How School Makes Kids Less Intelligent | Eddy Zhong | TEDxYouth@BeaconStreet
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- Published on Feb 5, 2015
- Eddy Zhong, successful technology entrepreneur, dives into the truth behind our K-12 education system. Eddy strongly believes that the education system diminishes creativity and confines children to a certain path towards success. He contends that kids are taught to believe college is a necessary step in life and that it is mandatory to achieve one's goals. His talk challenges the commonly held beliefs of our entire education structure. Eddy is the founder of Leangap, a summer program that helps high school students start their own companies
Eddy is an aspiring technology entrepreneur and the founder of Blanc, a smart-watch company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His ideas have been featured in numerous publications and he is passionate about empowering youth to think differently. Eddy is the founder of Leangap, a summer program that helps high school students start their own companies
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
"No-one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do." Powerful words, I live by that.
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Noice
@lyndon harmon sorry for this ... I literally laughed cuz this comment is in the wrong section.... PRAY PEACE FOR UKRAINE
"Do not invade Ukraine"
I used to write so well and elaborate descriptions were super easy, my pen flowed on paper like butter. But ever since my teacher screamed at me for exceeding the word limit in the exam I got so discouraged that I gave up on writing and now I can't even write a simple essay. School really does kill creativity. Don't let that happen to you.
You'll not believe me but this actually happened to me too. And I was in 5th grade. They did that to a 11 year old.
Happened to me back then it really pissed me off that’s why I hate school sometimes but back then I loved school because you know when your still in your lower school levels it’s fun since you’re still a kid but imagination and creativity is being destroyed by school Im not saying school is bad for you but sometimes not all are meant to be followed on the book you must know reality aswell.It’s true most parents always say”Study hard,go to college,get a diploma,graduate,and get a stable job or you won’t be successful in life”.Like I hated that it’s like you are being forced to not follow what you like it’s like that situation when a person say bad things about your opinions and judge you that’s why humanity has fallen.Always remember all of us have our own likes and dislikes remember to always respect someones personal perspectives and opinions because no one deserves being silenced.
I'm 15 and my creativity has been preserved but teachers have started "attacking me"
for example, my creative side is more about art interior designs, and I'm also into running(track and cross-country) gymnastics, graphic design, violin guitar, and piano.
My grades are not that good I'm a D, C student and sometimes get a
few B's
As a kid, I could not read until I got into 3rd grade. Could you really blame me if all the teachers did was complain when I talked to other kids in Spanish because I wanted to show I can speak two languages? And even though I could speak English and Spanish with no to few mistakes I was being forced into Spanish classes that were meant to teach English to children. My mom started to realize what the school was doing when she found I couldn't read. she moved me back to my other classes and started teaching me to read.
This became a struggle, but if it weren't for her I wouldn't be able to write this or read anything. But when I made it to high school I was excited sadly, too excited bc i thought high school would teach me everything I wanted to know. but it was the same all the electives were short-timed. I would describe it as a taste test of freedom.
and now at the age of 15, we recently had the parent-teacher conference which in my opinion the meaning of it is the Day when teachers say one good thing about a student then flood the parents with every bad scheme about a child. And every teacher we met specifically met up with each my other academic teacher to talk bad about me, and every meeting was the same they complimented my creative mind told me to stop being creative in thair classroom then called me Dyslexia.
@Boaz Burger That's so horrible :( Keep it please
Fact: We learn more on the internet, from travelling and meeting people than we have at school.
True
@Areee Ash thats why I dont study
Most Americans think traveling is going on a cruise or to Vegas. That is not going to make one understand other cultures...I could go on, but why? You won't understand unless you get out of your backyard for more than a week. Sad
With the fees rising we could in fact buy a house for ourselves with all of my school fees since kindergarten. 😂
I have discovered every single one of my hobbies that could become careers from the internet. none from school.
"these creative children have turned Into these Teenagers who are unwilling to think outside the box."
Im only 13 and i felt that in my soul.
Yes
Don't worry, you can change. You still have hope😊
Same
Same..
I’m the same age and you
This is extremely true. One example: My brother is amazing at art. He's super talented, but he keeps getting Cs and Ds in art because he doesn't do what hes told. He challenges the teachers. There are people in his class who jave absolutely no skill, but get higher grades because the do exactly what they are told and don't think outside the box. The teachers are literally trying in limit children creativity *in an art room*
this is why i never take art classes in college
We don't even have an art room in my school
@d R In all fairness, the greatest artists started out with imitation and repetition because that's how a skill set starts developing in the beginning. It's just that the best ones were able to 'run with it' rather than spending lots of time perfecting their imitation. They get what they need, and then start applying their own creativity.
That approach is especially bizarre in a subject like art, since art is all about challenging ideas and conceptions and innovating by thinking outside the box. The greatest artists all got where they did not by sterile, rote recreation but rather by incorporating and embellishing their own unique expression.
No because this happened to me. I used to love art, but now I don’t even have time to draw/be creative because of school.
“No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do”
words of wisdom
Indeed
True, but i feel i can’t do this idk why
@Javier i didn't understand what you said
If you wanna do something cool, exciting and new, just take the words of famous meme man Shia la beuf and JUST DO IT!
What parents expect from us during school:
Constant Straight A’s.
Good social life.
All that.
What they don’t expect:
Stress
Depression
Social Awkwardness
School just sucks. Having to determine all self worth on a high or low grade just makes you upset and then fear what happens as a consequence.
I hate how parents don’t understand that school can genuinely give a child depression, and mental health issues because they REFUSE to think like their child: they always say that we aren’t depressed, just faking it for attention.
I had a mental breakdown once, all I was asked was why did I cry. And that there had to be a reason.
A PERSON SHOULD NOT HAVE A DAMN REASON TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES, IT’S JUST BS.
@klontje_boter you don't have to be sorry
@jay r oligo yeah, sorry got it. I think
@klontje_boter that's pretty cool, I just get pressured in school and bullied
yo sure ma man. Understand your POV but not everything is true. For me school is a place were i can relieve, escape home and just have fun. And learn a bit off course
Ya’ll are smart
job interviewer: "so, why did you wanted to join?"
future me: "mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell."
hahah i know you see we all related video
Listen. To. Don’t Stay In School. By. BoyInABand. Now
@Angry Duck you're fired
This is freaking hi-larious bcuz it’s so true! The one thing you’ll never forget!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
HAHA YES THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I LEARNED IN 6th GRADE LAST YEAR 😭
How I learn a language at school.
*MEMORIZING A 5k WORD ESSAY BY HEART*
*MEMORIZING LONG IDIOMS BY HEART*
*MEMORIZING 20 TWENTY WORD LITERATURE QUESTIONS BY HEART*
*SCORES WELL FOR TEST *
*FORGETS EVERYTHING WHAT I LEAERNT AFTER A DAY*
@You want My name? Same
Lol
Or just study it online with best resources that make ur learning journey just so easy, funny and happy
School:But why we use this? we need to make students life's so miserable ... like why it's named school then lol
Dude i'm in 9th grade and our teacher has a Shakespeare test that she expected us to remember every word, like wth. Literally a question on WHO SAID THIS from THIS SPECIFIC LINE. Also the rest of the questions were based on my teacher's viewpoints of the quote. Yeah I DEFINITELY got a 100% on that teach, not a 60%(teacher has to raise scores for class average, I'm at 70% now). When am I gonna use Shakespeare, I wanna become an artist and I gotta remember 100 pages of Shakespeare, every word?! Why do schools teach us random stuff that we are never gonna use on our grades???
Me with my english class that I have to write reports, narratives, etc. and also my year 6 tutoring maths: *Let me introduce myself*
"Everyone is intelligent but our grades made us idiots"
-Jabin Baret (2021)
@Irish cat done bro
“Everyone is intelligent but our grades made us idiots”
- (insert actual name) (2021)
at this point we all can agree that grades kind of brings us down bc now a days we need good grades to get a good job
My man speaking out facts very true
I'm quite good at my English class, but when my math teacher knew about this, she started to mock me in front of the class, my classmates didn't laugh. They knew that she just like degrading all of us in class. Got a 73 grade, our passing grade is 75. Anyways, I showed her that I'm also capable and got two 95's afterwards. We are all intelligent in different ways, and we shouldn't be judged based on a certain area that we are not confidently or really good at. That is one of the many flaws of our education system.
School makes you scared of failing when failing is the only way to truly learn.
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@Мөнх-Ивээл М but failing is an important way, we aren't no mistake robots
@Tamir Lapidus luckily for me, same too-
i marked this comment. awesome!
My mom just said intelligence is more important than my feelings... 🙄 I agree with this dude, I have noticed my whole life that nobody has really changed the world because they are doing what they are told to do like what Eddy Zhong said at the end of this video
@THEIR BRAIN (A MILLION HUGS TO YOU)
@Amy Walker not exactly a robot but yeah 😭🔫
THEIR BRAIN - What in the acutal flotation device? Does your mom want you to be a robot? A dull-eyed reciter of facts with no passion or curiosity? Guess so.
thank you school for:
-stress
-homeworks
-low grades
-low scores
-depression
- wanting to harm myself to skip school
- growing distant from my family
- lack of support
- lying to parents about how kids enjoy school
- lying to parents about what staff does to children at school
- staff being rude to students when parents aren't there
- staff acting angelic when parents are there
-stress
The list could be infinite
And also "Jimmy has 400 apples, now calculate the distance between the Earth and the Moon
And also "mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"
-Social anxiety
-Fear of failure
Just some more
“Society moved on , but they forgot the ones who will continue the society” - some speech I suddenly remembered
wow what a powerful quote and sadly it's true TT
I was actually home schooled until I was 10
when I entered school after, I found things easy, so easy that I passed everything exceptionally. I could do anything, even read a book meant for adults
4 years later I'm failing everything and my only skill is reading fast
After around 5 hears of school im starting to lpse spelling capabilities slowly an slpwly
Reading fast is actually a great skill
Education is when you learn from your mistakes
School is where you get mocked for your mistakes
@steven keith cap 🧢🧢🧢
You get education from school
And almost killed by bully’s. my leg still hurts like 15 years later
@Salma Farag good for you
Quote, respect
I loved my 7th and 8th grade math teacher, his goal was to make the class love math. He said he loved when people failed, and he also only checked homework because the school system made him. He did the best he was allowed to, and this goes to show that you shouldn't blame the teachers, you shouldn't blame the people who designed the school system [around 150 years ago], you should blame the people who *keep* the school system the same, never changing it to suite modern needs more. Modern schools are near identical to ones over 150 years ago, which were designed to mass produce factory workers. Let that sink in.
That is a good teacher right there. We really have to find out who is really pulling the strings of the education system. It's hard to tell who is, though. We need to pin point someone so that things actually start to change.
You guys let me tell you I have never fallen in love with history, Greek mythology, and Science until I started learning them on my own without being forced to. In school, I hated them because it was boring. I wasn't learning to know I was just learning to get good grades. The internet has taught me more than school ever has. I even took notes on every person I learned about.
See learning is a lot more fun when you aren't forced to.
Also, you might think I'm insane I don't do homework because I use those time to learn something I want. On the other hand, if there's a standardized test which this month and next month I'm taking the Writing, Biology, and reading. Those are the three I'm focused on. If they fail me because of my grades I don't care in the future no one is going to ask me how my grades were back in high school and what I score on the FSA because I'm not going to work for those people.
You’re welcome
@Eee W Thank you for the clarification.
Also, instead of focusing on being good at stuff, learn the basics then slowly learn more and try to improve. You don’t have to perfect or good to like a subject. You just have focus on the learning and have fun. exams shouldn’t be here just to label us. Instead, it lets us see what we lack and teachers should show us a way to improve. Exams are good for letting us learn to accept failing and being humble. Not to force us to get A’s every time.
For me( I’m studying in primary school in Hong Kong), I’m interested in almost every subject. I like learning and watching minute earth, teded very much but I hate school. I like knowing more about how the things around me worked and i learn to learn. So during holidays, I would let my curiosity bring me to the next thing I would learn , like climate change. But at school, I learn to get good grades, A and some Bs. I have to memorize things in general studies (science, nature, history) that I don’t understand or am not interested in. I am forced to learn how to do repetitive math questions and not how the equations worked. I’m forced to memorize how to spell and get marks taken away from me just because I spelled something wrong. I liked doing writing argumentative and story writings. I can share my opinion and create many fantasy worlds. I’m not at all against learning but I just wish we could learn because we wanted to learn and not for some exam.
I wish I could be confident enough to skip homework and classes unless I want to, but my teachers and grandma says ✨no✨
I'm glad I was able to find this video. Especially since this year has been difficult and because of me failing school I was finally able to discover my undiscovered passions in art, music, and simply creating. I'm happy that my ideology that I developed over this Pandemic is not alone and for nothing.
It is depressing to see how happiness is still only linked to success.
I belive that happiness leads to success but success doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Happiness is based on the belieth
I've learned more about Science by my own curiosity and the internet than all 13 years of school
@Mylie's Art and I care y?
My mom taught me about class 10 science when I was in nursery!
Same
Same thing
@Josh Brown or 🎮.
School make me feel like grades are more important than the actual “education” I’m getting.
Ikr
School is like a torture game. You don't work to memorize, you work to complete.
@Stallone Andrew Agreed, Kanna.
yeah, and i just straight up forgot a lot of worst memories that happens to elementary school mostly involved me, my friends, learning and more. Now i was at the Secondary School and i still need to face the worst side and my brain getting messy and i just playing my phone to chill down my brain and completely ignore the homeworks. Now thanks to the existence of the pandemic, i can manage to be chill myself but should need to survive from the pandemic itself
Fun fact : Students watching this video would think on it for a couple of minutes and continue memorizing their subjects.
@DanTheMan That lyric has nothing to do with what Carissa said. "The Wall" is referring to an emotional barrier "erected" to protect yourself from hurt and isolate yourself from the world. It's got nothing to do with being a "cog in a machine" or anything like that.
Well what else are they supposed to do? They still have to accept the reality of how school IS, not how they want it to be. It's like criticising the average citizen for the actions of their government. The average person can do absolutely nothing about deeply-entrenched institutional issues, no matter how many protests they partake in or how many letters they send to their counsellors or governors or whoever else.
Not me
@Ritz "All in all, you're just another brick in the wall." -Pink Floyd
Because we have to. There’s nothing I can do
“Don't make school your life. Find that thing you're passionate about. Don't rely on school or teachers.”
As a college professor and public school teacher of more than 20 years this kid is dead on. Everything he said is true.
@I MP I mean, you as a scientist would agree that most schools focus on "memorization" and you as a scientist also realize how that is moot. What is important is to figure out the right information from a sea of information and not get side tracked. I don't deny that school does have a few merits but those merits get moot when bad teachers don't really care about teaching. Unfortunately, these bad teachers are everywhere. Secondly, the problem with school is if a kid learns how to gather credible sources, not to get sidetracked...he can virtually be good at anything. But, we're not taught that in school. Now, of course, I don't have too much of a problem with school...but I do feel we need to take measures to improve this...
@adriano dicostanzo i agree but that only the top idk less than 1%
@David Anderson this is why he is a college professor now. college profs are chads
@Cohline Garnet you said most students forget what they sudied for the exams. But what are you basing that assumption on?
@I MP no they should not add more subjects they should change what they already give us
Schools then: "Let's feed (edit) these children's curiousity and creativity."
Schools now: "You're right but you used the different formula. I'll give you a deduction."
i can relate to this so much. On a math test, i literally got the most simplest answer correct, yet i didnt get the mark cuz i didnt do my working. LIKE I CAN DO IT IN MY HEAD GODDAMN
Schools then and now are very similar. In fact I believe schools back then were probably a lot more strict, teachers were allowed to hit students and make them serve heavy punishments. Students could not retaliate. The "edUCaTiooN sySteM" feeding us curiosity and creativity is a BIG lie.
frr we all have different mathematical formula strategies and school doesn't accept that 🙄 it's frustrating
Before I watched this video, I never really thought deeply about the issues that teens are having with school start times. After watching this talk, I agree with Wendy so much on starting school later for teens. She, as a sleep researcher, has explained to her audience that sleeping is significant when it comes to mental and physical development of a teenager. She makes contact with the audience by sharing her personal story with her own children.
Exams are literally obstacles that prevent me from doing what I want to do in my life. People think they are useful, but in reality they are pointless.
"Exams just get students good at taking tests" --my high school physics teacher
yeah man. I don't believe in exams except for the competitive ones that you got to take during or after highschool. But why keep dousing students with exams and keep them stressed like ever during the childhood?
"thEY'RE To eVAluAtE WherE yoU aRE At RighT noW" and if you get a bad mark, they basically DO NOT care. When they do, they just keep screaming the same things at you until you are forced into nodding when they ask, "do you understand?"
@The Ruler01 That is EXACLY the main problem with education today. Most students, me included, simply study for the sake of getting something good on a paper, not actually for the sake of learning. Studying for the sake of getting good grades is very different from studying for the sake of learning, but studying for good grades is more likely to give you just that, better grades. However, most students, me included, will then forget 95% of what you learned the week after the exam, but if you actually studied for the sake of learning, it is far more likely you will remember more and longer. But at the end of the day, it is what the paper says that will give you the best chance for the job and hence, the incentive to simply study for the exam and not learn is the main one, and highlights the problem with the education system.
After exam my brain get washed like I nothing ever studied
This is actually true. I’m still a student, but last year, I was always thinking of my art and always had massive ideas of the theory of the universe and all that. Now I’m in grade 6 and all I think about is get A’s and study. My creatively spark is fading away, but now that I heard this, I can go show my entire school that I’m back
Instead of teaching us, supporting us and cheering us on.
We're mocked.
"Why aren't you understanding this?"
"This is so easy"
"You should know this by now"
Kids like me, think a F, C or D difines them.
School is so messed up-
"Why are you depressed?"
"This is so easy why are you failing on this?"
"Do better, I know this isn't your best"
"Wait until I call your parents"
"I'll give you 2x Homework for that"
Yep. All we can do is imagine getting good grades. Just imagine...
My parents were both teachers. I'm so glad I resisted all the pressure to be one. School is toxic. It teaches you that creativity and ingenuity don't matter, but conformity is everything.
THIS
THIS IS WHY I'M SO HAPPY TO BE HOMESCHOOLED
I GET TO EXPLORE THINGS I LOVE AND FOLLOW MY PASSIONS WITHOUT BEING CRITICIZED AND PUT DOWN
AND IT'S AWESOME
It's so sad that school was never about learning, it was about surviving, and still is.
And memorizing
Perhaps humanity has not yet overcome that basic organismal survival barrier as much as we think we have
"No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world told them to do" awesome love this
This does not change the fact that in Australia there are 48 million kangaroos and in Uruguay there are 3,457,380 inhabitants. So if the kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay, each Uruguayan will have to fight 14 kangaroos.
Word of wisdom.
Elle Viva has* told them
Elle Viva i was reading this exactly as he was saying it
Elle Viva j
"Learning how everything works is more important than learning about failing in life"
-12 yo me
I'd say they're both equally important. Having no curiosity in the world around you is not something to aspire to.
We don't live in a utopian society. Society needs jobs more than anything, school produces educated people which go to college and become lawyers, doctors, and scientists. Not only does this fill in jobs and support the economy, the lawyers, doctors, and scientists are smart enough to advance society forward.
"when kids go to school, they learn things."
Me with ADHD, behavior problems and too smart to here the teacher going over the same thing over and over again after I understood it the first time: "no."
@Stallone Andrew Same. I'm a Filipino and I hated learning Filipino/Tagalog (People say they are different but they are exactly the same without any differences) but when I studied Filipino on my own without anybody pressuring me, I actually enjoyed it.
@Yael Levi yep, and i think school was completely didn't care about student's opinion. And oh boy i completely hate Malay language because why most of the homeworks are just writing and essay.
Ps i was a Malaysian
@Stallone Andrew that sounds terrible.
ouch, i can feel your opinion. Because during the tusyen at my elementary school i just said why should need to learn the same thing over and over again until my Malay language teacher begin to mad at me. And the worst part about the tusyen is it was devided to two class which is one for learning Malay because those one owns bad grades while the other one on the other hand who passed their Malay test having their own class and somewhat they not learning but playing Scrambles and some other things. It was unfair
It's been a month since I've watched his incredible, inspirational speech and I decided to open up and explore new possibilities. Often at school, I'm very bored and I'm super tired all the time during class, but after watching the video, I started exploring and looking at new things to do and that was when I discovered my interest in TheXvid. I would watch TheXvid videos late at night almost everyday and I loved the kinds of content they made. It would make me laugh. To be honest watching these video saved my life because they were the only things I was looking forward to when I got home. The main message that Eddy Zhong told me that made me start this TheXvid account was "No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do." My parents were like the people Eddy described, do well in school, go to college, get a job and be successful. I don't listen to them as much because they don't really listen to me, but it's alright. I'm not that creative, but I believe that you still have hope left. I believe it's possible for any of you to change and find something you had no idea was something you could do.
I love how litteraly everyone who can change this will just ignore it
Teachers: School is your second home
Also teachers: Don't act like this, you're not in your home
So true 🤣
Also people say you should go to school to have friends and socialize
Teacher: “hears students talking”
Students we are not here to socialize we are here to learn 🙄
Lmao :)
@NotSoStableRonaldo yknow what , that's exactly what I'm gonna say to my physics teacher. Ffs that women just piles work on us 🤦♂️
Eddy's words have actually been proven right: A new survey says the average American uses just 37 percent of the information they learn in school.
creativity is what makes progress in the world. The Airplane, electricity, everything that we have as technology, was originally nothing more than an idea, a CREATION
"Im not a genius,im just passionately curious"-Albert Einstein
I love this video. I’ve been saying exactly the same stuff and everyone doubts me and says I’m wrong
"No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has
told them to do." - Edward Zhong
stolen comment xd
He will be the next albert einstein
Wooo what waa true
Christian Villarosa This kid has got it goin on!
Breathe.....
My friend once said "the only thing I learned from school is that life is unfair."
For me, my school is creative and interactive and I have learned things about the world, but I am still young. The funny thing is my greatest passion isn't even school related, and the reason I I say I love it because there was no outside influence, all just me. A lot of people who did great things might've had some outside influence but they usually always had a great talent for it and they changed the world when they found their passion. I don't really feel that motivated from things at school, so other than the basics I am pretty sure I will not remember some stuff because I am not passionate about it.
Yup, when I was saying in school that I'm gonna be a successful and even a millionaire in the future, teachers were just laughing, I was terrible student, but now I have found the was of success and I can clearly see that I can even be a billionaire, so never give up and find people that cheers you up, if you can't find one just listen to yourself what you want from your life, and find the solution.
This is absolutely right school make us less intelligent . I realised this when i passed middle school and entered in high school . School had ruined us (my friends too).Now I am in 11th grade and in lockdown I'm in 10 grade and in lockdown I faced so many difficulties and that's made me learn so many things .bcs till 10 grade I had never faced anxiety , depression and now I know how to handle it .. comment down if u also learn so many life lessons in lockdown
School: You are here to learn
Also school: Don't forget to memorize all these definitions
Bro I'm doing that right now😞
this is the main reason why i hate homeworks
Just a slight change in those definitions will be marked as a mistake even though if that sentence conveys the exact same meaning that's why I hate schools .
@Motivation 2 Advance Well, I don't see any better method for learning, than memorising stuff.
And then forget them the next day!
I was a 15 year old kid who loved programming and theoretical physics especially theory of relativity.Tried to understand tensor calculus without even knowing calculus😂😂 and tried to program in JavaScript.But the state education system pressure forced me to give up and mug up subjects not only in another three years I lost my passion but it become so much even though I took computer science in college I still couldn't have the interest in coding the way I had in my 15.
What an amazing! These days i was trying to drop out of school and surprisingly i got this video recommended!
I totally agree with you, school is for the average.
When people, kids or teens are trying to decide what they're going to do for the rest of their lives as a career, more people should be telling them, "find what you love that you can get paid for, whether it be working at a restaurant or a grocery store, or a doctor or a lawyer, or nurse or a social worker, or whatever it is that pays you that you love, work at it with all your heart, and be the best person at that job that you can be". That's what we should be telling our kids. That's what we should be striving for and what we should be taking pride in. Not just if my kid graduated from college or if they even went to college or if they even want to go to college. They should feel valued and free to make their own choices and their own decisions about their career path, and whether or not they want to go to college and whether they're ready to go to college. They should be deciding these things for themselves without any pressure from other people.
*"No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world told them to do".* Perfectly said!
Imagine if school actually helped kids find what they are passionate about and then became successful at a young age.
Lmao, imagine.
All I learned that school is a heartless place for people like me
@Indonesian Mapping no? im asian and i can say that entire statement is incredible sterotypical. You have bias, you only see the best of us because of immigration filter. You dont truly understand how it is
I found out what I want to work towards as a future career through an anime, not school. Not even joking.
ikr
@Nikhil Pranav I agree so much with you
I love this video. I’ve been saying exactly the same stuff and everyone doubts me and says I’m wrong
“People who have changed the world, did not do what the world told them”
So true
I remember my teacher in college, She told the class that as our teacher, it is her responsibility to open the doors of learning, and IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY to EXPLORE what is inside. Today, the wisdom that she shared to us more than a decade ago is guiding my class. Thank you Ma'am. YES it is true that "No One Has Ever Change the World by doing what the world has told them to do", but schools will definitely teach you what is there to be CHANGED.
@Cohline Garnet I guess the school experience that we had were different.
"no one has ever changed the world, by doing what the
world told them to do"
i wrote this on my class board as "THOUGHT OF THE CENTURY".
Seriously, I felt smarter when I was in the elementary school than now.
@I Didn’t Expect the Third Reich to Show Up literally the same
Same :(
The message in this talk is so motivational!! Eddie has a great way of speaking.
Yeah elementary school was the best time off my life it was easy and fun but now middle school is hard and it’s making me tired
I agree this
Not so fun fact: school was actually invented to make factory workers and that’s why the desks are in straight rows side by side looking up at the teacher: We frequently use the metaphor of school as a factory: Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life.
Right when he said the word "creating" my ears perked up. I can relate with this like crazy.
I like how every school student agrees to this but we just sit around waiting for others to do something about it, then people don't drop that habit till adulthood
“No one has ever changed the world, with the world telling them what to do”
Schooltakes away our creativity that can help us start business’s or something not academic. Which is why most successful people now dropped out of school.
School isn’t about learning, it’s about PASSING. This is sad
On fact side it's true
It's about passing and MONEY.
Hits deep
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This was true for my undergrad and graduate degrees. I learned more by myself online than I did from my profs and their notes
School barely prepares us for the future, it just prepares us for 30 (sometimes 2× as much) questions on a piece of paper. You learn by actually going outside and travel
**Btw reminder to drink water, go outside touch some grass**
Started with "I'm going to make my cool ideas come to life!" and a really healthy mind as a kid, ended up in therapy and anxiety pills in the first semester of high school
I once did an essay about why having so much homework was bad and counterproductive, I got an A on it
@Gemmariah Beadle pay attention my condition I have ADHD i cant do that
@Gemmariah Beadle HAHAHHA already did and a miraculously pass grade 6 unexpectedly
I failed my "reality theory project" by doing what this man in the video did but I did it in my own way (i didnt copy him i was inspired)
You know what our problem is? It seems like more and more people agree that things should change. Heck, I'm sure all 2,700 people that commented on this video think the school system should change. But obviously all we can do is complain it the comment section, and I hate it. We are so scared that the society won't listen to us, so we don't even try. I'm sure every single student that is currently in school (including me) wants to show this to teachers, parents, headmasters, but is too scared to do anything. There is enough of us now to have influence, to make a difference. But we are SCARED. that is the problem - we should first change our ways, our entire society...
True. I am thinking of getting a degree to develop the school system. For my kids and their future.
your right
we can forward this to many people and when we will be enough to know this the world WILL change
Agree.
Quest and they’re not wrong
This can be mostly seen in English class as it perfects you into a specific way of writing, but I'd say even though school does not teach you creativity and I agree with his message, school is kind of essential to help someone learn how to talk or to walk and then slowly learning them the essentials. I've realized you master/handle a topic 1 year after doing it and seeing others do it.
I really want to go to Harvard University someday. And I also want to say this. School doesn't force you to go down a path, your mind is it own.
People like Eddy Zhong makes me realize what kind of teacher I want to be in the near future. 💙
I'm never gonna forgot this talk. I'll try my best to not change my creativity and do what I want.
"No-one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do." - Eddy Zhong
RagingBear I love this
Not every one need to change the world. Some people might change it, but many many more are needed to mantain it, deep it running at full capacity...so that those who are distined to change it might have a chance.
just the best way you can descripe this world. He speaks what many think.
the world told him to do a lot of things , wear a suit to be taken seriously, speak english to communicate list goes on
"While school can make you more academically intelligent...it is diminishing the children's creative intelligence"
It seems humans have built such an elaborate and complicated societal system we've started to trip ourselves up
Will edit after fully watching:
Schools and parents care more about passing than learning. If there were no work, tests, or grades, then school would be all about learning. The reason kids learn more on the internet in their free time than at school during school hours is because that’s when kids are in the mood to learn and the things they learn are what they are in the mood to learn. What does mitochondria and the quadratic formula have to do with the most common and highest paying jobs out there? When will these facts apply to them outside of education and labor? Math can be done on a calculator and numbers can be learned through counting books. All you need is Starfall to learn literacy and reading and comprehension can be practiced by wanting to know something and looking up what answer they want and reading through an article to find their answer. This also doubles for science and social studies. No being required to learn something at specific times. Companies really only care if their employees can do the job, so just learn everything relevant to the job. Success in life really depends on how you perceive it.
" no one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do" this one in particular hits
so hard
Definitely one of the best videos I have ever watched. Such powerful words…..
This is the entire thing. being told something isn’t the experience, the experience is what makes you learn.
I learned more and retained more information from a 12 minute video I found interesting than my entire high-school career
Him: "School makes kids less intelligent"
Every, single, kid: Yes! Yes! We have been telling you this the entire time!!
Hopefully, this video, like me, has inspired you to continue being you; prosper in your choices and ultimately succeed.
Keep doing what you are doing 👌
English is my second language and I can tell you that 85% of the words or phrases I learnt are from youtube and random books in my home instead of books from the school. (Including the word phrase)
@Yusuf Coşkun effort*
@Simulping are you from Indonesia
Exactly my first language is English (and im a Half chinese and Half Bidayu girl who lives in Malaysia) and i learn words from my family of course but also becuz of movies, tv shows, internet, youtube etc
I can tell you that 80% of what I learned was from my parents and the sad sad 20% goes to the schools.
same situation here
When you have a certain passion for something you can do anything. I recently learned to strum a ukulele and play a piano without classes.. i just searched up the Internet and practiced cuz I had a passion an interest for it and oh.. my parents didn't believe in me that without classes how could I learn to play those but eventually I did. I'm not comparing studies and art but a passion we all have need to be brought up not by getting A+ or A which means nothing but out of fear
Great Words:"No-one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do."
With a growth mindset, power of self-control, you can do anything.
I've been saying this forever now, and to find out there is a TED talk about it is eye opening.
Kid spitting facts for 8 mins straight
Yeah as someone else said “school doesn’t create leaders it creates employees”
44 seconds: Am I a joke to you 😂🤣
But I get your point
cap 8 minutes and 41 seconds
@Name 43 seconds
Maybe a kid, but kids are just parents that don't go by stereotypes, apart from decreased amount of processing capacity and processing speed because they're not even developed yet, and they're frickin smarter then the developed people, good world we live in!
Edit: I didn't mean to say that the "kid" in the original comment offended anybody (the word)
*Don't worry,you're not the only one who is asian doesn't understand math.*
Keep up the grind!!!! This content is fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
the only thing i like about school is the friends i got lmao.
I only get friends, no best friends :')
same
I don't even have acquaintances
@Kit u ok?
agreed, i love my friends, best part of my life
Wow, what a speech. I'm 16 years old and I still haven't found my passion yet, but I think maybe there's still hope for me to discover something I love.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge” - Albert Einstein
Exactly 💯
And that's really saying something because Albert Einstein was a high school dropout
based on the fact that he already knew a lot of knowledge, knowledge is important guys but many people used all of their intelligence on knowledge have none left to imagination, great people like Einstein is born to be smarter
He probably didn't say that 🤣 but point taken😉
I did that by not doing homework and now every time i try doing it i'm overcome by immense stress and guilt of not doing homework earlier and now i'm mentally incapable of doing homework. 😎
Now I wanna become a teacher. So that I can encourage students
Exactly what happened to me, in the summer I kept on having ideas on how to save the planet and was becoming more and more successful. Since school has started, I felt as if my intelligence has gotten down.
I'm gonna be honest
The only knowledge I'll ever use is mostly from internet than from school
“We go to school everyday. We learn pointless things, but we are never taught how to love ourselves. We aren’t taught how to make moments last. But I think the most unfair thing, is that at the end of high school, we are tested on something we were never taught. We have to stand in front of each other and say GOODBYE.” -Me
Oh my God that is so true. And breaks my heart.
Your smart
@Sweet girl 678 you know i think school should have a subject all about different things in life like how to start a business that could spark a passion within students for an area.
I totally agree but in my School we have a subject called life's project in which we are taught how to love ourselfs and things like that. But what you said is true they only teach that we gotta have a career , so there's a lot of pressure basically
@Mohammad sabit hard when you are constantly frowned down upon when you dont get a perfect score on a test or dont fall in line with the path school teaches because we atribute our self worth to our work
I just got out of college two years ago! It was bleh, because I wanted to learn all I could-but instead I was rushed, and forget half of what I absorbed in.