is Not the world. There are like these whole other countries that exist that are Not the US and in many of these other countries, education is excellent.
@@Abitibidoug actually... that is how medieval/feudalist society was!
why do you think Shakespeare said the life was a stage, because that what it was, you born a farmer you die a farmer even if you had great ideas there was now way to be something else...
They are gonna go down in flames for their vanity. It will come to bite them in the ass.
American schools serve as "free" daycares as well. A lot of working parents can't afford care during traditional business hours, and schools pick up that slack
Yeah, that's a large part of the reason many schools were so stupidly reopened ... the sooner the kids were back in school, the sooner the corporations could make profit again....
Aside from this. Many American parents aren't educators. You can not teach what you don't know and not knowing how to teach can cause more harm than good in the long run.
@@nikolasslead6582 Orrr hear me out, the sooner families could actually stay afloat
@@nikolasslead6582 bad take, kids need to socialize for mental health
@@saturatedneowax They need to quarantine to keep themselves and their families alive.
I'm a high school teacher in Ontario. We are in the early days of fighting these kinds of attacks on education. And still people want to teach. Ontario public education scores in the top 10 of every international testing and yet, we are attacked, defunded, and have our resources given away in tax credits to the private system.
Most of the younger generation - atleast everyone I talked to - believe education to be very important. Better education means a smarter and more driven population, leads to innovation, advancement in technology, economic growth, a happier population etc. The more you invest into the general public the more you get back in return. This would mean people would be more knowledgeable on who to vote. It's crazy to me how little the government cares about education. As an ontario university student, I am shocked. It's gotten to the point where OSAP doesnt even cover the entire cost of enrolling for class. I had to pay money out of pocket. I dont know how much aid I'll get, so coming up with 100s of dollars to fill the gap is difficult.
"Students forgetting everything they crammed into their heads immediately after taking a test"
The worst part of that is when the teachers make you take a test at the end of the year of "all the things you learned that year" and you have to cram everything back into your brain and you forget it again by summer.
@@LewtableTo their defense, students don't really have any incentive to truly learn things. They are graded at one moment alone on some arbitrarily chosen subjects which are usually not visited again thereafter. So this method of not actually trying to learn but for one single occasion very much is the appropriate method.
It doesn't help that 90% of the stuff they teach is useless trash that serves no purpose in the real world. It also doesn't help that you are conditioned to repress the things you're actually interested in. Personally as someone who is more interested in history, politics and literature school was useless for me, I had to study those things on my own and even though I wanted a career in one of those fields I still had to go to school every day and waste my time learning useless garbage that I still cant remember four years later
@@TheDillidl > students don't really have any incentive to truly learn things.
They never do. The part that is seemed "fun enough", most of the times, is really basic. Like, "you can do homework in 5 minutes before the class" type of basic.
"No kids left behind" and "education must be fun" are the greatest banes on the quality of the education: with former, couple idiots slow down whole class. With later, you don't teach pupils patience and delayed gratification and you dumb shit down to the level of pop-science for it to even be fun in the first place, and it's cringy most of the times.
@@toddthegod2196 >90% of the stuff they teach is useless trash that serves no purpose in the real world.
To teach maths and physics that apply in the real world, teachers would have to cram fucking calculus and vector algebra into students. I, as CompSci student, had a TRIVIAL task in the exam of analytics geometry. (A Trivial real-life one, that is), and I utterly failed it because it required extensive knowledge of integration - something that I struggled with.
Also
>literature, history, and politics
With such choice the school really is a waste of time. You can learn how to take my order in Starbucks without all of that LMAO.
my midterms are tomorrow and im trying to relearn algebra
The irony of listening to this while I prepare lessons for my students is not lost on me. Very, very true. It’s so hard to work within the boundaries of school for even good teachers, it’s very messed up...
As the son of a middle school teacher, a particularly egregious practice in my opinion is making teachers purchase their own classroom supplies. Public school teachers already make so little money, taking a cut out of the income you're paying them in order for them to do their job is a whole other level of income inequality for a job the usually requires an expensive, high level of education meaning disgusting student loans.
And if you don't, your kids will fall behind all the other teacher's kids. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
As an Australian, I find that shocking and ridiculous!
@@dannash358 fuck socialism
@@andrealshalsh3269 fuck capitalism
@@andrealshalsh3269 yeee
Fun fact: my local high school is literally a former women's correctional facility.
It's probably the same thing now but for kids, schools are like a prison system
I live in Shanghai and my school used to be a Japanese concentration camp
Plot twist…. It still is!!
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Mine used to be a hospital.
"Home Economics and Basic first aid should be taught in school"
They were taught in my high school, we even got to pretend to invest in the stock market! All thanks to my awesome Principal.
Same here in Finland, except we googled companies stock prices and "bought" them using "3000€" of money days before Christmas break (I was in hospital so I didn't participate, and I was the most interested in stock market) and days before grade 9 ended, we checked the stock prices and looked what profits we "made"
I did this in middle school. But I do live in a high income area with a high property tax that funds our schools. Some teachers make 6 figures or are ex employees at some major tech companies. I also went to an experimental middle school.
We have Home Economics here but it's still trash 🗑️. Both the curriculum and the teachers' competency
schools teach people to become workers....not innovators or investors..no lessons in finance or how credit works or how the tax code REALLY works....
No offense but that is a clear example of white privilege I’m just gonna go out on a whim and say your school is not located in an “urban” area
I’m a high school math teacher and I am SO proud of my school because we will be offering “geometry in construction” which literally teaches students geometry by teaching them how to build a house. I am really hoping to see a lot more changes, especially in math, over the years.
that sounds awesome. is it a new thing?
@@sch4891 Relatively new, yeah, probably less than 10 years old. Definitely new to my district.
That would make learning it so much easier and interesting. Here, were just in a classroom all day. It's like that with every math class..
@@persephone9307 yeah, and with most math classes. That’s why math education is trying to change to a more discussion-based class, but it’s going to take some years to actually build up students’ math and productive discussion abilities to get to a good point for that.
This is how pepole actually learn
What do I remember from school? The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Yeah I’ve learned that since 7th grade.
I don't remember learning anything tbh.
And the classroom is the actual cell
And even that fact is not exactly right
2+2=4-1 that's quick math-oh wait.
My kid was put on an IEP in second grade because his handwriting and math skills weren't up to standards, he was slow to test, and would get distracted and was diagnosed with ADD. You know what he would do for fun at home? Calculus and Trig on Khan Academy in elementary and middle school, coding and history in high school. He's a very smart cookie but because he doesn't conform to the education system he was always left behind and now he's a second-year senior in high school who is short two classes- Health and History. It's been painful to watch and even more frustrating to be ignored as a parent too.
Same although I'm a student
I love computers anything about them is interesting and I also love all kinds of science and other stuff
But school is all about Urdu which I don't even understand after basic
(That's very embarrassing as it's my mother tongue)
And islamiat had to be in Urdu
and it's a choice between Urdu and English interms of books
Yet our ""English"" school chose Urdu
And guess which subjects are thought in the bare basics or not even at all
I don’t know if you’ll see this because you posted a long time ago. but I wonder if you would have any advice for elementary teachers? what do you wish your child’s teachers would have done better?
Here in finland the schooling is actually kinda fun and also effective and most important of all is its free until like the age of 20, but mentally and physically disabled are given free schooling for most of their lives.
Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall comes to mind when looking at current education systems. The U.S. and the rest of the world need to modernise education systems.
Why "the U.S. *and the rest of the world* "? Do you think we here in Europe are stupid enough to let our education systems go down the toilet, too? Speak only for yourself, please.
Well, i think Finland is all good. We have one of the best education system in the world. America is the one that needs to work on their education.
@@hape3862 here in the uk there is a lot wrong with our education system, but the uk is a mini America anyway
@@hape3862 While European countries as a whole are not as bad as the system in the USA there is still room for improvement.
@@hape3862 Why are you pretending Europe is a homogenous cluster of countries?! Not all of Europe has the syme type or level of quality between their educational systems.
School failed me. Not repremanding bullies, yelling at creativity, stepping out of line, or constructive arguements about topics not touched on during the class. Ive almost completely lost my creativity and will to stand out, this is completely because of middleschool and the beginning of highschool
School totally fails to teach life and social skills, and even relevant academic skills :/ I'm sorry ....
Try your best to find a group of like minded, good friends to be around. That will boost your self confidence, make you more happy and maybe give you the energy to look into topics you're actually interested in learning about.
I feel the same. I feel so empty on the inside
Now endure that since preschool. We rank high on both smarts and depression for a reason as a country(estonia)
I didn't fail school
School failed me
The pandemic has taught us that the most important function of public schools is free babysitting
That's against capatilism
It also taught us that half of American parents were willing to sacrifice the life of their kid to make a political statement, will scream about CRT but cannot begin to tell you what it is, and want to make sure only the WHITE history of the US is taught.
In America, yes
Wrong. Babysitting at taxpayers expense. Don't 'cha know there is not such thing as a free lunch? Hee Hee.
Don't even mention being in the actual school: getting up at times earlier than our parents, literally not talking all day, being fed food that makes people sick, and more
I moved from Jamaica to NYC and I got dumber. I am still a top student as I was in Jamaica but I have no challenges. They dont even teach grammar here, so I pass my English class with ease while the American raised students struggle with it if they don't have a natural gift
I was almost stunned when I learnt Americans cannot even write in cursive.
I immigrated as an adult here. Looking back, I noticed as well that my 13 year old average self can keep up with kids here that people consider "elite". I also hear people look down at my education because Im from a 3rd world country. 🤔
@@CyclingMartialartswithMusic same, they refuse to believe that since I am from a 3rd world country that my education system is actually better than the U.S. Some Americans need to learn that some of us are economic refugees, our education system isn't lacking, we just don't get job opportunities after
Over the years they have been teaching less and less content beside Math and certain ELA concepts in NY. Most schools are focused on teaching to the NYSESLAT. I learned learned how to write in script, tell time on an analog clock, and count money. I find that most of the children I see now are not proficient in these things.
@@satyakisil4289 That...isn't something that matters...
During one year on Khan Academy I learned more maths concepts than in 11 years in school (even though I had B+). And it was completely free. And doing this I significantly lifted up my English.
Oh yeah, definitely. I've been using it to supplement my education since like 5th grade, and my senior year I used it for my APUSH class because they gave us a textbook that was basically American exceptionalist propaganda and Khan Academy is just so much less biased.
Free market capitalists like Khan are working hard to chip away the one-size-fits-all public education standard.
That's amazing! I've used Khan Academy to get through my calculus classes. They were much better teachers than my university professors lol
@@josecipriano3048 the pretzel you are twisting is fearsome indeed. Nationalized education was never given a chance. How are public schools supposed to improve with parents shopping around for the best education for thier children that they can afford? Nothing can be certain, except that capitalists are always the problem.
@@justifiably_stupid4998 Why do you call it free?
As someone that is watching this during class, its sad to see that the system cares more about memorization then you actually learning life skills.
And even then, the system only cares about memorization in order to pass judgement. If a student hasn't memorized enough, it's not like they're given resources to help them commit more stuff to memory. Nah, they're just punished and then class moves on.
@@guy-sl3kr This was me, if I understood it the first time *click* it's there. If I didn't understand it we were onto the next thing. I'd miss that too trying to comprehend the first thing. You can see how it doesn't help when it's all regimented and standardized to an obsolete system.
That's the difference between public and private schools, private schools prioritize life skills over everything else.
I went to a private, Christian school. In 8th grade, everyone I was friends with in public school was planning their 8th grade class trip to Disneyland. Me and my classmates were prepping for two weeks of camping in the Sierra mountains. Private school has a different, and in my view, better, educational focus.
@@SuperSupersoda Private schools don't have an old educational standard and an opposition force trying to disenfranchise it
My freshman year of highschool (which I finished a few weeks ago) was so mind-numbing and boring. I almost became depressed again because the environment was so depressing and the work pointless. So much of my time in my classes was spent reviewing over and over again for tests that served no good purpose. My school's standards are so low, I was considered an "excellent student" because almost everything was easy for me and I almost always did well on my tests. I've been tempted to homeschool because I'm learning basically nothing. I likely won't, though, because I'd probably lose my social life.
UPDATE [3/19/23]:
I'm now homeschooled and taking CLEP courses to test out of some classes for college. I did in fact nearly take my own life in sophomore year because of the stress, and that is why I am now homeschooled. I have no friends anymore, but at least I don't want to die. Hopefully I'll make some friends in college. :/
😂
@@victorbaird8220 ??
You should go for it man. Take the leap of faith.
@@borombab4816 I did.
@@lars1588hey man, I know it can be hard, but you will get through your depression someday. Don't worry, it's okay :)
Heres a funny story and I think I'm not the only one.
I learn more about History (Wars, Events, Cultures, Countries) watching TH-cam History Videos and listening to Sabaton than in a classroom
Ahh, a person of culture I see
Same
Yup
I know little at all about my home country England before the 16th century from school. And they wonder why they say we have no culture here.
Imo, you'd be better off supplementing youtube with books rented from a library, way better than school
you wanna know something funny? I use this channel to send to my conservative family members, while being very careful about what videos' you post because socialism is still a very dirty word in my family. I am so glad I found this channel, because I used to be a conservative until I started watching three arrows. TH-cam algorithm did its thing and before you know it I was sent here. Proud leftist now. You're doing some good things here keep it up.
That’s so great to hear!
Dictatorship of the proletariat! All workers unite!✊✊🏻✊🏿
I do this with my friends! Its actually pretty interesting how many ppl will agree with a lot of socialist values/goals but if they heard the same explanation but with the word socialism involved people suddenly close up to it and get mad. These videos are very low key and perfect to send to others to kinda plant the idea in their heads without being explicit about it
Hell yeah, you got the good version of the radicalizing pipeline
Hell yeah three arrows.
Speaking of education I’ve converted a few friends and family members away from centrism using your videos. Thanks and wish you and your family the best!
I moved 15 years ago to Finland and I am been a teacher for most of that time. The solutions suggested in this video are all addressed with the Finnish education. Not everything is perfect here but education is free, equal and with quality.
Do they employ the cooperative model in Finland, as suggested in the video?
It’s not free.
School in Finland is totally FREE! I mean, I do pay taxes, but I don't pay for any school things.@@agricolaregs
I go to a small progressive school that doesn't have all the usual depressing shit, like we don't need to ask to go to the toilet etc. I love it
Asking to go to the toilet is truly the most evil of control. Seriously, is the kid supposed to shit or pee their pants if you say no? Just let them go to the bathroom instead of flexing your ego. And then the kid gets mocked for it, just cause the teacher wants to flex their immense authority.
Wish that were me... my high school had a system where you had to get back from the bathroom in 2 minutes or you got a 'strike' and you were given lunch detention after 3 strikes...... It was hellish.
@@nikolasslead6582 Schools expect a kid to crap in two minutes? These schools are ridiculous
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI when teacher say you have three minutes to use the restroom and only like 3 bathroom passes for the semester
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI Yeah .... and the bathrooms were a floor away from most classes.
My middle/high school (they were the same) had no idea how to deal with neuroatypical people. In 7th grade, I made an attempt on my life, and made the mistake of thinking that the school counselor would help me cope with my feelings. Instead, a police officer was called. She handcuffed me, put me in a cop car, and took me to a mental hospital where I was involuntarily hospitalized for nine days. They did it again when I was in 9th grade. I'm almost graduated out of college, and I'm still trying to cope with the trauma that these events gave me. Our 'education system' is just a pipeline to mental illness and prison-- I am convinced that if I was Black, that police officer would have had an entirely different reaction to my distress.
My school put me in a lot of 'counselling programs' in elementary school, which basically meant being isolated from my friends for hours a day, and while nothing that extreme happened to me, the school systems why of dealing with neurodivergent children is god awful.
These experiences is why I'm afraid to reach out, even though I desperately need it..
That's not "no idea". Thats them not caring.
And mental hospitals are expensive... I still have the guilt how much my parents have to pay, ever since that I’m afraid to ask help
Watching these kind of videos make me so grateful for having my childhood in Finland!
Moi
Lucky you 😭
Same
Lucky.
İf you Want to be more happy you can watch turkey educution system
I'm in the UK and my gf is in the US and the difference between our schooling is insane. My school was not focused on academics, it was for people with minor learning difficulties with no huge focus on acadmic brilliance, and we definitely did not spend every waking hour doing work. They did however at my gf's school, she said she regularly got 6-7 hours of homework and started school at 7:30 am. I just finished my first 3 years at Oxford studying maths with a high 2:1, and she has anxiety from her school experience, a very different attitude to problem solving, and doesn't even have a huge breadth of knowledge to show for it (she's very clever as well, one of the top chemists at her uni, so it's not like she's stupid)
It's like US schools are INTIMIDATED by intelligent students and work to CRUSH their spirits. Individualism and curiosity are also discouraged. Shame.
yup US schooling in a nut shell, no actually learning, but loads of trauma
Im in the US and never did 6-7 hours of homework. That's not representative of "the US." She either went to a very unusual school, or she was just extremely slow at doing homework. If she's at a university now, then she's at an age where there was actually a shift away from assigning any homework, during the years she went to school. What she's describing isn't normal.
No it is normal i have 8 hours pf school not included extra activities @Preservestlandry
@@KaylaMorgan-vm4pkthat’s a normal school day but outside of school doing 8 hours worth of homework is unrealistic and crazy for most people
Only the OGs remember when the comment section was turned off on this video.
Haha still love your videos as they inspired me to start my own channel on social and political issues!
Wait really? Why
Yes
Yeah not sure why that happened. This one was scheduled like all the others 🤔
yeah
@@SecondThought well at least they are on now lol! I was worried you had switched to being one of those political channels that turns the comments off haha
YESSSS DUDE I plan on becoming a teacher, and I love this channel and educational politics. I have NEVER been so excited for a Second Thought video!
Nice! You’re doing a great service!
@@SecondThought didn’t expect a response! Thanks for so many great inspirational and educational videos. I’ve educated my conservative friends with them and they seem to work!
May have missed it, but i think he failed to mention how the private schools can, in certain loopholes, declare better results than they actually accomplished. Thus, they are purposely driving it this way. No stupidity, just malice.
Dude just know that if u become a teacher thay might force u to be like all the teachers but I wish u good luck anyway
That's nice! Though, if you wanto be a teacher, please try to be careful with non-evidence-based claims about education, as there are a lot even within progressive circles, sadly
School, especially public school, in the U.S. SUCKS. I graduated from high school in the U.S. a bit over a year ago and let me tell you, that left me with mental scars so obvious I feel like Zuko. I started out loving school. For all of Elementary school I felt happy and smart. Once I got to middle school, everything changed. More... EVERYTHING. More students, teachers, things to learn, tests to take, assignments to do, homework to complete, academic and social pressure, stress, sleep deprivation, mental health struggles, and more advanced and confusing lessons. It was too much all at once and where I was once proud and one of the smartest students in my classes, my grades plummeted with my self esteem. I couldn't keep up anymore. Turns out I had (and have) undiagnosed ADHD and autism which the school system never cot (can't remember how to spell it, English spelling is confusing). I had to figure it out all on my own and suffer through all of my school years with no help or accommodations, feeling like a burden and a pathetic failure. Really it was the school system that failed me, and so many others. So many useless classes forcing information down our throats that we will never use after graduation. Insane amounts of homework, stupid end of year tests, the attempted step-by-step squashing of individuality, creativity, and independent thinking. Zero tolerance bullying policies that punish the victims. Sexist school dress codes. Biases towards teaching Christian and republican beliefs rather than plain facts. Getting mad at students for being tired or falling asleep in class even though the school is the reason they are tired because they made them get up so early even though many studies have shown that teenagers naturally have circadian rhythms that are shifted later. Forcing teens to get up so early even makes it more dangerous and irresponsible to give them no choice but to drive to school. Being car centric is wrong in SO many ways. And so many other things. I graduated extremely burnt out, barely passing, depressed, anxious, traumatized, and with my identity and love for learning and curiosity barely intact. The school system needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt from scratch because THIS, is not working. No one should have to go through this cruel and unusual torture they call education. I only liked ONE of my high school classes, Financial Literature, because it was the only one that I felt like would actually be useful after I graduated. That class was the only reason I could get myself to go to school many days.
I didn’t walk across the stage when I graduated because I was so excited to leave and never go back the day I finished my final test back in 2017
you just describe 1984
George Orwell didnt just predict Totalitarianism but predicted the US School System being a literal idiotic power abusing system
"Knowing the answers will help you in school, but knowing how to question will help you in life."
-- Warren Berger
@Egg T why are you spamming the replies?
I'm currently studying to become a teacher and in our current course, there was a particular question that stood out to me. It asked:
"Would you rather your students graduate with a new set of TRUE beliefs, or a new set of JUSTIFIED beliefs?"
I personally chose "justified", because even if they're wrong, someone with rational or logical beliefs can be reasoned with, whereas someone who only believes whatever happens to be "true" will be stuck in their ways.
A lot of my classmates agreed and had similar ideas, so there's at least this small group of uni students that value critical thinking. I guess I just wanted to share that.
That's a great quote!
"Quoting someone doesn't make you smart, it makes you look stupid most of the time."
- Rest of the world
@@NaimHrustanovic I guess a true belief is good if you are some kind of creationist nut.
Something I really appreciate in this video is the way it handles religion. Identifying the corruption of Christianity by Conservative and Capitalist ideas, while comparing it to a more biblical look at Christianity and not just straight up condemning religion itself.
A lot of leftist content comes across more interested in just condemning religion, especially Christianity, rather than looking at it as another part of life that unfettered Capitalism tries to turn towards its own advantage.
"Communism and Christianity are one and the same religion, it seems."
I don't know how many leftists friends of mine I have trolled with this catchphrase.
@@aplanosgc6963 Honestly if more outspoken Christians supported socialist ideals and values I might be less inclined to bash their supposed religion.
@@filipwolffs Just look at most christians outside the US. I'm not even sure you'd recognize them in Latin America / Europe.
I hope we have more content with regards to Religion and Socialism, I'm still waiting on Hakim to release his video on how he can be a practicing muslim and a Marxist-Leninist at the same time.
@@Tinky1rs
Yes and no. I am from Europe, and though a significant part of Christians are so-called "leftists Christians" trying to stand by ideals of sharing with and helping others, the majority still are pro-life anti-gay conservatives (that is a bit of a caricature, but not so much).
But then you have to take in account the part of Christians that are not churchgoers, and would not even declare themselves Christians, but still have Christian heritage and values (I am one of those). And accounting for these, the share of leftists are far higher.
But there is still this tendance : the more left you are, the less Christian you want to be, because Christianity is still linked to conservatism, which seems insane to me, but it is what it is.
When a Bureaucrat or Businessman's feelings are more important, than actually getting results.
“Feelings”
I went back to college in my 40's...I finished my Bachelor's in history and a education Master's. I got 30k in debt, and sighed on to teach at an inner city school. So, my lesson plans were at least 30 hours a week, for 2 subjects. Then I spent hundreds of dollars for supplies, had weekly staff meetings, a lot of professional development. That doesn't include morning duty for bag searches, and x ray machines. Oh yes, grading papers (especially papers!). I was always working at home! Kids didn't care about standardized tests, administrators were putting kids in my Sociology, college lvl class, even though many kids weren't at that lvl. I left the next year, after we started remote learning... which again increased the workload! Sheesh!
You know, if everything wasn't controlled by some corporations, then MAYBE we'd all be living in a way better world
I hope so
@@EB-du3vh But they can't! Or else they'll miss out on that sweet sweet corporate lobbying
@@EB-du3vh Eh, good point. I should really be blaming these guys who take legal bribes
Corporations should die off. They do no good whatsoever.
@@EB-du3vh You saying that the problem is not the corporations, it's the government, is as if you said that the problem with the car accident that you just had was not because of the 12 beers you drank just before driving, it was because there was a forest "in your way"...
I can FEEL my class consciousness rising!
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That's because the breadpill is working
Lolol I hate this pun but I also love it 😂😂
Im becoming more based by the minute
@@atticuscb There is a pun somewhere? I can't see it :/
Albert Einstein once said, "If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, then it will live its entire life believing that its stupid."
Very few quotes attributed to Einstein were actually said by him. He certainly never said this.
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet"
-Albert Einstein
@@TheRenegade...@O C Then where did this quote come from? I would like to know.
@@TheRenegade... well Einstein did say this but likely heard it somewhere before him and is accidentally credited for it.
"Stop quoting me."
-Einstein
I love learning but school made me hate it, i miss being able to sit down and read through novels in a single setting or just open a book and be able to read without feeling so burnt out
i miss it lol :')
That's why I always said there's a difference between school and education
@@SportsFan-vq9kk Education transforms.
In our country we don't really have to ask permission to use the restroom, we just use hand signals to tell the teacher that we're going out because it's a courteous thing to do.
Which? (Sorry for being indiscrete)
In my country we do that as well. You make a "T" sign with your hands and go. May I ask which country you are from?
That is nice for the students and you are not being rude.
In my country that shit can get you sent home.
In my country you just tell the teacher you have to go. They can't really withhold permission.
When you were describing the similarities btw schools and prisons, I legit thought you were going for another similar institution: factories. Which, of course you got to later.
Factories come later in the video!
@@SecondThought haha, of course they do! Thanks for all the excellent food for thought!
fskdlfj same
Well, he kind of mention it, half way throught with the idea of obedient workers.
A few Indian guys on TH-cam helped me more than 11 years of school ever did.
honestly
@Akshay 18 the guys who build fuckin whole ass houses out of trees, dirt ect
Im curious what Indians and what was the subject about
@@shrek19yearsago78 Programming, if I were to take a wild guess. Many of the basic coding tutorials on TH-cam are done by Indian guys for some reason.
As someone who went to a Montessori elementary school as well as S.T.E.A.M Middle and highschools, I can 100% vouch for more open learning styles. Often found myself more well-adjusted when it comes to my College learning style in contrast to most of my peers. I found myself being a lot more competent at different fields of interest across the board. Because of the way that those schools teach I feel that my propensity for knowledge was expanded as a child making me find interest in the most niche of topics. Is a person who likes to help people I find that it's a lot easier to do that being raised in the system with a greater educational diversity.
Im glad Im not the only one who was somewhat happy in school. My high school was three schools in one (PCEP), and it is very lenient and has a lot more of the open learning styles you said
It's just a standard problem in America: there are big problems caused by privatization, but progress is slow, then it becomes a political issue and nothing gets done for 25 years due to political gridlock
The real problem is the traditional school enviornment, one to one education is proven to be the most effective form
@@beaus3911 But that is very expensive and there aren't enough teachers to do that in public schools. Not to mention that most one to one education is reserved for children with learning and/or violence disorders such as ADHD.
@@zjean3417 Go to the website and read about the results for yourself of how students perform in that school vs traditional schools
That school has the potential to revolutionize our education system when more people hear about the idea, the more in favor they are going to be as well
Imma simple socialist. I see a Second Thought video, I instantly click and thumbs it up.
I'm not even a socialist(at least not completely) and I do the same. At least the arguments made here are logical and based on facts. Sadly such basic foundations for arguments have become rarer and rarer as the years go by.
@@AsobiMedio
Don't worry, I used to be a social Democrat like you, but then I took a class consciousness to the brain 😉
All jokes aside, the more you learn about how 99% of our species' problems today can be traced back to capitalism, the more you realize that big changes are needed and one of the best ways is via socialism ✊🏼
@@TheAmericanAmerican Who said they are a social democrat lol
@@TheAmericanAmerican To me it simply isn't fast enough. Humanity, as it is now, is on the brink of catastrophe and the changes necessary to save us would take too long if we also tried to change our economic system at the same time.
Capitalism does have one advantage over socialism, and as a system, I think it's one of its few positives. It is very fast-acting. Give a government, even a benevolent one a blank cheque and they'd finish a major construction project in a few years. Give limited resources to a man with a profit motive and they'll do the same work in a few months, albeit at a lower quality due to cutting costs.
Not corporatism mind you, corporatism is a parasite causing the world to stagnate. Capitalism isn't sustainable, at least not while we remain a one-planet species, but it is much quicker than changing to socialism. A temporary evil to prevent catastrophe and buy us some time.
What I'm saying is that both systems have their uses, and a balance between the two needs to be struck for any serious progress to be made in the coming decades. Ideally, it would be socialism on a grand scale with capitalism on the local level. Preventing the consolidation of power by the few while still stimulating the economy for the many. So basically the opposite of what the U.S has now.
@@TheAmericanAmerican May I ask what you are referring to? Because it was the creation of property rights and factories that were major factors to the huge rise in technologic innovation since the 18th century.
This really recalled a lot of bad memories of my school days. My public education definitely was lacking. Thankfully, I was able to learn a great deal about science, one of my favorite subjects later in life.
My highschool did teach a class on using money in the real world like filing taxes and how to buy a car called quant lit. Problem was that no one gave a shit.
I think thats the unfortunate part. A teacher could really care and know a lot about a topic but you can't force a teenager to learn. You can't force them to be excited about the subject. Teachers try really hard (hopefully) but not all kids are going to take the bait. And that's true of teenagers in every country.
The problem is the traditional school environment, there are two schools where they teach one teacher to one student all of the time brightmont and fusion academy where the students feel so much better going to school and could give the U.S. the competitive edge it needs to outcompete and lead the world
It's just a big competition where you have your mental health ruined by grades, tests, etc.
I remember the first time I stumbled into a prageru video. I thought it was some kind of joke, like an onion article. It's truly horrifying to hear that some students actually watch them in class.
Yeah hearing that they're used as actual educational videos in school and not just some morons on YT jarred me.
Oh my god I remember I watched a PragerU video once and I almost believed it! However, this was going against everything I thought I knew so I needed to confirm things. I very quickly realized what PragerU was and I immediately distanced myself completely form those videos. I just wish other people would check their facts before they completely dedicate themselves to something
With prageru going around brainwashing people, it’s great that we have content creator like you, who actually address the problems honestly and provide possible solutions.
Thanks so much! I hope I can make some small difference.
Indeed. PragerU was founded by fracking brothers and so try to creat division between the working class. That’s why most of their videos demonize “the left” and thus solidarity in the working class is never made.
They should just play a second thought video right after the prageru video so they get both sides of the argument. I think students should be allowed to discover what they believe rather than being told. It would be just as big of a problem if our schools brainwashed children to be socialists. Schools shouldn’t teach political ideology and when it does it should teach it in a balanced way. Like when you cover capitalism in an economics course you should then teach socialism and then compare the two
@@a_human8489 brainwashing = lies. why would you show a video of the truth and then show a video of lies? i agree that two sides should be available, but conservative channels very often say things that are lies. it’s so harmful and creates so much division and hate
@@lenacoronado2172 good luck getting conservative governments to do anything about it. Compromise is how government works
My parents were debating moving to America when I was a child, we went on holiday there and knew a teacher so I got to spend a day in school.
Even at 11 years old the kids were waaaaaay behind in education. Even the best in class would have been rock bottom in a UK classroom.
"Profit motive is the bottom line.."
This hit me so hard..
Eventually weed motive will be the new bottom line. Rich people are just socially awkward losers with no character or confidence.
as a homeschooled kid I'd be hard-pressed to find a curriculum I've used that isn't subtitled "from a Christian perspective" so yeah, there are some issues
it's almost impossible
To a fellow homeschooler, and a Christian, the Christian ones just try to sell you into going to their college in some classes (I'm talking about you liberty University and abeka) lots of the time they also have many logic flaws like, "because the bible says so"
YES!
That's why I like to learn from the internet myself
Other kids in my class can barely type in English and even if they do they just type Urdu but with English letters
خ ش ق گ ٹ ڑ ظ ط ح غ ں
(should I even continue) are not even have equivalents in the English alphabet and all of them are unaware of the Urdu keyboard
(Also I'm the youngest one and I don't even get the awards And positions)
That's because the education system has just been super bare bones
We're in 6th grade and we haven't learned about WWII...
I can ramble forever about the things we haven't learned even in 6th grade yet I'm the one with bad marks
@@dr.syedmuhammadmanazer-ul-414 the internet has some good knowledge ti be found...in trivia. A lot of knowledge on the internet is just trivia, and while there's good places like khan academy to learn; supplements to a system are just that. The system needs to be good, and it isn't - which is why it fails you most likely. Just keep on trying man, that's what I'm doing and I just try to get through school as fast as possible to focus on everything else in my life.
- 8th grade Texan
@@yotokil2914
Yes I know that
But there's some non trivia stuff as well
But after a while even school is just trivia
I knew there was a reason my most unpleasant nightmares are often accompanied by the narrative of being back in school. I've actually been in jail and school is still one of my worst memories above even that. How messed up is that?
Far messed up then thou can think M’friend. Ya know how young lads are, they are forced to work everyday until the “weekend” comes, they are tightly controlled every day with very little breaks, they are even told “failure is good it’s apart of learning” and yet we are punished for it. Hel even they are governed by bells and when to eat.
There are a lot of things I've grown tired of over the course of my school life. The only classes that ever actually intrigued me were a few electives in high school, like Culinary class, the unfortunately sparse TV/Video Production, or Creative Writing. All of the things taught in the core classes left me completely emotionally exhausted when I was more interested in other things.
I'm sick of hearing about World War 2 when I want to learn more about various mythologies from around the world.
I'm sick of reading Shakespeare and other works from centuries ago when I want to read more of authors from genres I enjoy.
I'm sick of hearing about the inner workings of cells and atoms when I want to learn more about actual animals and species that have same-sex relationships.
I'm sick of complex math equations and "explaining my answers" or "showing my work" when the answer itself does not and SHOULD not require such a thing.
Sorry, folks like you will not help this country.
Which animals have same sex relationships I’m pretty sure there are only sexual reproduction male and female and a sexual reproduction one creature has both male and female body parts
@@joshwhite5730 That's the thing. Penguins, lions, albatrosses, walruses, swans, giraffes, koalas, even other primates all have shown many instances of same-sex relationships. There's even a species of lizard that's all-female and reproduces by a process that's more like cloning. And that's just to name a few.
Same, but I wanna learn about the world wars/old politics of the America's (or just old crappy politics so I can laugh at thier face), creative writing (bc Shakespeare's doodoo), and literally anything creative!
My highschool was literally designed and built by prison architects who had never built a school before, but one was the brother of someone on the board. In short: it was the worst building you could imagine. It was a punchline. No, actually you can't imagine it, no one could have done it on purpose.
What is it like?
@@persephone9307 what do you exact it to be like
My high school was literally built to be a prison then converted to a school. Everyone at Pelham knew the nickname "The Prison on the hill" lol
My highschool atrium looks like the Alcatraz cell house
We need a new amendment that bans certain things from the for profit motive. Like prisons, healthcare, education and medicine.
A new constitution altogether.
@@AfroAsiaticLanguages Yeah, the current one is too long and vaguely written, especially the first two amendments! The new one needs to give all demographic groups equal rights, forever, even in a national emergency! Everyone who can afford it pays income tax, even churches and rich people, without exception. Under freedom of speech, censorship should be limited to hate speech, false advertising, fraud, defamation, false alarms and terrorist threats. So, that leaves obscenity and blasphemy legal, with trigger warnings and a rating system, of course. Corporations would be legally groups, not "persons."
@@darlalathan6143 Guys.... who gest to decide what its ok to said and what doesn´t? Don´t treat freedom of speach so easy, yeah some ppl can use it for bad motives but then agains it also stops the goberment to silence u guys. Just ignore it. I'm from Perú and my friend from Venezuela who came here 3 years ago told me how their friends were silent for "false advertising or defamations , even terrorist threats" by the goverment. He doesnt know about him since them, ask any ppl from cuba or venezuela.
@@darlalathan6143 Limit the first amendment to stuff you don’t like?
This is why I’m happy even as a Democrat that Trump was elected. Not because he was a good president, good man, or even semi-competent...he wasn’t any of those things.
But because we have a right-leaning Supreme Court who will protect my freedom as I get older from your generation of authoritarian socialists.
@@ismaelapellido2666 We voters and the politicians we elect get to decide what is said. The average person cannot ignore sexual harassment, cyber-bullying, or shock jocks.
I spent a day in a German school and learned more in 20 min than in an American hour 40 block
Where in Germany because in the south Education is better
Care to elaborate? I would like to hear more about this
Please elaborate. Germany probably has something to teach this thread. How were the lessons in the German school structured?
I spent a year at an American school as a German and learnt absolutely nothing. They even had to put me up from 10th to 12th grade. Even English classes are harder in Germany. Tough the extracurricular activities in the US were kinda nice. We don’t really have these in Germany.
@@sophieblabla4888 Ja, Sophie: amerikanische Schulen sind sehr minderwertig.
Hey Latin isn’t entirely useless! It creates a better awareness of the interworkings of language, opens up a whole new world of literature, encourages perseverance (cuz Cicero is hard), and helps kids understand how translation works. My best high school class was Latin.
Hear, hear!
I agree with you. One comment that sure missed the mark in this video was the implication that Latin is regularly taught in our high schools. This creator's newspaper subscription must have expired in 1970. It hasn't been easy to find a Latin class for decades! My daughter went to a top-notch Catholic high school, and Latin was nowhere in the curriculum. That alone should tell you something. As a substitute, I sometimes mentioned Latin word roots to the kids, and they were fascinated.
Respect and much appreciation from Romania 🇷🇴❤️
Eyy we got Romania respect and much appreciation from south africa
@Alex G. Not sure you know this, but this guy is an ideological lunatic, who would rather die at the hands of Stalin in a gulag under torture, than live in, contribute to and be grateful for a modern prosperous society. I mean, he is still living in 1910s, clinging to Socialism to somehow finally succeed somewhere. For God's sake, man ...
@@AbdunK99 Forgive me for assuming, but if you're talking about America, your prosperous society is a joke of a nation that exploits it's citizens at every possible turn. Your prisons are motivated to actively fail at their jobs of rehabilitation and your education and healthcare systems are the butt of almost as many jokes as your politicians are. You are the laughing stock of the world, and your ignorance of that fact is genuinely saddening.
@@Chris-te6gc I love your description of America (precisely what I think). But I was talking about modern life in general. By the way, I am from Pakistan, but the wonders of modern technology are universal, so that should not be a factor.
@@AbdunK99 Apologoes, i assumed you were an american coming to blindly defend capitalism's flaws. Out of curiosity, who were you referring to in your first comment? I've seen no inclination about Second Thought being a lunatic, but it came off as you referring to them.
Im a teacher who works internationally. I have worked with a lot of American teachers. If they are any indication, part of the problem is your teachers are poorly trained too. Loved your point about a localised curriculum
I believe American teachers have focused on well care student training which how to make students happen instead of teaching tough stuffs. There is no way to make students happy and teach them a lot.
Well if you take the concept of this video and run it back a few generations it kinda makes sense.
One of my good friends became a full time Kindergarten teacher before she even graduated from college. Honestly, she's pretty great (I may be biased), but think about how many people aren't so great and yet get an opportunity like that. And as stated in the video, so much of it is because there's a huge demand for teachers (ya know since they barely get paid).
From a student's POV (I'm still a high school student), I think schools shouldn't be focusing on instilling disciplines or dictating what a child must learn. I, or rather, everyone learns better when they're passionate about something. I agree with your statement on different learning styles. Most classroom do not allow this. They all follow the exact same technique on different types of people. It's like painting multiple type of surface with one type of brush and one type of paint and expecting it to be beautiful. Of course, we can't meet everybody's need so why not make them the captain and schools become the navigator, giving guidance and help along the way. I often find that I learn better with autonomy anyways.
One subject I excel at, maths, is thanks due to no part in my autonomy. I have a passion for maths and science, and given maths is the easiest subject to experiment with (all you need is a pen, a piece of paper, and a bit of creativity), I achieved a lot in maths and I often retain information better because I truly understand the material. For the most part of our society, it's all about "fake it until you make it", except you rarely, rarely, rarely ever make it (like 1/inf chance). This is reflected in schools too. You don't need to understand everything, you have to understand *just* enough. It is what makes a mediocre worker, mediocre.
There is also the issue where schools force feed information to students instead of letting them learn naturally. If food were information, schools are shoving them down students' throats, which is dehumanizing and when you really think about it, unethical. The only way we're going to accept more knowledge is when you become curious about the subject and/or find a use for it in real life.
Another criticism that I have for most education system is that it is based on memorization. Although I believe some memorization is necessary, I don't think we should put too much weight on it. Instead, we should be focusing on creative and critical thinking, the foundation of modern society. If history has taught us anything, most revolutions are sparked by those who could think both creatively and critically, and in this day and age, I don't think rote memorization would be required within the next few decades.
My final criticism of the education system is that it often makes us conform instead of showing who we are. Sure there are some things that are socially unacceptable (i.e murdering, raping, using drugs that harm your health etc...), but I would draw the line at that. This, however, is not readily accepted into our caveman brains that if ooga-booga weird, ooga-booga not us. This in turn make us judge other people and you either become the victim or the bully. Instead of this, I think schools need to first and foremost teach kids to not judge out of fear or any other strong emotions, but to understand, learn and take action.
So this is my ideas on why school systems (for the most part) suck. Not only the U.S but countless other countries as well.
P.S I'm sorry if I made any grammatical/spelling errors as I am not a native speaker. (and yes, you may add more ideas to this if you wish. the more POVs, the better.
fianlly, about time someone would say it
Your English is written better than English of children born here. I’ve been questioning, especially since this pandemic began if I should just homeschool my kids. Instead of being aggravated they are home, I’ve actually found it less stressful and much more calmer having them home. They are elearning, but with me watching them, I’ve noticed some flaws with having the curriculum entirely on an iPad or chrome book. My little one was just pushing anything just to satisfy whatever question the app threw at him. No wonder my kids where struggling with reading. Those applications read everything to them. So where my older girls struggled, my little one didn’t because I nipped it early. Instead of working on a reading app, I pulled him aside and taught him old school style. And I have spoken about topics and subjects to my children and I enjoy getting in depth with the matter too. Thank you for your input and good luck in your studies. Like my dad told me when I was a little girl, always keep learning something new everyday. Don’t ever stop learning. That has always guided me with how one should live their life.
Unfortunately, that wouldnt work (and hasnt yet worked when tried). You see school from the perspective of someone who is motivated, passionate about learning, and enjoys being challenged. The simple fact of the matter is that those characteristics only compose a very small portion of the population, so things that work for you likely wont work for a majority of others
Learn STEM.
Science, Technology, Engineering or Math...These will ensure a high paying job. Thank me later.
My mother was a Montessori teacher for preschool-aged kids for around 30 years and I attended a Montessori school up to 2nd grade, myself. They're pretty much superior by every conceivable metric. When I had to transfer into a public school I just kept doing shit the way I did back in Montessori. I asked the teachers for all the reading and assignments at the beginning of the week or month and then just ignored all the lecturing and did the assignments during class time. Once I was finished I'd just read whatever the Hell I felt like that I brought with me. By the time I went to high school I just stopped showing up for most classes more than a few times a term to turn in assignments and ace the tests.
I think one thing I subconsciously learned in school is that no one cares about me or anything that interests me and I kinda phased out and stopped caring about everything as a result? There was a long period of time when all I wanted was to be left alone to focus on my interests.
I work at a school and I know what you are saying, because I've seen it within the kids and it breaks my heart.
Your entire comment is so accurately described.
i feel the exact same way, my interests are completely disregarded and even if they aren’t, i’m not given the guidance i need so i learn to hate what i enjoy
same thing happened to me. I love drawing, but im autistic and have a multitude of other mental illnesses. After a while of neglect in school, I just focused entirely on drawing, during every class, because I just didn't have the energy to care about anything else.
That where your family is supposed to actually come in. A teacher cannot “care” about 30-100 students on any real level. One person just can’t. There’s 21 kids in my son’s 3rd grade. I don’t expect his teacher to be involved with him or care about him. She doesn’t have time. The average person just can’t juggle the emotions and personalities of that many people.
That's not including the hundreds, if not thousands of dollars spent going towards the sports teams, particularly football here in Texas, that could be spent on literally anything of importance
I think team sports bear importance in the fact that they are arguably the most accurate representation of an actual modern work environment in most comprehensive school systems when it comes to teamwork and flexibility. They don't need all the ridiculous funding put behind them, certainly. What should be done is a diversification of funding to allow more programs that encourage co-operation and teamwork, including sports, as well as individual growth and mastery, which can and will also include sports for many children. There's no need to turn your nose up at it because it isn't personally your thing and pretend it's not 'of importance', when in truth it represents the model for what all children deserve in terms of extra-curricular activities that's been excessively applied to a small sub-set of students.
@@Rmuda agreed; parental background and peer social comparisons play a significant role as well. I was the one kid obsessed with getting the highest grades, the best scores, and chasing success all the damn time at the expense of building anything worthwhile or useful that I could’ve used in life. Was always trying to do whatever it would take to get into the Ivy League tier school, and it’s taken the pandemic for me to really sit back and just process the genuine disrespect/lack of funding that certain student groups in my school received in favor of the traditional Friday night lights football experience
Yup. Football's practically a second religion here.
same situation here in California. we still have chromebooks from 2013, our band is like top 5 in the state but fails to get enough funding for even a container for the equipment, but our football team receives free summer camp, new uniforms, and a state of the art gym.
@@Rmuda yeah... Just one thing though: it's proven that playing American Football which induces a lot of micro-impacts in quick succession to the head and shoulder region over multiple years will permanently damage your brain to the point where it looks comparably to an Alzheimer patient at the age of 35, which can cause serious problems for your thinking skills, motor control or memory and can even lead to depression and suicidal tendencies.
The American Sports Association (I don't know if it's the correct term, I'm not from the US) knows that, however they still allow schools to practice that sport religiously all throughout the country and willfully let the most vulnerable people - children with developing brains - engage in an activity that _will_ hurt them later on down the line. These children simply can't yet comprehend what they're doing to their brains, they're not qualified to make that decision that early on in life, when all immediate effects they see is the glamour of being "on the team" and celebrated by the entire town.
So, yes, while sports is important and every school should have a sports program (especially in a country where 40% of the population is obese these days), they shouldn't allow such behaviour to go on and sometimes even be the most well-funded group on campus. Here in Germany, the only people who really care for school team sports events are the children themselves, their parents and - depending on the size of the town - the local newspaper who has to fill the sports section somehow. For us it is really strange to see how the behaviour we only see in American sports dramas is what really happens there, with cheerleading and half-time shows and how insanely invested people are in kids playing a game. I mean, it's kinda great, but we also see how it fostered a complete disregard for the safety and well being of children for the sole sake of some 15min of fame, sometimes pushed by the parents and not the even the kids themselves.
So, long story short, it's like everything in the US. Yes, it is benificial under certain circumstances, but the way you guys are doing it, it just got out of hand completely.
I live in a country where nobody is asking schools to learn taxes because the government makes tax apps that let you file your taxes for the year in less than 30 minutes. Almost everything is already filled out, they tell you where you can check the information yourself and everybody with even mediocre reading skills should be able to do it.
which country
@@babington4394 Almost every other country in the world.
@@babington4394 the Netherlands? They have an app that pre lists your details…
I don't even know what "doing your taxes" means, it literally takes less than 5 minutes.
**grabbing luggage profously**
Where!? WHERE!!?
I think the teaching methods is part of the problem. I live in Finland and for a while we had a teacher from the US in my school, but she was fired shortly after due to "questionable teaching methods".
The real reason schools are a failure (especially high schools and colleges) is the fact that you learn nothing of importance. You are taught to memorize facts and take test on those facts to see if you are paying attention. In reality kids and younger adults should be learning skills that they can use for a lifetime (cooking, finances, acceptance of others, negotiating skills, conversational skills so on). The only thing I remember about being in high school was how much I wanted to be out of it and also having been in both the public and private schooling there isn't much difference besides cost. I was picked on in both institutions and its worse when your at a private school believing that people there have higher morals. Stop with the babysitting of kids and information that is not relevant to life; teach them valuable skills so they can actually become well versed adults who can think for themselves and can talk their problems out.
The problem we have is that older generations believe that all those life skills should be taught by the child's parents. Well how do parents do that when nowadays most people can't support a household on a single income? Meaning both parents are working outside the home most of time, thus relying on public or private educational facilities to raise their children basically. Then think of the children who don't have stable, healthy, or caring parents. Those children start out disadvantaged and have to spend their 20s trying to catch up. This is a sick society.
@@perezismaray "Then think of the children who don't have stable, healthy, or caring parents. Those children start out disadvantaged and have to spend their 20s trying to catch up."
Literally me right now in my early 20s... trying to catch up...
@@subject8776 I speak from experience. We are not the only ones. I'm in my late 20s now and finally having some semblance of normalcy and stability. Hang in there and keep working toward your goals 💙
@@subject8776 Same. A year away from 20s, but basically have no life skills whatsoever.
Ohhhhh this one‘s gonna be good
Hope you enjoy!
@@SecondThought Yup
I paused it and said the exact same thing
Imagine living in a socialist country and thinking democratic countries' schools are the ones requiring unquestioned obedience. It is like learning how to speak from an animal.
im from Finland and i actually love going to schools, elementaryschool, middleschool, highschool and higher education schools
Education should be something students enjoy! Hopefully the US will get there someday.
😄 Hello. I am a retired teacher in England 🏴. I have learned much about the education system in Finland and find it very impressive. You allow your students a great deal of freedom in the managing of learning. You also require your teachers to be educated at Masters level throughout the system. Bring both together and the results are very good indeed. In particular, your students describe being very happy at school as they learn in an enjoyable and effective manner. There is no reason why this scheme cannot be applied elsewhere, other than political ideology.
I was homeschooled. I have mixed feelings since I was very, very isolated and I did come from a religious family. Despite that, I was able to cultivate my creativity and because I was alone with my thoughts, I could reflect on myself and I’m self critical, but in the good sense. It’s honestly shocking to me how many people aren’t self aware or have any empathy. I honestly feel like it’s because our society is built around always being distracted.
Sounds like you were fortunate. Isolation is exactly what most children need in these modern days. Social assimilation in childhood is overrated, especially if there are a slew of negative influences.
@@cliftonharmon2403 I’m sorry but you have no idea what you’re talking about and it shows. My life as an adult is very hard because of this. You can’t know what that’s like since you obviously didn’t experience it.
Yea that sucks especially the isolation like when COVID 19 started.I couldn't get used to the isolation either because I wasn't really taught how to study and the homework was overwhelming. I lost my math and writing skills due to COVID 19 that in my homeschooling college so far it's been torture that I have to go to library for the entire day (1pm to 6pm)in order to focus on getting the work done, to actually learn something,and catching up to make up for the failure of COVID 19
Community, People, Growing off one another is the only solution to so many of our problems.
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Individualism is honestly terrible and not how most animals, including humans, have evolved to survive. Commenting for interactions :)
We NEED eachother whether we like it or not
This! We are a social species by nature.
Absolutely! I love individual EXPRESSION! but individualism as a foundation for economic and cultural policies is disastrous. We will either thrive, or fail, as a species together, never individually
You also hear about the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union and Communist China but never the US or Britain. How about a video on those subjects?
@@panzermaus664 100pc
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“Gone are the days when people understood that Jesus was a brown communist from the Middle East. Who railed against the rich, preached inclusion, decency, and the value of living humbly.”
that phrase will keep up most Americans up at night
In other words, the American educational system is working AS INTENDED.
Not only that, a lot of Americans can’t even find their country or state on an unmarked map
Bruh
I don’t think that’s true
I don't doubt that...
@Agwali cause a lot of the other countries got fucked.
@Agwali immigrants
My friend just bought a house, he's only 24, because he comes from a not well off family he was not prepared for all the nuances. This is an example of something they should be teaching in school.
In Massachusetts they don't want homeowners to figure out anything or fix anything. They just want you to pay out the ass to have a licensed trade to come in and take advantage of a homeowner and so called fix the issue. I have a lot of experience with this. I taught myself (over 20 years of owning my house) how to do framing, electrical, plumbing and more. I know how things work and where things are located but whenever I had to called in a so called professional (because my city said I had to) I noticed they make up problems out of thin air and don't know how to actually fix things. They are programmed to go to the path of least resistance, so they don't think things out and they just throw things in with the least effort possible (half-ass). Then on top of this they pad the bill with crazy hours that they weren't even working and product prices rounded way up (which sometimes are new tools that they wanted but didn't want to pay for out of their own pocket and didn't even need for the job). To bad most Americans don't notice this and are just taught to be compliant and not to ask questions, just blindly pay and don't cry about the burden of debt you're in and just find a way to make it work.
@@randyrobineau2699 in mass you only need a licensed contractor on a commercial building or a residential of three units or more ....single family home you can do whatever you want...just need to pull permit and get inspected...
@@workingshlub8861 I always pull permits and always ask for inspections (through email only because the commissioner asked me to not call or come into city hall anymore).
I pulled my electrical permit myself but that meant nothing because not only do they say I can't do any of the work they also refuse to allow me to ask for an inspection. They say that only a licensed electrician can call in and request inspections. So, I did just that and because the electrician was so busy he asked if it was alright for the homeowner who pulled the permit could do the rough-in inspection walk through. The city said "no" and because it wasn't allowed the inspection didn't end up happening untill weeks later.
I know all this sounds like I must of done something to be treated like this. But I swear I've only been open and polite to all the city officials. The only thing that I know of so far about all this is they didn't like that I did all this construction while living in the house. We always kept a finished bedroom, bathroom and kitchen while going through the construction. They told me that none of the matters when doing construction on a house and if they wanted they could fine use for squatting. They told my wife and me that we needed to move out of the house immediately and if we were caught living in it they will treat us as squatters. We complied with everything they asked and i have been attempting to work with them so I can complete and move back in. But it's not looking good for me knowing that my permit time is almost dried up.
Good point. In my family, my parents taught me about finances as I was growing up, and I did the same for my daughter, because you sure won't get it in school. When she was in high school, she was nonplussed at the ignorance of some of her peers about the most basic personal money concepts.
Same story here in France .. they say a master degree today from public university is equivalent to a baccalauréat (high school graduation) from 40 years ago
Kind of surprised they didn’t mention anything about the terrifying frequency of school shootings in the US…