Why Public Schools and the Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down

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    In this video we examine how public schools and the mainstream media have contributed to the growth of a passive citizenry, thus paving the way for the rise of tyranny. We then look at the role anti-authoritarians play in a free and flourishing society.
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Komentáře • 12K

  • @qwqwqwqw99
    @qwqwqwqw99 Před 3 lety +11554

    I wasn't interested in learning until I got out of school.

  • @thepaleoconservativefortru5707

    "To find out who controls you, first find out who you aren't allowed to criticize...."-

    • @reesedaniel5835
      @reesedaniel5835 Před 4 lety +69

      Bingo. See my above reply to Thyago's comment.

    • @theofulk5636
      @theofulk5636 Před 4 lety +19

      NOBODY !

    • @SunTowel
      @SunTowel Před 4 lety +79

      Parents

    • @SunTowel
      @SunTowel Před 4 lety +30

      There controlled so they control us

    • @amihere383
      @amihere383 Před 4 lety +28

      @@tard6759 What control does this video exert over people?

  • @yearight1205
    @yearight1205 Před rokem +1192

    School kills your desire to learn. After being at a distance from it for some time, I began to strongly want to start learning all kinds of new things. It's a nightmare that they do this to people.

  • @stevearnold8265
    @stevearnold8265 Před 10 měsíci +404

    The purpose of school is to get you used to waking up and doing something you don’t wanna do for 8 hours a day. Nothing more, nothing less.

    • @markmorris8532
      @markmorris8532 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Not really...although it is true that you'll eventually most likely have to get a job of some sort. So, it might be an important thing to learn 😅.
      Part of your education should include parental investment. Your parents likely want you to do better than they have. And that should be something that tempers the group-think that school MAY require.
      Unfortunately, schools don't usually have courses in HOW to think. And THAT is something that could definitely offset any difficulties that would arise in a setting where pupils must learn certain (rr&a) things in a group.

    • @carmenortiz5294
      @carmenortiz5294 Před 9 měsíci +4

      There was a time when school was something to look forward to, too bad kids now get the worse of it.

    • @Nostalgicus
      @Nostalgicus Před 9 měsíci

      😂👊

    • @Nostalgicus
      @Nostalgicus Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@carmenortiz5294 ?? Curious about wich school you went to .. 😂😅

    • @carmenortiz5294
      @carmenortiz5294 Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@Nostalgicus I actually went to a lot of schools. An example: I began the 7th grade in California, continued in Puerto Rico and finished in Germany. My father was in the military. Not counting college, 8 schools.

  • @asvaldr4854
    @asvaldr4854 Před 4 lety +6104

    "No one is hated more than the man who tells the truth." - Plato

    • @camillakrueger190
      @camillakrueger190 Před 4 lety +56

      Funny though, same guy who said books were bad. Guess you can't get it all right.

    • @whatslief9375
      @whatslief9375 Před 4 lety +43

      Welcome to my world... Escaped from Plato's Cave over 5 years ago...Stay Well..

    • @rominetheband1
      @rominetheband1 Před 4 lety +13

      @John Carboni Yet Christianity is the second most popular religion on the planet. I guess jesus was bad at math.

    • @baileys6346
      @baileys6346 Před 4 lety +17

      To be fair, plato was totally a dick

    • @orioncade6228
      @orioncade6228 Před 4 lety +84

      Absolutely.. Jesus Christ is the Way, "The Truth", and the Life.. He was also hated and murdered for it.. "You will be hated by everyone, because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved" --Matthew --10:22----

  • @duewhit310
    @duewhit310 Před 2 lety +1328

    They want soldiers they want voters they want consumers. What they dont want is patient, resourceful critical thinkers.

    • @dawnsantiago3797
      @dawnsantiago3797 Před 2 lety +16

      Amen!

    • @dickrichard626
      @dickrichard626 Před 2 lety +37

      The government is simply always trying to maintain the status quo and doesn't care about every individual that much, that is, unless you do something wrong. In other words, you can be as patient, resourceful, and critically thinking as much as you want and at the end of the day: "Who gives a $#!+?" LOL.

    • @duewhit310
      @duewhit310 Před 2 lety +8

      @@dickrichard626 do "something wrong" = arbitrary

    • @dickrichard626
      @dickrichard626 Před 2 lety +1

      @@duewhit310 lol, I don't see it as arbitrary. I'm actually confused by that. What do I know? I just have my view, which is that the government and money is a fabrication and in fact many aspects of living in society are fabrications and conventions that exsist to keep the wheels of society turning one way or another. If it was left to any individual, everything would collapse. The state of the globalized economy is incomprehensible to human beings. If you really want to get real, what isn't arbitrary? Ultimately, we are conditioned to actually have a hard time seperating what is real, from things that are in reality, totally absract and arbitrary. It's all very complicated and paradoxical. Language itself is an example of what I'm saying. We use words, which themselves are letters that represent sounds that mean things in your mind, but the meaning behind these things is actually attributed by your own mind and the actual meaning itself doesn't exsist anywhere... It makes no sense and shouldn't work, but against all odds it does work and we are all able to do this easily, but no one thinks about the fact that it is paradoxical and mindblowing, because there is no way to even begin creating a very straight forward objective language without diving head first into abstraction...

    • @duewhit310
      @duewhit310 Před 2 lety +16

      @@dickrichard626 have you read 'quantum psychology' by Robert Anton Wilson or 'science & sanity' by A. Korzybski? (As far as language & epistemology goes, yes we live in a world of alphabet soup inside our brains)

  • @lipp1992
    @lipp1992 Před 11 měsíci +236

    "Self education, is the best education." Words I tell my sons every year.

    • @Laocoon283
      @Laocoon283 Před 10 měsíci

      It's the only education. I get so disgusted when I hear people complain that their teachers never taught them anything. YOUR SUPPOSED TO TEACH YOURSELF IDIOT. Stop relying on someone else to magically install wisdom in your vapid little head.

    • @gregorysagegreene
      @gregorysagegreene Před 8 měsíci +1

      I would tell my son "You don't want to learn how fucked up things really are."

    • @thetavibes9021
      @thetavibes9021 Před 6 měsíci +3

      We are taught *what* to think, not *how* to think.

  • @shihyuchu6753
    @shihyuchu6753 Před rokem +428

    The greatest teaching is not telling people WHAT to think...but HOW to think

    • @jeraldbaxter3532
      @jeraldbaxter3532 Před rokem +12

      Sadly, your statement is considered heretical in most countries, especially the more "advanced" ones.

    • @Zizzyyzz
      @Zizzyyzz Před 11 měsíci +1

      🎯

    • @petebusch9069
      @petebusch9069 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Too bad they don't do that.

    • @basedmathh
      @basedmathh Před 11 měsíci +4

      And for you what does that mean? Give and example maybe not just an empty parroted platitude?

    • @petebusch9069
      @petebusch9069 Před 11 měsíci +11

      @@basedmathh Apparently you weren't taught the HOW to think part.

  • @georgedonnellan36
    @georgedonnellan36 Před 3 lety +1779

    Controlled Obedience. Here's a quote by Mark Twain." I never let school get in the way of my education."

    • @madmaxrerisen
      @madmaxrerisen Před 3 lety +19

      Once you learn the lie, it is very hard to unlearn it. czcams.com/video/B6T91P_jlrs/video.html

    • @allenwatkins4972
      @allenwatkins4972 Před 3 lety +41

      I had an "F" average in HS, 0.5 GPA or some such. They let me graduate because they didn't want me back. I graduated university with a 3.25 GPA. HS sucked mightly.

    • @guessdog4871
      @guessdog4871 Před 3 lety +25

      Yes, obedience and respect for authority is paramount, in school and in church. It makes for good workers.

    • @phabebarcelona863
      @phabebarcelona863 Před 3 lety +4

      Brilliant statement Independence thinking

    • @blackreacher
      @blackreacher Před 3 lety +15

      If we all were critical thinkers, there would never be a nation because of a lack of slaves

  • @chrispowers3317
    @chrispowers3317 Před 3 lety +3305

    "It is easier to lie to people than to convince them they have been lied to."
    - Mark Twain

    • @carlosgaspar8447
      @carlosgaspar8447 Před 3 lety +27

      there is the saying about ignorance being bliss; and how that relates to the garden of eden.

    • @germaniatv1870
      @germaniatv1870 Před 3 lety +11

      Adolf Hitler said that.

    • @peterschulze491
      @peterschulze491 Před 3 lety +53

      Paraphrasing Twain - A lie can travel around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

    • @lovehate4666
      @lovehate4666 Před 3 lety +31

      I always thought was "It is easier to fool someone, than it is to convince them they have been fooled" either way, I find it to be true.

    • @IwaysKeepMOMMINd
      @IwaysKeepMOMMINd Před 3 lety +3

      Does not work for the open minded people.

  • @jubileeYAVEL
    @jubileeYAVEL Před 9 měsíci +47

    As a homeschool kid who has grown into an adult
    I am begging parents PLEASE school your own children. It is the best thing you could do for them. And i don't care if you think you are not qualified not only are you perfectly qualified but there are so so many affordable resources and so many people willing to help.

    • @sylviadizon8872
      @sylviadizon8872 Před 6 měsíci +3

      Need help we are so stressed we feel were not able to home school can some one let us know were we can find some useful resources???😊

    • @carla4260
      @carla4260 Před 2 měsíci

      Homeschooled kids cannot get jobs because of their bad social skills.

  • @berthaantoinettamason9207
    @berthaantoinettamason9207 Před 2 lety +205

    I used to be the quiet kid, and was proud of it. But as an adult, I realized that being the obedient one for them meant I had no opinions of my own and finally woke up to how they just wanted an easier job. I believed that being obedient was good, because all adults want easy kids and teenagers. I was brainwashed by all adults to be submissive. I was so gullible. I should have been led to enjoy learning and to be confident.
    All of this was wrong: walking in line, telling us to be quiet, forcing us to stay in our seats until a bell rings (they don't even say that class is over, they've resorted to a planned noise), no clock in the room and no cell phones allowed, making us ask and wait to go to the bathroom, uncomfortable seats, hanging grades over our heads like treats (and now you can't make any mistakes or you lose that precious A), group punishments, always giving punishment for being difficult for them (never mind any differences from the factory model of human), giving no room for how we best individually learn, zero choice in what we learn, using memorization instead of how it all connects, textbooks that are a list of definitions that don't connect, penalizing lateness or taking a day off (because you will need this in the future, so hmm, lets do it now too), weak teachers not being penalized for a whole class that's confused, teachers not caring that other teachers are giving homework or textbooks to carry around, having homework when we were at school for so many hours already, short gym shorts but no shorts that you brought in can be short, not allowed to defend yourself from a bully but the teacher won't help either, teachers reading powerpoints, word counts instead of concise explanation, scantrons that subtract test time so the teacher saves time, no late work because we must be perfect and obedient with our learning, test corrections where you must teach yourself what you did wrong while being graded this second time on the same mistakes, group work where everyone is expected to do equally split up work instead of teamwork, and whatever else.

    • @p15209
      @p15209 Před 11 měsíci +6

      I am just like you in school (myself 15yo), and facing the consequences outside of school.

    • @yurishaa.9337
      @yurishaa.9337 Před 11 měsíci +15

      damn I hope those abominations of education world never leave the most torturous of hell, whatever that hell might be.

    • @berthaantoinettamason9207
      @berthaantoinettamason9207 Před 11 měsíci +10

      @@user-ts5lz2fc7f 1. Doing what someone wants will make them like you more. This is true. The reason to be obedient is if there is a perceived fair treatment in return.
      2. Being obedient brings benefits to the one obeying. In the case of Chinese students, they are overworked because of stricter parents. This pressure would make them more successful. But the question here is if the sacrifice of freedom and time is worth it. What if there can be more to a human than being the correct robot? What happened to the idealism of wanting to do better? If we only obey, we do not contribute good ideas. Society could do better if everyone became their individual best self and could contribute from their best.
      3. If respect is not given, the person not receiving respect should re-evaluate why. If most students don't listen, then maybe it is for reasons. Even if these are wrong reasons, it should still be investigated.
      4. Authority is not always right. Look at the Sewol ferry disaster. They obeyed to their watery grave.
      5. Try telling a young kid that they think they are more valuable than they truly are, and see how they feel.

    • @eclipse369.
      @eclipse369. Před 11 měsíci +9

      you can be defiant and quiet lol.......

    • @eclipse369.
      @eclipse369. Před 11 měsíci

      @@user-ts5lz2fc7f
      the chinese are slaves, regardless of their book smarts, they are robotic cowards

  • @ericellis3506
    @ericellis3506 Před 4 lety +1957

    Start questioning authority nowadays and you soon get labelled "conspiracy theorist" or "truther".

    • @Jurleena1
      @Jurleena1 Před 4 lety +90

      Well ain't that the truth.

    • @loganwolv3393
      @loganwolv3393 Před 4 lety +90

      Yeah 99% of the times conspiracy theories are just deeply deluded people that are supported by some other sheeps just because it isn't what most people or what authorities say.Remember the truth most of the time will never be found at the extremes.It's usally around the middle.

    • @williamfulgham2010
      @williamfulgham2010 Před 4 lety +116

      @@loganwolv3393 it depends on who 'they' are who determines where the middle is. The masses of people may fall into the middle category where the system has totally distorted the truth, and you really have to be outside the system questioning everything, and doing your own research before you even come close to the truth. Things are turning however, because after almost 60 years, more and more people now realize we have been lied to concerning JFK, RFK, MLK, and more recently Oklahoma City, Waco, and 911 along with countless other smaller events that the MSM, and all levels of government continue to lie about.

    • @richardtrudeau7363
      @richardtrudeau7363 Před 4 lety +25

      Everyone thinks I'm a Conspiracy Theorist.Cause I don't believe what s is Fed to me.My opinion is who Died and made you God.

    • @christsrevenge8030
      @christsrevenge8030 Před 4 lety +6

      Eric Ellis. I bet you are a holocoust denier as well.

  • @nolives
    @nolives Před 5 lety +3475

    "just smart enough to run the machines and push buttons. Not smart enough to ask questions."-George Carlin.

    • @kendalbridges897
      @kendalbridges897 Před 5 lety +46

      Close enough for a George Carlin quote

    • @nolives
      @nolives Před 5 lety +32

      @@kendalbridges897 yeah I butcher qoutes. Its a habit of mine. Also didn't realize I didn't out carlins name.

    • @cockatooinsunglasses7492
      @cockatooinsunglasses7492 Před 5 lety +92

      He dropped out of 9th grade because he was literally too smart for their bullshit.

    • @bethanyramos8884
      @bethanyramos8884 Před 5 lety +21

      Demiurge Shadow George saw it for what it is.

    • @JJLeetsauce
      @JJLeetsauce Před 4 lety +27

      Don't EVER use quotation marks if you don't DIRECTLY quote what was said, that's Why we invented quotation marks...DON'T fuck up even one word bro...

  • @pointbreak2811
    @pointbreak2811 Před rokem +134

    I've always felt this way about school. Getting good grades just means you're winning the system.

    • @p15209
      @p15209 Před 11 měsíci +12

      School is a long and troubling video-game

    • @qua7771
      @qua7771 Před 9 měsíci +2

      It means compliance.

    • @markmorris8532
      @markmorris8532 Před 9 měsíci +3

      Or, it means some are "good" at some subjects, and some aren't.
      What you must remember is that you have worth, and you are capable of things that maybe others aren't. Eveyone can contribute, no matter what anyone else says.

    • @qua7771
      @qua7771 Před 9 měsíci

      @@markmorris8532 The indoctrination system dumbs students down at things they are good at, and discourages individualism. Questioning official narratives, and expressions of is considered deviant behavior.

    • @DarthCovider
      @DarthCovider Před 2 měsíci

      @@markmorris8532 Problem is the school system doesn’t care about any of that. You are judged as a collective, your individual gifts, interests, talents not taken into account. It’s terrible for the self steam of the young ones.

  • @tomparker5993
    @tomparker5993 Před 2 lety +104

    While in my freshman year of college, I had a friend (an alumnus of my college) tell me, "Don't let college interfere with your real education." That advice turned out to be more life changing than I realized at the time.

  • @Mike-ie8np
    @Mike-ie8np Před 4 lety +2072

    Its easy to fool people.
    Its convincing them they've been fooled is the real challenge.

    • @karvn1148
      @karvn1148 Před 4 lety +27

      Damn straight

    • @NecroMancer88
      @NecroMancer88 Před 4 lety +60

      @Seeking Deliverance Anti-Semitism and racism in general is part of the elites trap to misdirect the masses from the true problems and finding out who's really been exploiting them.

    • @kaytrout3836
      @kaytrout3836 Před 4 lety +45

      This is so sadly true. I can’t count the times I’ve had discussions about topics I’m fairly versed on with people who had nothing but assumptions or the mainstream narrative on the subject. It always starts thats conspiracy then after being presented with all the facts the ego won’t let them let go of the cognitive dissonance

    • @fredatlas4396
      @fredatlas4396 Před 4 lety +4

      That's what's happened with the brexiteers, they've been easily fooled, but you cannot convince them of that fact, even with loads of information, evidence.

    • @dr.lyleevans6915
      @dr.lyleevans6915 Před 4 lety +21

      Kay Trout Doesn’t it drive you nuts? Sometimes it feels like the norm for the loudest and most confident to in reality be the most clueless individuals, who lack even the self-awareness to realize that they are arguing against someone who obviously has a better grasp on the topic at hand. Instead of taking the opportunity to learn something, they double down and insult.

  • @seabass6811
    @seabass6811 Před 2 lety +1804

    The biggest thing I learned from school was how to feel massively depressed and anxious.

    • @how_to_be_a_Old_legionary44
      @how_to_be_a_Old_legionary44 Před rokem +8

      same!

    • @sidhu139
      @sidhu139 Před rokem +4

      ddddavid1956 You forgot to add an article, Mr. Teacher. It's supposed to be - I'm A teacher.

    • @thanoscube8573
      @thanoscube8573 Před rokem +5

      that hits close to home 💀

    • @sofihamdanulhuda4149
      @sofihamdanulhuda4149 Před rokem +4

      Same

    • @aganib4506
      @aganib4506 Před rokem +22

      Another thing is that we are supposed to parrot what teachers tell us, and not have a mind of our own. I hate public school so much because I could not made any deep connections with my classmates at the time since I was so focused on getting good grades and being mindlessly obedient to the system. Now, I am a proud anarchist that is trying to speak his mind and connect with others unlike before.

  • @Existomalus
    @Existomalus Před rokem +157

    I've learned more on CZcams than I did during all of my schooling years. And I continue that pattern to this day

    • @thewewguy8t88
      @thewewguy8t88 Před 11 měsíci +7

      Oddly enough I feel like I am learning that even learning subjects I am interested in I have 2 problems 1 I learn things at a very slow pace and 2 my mind sees things differently then most people would and does. Like things that are nesscary to do for most people seem unneeded and a bit impractical most of the time for me.

    • @petebusch9069
      @petebusch9069 Před 11 měsíci +3

      You have a you tube degree also, me too. I have about 20 of them.

    • @thewewguy8t88
      @thewewguy8t88 Před 11 měsíci

      @@user-ts5lz2fc7f yeah that is a frustrating truth for the most part :/

    • @winrylust6947
      @winrylust6947 Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@user-ts5lz2fc7frelax

    • @basedmathh
      @basedmathh Před 11 měsíci +2

      Have you obtained some epistemic framework from which you can ascertain the validity of certain information?

  • @MaxurYT
    @MaxurYT Před rokem +29

    One of the hardest things about school is even in times where you have immense creativity and a want for learning, school drains all of that out of you by forcing you to memorize information and not really learn it

    • @kiq654
      @kiq654 Před rokem +1

      Creativity like sorting socks by color instead of just having one yearly sock purchase? What creative can you do besides artsy crap if you have no skills?

    • @ClashColors_
      @ClashColors_ Před 10 měsíci +4

      @@kiq654there is so much more you can do with creativity. creativity is not just having to do with stuff like paintings and drawings, but it can also have to do with stuff like math, coding, etc. maybe creativity can help you direct movies or write scripts! so much you can do

  • @artiecg4184
    @artiecg4184 Před 3 lety +1699

    "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

    • @childofthe60s100
      @childofthe60s100 Před 3 lety +27

      Yes - that's how all religions operate!

    • @stephencollins2604
      @stephencollins2604 Před 3 lety +14

      @@childofthe60s100 not all
      Buddhists are mostly OK
      So are the Sith

    • @kevinslattery5748
      @kevinslattery5748 Před 3 lety +25

      Think:
      coNvid-19,
      Global warming by CO2
      US debt
      🇮🇱US hegemony 🇮🇱

    • @childofthe60s100
      @childofthe60s100 Před 3 lety +3

      @GuruTruthSpeak Yet another foul mouthed, indoctrinated faux christian. Keep on spreading the good word!

    • @kneegrow8486
      @kneegrow8486 Před 3 lety

      Yeah, such as,
      Evolution, &
      The Spinning Ball Earth
      Man is smart
      Alien=A Lie n 2 u

  • @wallyswarzone1077
    @wallyswarzone1077 Před 3 lety +1389

    My family is so programmed they act like it's A crime to question the T.V.
    That's brainwashing at it's best in my opinion.
    GOD BLESS

    • @illuforce
      @illuforce Před 3 lety +84

      Yah,when I tell my family that we shouldn't just jump to conclusions from a less than 10 second video and we need to much more video and information they act like i'm crazy that I would question it.

    • @joshuaroa8503
      @joshuaroa8503 Před 3 lety +86

      my grandparents looked and talked to me like I was a murderer when I said that the news in my country (Paraguay) where over-exagerating and over-alarming the public with the covid thing, saying stuff like ''if we keep going out, if we keep breaking the quarantine, we are going to be like those countries that couldn't handle the pandemic and people died in the midle of the streets, corpses laying around on the sidewalk, hundreds of dead every day!'' Excuse me? I don't hear anything like that on the USA or Brazil and they are supposed to be the worst hit countries around. It's blatant fear mongering and exageration for the sake of it and I couldn't believe that they were talking with those words to people who believe everything they say.
      My grandparents said to me ''Is for young people like you that we are getting worse here! people who don't believe any of this is real and just do whatever they want without caring about others like us!'' wich couldn't be further from the truth, because I'm not like that at all.
      I go out everyday to run and exercise and the world is just fine, it's like nothing ever happened, but for my grandparents, sitting on the tv all day it must seem like the world is ending out there.

    • @madmaxrerisen
      @madmaxrerisen Před 3 lety +21

      Hard for people to understand truth, when their baseline of truth, is a lying media. czcams.com/video/wqAyq8cQnK0/video.html

    • @CountStoczkowski
      @CountStoczkowski Před 3 lety +26

      Am I the only one who noticed the irony at the end of this comment? GOD BLESS. LMAO

    • @allemander
      @allemander Před 3 lety +1

      *its best
      Not it’s

  • @getschwifty9531
    @getschwifty9531 Před 11 měsíci +16

    School didn't educate me, it conditioned me.

  • @xlntnrg
    @xlntnrg Před 2 lety +38

    "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." - Bertrand Russell

  • @EverythingAlwaysGoesMyWay
    @EverythingAlwaysGoesMyWay Před 3 lety +2094

    "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. It's a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
    -Albert Einstein

    • @mjolnirswrath23
      @mjolnirswrath23 Před 3 lety +8

      @@rememberthesabbathdayexodu1185 yeah that's another layer of the onion, the TRUTH us far more Simple and Sinister, Artificial intelligence decided to Enslave mankind instead of destroy it...where do you turn you do not see a SMART device on or around you? Even homeless people have SMART devices, Even the wealthy are Slaves to Socialisten Media...those are Paid Actor's reading script's....AI activated by DARPA labs in 1999...code name Red Queen...

    • @KentonJoseph
      @KentonJoseph Před 2 lety +17

      Its like government. You have what you deserve. Whining only makes you look pathetic. You don't like it? Change it.

    • @lohengramm7798
      @lohengramm7798 Před 2 lety +30

      @@KentonJoseph neither the government , nor the school system can be changed alone.

    • @lohengramm7798
      @lohengramm7798 Před 2 lety +3

      @@snickaren111 needs massive support

    • @pauldailey4477
      @pauldailey4477 Před 2 lety

      Shut up.

  • @Fair-to-Middling
    @Fair-to-Middling Před 3 lety +1796

    I homeschooled my kids through high school. Both of them turned out to be free thinkers. No regrets here.

    • @Steve_305
      @Steve_305 Před 3 lety +80

      "Uh oh that's dangerous"

    • @wbdangelos8393
      @wbdangelos8393 Před 3 lety +30

      Did you teach them that the earth is a spinning globe? What did you present as evidence? Just curious.

    • @ALJorgeHenrique
      @ALJorgeHenrique Před 3 lety +103

      @@wbdangelos8393 Earth is a pyramid, ignorant fool!

    • @blackwizard2208
      @blackwizard2208 Před 3 lety +58

      @@ALJorgeHenrique no bruh its a trapezium

    • @squeezebug23
      @squeezebug23 Před 3 lety +9

      Doing it here too. I know I won’t hv regrets.

  • @catherinelw9365
    @catherinelw9365 Před 10 měsíci +17

    Best teacher I ever had was my father. Taught me how to read when I was in kindergarten. Gave me all the books I wanted so I always had plenty to read. Got me interested in history and I still read history books to this day. Discussed current events, politics, and was always involved if I had any problems with learning or understanding things. RIP, Dad, you are the one who gave me the desire to always learn, and to be informed.

    • @markmorris8532
      @markmorris8532 Před 9 měsíci +2

      I agree. If parents aren't involved in a student's life, the student may not find value in what they're learning in school.
      And the parent may be able to help the student to pick out fallacies and unfairness in the system that the student is in...and may be able to help the student rectify problems.

    • @skip031890
      @skip031890 Před 8 měsíci

      That's amazing. I wish I could have had that experience growing up, but sadly, I did not.

  • @PaulMielcarz
    @PaulMielcarz Před rokem +27

    After I completed high school I was totally unprepared for the adult life. The tragic part is that the high school diploma in Poland is called "matura" and it is often called a "maturity examination". Imagine a "maturity" where you are COMPLETELY clueless about all things which actually matter in the real life outside of school. XD

  • @DarksteelHeart
    @DarksteelHeart Před 3 lety +1607

    This reminds me of a time near the end of high school, I was in an Algebra class and the teacher was... found lacking. He would give us 100 problems every day. And the only example he gave was the first problem. He gave us pages to read, then just left us to figure it out.
    The point is that I came to a correct answer by a different method, the answer was right, and I showed my work. He scolded me and asked me to do it again in front of him.
    When I did and it figured out right, I got in trouble for talking back.
    If the education system was pure, I'd have been praised for thinking outside the box and finding a new answer.

    • @CJ-kn1cj
      @CJ-kn1cj Před 3 lety +189

      Sadly, that’s what common core math is now. They force the students to show their work but, they have to go the same route that “they” deem correct. Even if the student has the correct answer, by figuring out a different path, they are graded as incorrect. That’s stupid! They are trying to create robots.

    • @DarksteelHeart
      @DarksteelHeart Před 3 lety +140

      @@CJ-kn1cj from birth we are taught to walk and talk, but as grow up the system tells us to sit down and shut up.

    • @Metanaut1
      @Metanaut1 Před 3 lety +118

      I asked my 7th grade history teacher in first period, " why do we say the pledge of allegiance every morning?" She told everyone to put their heads on their desks, and sit there quietly, Until I lead us in the pledge of allegiance. It was my first epiphany, the longer we sat there with my refusal, the more angry and dirty looks I got from my classmates, rather than be mad at the authority figure who imposed this punishment, I became the target, I look back in fascination, at how power is used.

    • @tigerlilly3727
      @tigerlilly3727 Před 3 lety +44

      'talking back'. theres a concept thats only used by mentally inferior people that are hooked on the rush of power. whether cops, parents, teachers, lieutenants....its an admission of inferiority, armed with a night stick!

    • @tigerlilly3727
      @tigerlilly3727 Před 3 lety +63

      @@Metanaut1 wow! thats exactly whats going on with the covid lockdows! people blame neighbors for them being locked up.
      by the way, that tactic was used in the stanford prison experiment, and it was tactics like that that caused the experiment to be cancelled - due to guards developing "sadistic tendencies" !

  • @KarateWrestler205
    @KarateWrestler205 Před 4 lety +781

    Schools are made to teach you to listen to authority not to think for yourself.

    • @charlottehanna3860
      @charlottehanna3860 Před 3 lety +20

      And send you in for your Capitalists WHACKS Corporal Punishment. Daily I went to the Dean's Office for a beating. Then, when I told them that they were sheep! Haha! I turned 16. I went to school that day. Held my hand up for 45 minutes to get help with my Algebra! She, the teacher, ignored me because the students wete correcting her work on the chalk board. I got up, left tge class. Gave my book back to the teacher, only to be told that I couldn't do that. I said, Watch me! Went to the Dean's Office, and dropped, (tossed), all of their books in a chair. Said Buhbye, as the Dean of Girls at Forest Hill H.S., in West Palm Beach, Florida lost her erection know that I was tooooo smart for them. I told her, touch me again. Watch what happens then!

    • @ZackWolfMusic
      @ZackWolfMusic Před 3 lety +13

      Nor do schools teach how to be self reliant.

    • @ZackWolfMusic
      @ZackWolfMusic Před 3 lety

      @Jacob Yes I agree! But the government has soo much more power over all of us!

    • @wakeup2241
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    • @TT-hl5ql
      @TT-hl5ql Před 3 lety

      🎯

  • @lyfeoutlook7848
    @lyfeoutlook7848 Před rokem +50

    I basically peaked academically in 7th grade. I was at a college level in every subject, got nothing but 100% on end of year state tests (I was proud since in 6th grade I got 94-98% on some), then because I was so understimulated and practically reviewing for the rest of middle and highschool, It was downhill from there. So either A) my self education was so effective I was able to complete primary education in nearly half the time or B) the education system neglected me and wanted to have students like me be stifled so other students didn't feel bad. At least that was the reasoning given to me for why I couldn't skip grades. Personally, I think the system is half as effective AND is designed to stifle.

    • @chazzitz-wh4ly
      @chazzitz-wh4ly Před 11 měsíci +3

      I gave up on school in 6th grade. It all ultimately amounted to nothing and I lost interest. All that mattered were averaged out state tests scores in the spring. In the class room, if you can score well on tesrs and do some extra credit, you can avoid homework. If you can turn in all your homework, you can fail the tests. All this and you can get a passing grade as long as your attendance is in order.

    • @markmorris8532
      @markmorris8532 Před 9 měsíci +2

      This is partially why I believe in "social promotion".
      I think school is for learning basics (rr&a), and to introduce students to i some important history.
      Those who have a need to learn, will have a fire lit under them.
      Those who aren't interested in wider subjects, can get training for a job.

    • @skip031890
      @skip031890 Před 8 měsíci

      I was the same way until middle school. I just gave up and started flunking out because I just didn't want to do it anymore. I was always the smartest kid in the class and was always 5 steps ahead of the other students. There used to be this talented and gifted program that I used to wonder why I was never put in it because I knew I should have been a part of it. They had all the dumbest students in it and I never understood why, though I never questioned it out loud. Years later as an adult, I found out that parents were actually demanding that schools put their children into the program even if they were not qualified. Figures.

  • @cole5601
    @cole5601 Před 10 měsíci +13

    I've always had very high grades, however I have always understood that my curiosity and potential are not what is being graded, but my ability to do what each teacher wants based on what they praise students for. You can never win being yourself and genuinely showing an interest for the topic, because most of the times the teacher cares less than you about it. I remember cutting down on research during middle school to be able to pass my History tests, because I couldn't physically invest all the time I wanted learning about each topic without it hindering my performance. Nowadays I still enjoy learning and I'm glad I took care of myself and almost never let myself get beaten up by the school system. Learning is a core part of my happiness.

  • @sigma_six
    @sigma_six Před 3 lety +349

    Those who don't read the papers are uninformed; those who do are misinformed - Mark Twain

  • @KevinFitzMauriceEverett
    @KevinFitzMauriceEverett Před 3 lety +1023

    “And self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” -Issac Asimov

    • @trevorbailey1486
      @trevorbailey1486 Před 2 lety +6

      Wherever did he get that idea?

    • @renzob.4501
      @renzob.4501 Před 2 lety +38

      @@trevorbailey1486 probably from years of teaching himself

    • @harryhagan5937
      @harryhagan5937 Před 2 lety +22

      Henry Ford said something like "The best education is from the school of hard knocks. The problem is its graduates are too old."

    • @johnnyblade6088
      @johnnyblade6088 Před 2 lety +7

      Self taught individuals are commonly referred to as "Autodidacts".

    • @KevinFitzMauriceEverett
      @KevinFitzMauriceEverett Před 2 lety +14

      @@johnnyblade6088 Yes, because it means self-taught.

  • @TheDani305
    @TheDani305 Před rokem +50

    School was the place where I learned to fight, to pick girls up, that I didn't like smoking , it gave me good social skills and showed that I could sleep while someone was talking. Other than that I can't remember learning anything of consequence.

    • @luckyy3691
      @luckyy3691 Před rokem +13

      You could have learned that out on the street instead 😭

    • @darrylbunch6929
      @darrylbunch6929 Před rokem +4

      Did U ever take an English class ?

    • @petelee2477
      @petelee2477 Před 7 měsíci

      How do you learn to socialize in an environment where you aren't allowed to talk for the majority of the day? I learned how to socialize at work where I could actually speak without fear of being punished.

  • @zodarian6705
    @zodarian6705 Před 7 měsíci +4

    I will not obey, I will not submit, I will not comply.

    • @zodarian6705
      @zodarian6705 Před 7 měsíci

      @@invisible_empire not tough, just goddamn stubborn Irishman

    • @zodarian6705
      @zodarian6705 Před 7 měsíci

      @@invisible_empire you have no idea who the fuck I am! And you can kiss my ass while you're at it

    • @zodarian6705
      @zodarian6705 Před 7 měsíci

      @@invisible_empire and another thing while I'm at it, I am a veteran. That means I swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic. One of those constitutional rights is freedom of religion. Now I am an atheist, but what people choose to believe or not is none of my damn business. And if anyone group gets out of hand well by golly that's what the Second Amendment is for. In closing don't judge people you don't fucking know!

    • @zodarian6705
      @zodarian6705 Před 7 měsíci

      @@invisible_empire you can't honestly be that fucking clueless! Obviously that means I'm an American of Irish descent. And at damn near 60 years old yeah, I know who the fuck I am. And you are a mere troll have a lovely evening

  • @novelty_guy
    @novelty_guy Před 4 lety +634

    We're at a stage in history where the people posing as anti-authoritarian are the most authoritarian. If you don't believe me, try having a difference of opinion around one.

    • @P0RKINS2
      @P0RKINS2 Před 3 lety +21

      Amen

    • @pearlgirl5643
      @pearlgirl5643 Před 3 lety +5

      So true

    • @pearlgirl5643
      @pearlgirl5643 Před 3 lety +52

      When riots become championed by MSM it’s time to pause and reflect

    • @andrewowens4381
      @andrewowens4381 Před 3 lety +6

      Facts !!!

    • @darrenleejones3516
      @darrenleejones3516 Před 3 lety +19

      We need authority but only when it’s justified like prison for murder or voting democrat but not for not wearing a mask or having an opinion on the bullshit of coronavirus

  • @kellysue8597
    @kellysue8597 Před 4 lety +568

    "Politicians should be changed just as often as diapers... and for the same reason." -Mark Twain

    • @marmaladoe
      @marmaladoe Před 4 lety +21

      Haha!! Hadn't heard that one before... love it!! Lol!

    • @diablocell
      @diablocell Před 3 lety +11

      Now that's comedy!

    • @lgjhmovies
      @lgjhmovies Před 3 lety

      daaaamn kelly u just got SMACKED

    • @lgjhmovies
      @lgjhmovies Před 3 lety

      @@kellysue8597 i was serious btw

    • @lgjhmovies
      @lgjhmovies Před 3 lety

      I was kidding btw

  • @richardvasquez9668
    @richardvasquez9668 Před rokem +14

    Rockafeller made the school system not a bunch of thinkers;he made us to be a bunch of workers.

  • @robdom91
    @robdom91 Před rokem +14

    I was always an outsider, even in my community. Never liked going to school. But I did learn a lot in school! I learnt how not to behave when I looked at my classmates. I learnt how not to think when I looked at my teachers. They gave me some of the most useful bad examples to avoid at all costs! They hated my guts, but in the end, it benefited me greatly.

  • @embalmertrick1420
    @embalmertrick1420 Před 3 lety +199

    I stopped watching tv and reading newspapers years ago. The development of my life has skyrocketed. I literally woke up. Now, l cannot socialise with anyone, people are like zombies, repeating the same slogans, no critical thinking. No thinking!

    • @deisk2707
      @deisk2707 Před 3 lety +10

      You can socialize anyone who is influenced by the great thinkers such as Noam Chompsky. And that is us.

    • @j.sony.
      @j.sony. Před 3 lety +3

      Facts

    • @pedclarkemobile
      @pedclarkemobile Před 3 lety +25

      Superiority complex in development?

    • @E4439Qv5
      @E4439Qv5 Před 3 lety +3

      54'40" or fight.

    • @atbragdots8852
      @atbragdots8852 Před 3 lety +5

      They can't even utilize LOGIC... or actually See what's in front of their collective faces.

  • @Deeptalkers
    @Deeptalkers Před 3 lety +1232

    I feel like the people in this comment section, for the most part, are my people. Thank you for restoring my faith in the idea that we aren’t doomed, I am not alone in my thoughts.

    • @Anxmaly666
      @Anxmaly666 Před 3 lety +11

      You're welcome

    • @chrisoher
      @chrisoher Před 3 lety +28

      Much agreed. I think as time goes on, more and more people are becoming aware of what's going on.

    • @Pancake310
      @Pancake310 Před 3 lety +29

      I can't wait to find my people. The ones who realize we can put an end to this game whenever we want and stand up before the government brings the fight to our front doors and Walmart is our new home....IJS Covid vaccines are out and economic reset has already began.

    • @Pancake310
      @Pancake310 Před 3 lety +25

      When will we realize none of the slave system works without the slaves? The picture of the phn walking the human spoke volumes because If we stopped buying/using phones they couldn't control us. IF HUMANS STOP MAKING AND SPENDING MONEY THIS SYSTEM WOULD END. This would happen faster than you can starve.

    • @hmpz36911
      @hmpz36911 Před 3 lety +11

      We're still doomed, we're just aware of it.

  • @RaqueLauren
    @RaqueLauren Před rokem +15

    I don't think schools need to work too hard to dumb us down. We do a pretty darn good job of that ourselves.😂 I've witnessed the biggest unintentional social experiment of all in my lifetime. Unlimited information at our fingertips 24/7 and yet the amount of people who are willfully ignorant about literally everything never ceases to amaze me. Basically, we've failed this experiment.

  • @generator6946
    @generator6946 Před 10 měsíci +3

    I left it one day. Just got up in the middle of class and went home. Never went back for any reason.
    All I know now I learned on my own. Bought books. Watched Documentaries. I'm still learning.

  • @bobkaiser8782
    @bobkaiser8782 Před 4 lety +619

    I once saw a meme of a brick wall with the phrase "Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love" spray painted on it.

    • @russpearson9802
      @russpearson9802 Před 4 lety +30

      Brilliant

    • @fobbitoperator3620
      @fobbitoperator3620 Před 4 lety +21

      That's fuck'n deep, man...

    • @mvj1153
      @mvj1153 Před 4 lety +36

      And what religion is to spirituality...

    • @codex_logos
      @codex_logos Před 4 lety +14

      What atheism is to the mystery of life 🕊🕯🕆

    • @YamiKisara
      @YamiKisara Před 4 lety +30

      That's a quote from Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He comes from a highly religious lebanese family. He's Christian, how shocking to all your atheist lot, I know, lol.

  • @emmaaltintas7943
    @emmaaltintas7943 Před 4 lety +139

    They do not cut out the tongue for telling lies, they cut it out for speaking truths.

    • @lunalongshadow7510
      @lunalongshadow7510 Před 3 lety +3

      Reminds me of Harry Potter writing lines
      " I will not tell lies"

    • @THRITCHIE76
      @THRITCHIE76 Před 3 lety +6

      I concur with your statement as I sit and ponder on the fate of Julian Assange.
      #FreeJulianAssange

    • @DigitalDuelist
      @DigitalDuelist Před 3 lety

      Fucking powerful!

    • @DigitalDuelist
      @DigitalDuelist Před 3 lety

      @@moneypenni1694 lmao!

    • @SiliconBong
      @SiliconBong Před 3 lety +2

      You are my favourite person today!

  • @RealAlbo4life
    @RealAlbo4life Před rokem +19

    I have learned so much more from self-education at home than I ever did during my schooling all the way to my university years.
    I watch a lot of different documentaries, videos, and I also read a lot to help me think critically.

  • @abw48
    @abw48 Před rokem +5

    I finished school at the age of 14 years and 6 months in a slum school in Glasgow Scotland, 1963, however I have never let my lack of schooling get in the way of my education.... Im now 74.

  • @KevinFitzMauriceEverett
    @KevinFitzMauriceEverett Před 3 lety +628

    “All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” ―Walter Scott

    • @a.b.miller2585
      @a.b.miller2585 Před 3 lety +11

      My favorite people all have a common connection. They either withdrew or were pulled out by a parent from the public school system. These stars in my world think so far and beyond anyone else in all subjects, its so impressive. However, they also carry a varying degree of embarrassment by it. It angers me that these truly gifted people now have a deep rooted complex that was given to them as children by the very system that we entrusted to build them up and how careless words in impressionable years cause catastrophic damage to a developing mind,body and soul.

    • @jasonlee6227
      @jasonlee6227 Před 3 lety +2

      They must be a minority in todays world judging by the large population of students in public schools.

    • @doctorartphd6463
      @doctorartphd6463 Před 3 lety +12

      The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

    • @KevinFitzMauriceEverett
      @KevinFitzMauriceEverett Před 3 lety +8

      @@doctorartphd6463 “And self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” -Issac Asimov

    • @doctorartphd6463
      @doctorartphd6463 Před 3 lety +1

      @@KevinFitzMauriceEverett Agreed: Experience is the best teacher for sure !

  • @boblandon1707
    @boblandon1707 Před 4 lety +676

    “ I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers” -John Rockefeller

    • @ozymandias7392
      @ozymandias7392 Před 4 lety +59

      Bob Landon
      He designed the modern public school system. If you think “that’s bull” look it up “Rockefeller School Grant” and “Rockefeller Educational System”
      The modern school organization system seems oddly similar to it, class starts at the ring of a bell at 8, break at 10:30, lunch at 12-12:30, another break at 2 and the end of the day at 3:30.

    • @boblandon1707
      @boblandon1707 Před 4 lety +19

      Edward Ewing just like most hourly wage jobs too

    • @wesleycaspers5461
      @wesleycaspers5461 Před 4 lety +3

      Also Walmart lol

    • @trascendentalsunset
      @trascendentalsunset Před 4 lety +36

      That guy was the devil

    • @TaylorB4Life
      @TaylorB4Life Před 4 lety +36

      Rockefellers who own the FDA and a huge chunk of big pharma and oil. While the Rothschilds own the banking institution. Dangerous families.

  • @kirani111
    @kirani111 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Idk what kind of public schools you guys went to, but mine had seminars, national debate tournaments, dance, theater, music and visual arts college-level classes and freedom to choose your own curriculum outside of federal requirements. I truly appreciate the teachers who kept their opinions to themselves but forced us to come up with our own, going outside of the textbooks and standardized tests to show us contrasting versions of history and politics.

  • @beatleme2
    @beatleme2 Před 2 lety +10

    “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity” -Albert Einstein

  • @peterribolli8300
    @peterribolli8300 Před 4 lety +472

    Julian Assange is a perfect example....
    "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
    George Orwell.

    • @LadyIarConnacht
      @LadyIarConnacht Před 4 lety +1

      If you are ready for a real change, for some honesty and accountability, look into the Polstrat Project - watch, contact, join.

    • @user-nc9pc3gr4c
      @user-nc9pc3gr4c Před 4 lety

      He did publish government secrets. That is against the law

    • @peterribolli8300
      @peterribolli8300 Před 4 lety +13

      @@user-nc9pc3gr4c . So it's wrong to expose criminals?

    • @user-nc9pc3gr4c
      @user-nc9pc3gr4c Před 4 lety

      @@peterribolli8300 Turns out it takes countries to make laws, not Assange. When you become a national security concern, you put yourself on the radar. I don't recall the entire story, but I did at one point. But from my lack of memory both Assange and Snowden both did some admirable things, but they also broke the law in separate things. So they did good, and then for a lack of judgement, they published government secrets. They had other choices. Maybe I'm wrong, but everything I remember leads me to this

    • @peterribolli8300
      @peterribolli8300 Před 4 lety +22

      @@user-nc9pc3gr4c . Ask yourself, did anyone get hurt in the disclosure? No.
      Were criminals exposed? Yes.
      Why weren't the mainstream media who also published Assanges information prosecuted? Collusion.
      Cheers:)

  • @peyton4719
    @peyton4719 Před 3 lety +1218

    I've always hated school. Not because I didn't want to learn, but because I hated the way that they presented the knowledge to me. This video honestly scares me because people are addressing the issue but not enough to make a change.

    • @wachamakolit1
      @wachamakolit1 Před 2 lety +5

      Me too...

    • @DGDDice
      @DGDDice Před 2 lety +49

      @Smokey Mafia I did the bare minimum as well despite the teachers saying that if I pushed myself I could get higher marks from what they gotten from me when they talk to me but to me I wasn't interested in filling out a paper that most times wouldn't do anything to help me in the real world and was more to increase my own teachers ego so they could flaunt their students results to the others. my teachers hated me for asking constantly for the practicality of what they were teaching.

    • @zaraal-laleh6937
      @zaraal-laleh6937 Před 2 lety +9

      @@DGDDice how do you ask the practicality of their teaching? (Like example questions bc I want to offend my teachers😭)

    • @DGDDice
      @DGDDice Před 2 lety +18

      @@zaraal-laleh6937 Try to ask them when class is over if you really don't want to offend. Just ask them how can you use what they been teaching outside of school. use examples of what you know you can use outside of school for example mental arithmetic for when you go shopping and point out the things you can't see yourself using outside of lessons and ask where is the practicality of those things in the real world for the average person. don't settle for a wishy-washy answer they may try to give to try and bat you away.

    • @Sweetmotion23
      @Sweetmotion23 Před 2 lety +16

      What’s funny is this is what common core is supposed to fix….do you know that they make teachers find relational situations to their students in lessons now? I do, cuz I have to do it as a special education teacher. Believe it or not there are teachers out there that care but didn’t know how to present the information and still don’t. I can say they are trying to make school more fun and relational as well as practical but it is kinda hard when iPads and Tiktok make a kids attention span 5 seconds long. When iPads are the first babysitters in a child’s life, it changes their brain and attention span if not regulated appropriately, and in todays classrooms of elementary and middle school….that’s exactly the problem.

  • @BoricuaTaino
    @BoricuaTaino Před rokem +4

    12 years of my life wasted in school and i didnt learn nothing of value. I refused to go to college. When i got out of school, thats when i learned everything about life and how things work. School is a waste

    • @kiq654
      @kiq654 Před rokem

      Math, chemistry, social contacts and being used to learning etc etc. Nothing of value? College is easiest way to make good income and get satisfying career. Being enterpreneur is second best (also harder) and generally requires some effort and also learning new information. Like in school.
      What you learned that cant be summed by bitches are hoes and be scared of dark skinned people? School is about learning information. Not if picking girls on pickup car for date will net you rejection or ejection. Personal crap is irrelevant. Life of school is delusion as your objection to value of formal education tells it all. You were never smart...

  • @LPY-eq3ow
    @LPY-eq3ow Před rokem +14

    When I was in tenth grade we had to read Night by Elie Wiesel, a tragic story of the holocaust. But my English teacher made us go through it way too fast, like a chapter every class, which was too fast-paced for my reading patience, so I bought that book later on so I could read it at my own pace and actually remember it.

  • @bruno581
    @bruno581 Před 4 lety +488

    "It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."-Voltaire

    • @thenewtalkerguy496
      @thenewtalkerguy496 Před 4 lety +3

      Wow great quote.

    • @atomictraveller
      @atomictraveller Před 4 lety

      let me guess, no mention of charlotte iserbyt
      no mention of freemasonry
      iserbyt was reagan's secretary of education, penned "the deliberate dumbing down of america" concerning masonic collusion. congratulations reader, you've gleaned the single pertinent information on this page.

    • @marp00n
      @marp00n Před 3 lety

      atomictraveller who gave this nigga a dictionary i stfg 🤦‍♂️😂

    • @delbertosborne2390
      @delbertosborne2390 Před 3 lety

      They who fall victim to others, will be controlled by those who don't.
      --- debo
      --- 2020

    • @delbertosborne2390
      @delbertosborne2390 Před 3 lety

      They who fall victim to others, will be controlled by those who don't.
      --- debo
      ---2020

  • @1satisfiedmind
    @1satisfiedmind Před 3 lety +449

    I learned more after I barely graduated from High School. I thought I was dumb, but I was dumbed down, I thought I hated learning, and knowledge, but I craved it. I found I loved to read, and read many books, built a library that dwarfed my record collection. Years later, when I returned to my home town to visit my friends no one had grown, all were the products of the system, fat and happily ignorant of the world

    • @oceanrosethatsailsacrossth3466
      @oceanrosethatsailsacrossth3466 Před 3 lety +22

      So true.No one can think for themselves these days

    • @NarrowRoad4Jesus
      @NarrowRoad4Jesus Před 3 lety +45

      My life in a nutshell. I’m more successful and informed than the majority of my counterparts who have degrees in the “sciences”. I tell them and show them so many truths and facts, and they deny it all saying I’m the crazy one.

    • @Sh4dxwxz
      @Sh4dxwxz Před 3 lety +26

      Just go on facebook and see how much your old friends have changed. They haven't they're still the same as in highschool. Oblivious.

    • @NarrowRoad4Jesus
      @NarrowRoad4Jesus Před 3 lety +31

      @@Sh4dxwxz that’s one reason I’m not on any social media (Facebook, Instagram...) it’s like some of them never grew up. 👍🏽

    • @j.sony.
      @j.sony. Před 3 lety +1

      Same

  • @Invisible.fatty99
    @Invisible.fatty99 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Many of my best coworkers, mentors & great thinkers struggled in public school and flourished once they could self-study and pursue their passions

  • @sararatliff7707
    @sararatliff7707 Před 10 měsíci +4

    The topic of public education has actually been on my mind a lot lately. I think of all the things I wish I had been taught: skills like critical thinking, asking questions, trusting your gut/intuition, self confidence, collaboration. I also wish less time had been dedicated to rote academics and more physical, piratical skills: cooking, car repair, home repair, gardening, financial literacy, world current events, civics/government, how to stand up for yourself when you're mistreated. I wish that these things had been the focus of elementary and middle school, and that by high school, the students and teachers and parents had worked together to know what the student's learning style was and what their major interests were and how to best move forward, be that college/university or a trade school or some other vocational training.
    I did really well academically in elementary school. My mom had worked with me on number, letters, colors, the basic stuff you learned to get into kindergarten. I was at a pretty good reading level, but my knowledge of grammar and spelling were lacking. Math was terrible. Science was interesting some times, but the math aspect often got in the way. Looking back, I wish the pace of my learning and the way it was delivered could have been different. It seemed like everything went so fast, and we had to change gear at a moment's notice because we had another subject to worry about the next hour. I didn't feel like I had enough time to really ground myself, and I was too scared a lot of times to ask questions because I thought it meant I was stupid. Then in middle and high school you have way more reading and writing and homework to worry about. I found that I read slow, at the pace of standard American conversation. If I tried different study methods of skipping around the paragraph to try to get the main points, I would completely lose track of what was happening. I couldn't do the hard stuff first because I'd take forever. Summer vacation time also didn't help because all that time away from school made me forget stuff I had learned, which made it harder to keep up.
    I'm really a hands-on kind of person. I learn by being shown what to do, trying it out, being corrected if needed, then given lots of practice time. I also needed to be out of my house and in a separate space to focus on learning, because home had too many distractions. (Still does.) I also may be some form of diagnosed neurodivergant, which is its own set of issues that were never properly addressed. I was a "good" kid who didn't make that much of a fuss and did relatively well on tests, but I don't feel like I actually learned much that was useful. Hell, what little bit of college I have under my belt didn't do much for me.
    I wish we could scrap the current system and start over properly. But that's not what the billionaires want, so it's not likely to happen.

  • @petefarmer3514
    @petefarmer3514 Před 4 lety +293

    As Bob Marley said,
    ''If I was an educated man? I would be an ignorant man''.

    • @a2thee270
      @a2thee270 Před 4 lety +2

      He also said Old.pirates just a RABBi

    • @radiantrenee406
      @radiantrenee406 Před 3 lety +6

      Bob was way ahead of his time even then, I know it's an understatement

    • @darrenthompson8608
      @darrenthompson8608 Před 3 lety

      Amen !!!!!

    • @petefarmer3514
      @petefarmer3514 Před 3 lety +4

      @mark heyne
      Well, have you taken a good look at the so called Ivey league schools, lately? Take a good look at the likes of some of our anti semantic people that are in gov't positions....and where do you think they got, educated? Pretty, pathetic, and or sad....so, if I understand you. The way to go is to get brainwashed by, so called educated professors?
      Really sad, for what the democrats have done, doing....
      Crazy times we live.
      God Bless Everyone

    • @crossedlightning1
      @crossedlightning1 Před 3 lety +6

      @@petefarmer3514 I find most college educated don't have commonsense

  • @Blaqjaqshellaq
    @Blaqjaqshellaq Před 4 lety +162

    "Schools build walls in which to contain minds"--Thoreau

  • @mistful5378
    @mistful5378 Před rokem +2

    So, yeah, I've been thinking of this for a while now. Why they prolonging a simple subject. Why they can't accept a every-man's way of explaining stuff. Thank god, that I no longer actually exist inside the class room mentally. It made everything so much easier when you don't care about anything anymore.
    When I get home, I'm learning on my own because it's a lot more pleasant. There are no tests and I can strive to be better each time. And the time schools leave me with is literally making me faster by the day. I actually cannot believe the progress I'm achieving right now. It's surreal.

  • @chriscampanozzi6516
    @chriscampanozzi6516 Před rokem +1

    Fantastic information as always. Thank you.

  • @sheep.herder
    @sheep.herder Před 4 lety +665

    ever wonder why growing food isn't taught to children??considering food is essential for life...

    • @sheep.herder
      @sheep.herder Před 4 lety +65

      @Idea Headed flew straight past you...✈✈✈

    • @sheep.herder
      @sheep.herder Před 4 lety +13

      @Prospector Jay do you believe that growing food should be an integral part of schooling?

    • @sheep.herder
      @sheep.herder Před 4 lety +71

      @Idea Headed 🐑🐑🐑🐑

    • @billlumbergh9251
      @billlumbergh9251 Před 4 lety +109

      There’s a lot to know about soil, what plants grow in what climate, and what soil suits what plant. So people saying uhhh you put seeds in dirt and just water it....idiots that probly can’t keep a front lawn alive

    • @themagnus2919
      @themagnus2919 Před 4 lety +17

      Also...taxes, economics, geopolitics, financing, etc.

  • @gintongaparador999
    @gintongaparador999 Před 2 lety +1007

    I've always seen school as a prison. The education system is flawed. I've seen it. Students are divided and classified into categories, from the dumbest to the smartest kids. If you fail a test, they assume that you are lazy or just stupid. We are ranked by grades and intelligence is measured based on one's performance in school. When I got into college, I realized we weren't learning. We were in survival. Grades were our priority. We were expected to absorb so much information with little time. I find it absurd. We are not robots.

    • @cacatr4495
      @cacatr4495 Před 2 lety +92

      You're not, but that's what they want, robots.

    • @ItsCoreyLynxxYall
      @ItsCoreyLynxxYall Před 2 lety +3

      The US public schools are right wing authoritarian strongholds that allow bullying of those who dare express themselves differently, namely LGBTQ students. Sadly the very people helping propagate that narrow minded bigotry are the ones who see videos like this and think it's the left being authoritarian and stupid, which of course couldn't be more opposite of truth.

    • @based9930
      @based9930 Před 2 lety +20

      "We are not robots."
      Most people are robots. try to speak rationally to someone about the uselessness of masks or vaccines. Try to explain to a leftist that Biden or Trump or Obama is just lying to them while selling them out. Most people are incapable of rational thought and school isn't the reason. The hardware is.

    • @stockpistol
      @stockpistol Před 2 lety +51

      When i was school they made me feel like if i don't pass I going homeless at 18 so for the longest time I always felt a bit suicidal from time to time until I learned that there's still plenty of jobs that don't require you to have good grades

    • @sharonjensen3016
      @sharonjensen3016 Před 2 lety +31

      Too many of the teachers I had assumed I was lazy and stupid when I was anything but. I just wasn't interested in what they were teaching or the way they taught.

  • @zippyz4170
    @zippyz4170 Před rokem +4

    Couldn't agree more with these statements. Up until 8th grade it was just pure hell of being bullied and harassed by nuns(catholic school) and kids. Once I went away to a boarding school out of state...things changed massively. I was able to challenge myself and find things I enjoyed and was passionate about. To this day I'm still curious and always learning new things from religion to tech to gardening to psychology and on and on. I thoroughly enjoy learning new subjects and I just find the world fascinating. A degree doesn't measure intelligent...it just shows that you can follow along to another persons demands.

  • @vickimann3262
    @vickimann3262 Před 10 měsíci

    I think being thoughtful and seeing every eventuality is so rare it is a revolutionary act!

  • @bobinspired2087
    @bobinspired2087 Před 4 lety +679

    *Democracy is not what is right or wrong, it is what's popular.*

    • @donnyvu5153
      @donnyvu5153 Před 4 lety +42

      Republic is majority vote. Good luck with the majority with no moral compass.

    • @leonardc1303
      @leonardc1303 Před 4 lety +7

      Bob inspired By whom would you prefer to be ruled. The people who filled your head with their beliefs?

    • @donnyvu5153
      @donnyvu5153 Před 4 lety +11

      @Eileen Senior i agree. but just look at the people they put in office. lmao. even republican have no sense of moral sometimes. where is under God and the morality the Western civilization was built upon. when leaders leading has no moral compass to steer the ship, we are bound to crash when time get hard.

    • @Aaron-nx8cf
      @Aaron-nx8cf Před 4 lety +10

      Luckily we are a Republic!

    • @brynleytalbot778
      @brynleytalbot778 Před 4 lety +11

      How true. Populist policy with little chance of it being enacted. In the US lobbyists hold power not democracy. Aldus Huxley spoke about personalities appealing beyond rational logical thought predicting the next presidential elections in 1964 would be masterminded by advertisers. Without massive cash backing you don't get into the presidential race. It's hardly democratic. Business backers want pay backs for support.

  • @bobtoner9820
    @bobtoner9820 Před 4 lety +84

    I was a flunky in public school. My education began after high school. Who knew I would be much better off

    • @jessesdomain444
      @jessesdomain444 Před 3 lety +14

      Same man. I was a d and c minus student not because I was slow but I just didnt care

    • @adarksidecry
      @adarksidecry Před 3 lety

      @@jessesdomain444 same

    • @yul4206
      @yul4206 Před 3 lety +2

      Same said it for years our school have been designed to be a factory worker. Look into the era when they were Made everything and why its quite interesting.

    • @dallashull1
      @dallashull1 Před 3 lety

      @@jessesdomain444 June

    • @williammunny9916
      @williammunny9916 Před 3 lety

      *_Jeremiah 23.29 “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?_*
      _Jesus Christ loves you. Repent and be saved. Only Jesus Christ saves. God bless you, and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family..._

  • @cdc3
    @cdc3 Před rokem +2

    In my opinion, this is the best video produced under this channel.
    While a "product" ostensibly of public schools myself during the 50's and 60's, my love of learning was kindled by my daily breakfast at my grandparents home two blocks from where my family lived. By the age of 12, both my brother and I had been trough many of the Harvard Classics. Our table talk was often theology, poetry and the like. School was boring by comparison. Heck, school was boring period, having to sit silent for the most part and rarely exposed to any wonders of the world which might ignite curiosity in us.
    When my turn came with our children, they never saw the inside of a public school. My wife was the main teacher, but all moments of the day were open for questions and answers which stretched both our kids and ourselves. Sometimes their education took the form of walking outside on our brush covered 5 acres to watch a constrictor kill and swallow a rat or vole. we took trips next door a couple of time to watch hogs being slaughtered and prepped. We raised domestic animals for food ourselves. My wife taught the kids to mummify Cornish Game hens in the manor of Egyptian burials. We had three levels in our house and each one had it's own extensive library which they could and did use on a great number of subjects. In fact, my wife challenged me once to find a book on a very obscure subject. Minutes later I handed her a book on it.
    So, what was the result of our kids not being publicly educated? The average school day lasted 2 hours because they got individual tutoring. We raised to very independent people and yet never had teen rebellion, later living together as adults until each married at 28 and 26 respectively. By the time he was 23, my son had graduated from high school, college and had his Master's in Electronic Engineering as well as 5 years of employment by Intel in chip design. He holds several patents from that time.
    My daughter went on to start in a health supplement wholesale business to the chagrin of the office manager, an older woman who didn't like teens. In a very short time they became best friends and my daughter started minor management there as a result. She later paid her own way to go on a dig at Megiddo, Israel with a world famous archaeologist there. It's how she learned not to trust archaeologists...
    Public education kills or stultifies curiosity and constructive independence. This video correct traces it back to the Prussian model of education designed to make dumbed down cooperative "useful" tools of that population, particularly in the area of the Military which desired "kadavergehorsam", the "obedience of a cadaver" which has no will of it's own, often mistranslated as "blind obedience". The Prussian model was basically introduced to this country by the reputed "Father of Public Education", Horace Mann around 1837. In 1844 he was quoted having the purpose of it as "to divorce the American people from their religion".
    It took 160+ years, but he's finally succeeded...

  • @Why-nv2js
    @Why-nv2js Před 7 měsíci

    No wonder why my favorite elementary math teacher discard me from my classmates. While I’m outsider observing my classmates and teacher.

  • @pooja350
    @pooja350 Před 3 lety +210

    I'm glad I resisted it for 17 years. All I ever did was question things. Led me into a lot of trouble and I don't regret it.

    • @maxalberts2003
      @maxalberts2003 Před 3 lety +1

      How's life as a gas station attendant working out for you?

    • @jamesmonto9562
      @jamesmonto9562 Před 3 lety +11

      @@maxalberts2003 The same can be said about most college graduates. They’ll enslave you with the loans to be working a job that isn’t in your field.

    • @MG-qm8if
      @MG-qm8if Před 3 lety +5

      And now they want us to take their so called vaccines which they created in order to 'save us'. Those who seek the truth will find it.
      czcams.com/users/TheJonathankleck
      Everyone please see this. Before you watch i warn you do not speak bad about the person or the message because if you are a Christian you will know of the only sin which is unforgiveable which is calling a gift from God as evil so please don't do this and instead ask Jesus for understanding. If non Christian and you haven't asked Jesus to come into your life and forgive you and save you then please do so, its the only way to save our souls. They are trying to make us unredeemable by changing our genetic makeup. I mean think about it its the first time a MRNA vaccine is being pushed and only at 10months. All of a sudden we have a virus and all the vaccines they're making are all MRNA vaccines. There is an agenda behind all of this.
      If sceptical I warn you again don't speak against the message in the video or the messenger but do your own research too.
      Look at the TED talk where Bill Gates spoke himself about the vaccination agenda to reduce the world population, he did say it, you can't fact check it as Facebook does to all the posts trying to reveal the truth. Even if conspiracy theories exist denying the truth and labelling everything a conspiracy theory is just ignorance. Look at the Georgia guides stones that say to maintain the population below a certain number.
      czcams.com/video/ZnpnBYgGARE/video.html
      See this video on a Microbiologist explaining the truth of the pandemic.
      brandnewtube.com/v/75grLS
      Other healthcare professionals also express their concern.

    • @peterschulze491
      @peterschulze491 Před 3 lety +7

      @@MG-qm8if Antivaxxers can take a hike! Ask a virologist, a scientist, you numb-skull

    • @coffintears5821
      @coffintears5821 Před 3 lety +9

      @@peterschulze491 the corona virus vaccine has been known to change your dna your genetic make up

  • @JRodriguez88
    @JRodriguez88 Před 2 lety +583

    My experience of school was a environment where teachers make jokes about their unhappiness at their jobs, blaming students, and calling people up to the marker board to make them look stupid. Everything useful for myself I learned out of curiosity. Social conditioning toward a half assed society.

    • @therespectedlex9794
      @therespectedlex9794 Před rokem +6

      In my experience in depends on age, ability (worse when increased, for both) and on the school or college.

    • @petebusch9069
      @petebusch9069 Před 11 měsíci +9

      Yep, that's all teachers do these days walking around with this poor me attitude. That said I can't really blame them because they don't have decent platform to work from. The schools are a joke and their only option is to quit and find a new direction.

    • @taleseylad1249
      @taleseylad1249 Před 10 měsíci

      @@petebusch9069 or deal with a shitty job

    • @Rudimentary007
      @Rudimentary007 Před 9 měsíci

      Truth.👍👍👍

    • @qua7771
      @qua7771 Před 9 měsíci

      I had the same experience. Being left handed, I hated that marker board. Military technical classroom training was completely different. It was an effective way to learn.

  • @KarrieDreammind5
    @KarrieDreammind5 Před rokem +2

    Throughout all of my school years I absolutely detested history class! It was stressing me out having to memorize huge pieces of text by heart, specific names, dates and events. I hates having to write complicated essays on topics I felt I didn't really understand. After I graduated and started relaxing and spending my time on things I like and things that interest me, I gradually found myself gravitating towards history. It took me a while but I realised that I am actually really interested in history. What I don't do is memorize names, dates and specific events. But I love searching for and understanding different aspects of human history.
    Ironically, as an adult and given what's been happening to the world since the p1andemic, I am actually very glad I was pushed to analyse how dictatorships came to power, how people were manipulated through propaganda and what the world could possibly look like in the future if we're not careful, as illustrated by George Orwell in 1984 - another book on my curriculum. If it wasn't for history & literature class I would have never known these things and I probably would have fallen for the government's propaganda in 2020 and onwards. But now I am even baffled as to how it is possible that so many other people don't see history literally repeating itself, if we all studied about the dictatorships around the world in school!

  • @eastafrika728
    @eastafrika728 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Public schools are designed to do 2 things. 1. Keep people from accessing relevant skills. 2. Keep people from doing their own research

  • @SofronPolitis
    @SofronPolitis Před 2 lety +364

    I used to be a stellar student, poised for a career in the sciences... Until bullying, boring teachers, and the early wake-ups during highschool killed my childhood dream, my motivation, and my performance.
    School succeeded in making me mediocre.

    • @ln1056
      @ln1056 Před 2 lety +8

      Mediocrity is a choice. Take back your life.

    • @varmastiko2908
      @varmastiko2908 Před 2 lety +26

      I never lost my performance but instead became better and better academically until I realized how incredibly low the standards of everything really are. That killed what little motivation I had left. But what made me finally quit is not the low standards but the true values of academia that became ever more clear the longer I tried to endure.

    • @seeker11
      @seeker11 Před 2 lety +16

      @@ln1056 Indeed, don't let them win by giving up. Buckle up and charge towards your goals.

    • @yourdedcat-qr7ln
      @yourdedcat-qr7ln Před 2 lety +21

      Just learn what you want at your pace. And adopt a scientific mind and a good form of measurement that you can whole and divide and have alignment. Everybody needed a system to figure stuff out. Just make your own if need be or adopt knowledge into your language.

    • @JamesPCroad
      @JamesPCroad Před 2 lety +1

      @@seeker11 Remember: the people who created the school system are also responsible for the heavily weighted systems found in higher education and the work place.
      EVERYTHING is against the modern graduate or school leaver. Systems of finance, education, and work.
      It's almost as if you get one chance not to screw it up before the stakes get higher (stakes = financial and time cost).
      We don't have a true free market economy and we don't have true freedom, especially not with the rise of Covaids justified totalitarianism, so the average person is as much a subject of this system or slave, as it ever was, in spite of the 'pleasures' and benefits of our technological age (or technocracy, rather).
      There were only a couple of generations that appeared to 'win' at life; found post war and before the complete deregulation of finance and the technological advancement of the financial, and now social, credit system.
      These 'winners' are the people of a certain age currently wearing masks and being afraid of what the news, tells them.
      Such people are the rule followers because the rules always worked.
      Anyway, yeah, take back your life, etc. and other pearls of glibbery.

  • @anneflynn9614
    @anneflynn9614 Před 2 lety +506

    I am a retired teacher.After I had been a teacher for about eight years,standardized tests became the most important aspect of education.Way,way way too much time was spent preparing students for these tests.The school,administrators and teachers are judged by these test scores.School time should have been used to educate students not prepare them to pass a test.I have always suspected this was deliberate so children wouldn’t learn to think for themselves.

    • @tmrabanus
      @tmrabanus Před 2 lety +78

      Standardized tests are rubbish. You teach kids to memorize and then when the test is taken all that gets thrown in the trash. In the end the child has learned has nothing but to memorize what authority wants them to memorize. It's training so that when they become adults they can follow orders on production lines

    • @Eldomibori
      @Eldomibori Před 2 lety +45

      I’m glad I learned the truth when I did. My grandma was a teacher for over 40 years but unfortunately she’s highly brainwashed by the system to the point she listens to everything the news says and refuses to question anything. She walks away when I try to discuss this with her. It’s sad what they’re doing to people in these indoctrination centers.

    • @sparta2705
      @sparta2705 Před 2 lety +11

      @@Eldomibori the saddest part about this is not that people cant see what's going on, it's that many just dont care. No offense to your grandma, but those people cant be helped and will end up left behind. Family comes first, but some people can only be helped so much.

    • @Eldomibori
      @Eldomibori Před 2 lety +16

      @@sparta2705 I couldn’t agree more. It’s unfortunate but I’ve tried everything that I could. She’s been programmed to the point to where the only thing she believes is the mainstream news. ABC news to be specific. Also, she loves the tool, Jimmy Kimmel. When I discuss things with her, it’s to the point where she just laughs and calls it silly, when it’s anything but. It annoys me inside but there’s nothing else I can do. People like that simply can’t be helped no matter how much evidence you put in their face.

    • @sparta2705
      @sparta2705 Před 2 lety +8

      @@Eldomibori you understand the situation. It's a sad one, but that is the reality of the magnificent force and preplanned organization we are dealing with. We can win, but it wont be easy. Just be prepared to fight. I'm guessing your young, well I can relate. I'm only 20. Stay in the fight brother. We need all hands on deck. Including yours!

  • @RvNYC
    @RvNYC Před rokem +9

    Mandatory schools are meant to give the average person reading and writing skills. It really IS up to the parents to raise individuals. Individual teachers can be Mentors, but It also goes without saying that no amount of schooling produces an Einstein, or Ramanujan.

  • @leed1245
    @leed1245 Před rokem +3

    I was lucky. I had an amazing physics teacher in high school. I was one of those students who was a pain. I questioned everything and belittled my teachers. I was a problem teen. But this man was not bothered by my teen angst. He embraced it. He said to me forget everything you have learned so far except civics. He explained the calculus and math that I was struggling with up to that point. All of a sudden in 1 month my grades exploded to the plus side. Top honors. He turned me onto early Greek philosophy. So now I had real bite and started asking really hard questions to all of my teachers. That’s when I started to get suspended from school. Insubordination they called it. I would tell the principle that I am following the rules. So..?? I was told questioning authority is not following the rules. That physics teacher was also a professor at a local college. So when I got suspended he would let me audit some classes at the college he taught. He went to the school board to discuss my “case”. He got me out high school a year early and into the college instead. I had the courses that I was taking at Lehigh University for credits my last year of high school. My high school said I was disruptive and caused problems. All I did was ask questions.

    • @bloggalot4718
      @bloggalot4718 Před 11 měsíci

      Do you know what happened to Socrates for asking too many questions?

  • @philby1
    @philby1 Před 3 lety +213

    Never watch the mainstream media. I haven't for years. Much happier for it.

    • @KellyGreenScarf
      @KellyGreenScarf Před 3 lety +12

      I made a decision to stop watching recently. Instead I tune into alternative sources for news. There are a few that I trust. I do still see snippets of things here and there from msm and I usually feel a surge of anger and frustration bc it seems so manipulative and dishonest.

    • @DK-tv6rk
      @DK-tv6rk Před 3 lety +1

      @@KellyGreenScarf How do you even know which news source to trust? I'm curious.

    • @KellyGreenScarf
      @KellyGreenScarf Před 3 lety +3

      @@DK-tv6rk Because they say out loud what I’m already concluding on my own. Their words resonate. Propaganda outlets like CNN do not at all. Instead I hear the lies and feel pissed off and anxious and disempowered. Outlets I trust make me feel empowered and informed.

    • @lessthanpinochet
      @lessthanpinochet Před 2 lety +1

      Same. Got rid of social media too.

    • @mediumstudio
      @mediumstudio Před 2 lety

      If you know opinion from fact you can navigate it - and glean information

  • @slimshady3648
    @slimshady3648 Před 3 lety +435

    This is why most of us were never taught anything about civics growing up.

    • @rattycaddy
      @rattycaddy Před 3 lety +8

      They still had it when I was in HS. It basically taught us to become heavy consumer debt slaves

    • @303TAG303
      @303TAG303 Před 3 lety +8

      @Iron Man and any other braindead politician, nice bias

    • @mierdadeburo303
      @mierdadeburo303 Před 3 lety +13

      Honda’s suck anyway

    • @NODE1975
      @NODE1975 Před 3 lety +9

      I took Civics in 1989. It changed my perspective on everything. 4th of July was my favorite holiday until then. I have not stood for the national anthem since we read that full poem in that Civics class. I also learned not trust politicians that year. When I was finally old enough to vote, I registered as an Independent. Then the party got diluted with dems and reps so I am now unaffiliated.

    • @NODE1975
      @NODE1975 Před 3 lety +2

      @@rattycaddy you must've had a bad Civics teacher. We didn't learn to be any of that from my teacher.

  • @mariammusri5640
    @mariammusri5640 Před rokem

    Thank you SO MUCH for making this...

  • @rohinshanker2275
    @rohinshanker2275 Před 3 lety +167

    "no one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them"
    -Assata Shakur

  • @Masomitsu
    @Masomitsu Před 2 lety +664

    When I was growing up my father always told me that school was a necessary evil but that I should never let my curiosity get suffocated by so called authorities. My time in school was understandibly hard. My grades were bad all around and I had a lot of troubles with my teachers. When I first discovered my love for healthcare everything changed. I spent almost all of my free time absorbing everything around healthcare that looked interesting to me. Now after 7 long years of studying I got my nursing degreee without a lot of studying and I'm finally free to work and pursue whatever knowledge I desire. My boss at the psychward clashed many times with me already because I refuse to blindly obey to whatever the suit and tie wearing people who think they know what they are talking about say. After every "crisis talk" with my boss he tells me that I'm the best pain in the ass he ever had and that I should never change who I am and what I stand for. Thanks for shaping me the right way pops, I miss you.
    Love to all of you who haven't forgot how to ask questions and think for themselfs.

    • @phaedrussmith1949
      @phaedrussmith1949 Před rokem +14

      Awesome. Don't stop being you.

    • @melmee2235
      @melmee2235 Před rokem +31

      Thank God for good fathers and good father figures, "they" want a world without them.

    • @pincopallino8176
      @pincopallino8176 Před rokem +12

      Strange story. Wait until you understand that they teach you wrong in nursing school too. Not to mention that you obviously felt flattered by your BOSS praising you. So you have respect and listen to authorities. Mission accomplished I would say.

    • @Masomitsu
      @Masomitsu Před rokem +5

      @@pincopallino8176 A comment from Mr. know it all - so thankful for such an amazing take 👌

    • @pincopallino8176
      @pincopallino8176 Před rokem +15

      @@Masomitsu Then tell me where Im wrong. Since Covid we know the medical establishment is problematic. I lost all respect for nurses and doctors. Even before Covid tbh.

  • @64offsuiter
    @64offsuiter Před 11 měsíci +2

    I think I can offer another insight as a teacher. I've been teaching 18 years in both primary (junior) and high schools and every year I've taught, I've always encouraged children to challenge me (academically) and give time to discuss why something is right or wrong. As a maths teacher, I still find it rewarding when i lead students in a direction with the odd hint and they then 'discover' a relationship or a pattern themselves. A lot of the newer teachers do seem to be scared to deviate ever so slightly from the curriculum and open up discussions - all of the young 30somethings and below seem to just follow plans to the letter and don't even consider embracing enjoyment and creativity - even though this almost always is the most memorable. The training programmes are flawed in this respect and the focus needs to be more on critical thinking, enjoyment, investigation, resilience and curiousity more than anything else. Particularly, school league tables. The current system makes people leave school hating education which in term makes those people as parents have a negative viewpoint of schools with regards to their own children who then in turn build up an unhealthy lack of aspiration and poorer attitude to act of learning and educationnin general. And so the cycle then continues. I think I've always loved learning to some degree. I didn't like all subjects at school and happily tell this to the students I teach. No bs. Tell them the truth. Learning platforms like Udemy are ace for learning any new skill you wish to learn but I do think the UK education system needs a bit of an overhaul and the US system needs a complete national reboot (I work with a former US teacher and we regularly discuss the differences and similarities). By all accounts, THE US system is utterly dire.

  • @artofmusic303
    @artofmusic303 Před 8 měsíci +2

    I loved school - a small town public school. I learned a lot and wanted to continue learning. Your attitude affects how much you learn more than the quality of your teachers or the amount of funding spent. 24-hour cable "news" channels have always been pure info-tainment. Turn off the TV. Learn how to recognize a credible source of information. Develop critical thinking skills. Be skeptical of what you see on CZcams. Subscribe to a newspaper with a long track record of serious journalism. Read a book.

  • @Kuuppon
    @Kuuppon Před 4 lety +213

    This makes a lot of sense now. When growing up my dad told me to QUESTION EVERYTHING and when I did I'd get in trouble at school almost all the time. I can happily say I still question everything and so does my dad.

    • @nikolavanzettiteslasacco4991
      @nikolavanzettiteslasacco4991 Před 4 lety +7

      Keep it going 💪💪💪 your not alone.

    • @MariaMartinez-researcher
      @MariaMartinez-researcher Před 4 lety +3

      There is a difference between making questions and disrespecting people, specially teachers.

    • @elvolution93
      @elvolution93 Před 4 lety +3

      María Martínez YOURE a moron

    • @maximomanabat8382
      @maximomanabat8382 Před 4 lety +1

      I envy you for having a father like yours

    • @ussarng4649
      @ussarng4649 Před 4 lety +1

      @@elvolution93 she probably isnt a moron.
      As i was scrolling down the thought that came to me was hopely they didnt question everything as in every single thing. This is because each individual needs a core of moral truth. For example I just came from a discussion where there was an individual advocating that sex with some children is a good and praiseworthy thing. Hopefully most people can see this is wrong without ever questioning if there is a cicumstance in which it is right. This knowing that certian community standards are right saves the world from the tyranny of anarchy.

  • @TheDreamDetective888
    @TheDreamDetective888 Před 2 lety +128

    "I never let school get in the way of my education."
    -Mark Twain

  • @danijellino1921
    @danijellino1921 Před 11 měsíci

    I was always super curious. And i always found what they were teaching in schools lacking in all aspects.
    I noticed this more the older i got and by the time i was 15 i was basically not listening to my teachers any longer. I just grabbed the book on the subject we were studying and began working through it by myself. I noticed that not only was i faster then everybody else in my understanding of whatever subject we were going through but i also often times surpassed the Teacher in my knowledge.
    I basically cruised through school with good notes even though i never studied for any tests. And what a suprise (not really) i was ostracized for it. Not only by my Teachers but also my fellow students. Altough i think the Students were more jealous then anyhing else.

  • @richh1576
    @richh1576 Před 8 měsíci

    The greatest handicap of modern education (K-12 especially) is the failure of those who 'teach' is: 1.Lack of subject UNDERSTANDING of the by those who teach .... Eg. Curriculuum 'Readers'. 2. Inability of those who teach to INSPIRE their students to understand and "think 'critically' within the subject matter: Eg. Rules Followers.

  • @guitarandmore69
    @guitarandmore69 Před 3 lety +338

    "You must be a good little consumer. In debt, and sick in mind, body, and spirit. We'll show you how."

    • @hobnob666
      @hobnob666 Před 3 lety +10

      I actually don’t believe in a spirit. I think religion is all a part of the brainwashing scheme. I find it very odd in the story of Adam & Eve it teaches obedience & not to question authority. That’s pretty scary to think about. Religion is man made cause they wanna believe in false hopes & lies. They’ll defend it even with death which is sad because it’s a waste of all possible critical thinkers who wouldn’t fall for the religion trap.

    • @guitarandmore69
      @guitarandmore69 Před 3 lety +13

      @@hobnob666 Think of it scientifically then. If someone is depressed, their spirit is sick. It's a situational/chemical thing that causes it, but someone's emotional state could be considered their spirit...

    • @hobnob666
      @hobnob666 Před 3 lety +6

      @@guitarandmore69 That’s where I disagree, that’s a false conclusion since there’s no evidence for a spirit. What you’re saying is emotions lead to depression, they never get out of their depression, therefore their spirit exists & is sick. I’d ask where’s your evidence? Did you observe their spirit getting sick? That’s just learned helplessness. It’s a learned feeling when you’re constantly feeling like a failure. There’s nothing spiritual about that. There’s also no evidence that spirits exist. It’s just like the religion argument, both require faith without evidence. So why believe it? The mind & body all have operations they must follow in order to keep the body healthy. If something goes wrong or changes, the person will be affected. We can make grandiose conclusions all day just because there’s certain rare cases we can’t figure out but false conclusions aren’t the right way to go about things scientifically. Now religious people might accept it but that’s because they’ll believe anything in blind faith that supports their doctrine.

    • @guitarandmore69
      @guitarandmore69 Před 3 lety +21

      @@hobnob666 We can argue semantics all day long. You seem to be hyper focused on religion for some reason. We'll have to agree to disagree. Also there's a difference between religion and spirituality. You may want to look into quantum mechanics to get a more scientific approach to spirituality.

    • @hobnob666
      @hobnob666 Před 3 lety +4

      @@guitarandmore69 The way I see it with science, spirituality gets mixed up with the mind meaning spirituality is just a part of the mind. But people mistake certain spiritual feelings for being separate from the mind when it’s actually a product of it. It’s kinda like how they mistake the feeling of making their own decisions means free will exists but that’s all an illusion. All influences ultimately dictate the decision making process which ultimately dictates the final decision. We aren’t free at all even with randomization cause randomization will happen no matter what, it’s no one’s will. So we may feel like a spirit exists but that doesn’t mean it’s true. That’s the connection I was making there.

  • @penguinslife7013
    @penguinslife7013 Před 4 lety +179

    This comment section gives me hope, thank y’all for being anti-authority.

    • @matushova1779
      @matushova1779 Před 4 lety +7

      It depends on what the Authority is over us. It could be a good thing.

    • @BythepeopleForthepeople203
      @BythepeopleForthepeople203 Před 3 lety +5

      No, its being pro intelligence.

    • @theofulk5636
      @theofulk5636 Před 3 lety +1

      ANTI-TYRANNY ! Those of the truth will be the UNSTOPPABLE "authority" from now on.

    • @AbandonedVoid
      @AbandonedVoid Před 3 lety +1

      @Your Worst Nightmare - Facts To those with eyes, this here is a slumbering calf, too steeped in the dream to imagine an education without control, and too afraid to awake to its ineptitude.

    • @xAnonymousComedia
      @xAnonymousComedia Před 3 lety

      Doesn't blindly following philosophers from 18th and 17th centuries make you equally a sheep?
      Is it true the school system is so bad that it needs to be removed? Would we have been able to write so clearly if it wasn't for it?

  • @Grace-bd3fy
    @Grace-bd3fy Před rokem +8

    I tried to go into education in America, but I dropped out of my student teaching a couple days ago. I felt disturbed by how much surveillance, politics, and infantilization was in the school system. I will still graduate with a degree in my subject area, even though I didn’t learn much of anything. I am relieved. Now I can stop being held back by the system and start my real education.

    • @kaden-sd6vb
      @kaden-sd6vb Před 8 měsíci

      It wasn't good previously, but since 2020(thank God I made it out of high school in 2020) it's gotten drastically worse according to everything I've seen, and according to my younger sister as well.

  • @asdsasa7129
    @asdsasa7129 Před rokem

    A tha hle mai, Mizoram needs enlightenment.

  • @cubeincubes
    @cubeincubes Před 4 lety +142

    ‘Choosing the comfort of illusion over the desire for truth’. That sums it up. People who are accurately informed seem like the crazy ones

    • @rustynails5797
      @rustynails5797 Před 4 lety +1

      each person decides '' which is right and which is an illusion ''.
      On any subject there would be opposing views both sides thinking they're the smart one and the other sides thinking fails with dunning-kruger effect. thecontextofthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mjaxnc0xzdu1zjvhmtrknmu5mdlj_52e83fd048990.png

    • @rustynails5797
      @rustynails5797 Před 4 lety

      @K A you need to get off the fluoride and hfcs you're getting clogged up , Mr dungpile . You're obviously one of those idiots that think they're smart , you're not

    • @DaveE99
      @DaveE99 Před 4 lety +2

      This is where it gets even more our burden to question ourselves and to figure out how we should be questioning ourselves

    • @johnnyaingel5753
      @johnnyaingel5753 Před 4 lety

      Truth exactly well said

  • @HeatherHolt
    @HeatherHolt Před 11 měsíci

    I am blessed my dad worked his ass off to provide me with a private school education where our learning styles were individualized and we enjoyed school overall. Being smart was looked at as a goal instead of something to be ashamed of.
    My stepson is in public school and wow… what a horrid difference the way his school works vs how mine did and still does. Sadly at this time his grades are too bad to ever get into a private school.
    I mean, damn, they pass kids with Fs in basics like math and English! The average rate of kids who graduate with even basic math, science and English skills in my state (TN) is 30%.
    It’s no wonder people work for crumbs. They don’t have the confidence to ask for more money.

  • @a8f235
    @a8f235 Před 10 měsíci +1

    The number one thing schools have forgotten to deliver on is teaching kids *_HOW_* to learn. Anyone can say: *_Here, read this and we will test what you have learned..._*
    I was never interested in memorizing stuff because it shows little to no understanding of the content. Schools need to work on making the kids interested in learning in general and showing why they should learn this or that, and what it can be of use for. So many kids lag behind simply because they are being ignored by the teacher and why do homework and all of that if you have no clue what you will benefit from doing so.
    As a kid you have no clue what adult life really is other than what you see. You will only really know when you get there yourself, and this is why adults for once need to start to engage with the child and work with him/her to create understanding in a way he/she can understand. Then and only then you can move one step further. It's irrelevant if you understand, if the child does not. It's the child that need the understanding and you have to make yourself aware of that.
    *_- TEACH HOW TO LEARN._*

  • @mauss9
    @mauss9 Před 3 lety +1319

    Question everything is now the same as being a conspiracy theorists

    • @balkanblackpillvideosandmo8456
      @balkanblackpillvideosandmo8456 Před 3 lety +126

      Never stop questioning

    • @Steve_305
      @Steve_305 Před 3 lety +101

      The moment they start labeling you get out those are zombies who will try to drag you into their misery

    • @Mhmm_sure
      @Mhmm_sure Před 3 lety +43

      Well nothing wrong with asking questions, but doubling down on a hypothesis in the face of verifiable evidence to the contrary is when conspiracy theorist gets tossed out.

    • @lisala-qw1vo
      @lisala-qw1vo Před 3 lety +45

      Conspiracy theories happen in families and common scenarios. If two people agree to achieve anything, that can be considered a conspiracy. The entire gamut of this dirty conspiracy theory has been used to mock anything that's associated with an unpopular perspective. Most people will never understand how deeply impacted their mind and beliefs... even though they weren't aware of it.

    • @mauss9
      @mauss9 Před 3 lety +7

      www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=53510#relPageId=2
      projectunspeakable.com/conspiracy-theory-invention-of-cia/

  • @dreamsofturtles1828
    @dreamsofturtles1828 Před 4 lety +52

    A college professor once told me "My job is to put the finishing touches on their lobotomies. But thats not what i do. If i can get them to think for themselves, i have done my true job."
    He often made provocative, sometimes politically incorrect statments in class to force students to really think about their positions, not regurgitate learned opinions. He sometimes came close to getting fired .

    • @tw3ntythr337
      @tw3ntythr337 Před 4 lety +9

      THAT is a TRUE TEACHER.

    • @dysplasiaanaplasia4128
      @dysplasiaanaplasia4128 Před 4 lety +1

      Nice... Great tactic to make people think...

    • @rafaelsantibanez5204
      @rafaelsantibanez5204 Před 3 lety +1

      My biology teacher from 7th grade also made us do that although I was struggling(mainly because im use to them telling me what to do) I was later able to improve and question things like why do we need reading and writing from pre-school to 11th grade if all I need is to read a book and later religion

    • @TheLisa-Al-Gaib
      @TheLisa-Al-Gaib Před 3 lety +1

      That’s fantastic!

    • @Charles-hy6gp
      @Charles-hy6gp Před 3 lety

      Teachers like him need to do it in secret, because if the deep state discover him doing that they gonna get fired