Success at School vs Success in Life
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2016
- Many people who do brilliantly at school turn out not to do so well at life. Why?
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"We want to do well at school for an obvious reason: because - as we’re often told - it’s the primary route to doing well at life.
Few of us are in love with the A grades themselves - we want them because we’re understandably interested in one day having a fulfilling career, a pleasant house and the respect of others.
But, sometimes, more often than seems entirely reassuring, something confusing occurs: we come across people who triumphed at school - but flunked at life. And vice versa…”
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You are 20 years late with this video...
It's never too late. However old you may be, you're still the master of your destiny.
Destiny doesn't have any good content right now, it is all about Overwatch now days
Them ana amaries always messing with your life
Well, maybe in civil respect, yes; but it seems to me that the governments of the world haven't quite caught up with the idea yet?
+Aza Jabar lol rly dude?
"School curricula is not reverse engineered from fulfilled adult life." What a statement!
School curricula was never meant to teach applied skills.
Those come in college's senior years.
Schools teach basic subjects, discipline, and overall how to study/learn.
+TarlanT "overall how to study/learn." I disagree. I think it's actually the reverse.
I was taught a particular religion before I was introduced to philosophy and critical thinking in college.
*I was fed "truths" before I was asked to question them.
I was ordered to memorize symbols in math until I was taught logic and how to prove math expressions.
*I was RAISED to use math before I was asked to question them.
it's actually the reverse. everything is applied until you're OLD enough to question it.
+Wild Card
For a teacher, there is always a trade-off between going deep or going broad.
In high schools they mostly go broad. With almost no logical/mathematical proofs of every formula they teach.
Imagine if teacher would introduce to an average kid, who will never become a scientist, 5 different proofs of Pythagorean theorem.
Logical reconciliation and proofs start to come in College.
TarlanT exactly what I'm trying to say. You will be taught pure abstract on how to use operations on symbols. And then wonder why a word problem makes u wanna scratch your head.
+Wild Card
Word problems have nothing to do with scientific notation.
If you struggled with word problems, it means - it's either you personally not good at them, or you had a lousy teacher. Nothing to do with scientific/math notation.
It’s just so sad I learn more from my phone in five minutes than a desk at school for seven hours , really tells you something about the education system.
What did you learn from your phone in five minutes?
Ben about how fucked up this country is
Yea
Reygan Nelson if you take online school it will be even better ;)
Ben i can learn how to do taxes...
You know something fucking useful
Originality is not allowed to develop in schools. From maths to writing essays, there is a "correct" opinion is the teachers' minds, and you either follow it or fail.
I dream of a school system where there is no grades, and we are assessed on our skills in whatever way we express them. I'm so sick of being told what to think, and not how to think!
@@Slam_24 Welcome to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school
I feel useless.
@@nonexistentdoors Don't we all?
@@_tea_6502 Oh, right.
I got better education from the internet than from university.
I'm sure that'll look good on your CV - "learned from the Internet".
ThePooper3000 I don't care about CV. starting my own business ;) .
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Amen, my brother.
Depends what you do, in some industries all you can DO matters.
I have exams tomorrow and will probably fail but I'm trying to reassure myself that life is more than grades
Taha de Terre well yeah school sucks...
Taha de Terre How did they go?
Nyanadventurer the second Hahaha thanks for the reminder well this exam in particular was a huge failure, but I validated my semester nevertheless (narrowly), and was very happy about that in the end :)
Of course it is! And that are very successful people who dropped out. Search it, you won't be disappointed.
Maybe your are just bad at school and your brain is telling you alert, alert, find a way to justify yourself of failing at school to put a band-aid on the wounded part of your inner self :P, just don't give up you will eventually get good grades :P
I love learning. I love being smart. I dream of one day being that old wise man who lives peacefully alone, reading and writing books. But, currently, I just cannot get on board with the school system. I have pushed myself to get As and it never pays off in the end and I'm often plagued with mental health issues.
I excel in creative writing assignments, but my teachers mark me down because it never correlates with what they asked for. They say, 'it really is amazing writing you have here, but you completely missed the topic.' And I respond angrily, 'I didn't write it to please you.'
Why do we need grades to justify our intelligence? It's so wrong!
I can truly relate brother same thing happened on my english project last week.
They want to strip us of our creativity and originality. They like it better if we write a cliche caracas of a writing assignment that meets the requirement, than an exquisite peice of art that took some creative freedoms...
So true
I note that my high school lacked creativity.
Create a blog and amaze us with your beautiful creative writings ❤️, I'm talking seriously. You can never know how far you would go.
You are me literally.
I'm thirteen, and I feel like I just started a five year prison sentence. I don't feel like myself unless I'm out of school.
I'm 15 and heading into High School. I'm freaking out! I don't know what I want to be and my anxiety is kicking in. I need help!
I'm in 11th grade. Kill me
Ameer Rehman same I just want to drop out at this point
@@amr-bw4gf same i hate it too. I really just want to dip.
I'm 14 and i feel the same way
mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
Everything I remember from biology class. That and sheep brains smell horrible.
I think you mean 'midichloria'
Not cool. It's mitochondria are or a mitochondrion is.
Is this a Boyinaband-reference? :P
😂😂😂
Being 'original' is school was impossible, you get marked down for it im fact. They call it "Incoherence."
Exactly, my PE teacher once assigned us to make an article about big ball sports (soccer, etc) and I made quidditch, which is an actual sports. He told me to redo it.
what a twonk, same experience with my art teacher, I was studying manga and he said it wasn't art. Teachers are ignorant people too! haha
More often than not, it's teachers following unwritten rules. School is actually and massive, contradictory farcical.
i was once told i went too deep for a paper i wrote in less than an hr before the class...
It because not good euff. You gotta connect and express it, if I works, good grades, if not, keep pushing yourself and work harder, do the impossible
Everytime i hear the word "school" i feel depressed.
I feel demotivated when I hear school toom
After I hear word 'school' first 10 sentences come to my mind starts with "f*ck"
@@doguzkaan and it also stands for Six Cruel Hours Of Our Life
@@christopherarcher5271 in my contry it was seven
Whenever a person talks to me it’s always about school
If I run for president, I will change the school system
Please do it
i would love to do so, or at least create my own reality where im pretty much god, just to see the differences... if only someone invented virtual universes already...
Yes 🌚
LOL good luck with that even if you are president
I hope so. But that would be very hard to do, even as president. You must first become president, then figure out a new plan for a new school system, then convince the Department of Education to change it, and then the schools have to change.
Then they wonder why over 70% of the UK's workforce are dissatisfied with their job.
John McChicken It's pretty much same for most of the countries.
its human nature to be dissatisfied with a current position and want a better job. Some people are in a good position just not good enough for them.
Damn i don’t live in the uk but thats insane
74%
School isn't about learning, it's about passing.
Queen of The marshmallows!! Exactly i forget everything after my exams..
It's all about who has the best memory
Astronotty_x0 Couldn't be more true.
The V8 ur right people with good memory are so retarded I mean they could calculate precise measurements of almost anything with formulae learnt and predict and formulate deductions on certain sectors of information hell they could probably know every form of money making scheme or survival instinct needed in the wild but u know what they retarded because they memorised it all from some stupid book
Matthew Gericke i think not all. Its the school that only teach us to give lessons and let then just memorize it. I dont have good memory and was failing a certain subject. But once i know how it works and the logic behind it, i will dominated it.
But yea. Still having a good memory is handy
Well personally l get 30% knowledge from school and 70% from my life
EPIC DRAGON That’s a lot, I get like 5% lol
30%❓
00.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000069420 percent from school and then
99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999941689 from the internet and from memes
Truth
Being good at school = 40%
Being good at life = 60%
FEMALE BODY DETECTOR Lol!
Being good at school = 0%
Some guy I was good at school, nowadays I have a nice job and I'm almost done with my professional education. Your statement lost value. Sorry kid!
Fullofshiticus Third Actually you're right I'm a 15 yo kid but I hate taking orders
That's what you do at a normal job
I hate waiting.. (I live in Germany btw) I have to go 4,5 years to "Gymnasium" and then I have the ability to go to university (depending on my grades I can study medicine or whatever). University is usually like 4 additional years so I'm 23 when I can start looking for a job.
Meanwhile I could have already a lot of money by doing business or mining
The richest people in the world have 1 thing in common: They own a business.. No one ever got rich from working somewhere for someone
Some guy Of course! Everything depends of your goals and ambition, you decide.
You sound mature enough to understand what living in the real world means, so Good for you! Keep it up!! (You don't need a College degree to be successful, but... finish School).
You know, it took me 27 freaking years to realize this ...
I was always the bright and quiet kid, had a ton of useless diplomas and master degrees ... I finished them all 2 years ago.
And I still can't find a proper job AT ALL. It's killing me ... I can do SO MANY things that seems and are so useless for this world.
The TRUTH and the KEY is : WORK YOUR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS ! That's the MOST important thing to get a job ! You won't be able to make anything at all if you don't know "anyone" or "someone who knows someone" and stay quiet and alone.
I made that mistake. I'm now fucked up all alone with "all those things I can do". I'm useless.
Do what you love, live with joy, embrace positivity. Make connects, a good indruction to a manager is worth more than any degree
well, I'm screwed.
+Arekilo Bolimeri lol keep trying
It's never too late
What are your degrees in?
School: Who ever can remember the content the best gets an A+
Real Life: Who ever can create the best content gets money to live.
bob VGamesAreFun if ur getting A+ in school ur definitely making a lot of money that's real life but what u said about the best content is true too
Getting A+ in school will not *definitely* allow you to make a lot of money. Most of my parents' friends who were straight A students have worked as employees forever. My parents were C students and they employed those former straight A students. In fact, most business owners were C students. They took risk and got rewarded.
Patrick P yup even bill gates and etc said that A plus students probably are mostly workers but not all their are so A students who find school too easy
I was just an average student in college, i'd got most to B for subjects and had failed some of them. But I never regret for that after watching this video
Idk people always use bill gates and STEVE jobs but what are the chances that will be you if u don’t have school to rely on
I dropped out of highschool and skipped college. I hustled my way into the finance industry and have been killing it for years.
Hey you can't kill thats illegal
NICE ONE :)
So happy and proud of ya man, God bless
@@itsyoboiivan3255😂😂😂😂
school doesnt mean success in life but people who success at school also can be success in life,it all started from yourself if you want to be success.
XylaN 😒
XylaN actually its really how you handle things.My older brother had a 3.6 gpa and my sister had a 4.0 my sister is in thousands in debt with 3 kids and my brother makes around 1k a day. He told me everything after 7th grade is useless and he’s never used it.He also said SS and Science are useless the entire time unless they are part of what you want to be. The point of the story is, people who are aware of how life work and try hard even outside of school are most likely to succeed in life.
Andrew Taylor I actually disagree. My uncle who has been arrested, had addiction problems, and didn't graduate high school. He is now making over 85,000 yearly as an electrical engineer. Yes, I'm shocked too! School is not a necessity and it shouldn't altar your success in your adult hood. it's funny how if I say I'm not attending college, I'm belittled by my fellow classmates who say "You're going to live in a dumpster!" Or "You're not gonna have a life". Ever since I was little my mind was embedded with college college, grades, and more college. Feels as if I'm stuck in a system that I can't get out of. College may make things easier, but it does not PROMISE your success, no matter how hard you work or study. Its simply a system that tests your work ethnic, but why should our grades be the one to show our ability? Whether you go to college or you don't, have bad grades or a disability, I believe you should strive for what you want to do, you don't NEED school to live a happy life.
Andrew Taylor I'm sorry did you not use anecdotic evidence too? You didn't use evidence either, just simply stated what YOU think is the best, not the truth. His position is to manufactur chips for devices and implant them, does he really need four years of college to achieve this? Lol or did you expect that all people who don't attend college work at their local fast food restaurant? You say I didn't "prove" anything, but my uncle and everyone else who has been able to require such a high paying job or a job they adore without college is a perfect example to go against your statements.
Andrew Taylor They hired him because they actually had the sense to judge him as a person, not his grades, unlike you. His dreams has always been working in the engineering field, and educated himself by studying with what he could online or volunteering at a job his friend works at. I believe they caught a glimpse of his dedication and have him a chance, and he slowly worked his way up to the top.
I once asked my maths teacher "why don't you just teach us important things like tax, bills and stuff. Is algebra really more important than that?" Then I got a detention for "disrupting" class.
during class
A0vol9Z oh ok, but I ask questions like this in many other classes, usually the answer is just "it's the curriculum". But I guess the teacher might've felt that way.
Lejen lol that's almost inspiring (btw I disturb class as well often to ask questions like that, I've never been send out bc I have really high grades but honestely if I'd be send out I'd be honoured to be send out for asking why the fuck it's relevant to know the quadratic equation or whatever irl)
+LisaxPizza +Legen I really don't understand why everybody hates math. It has so many applications, and will probably come in handy even if you don't pursue higher math in the future. And come on, basic algebra, parabolas etc. is really not that hard, it's honestly just logic for the most part, maybe some memorization but not much. I'd love to learn how to pay my taxes in school as well but if youre implying that math isn't important, you're extremely wrong.
A0vol9Z Then you just need to practice. At least over your test a few times when you're done
I'm so happy i realized this when i was 11 or 12. Investing in yourself and developing your own person from a young age is far greater than being obedient all the time, do that right and you will achieve a lot in life.
Happy for you :) It's great to know there are people like you!
+Necris so what have you achieved in your life?
I realized this a much later
How did you find out? and sorry, how old are you now if you don't mind me asking
Shaqayeq Mirza Ok, so, born in a small town in Romania, 0 opportunities, poor, dysfunctional family with always drunk step-dad(s) with beatings and all that package that comes with that. Self thought myself english and other fields since i was young, education is broken in Romania and i had to learn on my own a lot of thing but it was easier with internet after learning English. Made very good friends who helped me get away from all the problems at home. Later got into economics, finished college this year (~10% of children from here do) and going to start my own business next year. The story is a lot longer with losing the house, beating my step-dad to keep him from beating mom but it's a 10-page essay and i won't spill it here.
*A few kids start mumbling*
Teacher: BE QUIET!!
*A few seconds later and we had to sing the national anthem*
Teacher: WHY ARE YOU SO QUIET?!
In most states, (Like Mississippi and Tennessee, for example.) you don't even have to stand, and you can even leave the room. If someone violates this, make sure you know your state rights, bois.
@@neonchanel5935 in a copel years they will be telling and forcing you to worship the rich and buy things you don't even need
have sense , don't be a bitch
@@toasttea3200 What if I don't care for the national anthem? I'm in Israel. I do not respect or recognize the fascist state I live in. Why should I chant the national anthem, which by the way we had to chant EVERY SINGLE DAY in school for 12 years because Israel loves brainwash.
I wouldn't give a fuck if my country collapsed.
School sometimes gives me depression
AJ The RPG gamer for me, it basically keeps me depressed
School gives me major anxiety and dread.
School gives me nothing but depression.
Same, idk how other people like school... I’m just different
School is like asking for directions in the US and being given a map of the Arctic.
So true omg
It's good to know what happend in the past although schools don't even teach history correctly.
+Rohan ._. G Schools will teach dates and people in history but they'll never teach why something happened, because when a crisis occurs suddenly everything we learned from history is political, and teaching that would somehow be a bias. I'm sure everyone can think of their own examples of this in our lifetime.
And then the teacher comes up with "oh isn't Alaska in the far north the part of the USA?" and everyone face palms
Although it is good to learn about the past to SOME certain extent, the world should be focusing on current problems before that becomes history. Actually, idgaf unless it is about embracing the absurdity, i.e wearing a poncho cuz it feels nice even though sweaters and jackets are more effective. But eh History is cool if you feel interested. Actually SCRATCH that too, how about if YOU want to learn it then good for you.
I was an honor roll student from elementary school all the way through college. Now I'm almost 30, still live with my parents, am on probation at my job, and have only been in one romantic relationship. I remember the Pythagorean theorem and how to spell "onomatopoeia" quite well, but I never recall learning anything about how to have good relationships (we were actually discouraged from associating with the opposite sex) or how to go to a job interview.
I have a high IQ and am very intelligent by academic standards, but by the standards of American culture, I'm a complete failure at life.
We're sorry to hear that but also touched by the situation, which is very very common. The good news is that, with this kind of realisation, in mind, there is still plenty of time to move forwards.
I feel like I've been lied to nearly my whole life about school and college. Our American schools don't prepare you for life at all, and you've been manipulated and pre-conditioned since age 4 to be subservient to others.
I'm in a similar situation, I thought I had a shot at a career in Film. But now I'm the loser and all my friends are successful tradespeople earning good money while I'm only getting mystery shop jobs once a week for $19 and living mostly on welfare.
+PAMELA TORRES I feel the same way. I was always an a student my whole life and when I entered the real world I had a huge wake up call. I wished I realize it sooner so I could better used my time developing skills than sitting in school. At least it's not too late for me.
You realized your situation before you died. That means you succeeded , please look forward ! :)
How i spend my time in school
80% Hanging with friends
20% Doing nothing/Boring lessons
0% Learning
i actually agree, 85% of all my stuff i do in school is just talk about memes with my classmates and 45% of times in class, 10% is just me sitting just doing nothing and 5% is just complaining how garbage school and my teacher is, so school is actually quite bad and ur comment realates to me
sry if i cant spell
@TuzikTheDog ik but u only need reading writing and basic math and thats what they teach u but other than that school sucks
Me: spend. 99.999% on Smartphone
.0001% Learn
This was more educational than most schools.
its hard being a cool kid at school, coasting through grades and thinking you have it made then life hits and you realize that its not about memorization and regurgitation in the jungle. That Ferrari you envisioned at graduation starts to fade further and further away. You don't even know how you will afford a good used car let alone. You start to ignore beautiful girls because you feel like you have nothing to offer them. Thus you're likely to be single for the foreseeable future or you will just settle with an average girl/guy just to not be alone and to stop the questions of marriage from old folk. Your life is boring & routine so you find escape in series and watching braver men/women in sports secretly wishing that was you. You're essentially directed on what to wear and how to cut your hair everyday. You've lost your identity. and old people keep expecting huge things from you because you 'graduated college'...yay.
All the while your old high school classmate who just about graduated high school owns life because maybe they were single minded about a passion/talent they had so they spent every minute working on it. They are extroverted and people gravitate towards them unlike you. They were always braver than you, and they were always natural leaders even though their grades were poor. They share their high quality of life on instagram and facebook, people admire their every post and you feel like you could die inside. You become angry at yourself and the system for falling in to the trap
Well said.
Short word-> Tl;DR it's not the system that is wrong. WE ARE, wrong.
Material well-being not necessary leads to a successful and happy life. Money is just an another challenge of life that could leave you in a pit of psychological and spiritual suffering. Some people complete this challenge, some - not. Not everyone will succeed in taking responsibility that great wealth brings.
Moreover, men shouldn't feel like they have to offer something for a girl. Especially if it's related to money. Relationships should be built by the psychological connection. It's not recommended to "buy" a woman.
Also your opportunities to learn and grow doesn't end with a graduation from school or university... Internet provides us with many source of information so educational institutions loses their significance.
Finally, act of sharing personal life or achievements on instagram and facebook just emphasizes the need for admiration as well as acceptance... I doubt that person that live fulfilling life is marked by such narcissistic qualities...
Those capitalistic concepts of success are concentrated to physical things only...
***** You're out in the world trying to find sense in everything, that's why you're broke. Go look for sense somewhere else.
Hey, just breathe and trust your path. Believe that all the little things you accumulated over the years will come to use to you someday. As for the comparison to others, it's hard to be avoided, unfortunately, but you can make it. Transform yourself into the reference system that you pries (values, goals, health etc.) and not other people. Focus inward, not outward. As just as a last piece of advice, don't choose social media as your source of information about other people's life quality.
Show compassion and understating to yourself and others around you. Practice the concept of self-love in tough times and practice confidence in your achievements. And hey, laugh it off, when possible. Nothing is as serious as it seems.
I agree so much with this! I did extremely well in school - in Germany and in the US. I earned the best possible score and had a teacher say, that in his 30 years of teaching he never read a better final essay than mine. Instead of picking the top university and studying medicine, I chose to go into a creative field and the first thing that happend... I did a 4 week homework and a test for entering that university. And my perfect grades, that I had worked on 3 years, were replaced with my score on this homework and test - which were way worse than what I had from school. Of course it made sense. The university wanted creative and artistically capable people, not learned people. And then I was an average and finally bad student at the university. While I am a creative person, I tried to please my teacher/professors, who did not give two flying pants about being pleased. University was way more anonymous. This was before Bachelor degrees came along. My studies were supposed to be finished within 9 semesters. The average at my university was 14, which i scoffed at at the beginning. (most people had jobs + kids and... i later learnt that it was impossible to finish in 9 semesters anyway due to scheduling classes at the same time). It took me 16 semesters! 16! And therapy. And part of that was not being able to do simple bureaucratic things. Like getting signatures from professors who themselves did not have set days when they would be on campus and sometimes flatout refused to grade papers. "Not now, I don't have time. (3 years after I had taken the test that i desperately needed a grade on to sign up for my final test at university. Was this legal on the professor's part? Of course not, but... he's grading me! I finally pestered this professor so much that he gave me the worst grade of the class. My work wasn't as good, but that grade...well...)
I was living in an ivory tower of achievable tiny goals and tiny steps that were laid out perfectly for the way I think in school. But university isn't just education, it also includes life skills that I lacked.
After turning my life around, I passed university, I am happily married for several years and I work in a job I love. I will be poor my whole life (compared to other people who graduated with me! In my country being poor is insanely rich compared to other countries. I am aware of that.), since I am very bad at negotiating with clients and the whole money part of my job
All those things u have mentioned in the end (i.e. classes on dealing with crises, etc.), I have learnt mostly from having conversations with people around me, from books, or from the internet. And it is a lifelong learning matter. Social skills like how to deal with relationships are very complex and intricate, with varied solutions. I think the closest the school can offer is Psychological Studies,. But, we would still have to learn it ourselves through our own experiences, better yet from others' experiences.
And part about surviving university is again about gauging information from people around us, or even from the internet. Basically, I just want to say information is literally at our fingertips these days, keep searching and keep learning. Some things are just a matter of learning from experiences and school may not be able to provide all.
Great writing, the last part is so true!
GabdeVue You explained in words the bureaucratic situation i faced in school
I know that I'm really late, but what job do you have? I'm extremely creative but I can't for the life of me decide what career to go into.
fuck the system
say with me
Fuck the system
it's a big fucking trap
it's a machine that take advantage of normal people and turns them into lifeless robots, vampire life sucking place called school
Fuck the system fuck all of it
They kind of hate on 'clever kids' in this video... But questioning everything, researching and not believing blindly in what you are told is exactly what it takes to be a great student. I was very successful at school, but I never believed teachers blindly, I was correcting them sometimes. And I definitely did not hate them, like most commenters do... Look, I can guess most happy and content people in this life were not crazy over school; but I don't believe they were lazy angry pieces of shit, hating on 'clever kids' and then burying themselves in self-deceit.
So.. What are you know? Do you have a high paying job, earning lots of money? I need to know.. Im an A student and when watching this video its making me stressed.
Imtiyaz sorry for the late reply, but no. Just because you do well at school doesn’t mean that it’ll drop your chances at getting a good job. Being good at school is based a lot on following instructions which you appear to be good at, and being good at life requires a creative stride that you may also have.
@@imtiyaz3447 same with me
@Micah Bell School and education IS important, however seeing as how they don't really teach us how to be creative and shit, I dunno man. I am just a kid, so I do not know how shit works, I am kinda uncertain.
@@ricosandysrr4705 i agree
Hahaha that's me
Outside: shy girl that always listens
Inside: wow this lesson is bullshit this will never help in real life
Same same 😁
Especially history 😑
Bottom line : without a college degree you're fucked because no matter what you think of education it doesn't matter because the majority of companies and organizations out there believe that if you had will power and discipline to go this far then you can take the job . School isn't where you learn maths and arts , it's where you realize that no matter how rebellious you are you'll be crushed by society standards until you learn to follow the rules
It's not the 20th century anymore when educated workers were in high demand. Contrastingly it is now work itself which is in high demand at present. A mechanic will easily outearn any public school teacher, difference being between the two that one sits on varying degrees of student debt and that there are more of one and less of the other.
For too many years everyone and their granny educated themselves in IT in the hopes of becoming the next Bill Gates ... sadly they didnt realize that that spot was already taken a million times over. Now there are too few hard skilled workers and too many academics who think their bloated degree in navel-gazing is the shitnitz.
Ed Kazaragy then you should be out there creating your own opportunities elsewhere and sustain it into the long term rather than fitting in to the wrong environment
No degree, earning well in a creative white collar job. People want innovators at the helm.
That's why you become the employer
i wish school taught me how to do my taxes, now i have to pay someone to do it for me
If you don't enjoy it then don't worry about it, life's too short to worry about that anyway
Yeah mate just don't do your taxes bro haha nothing will go wrong the IRS totally won't come to your door
mehk
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School made this impression on me that if I don't get perfect grades, get into college etc. I'd fail at life. But thanks to my mom and dad helping me with my stress and meltdowns, they, along with other people and sources, made me realize that even if I'm not perfect I can still be on top.
Point I'm trying to make is, don't worry too much about your grades. Some famous people didn't even make it through grade school and become the world's greatest.
i'm a failure in both, though
Yaniel Montenegro cough cough skillshare cough cough
That's OK. You can still just about manage to live on the fringes of society collecting crushed soda cans. Failing that you can sell your firm booty.
No your not
DaniloKING 2 not om life
LMAO. You are better than you think. The game of life is 10x more fun and involves you educating yourself in what you deem appropriate.
This video is pretty much an explanation of modern day slavery.
aka school
Of course you would think of comparing this to slavery.
....no
Why wouldnt you? Everyone of all religion, race and gender are able to attend school. Western culture discourages discipline because a disciplined person isnt a good consumer. We are designed for someone else's success.
***** My god you first world assholes are priviledged as fuck.
School also kills creativity. I was the most creative student in elementary school cause I got complimented a lot and I was sometimes impressed by my own ideas. At the end of college, I realized that I've mostly lost the ability to create anything, nothing I do impresses me anymore. Sure, I write good papers and I get good grades, but it feels like everyone else is doing just as well if not better. The creative side of me was what made me special and unique, and school has completely killed it. Now I am just one of the way too many identical people with the identical (if not worse) qualification with the identical goal in life. School is basically a life-factory, making everyone the same since forever.
shyyn33 same :(
shyyn33 so true
Thats a Mainstream life.
And that isn't living.
Sell your home if you have one. Travel the world. LIVE, instead of "work".
A jamaican friend of mine says
"We jamaicans work to live. You americans live to work"
Same here 😔😥
relatable af
Basically get the highest possible grades with as little effort as possible....
yea, I fuck'in hated those people who did that.....
That was always my motto lol
Enmanuel Rodriguez Rodriguez My favourite motto
Don't give a shit but make sure you pass is my way to think
The problem with this approach is that you apply it even on things you love doing. Then you end up mediocre in everything. The correct approach is to be taught self-love and self awareness by primary care givers who are self-loving and self-aware. It's never too late to re-parent yourself though.
Like for who choose success in life
I choose success in life
I don't understand why highschool doesn't teach you how to pay your taxes.
and the CURRENT laws. Not ones from the 19th century
not that it needs to literetly teach me how to do my taxes, but how does taxes work
I know right? Teach us something necessary in life like paying taxes, what to do if I'm leaving the country for vacation, what to do when you want to buy a house but you don't have enough money so you need to ask for some from the bank, how to make babies... Ok that one was pretty weird but you get the idea
The Federal reserve, in essence, is not supported by the Constitution. Considering this, are the taxes you pay really required? Many things can influence. The way I see it, and everyone else should see it, is that taxes ARE theft.
They also don't teach moral values such as, you can't steal, but we can.
And waht do they do with the taxes really? Cause some taxes go to school, but look how that turned out!
Check out "bitbutter you can always leave" I believe it's called, for better explanation.
Mine did, business ad graduate :)
Wow, this really made me think about what the hell I'm doing with my life! I've always thought school didn't measure intelligence and success and you pretty much brought the words out my mouth, perfectly.
It often does measure intelligence though, just not wisdom
+Keno Goertz I don't want to sound arrogant but I am in that boat, I found the structure and teaching methods to be dull and useless. My worst years of life where in school and now that I have left education I feel absolutely no idea what to do. I could have achieved A* and I still would not know what I want to do. It's depressing
Academia measure standards not intelligence. Because there are a lot of different types of intelligence, academia can just teach one general standard form of education and learning.
YoSoyGabo School should encompass more important and integral education, that as humans we will need to survive this world, not fucking ethics and geography
Keno, school does measure intelligence but it is the academic way. For instance, someone could be a genius basketball player but flunk at school. They are just different kinds of intelligence. So to some degree both you and Peace are correct in the matter.
I don't do good at school. But this makes me feel confident
most youtubers drop out of school and they are 10X richer than doctors who spent their 20s in school. That says something!
It's based all on luck. Some hit it big where others don't.
I'm really doing well in school with a lot of A's (in Germany they're 1's), but I have NO IDEA who I want to be. I thought so much about this, I asked my parents, I've even taken tests and I still don't know who I am going to be. My parents say "You still have time to think about it.", but I've been thinking since second grade, when I was 7/8 years old, because I've given up on being an astronaut (I learned that it's very dangerous and that not everyone can be an astronaut, and I was pretty small and weak so...). I'm 14 now, so I've been thinking 6 years and I have 4 years left till I graduate, and I want to move out as soon as possible, and still don't know who I want to be. Thanks school. I'll need to know the map of India with all mountains and rivers for sure, when I end up not knowing where to go.
Lisa N. pretty much sums up my situation right now, except from the fact that I am going to have my exams in a few months, not years as in your case
guess I'll apply for a föj next year end spent some more time with thinking about where I want to be
Try to volunteer in fields that might interest you, enroll in an internship or maybe offer help in some of your friends/family's business to get some experience
And they're right you're very young so don't worry too much :) trying stuff is the key to discover what you'd like to be.
Assuming you speak German and English, you already have an advantage over the regular monolingual person, the ability for you to speak both German *and* English, you should learn French and it will be extremely easy, and then start taking Italian. and progress from there, you can easily land a job in government or trade. Doesnt even have to be official lessons, there are a metric shit ton of resources online, or from your friends
In Poland we used to have letter grades in grades 1 to 3 (from E to A!) but later we had different teachers and we used a different system: everything was graded using points, then at the end of each half-year, we averaged the points for each subject to create percentages which are transformed like this:
95-100% - 6
86-94% - 5
72-85% - 4
48-71% - 3
20-47% - 2
0-19% - 1
After a year, both half-year percentages are averaged, then converted to 1-6. Then the average of all 1-6 scores is calculated.
In my opinion it's about finding a way, to do things you like and/or find interesting.
School is basically teaching us things that took centuries to find in a few weeks and expect us to perfect it
iballisticsteve LOL are you kidding? If you're talking about university I might understand, but everything taught in high school and below is so simplified that you must be pretty stupid if you don't understand it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
KalleK woah nice emoticon
KalleK and its been 1 week:)
shitty argument
what you want to make each unit years long or...?
KalleK difficulty is relative to age, if not to every individual
I excelled at school in particular subjects - Business Math, Statistics, Economics and Algebra. I failed at Physics, Science, Trigonometry, History, Chemistry, etc. you know why? In school, our teachers taught us about `what`, `when`, `where` and `how` without knowing `why` we are doing that? I'm good at subjects that I can apply in a real situation. An A grade isn't really the basis of intellect so having a fail grades doesn't matter to me at all times. Most of my colleagues who were graduated with honors were just ended up working in a company instead of creating their own company. Sad to hear that our school system didn't teach its students about innovation. I had this experienced in an Algebra exam which I formulated another solution for a given problem aside from the traditional formula we used. I got the correct answer but my teacher marked my solution wrong, she couldn't understand what I did, of how I ended up with the answer. I told her that in real world, same problems have many different solutions. School doesn't accept innovation and creativity, that's why majority of the students are ended up working with a boss after they had graduated.
We just need to fix school already. It's such a waste in it's current form. It might actually be better not to have it at all.
school is terrible and all but going the opposite direction is also terrible.
I am a high school Special Ed teacher and the demands on me are very high. I believe we should have more courses that teach soft skills, financial literacy and relationship success etc. However, perhaps other adults such as parents should be also concerned with the well rounded education of their child. Parents can model many different life skills and expose their children to cultural activities that will enrich their lives. I afford my students the experiences of watching TED talks, School of life, moving orators and alternative music but there are only so many hours in a day within a system that frowns on authenticity. There are many educators working to change the system from the inside out.
Thanks so much Jennifer - congratulations on the valuable work you do, and best of luck.
Clint Chia, very clever. Not!
Give this teacher a medal.👐👍 We need more teachers like this.
the amount of TED Talks I watch is insane
As a student in a really shit education, Singapore education, (in which we are taught to become robots) I believe you are right. I believe a more relaxed curriculum allows students to be more adventurous, and willing to explore more, and gain a love for learning. This in turn can allow students to be exposed to many more situations and gain important life skills, upgrading our one reason why we are better than robots: The fact that we are humans. Too bad most asian countries don't share my and your beliefs ;-;
I feel this man. I was a terrible student. you'd almost never see anything above a 90 on my report card and i graduated high school by the skin of my teeth. In college i was doing better but it was still very average. I always felt so bad about my grades especially as a kid because my parents and other older relatives kept telling me im gonna end up homeless because smarter people will take all the jobs first. I applied to my first job at a cafe when i was in my third year and I was just expecting to be a waitress or kitchen staff, thats all i was looking for. But the two ladies offered for me to be an assistant and manage their social media account because i seemed so good at communicating and I was artistically inclined (something that wasn't very appreciated as a kid). Life is crazy man. Im thankful for that.
:')
Great job 😃😆
JA DE that is an inspiring story. Thank you for sharing it. Life is fully of opportunities. My father, who works in education, agrees with me on the fact that degrees and higher levels of education are just for status these days. Before they had some use since they were not as common and few people had them, but now everyone has a degree. And what do we get out of that degree? Debt. I'm happy for you. It was nice reading your story. Thanks once again. You gave me hope :)
JA DE awesome ✌ God bless have a good day. You seem like a cool person.
JA DE Im a graphical designer for an insurance company in my country. I didnt even finish school! Back in time, I always get bullied and hated by my family and teacher because I always lose attention and draw stuffs. But fuck you teacher and parents, my salary is higher than you!
My mum has legit been one of those straight-A students. At their old house, she's filled a whole wall with awards and shit. And look now, she got a job as a lawyer, big deal. We live in a bloody hole, struggle with debt, and are pretty much just getting the bare minimal in life, plus a few extras.
What a life school gives you! And now they're pushing me to do the same.
School gives people the perfect preparation for working in industries nothing else
tsumiTM He is saying that We won't have a good job were just gonna work for a low paying prick
The stuff that doesn't even exist anymore.
what are you a politic
Industries require practical skills. School doesn't even prepare kids for industries.
What about depressions I had and I still have from shitty people at school? What about me stressing out about stupid shitty grades? What aboug getting up at 6:20 am 5 days peer week? What about all the things I learn just to write it in test and forget about it right after test?
Aw, this video is rather discouraging... everything presented here is the truth, sadly. Obedience is a thing that is most valued in school, but in real life, you need to be independent and charismatic to succeed...
It is, but I think I know how to improve the system, if not by tearing the whole thing down beforehand (or is it hoof?). The foundation's going to be the Cutie Mark. (And is it wrong that I read your comment in Fluttershy's voice?)
Nemezja so i can say fuck you to my teachers?
CaliGamer 1 not the teachers there just getting paid to follow a strict system with out the money I can almost 100% say that they would not be there. All it is to them is a job a source of income.
Thank god school is over, i was getting REALLY sick of all that bullshit. In my last years I just didn't have the patience and energy to pay attention, do homework or care at all... I still ended up having decent grades, but I went from "nerd of the class" with straight 10 to "pretty good but average" with 7-8. I didn't really care, but it was annoying as fuck to hear "I expected more from you." from teachers, classmates, my parents and relatives...
Truth is you don't need college and most of what high school teaches you so don't worry, we were taught that if you don't get "A"s you won't amount to much, but this is far from the truth, you can create your own projects or teach yourself education rather than you paying someone to teach you useless bullshit
The mental gimp Oh and i had pretty bad teachers in school, most kids had to get extra classes in private to get decent results in the final exam... I agree with you, some people can achieve great things in life by themselves, but in some ways going to university is the easy way in life. Well, if I lived in America I wouldn't go to university, too expensive.
I know what you mean... :(
Omg i think you are my lost sibling lol what you said is the same as whats happening to me, i always got the best grades in middle school but now in high school i dont pay attention dont do homework and my grades are average. And yeah "I expected more from you." Ive probably heard that 5466642 times and its annoying af whenever someone says that to me i wanna punch them in the face
freddy Hang in there brotha, it's gonna be over sooner than you think. And fuck those arrogant bastards who think you live to please them.
Once you graduate, you realize that certain conversations are worth more than all of your college classes combined. Being in the company of certain people and learning from them can have a greater effect on your life than memorizing facts enough to pass a test.
I wouldn't say degrees are totally useless but education still has a long way to go from hypotheticals to practical real-life skills that can actually make you successful.
You see I try so hard at studying, getting extra worksheets, asking help, and yet I am still bad at mathematics.
Go watch Eddie Woo's videos! Everything will make sense then!
Jøséph Āntöñ I assume by “basic math” you’re referring to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, correct? If so, that’s not abnormal - you excel at things you understand, even if those are rather simple, that’s something to take pride in, but you can’t grasp some of the more complex equations and other mathematics. Usain Bolt is an excellent sprinter, but I doubt he’d do nearly as well in a marathon. Obviously this isn’t the best comparison, but it serves its point.
Although my viewpoint may be flawed, seeing as I understand algebra and other things, but I don’t think my analogy is absurd - it’s just logic.
Then don't work hard, see if that will help you.
(Sarcasm for idiots)
I'm actually really good at school but rather unintelligent in the real world. Anyone else feel that way about themselves?
There is a condition known as "school smart,,,,street stupid". Also, have you ever heard of the term" an educated idiot"?
I'm quite the opposite because I had to grow up quite fast due to personal issues. In the end, I still feel like shit because I'm not receiving high grades in school. I have a certain idea on how to run a business. I know how to set up a bank account, get a credit card. perform cpr. I keep up with politics and the environment but to the school, that's not good enough if I can't work out what fucking 'X' is.
There's also the corollary, "Uneducated Idiot": even in stupid little New Zealand we've seen Trump rallies. QED.
+KarKar MuddaPuckar I'm the same way
yes but I think it's because you have to separate between different kinds of intelligence. The kinds of smarts that are required in school are not always easy to display outside of school. My weaknesses are a poor memory in certain areas such as numbers or personal events or locations while I have very good memory when it comes to movies or texts. If we can learn our strenghts and weaknesses we wont be fooled to believe that we are generally stupid, only in certain areas. Don't think that school smarts don't matter because they do, it's just that they have their place and are not applicable to every aspect of life.
Sounds oddly like me. I am outwardly obedient, inwardly rebellious. Now how I use that to my advantage is the real question.
+Keno Goertz Just later in life. The resources to reap from the system early on can help.
Keno, I see that we meet again. :D. But being obedient outside does have a lot of positive outcomes. How would it look if your doctor is rebellious? They just decided to give you the wrong medication just because they felt like it. To some degree do have some rebellious every now and then but going full of anything (both obedience and rebellious) will result in your downfall. "Starting to participating" in rebellious acts (like criminal schemes and drugs) will most likely lead you to an early death if you don't think about the TRUE consequences. Just my thoughts :D.
***** Yes, i understand that :D. My initial understanding was that "people should just do what they want", so thank you for clarifying! :D
I think you guys missed the point of my comment. The lesson we learned today is how to balance the obedience we were taught in school with the inward creativity we all possess. I want to know how to use that balance to my (and to all of our) advantages.
Ideally Jekyl Thank you for clarifying! :D
*Funfact: School only teaches you how to hold your fart for 7 hours*
Lmfao this made me laugh so hard
I just fart whenever i want to, I don't give 2 craps about what the other monst- Err... "Children" Think about me since i'll move out anways.
XD
School isn't about learning it's about memorizing. You are taught a bunch of information that you have to regurgitate on a test then you move onto the next one.Your whole future is based on a piece of paper.Perhaps if we shifted from our test-based system,where someone's intelligence is based on their capacity to memorize text,to a practical system where we our taught transferable skills for the future and actually useful information that we can apply in our life then maybe there's a chance our current education system will improve.Remember,knowledge is useless unless you know how to apply it.
School teaches knowledge but life requires application with said knowledge. Without teaching kids the essentials of application, we set them up for more anxiety and learned helplessness.
@@evanurena8868 99.999999999998% of stuff taught in school is forgotten half an hour after you get home and the rest is against your future dream career
When I was 14, I was consistently studying three languages and am still trying my best to maintain at least two of them, and I still do. I have other hobbies and interests such as learning the art of jazz piano and etc. But every time it gets mentioned, my parents will always say something along the lines of "If only your studies were as good as those things..." or "Those things can't help you in life if you don't have a degree of some sort..."
That second thing was an actual thing they said. Well, that's the end of my story, since everybody else is slamming paragraphs onto this comments section.
I WILL REIGN my parents are just respecting what I want unless it's about being a scumbag
I WILL REIGN I WILL REIGN that sucks, you can become successful it just takes A LOT of dedication and investment in your (unique) characteristics.
😮
i know whachu mean man, same here
hehe thats why never show respect to my parents whenever they say those lines.
School doesn't teach me how to be creative or how to be an animator. So already there i can confirm school is really shit. All school should be would be grammar of your own language and then maybe a secondary language (English for non English speaking countries). And then some basic math even tho I hate it. Then after only a few years you move on to schools with specific learning courses. Wanna be an engineer? Well then you get the extremely tedious math courses and let people who wants to become something that doesn't need math do something else.
Malohn I don’t know what school you go to but my school teaches animations and model 3d things in the computer
KensRocketry Damn lucky you are.
u can switch any school
@@kensrocketry2785 what school you go to
Luna Silver but then you’re not well rounded. You can easily be fooled if you don’t understand how easily stats can be influenced/how it works. Or how a research paper works. You’ll only be good in one field and that is just as bad if not worse than having useless information. They need to make the stuff applicable to everyone.
Wow..imagine a world where school prepares you for the life ahead and teaches how to have good relationships with friends and strangers alike.
I think it's funny when you see those with best grades in school who expected to have the best jobs to feed their ego getting completely destroy on dere knees by people who "fluncked" school.
OK Google, search for how to actually succeed in life
I cannot do that for you
Rocco Johnson *_How to tie a noose_**
A 9 Years Old NOT UA-camr *What is a noose?*
Aquamarine "I'm sorry but that is beyond my ability"
i did and there was a wiki page www.wikihow.com/Succeed-in-Your-Life
That's it. That's really honestly it.
Obey as much as you can on the outside while knowing exactly what's up on the inside. It's a horrible, demeaning life that will eventually strip you of your health but that's all you can do. What hurts the most is that it doesn't have to be this way. We've made it this way for some reason and we just have to survive the madness.
We haven't made it this way. The Department of Education has.
in school, we learnt about andrew jackson
he also did the spoils system, where he gave voters and supporters government jobs
it was hypocritical of him to do that, because he was angry at some person who also wanted to be president:
Adams, son of the second president John Adams
Adams gave Henry Clay a government position when he dropped out and gave his supporters to Adams
i mentioned that trump did this with the department of education, but we didnt have a discussion about it or anything
+Ben Amen. I Agree.
I'm an actor . We really didn't had anything related to media during our school , I mean who really has. I sucked at the performance arts and all the plays they stole from Shakespeare and recycled them again and again . They never even selected me . 9 years later I'm settled, popular , have loads of advertisements signed up as my work and earning more than even the director of those plays . And those actors are either still looking for suitable careers or most of them are customer care executives
I'm almost graduating college with mostly straight A's but i still feel like I haven't really achieved anything. I felt like I didn't really grew. It's frustrating.. really.
Everything sounds better in a British accent.
Noots
Right
+Leonardo DiCaprio shut up you 12 year old
lol what are you even doing on a video like this? That language tells me you probably don't come here often. Whatever hope you learn something
***** that's cool! People don't normally like the sound of their voice.
You should do a video focusing on being inwardly rebelious
+Funk Phile exactly, I need it explained
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I agree, that would make a great video. I've presented my opinion on being inwardly, positively rebellious, replying to another comment. Let me cite myself:
"It's not doing whatever you want and defying everything that doesn't suit your current worldview. Living in a society does require you to keep to some rules, like laws (those that make sense at least), morality, ethics and it requires you to make some kind of contribution to it. Sadly, in order for our current system to work, most people have no other choice than to work boring, dull corporate jobs in order to sustain themselves and thus their imaginative, lively self slowly becomes drowned in the never ending, repetitive 9-5 corporate schedule.
The way I see positive rebellion is to doubt everything, scrutinize everything, criticize what needs to be criticized even when the authorities tell you otherwise, be yourself and don't conform to every petty norm that our society has set for us (beauty standards, trends, etc.). You have no other choice than to play by the current rules of the game if you want to survive, but you've only lost the battle to do what makes you happy in life when you've given up. Do whatever society tells you to do, given your current situation, in order to sustain a good position within the society, but at the same time work towards what makes you truly happy.
You were dealt the cards you were in life, you can't change that. For some they're worse, for some they're better. You can however decide how and when you play them. If you keep playing them right, sooner or later you'll get dealt a hand you were wishing for all your life."
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It's actually pretty simple, you will accumulate all the unexpressed feelings and then BOOM!
Kinda like strike of a radical Islamic suicide.
I am in high school and I sometimes feel abnormally towards studies than others in my class although I am a straight A student and this really showed me a new light.
Me in school;
teacher: why are u so absent MINDED in school?
Says to teacher, "teacher, why are u discussing when no one is listening?"
Deadass can't say enough how much this vid resonated with me. I grew up in an environment where, over and over, I'd be told the same thing: 'You work hard in school, you get a good job, you make good money and then you have a happy life.' So, naturally, being an extremely naive 15 year old, I jumped to the conclusion that my world stopped at textbooks and report cards; that if I got into uni, everything would magically fall into place. Fast forward to 2 years later. At the tender age of 17, I left high school with 4 As and came to Edinburgh University to study French and Spanish with Chinese as a side subject. I came into uni thinking I was pretty much set for life. Only now did it hit me; no one gave two double fucks what I got in my exams. Made sense tbh. We were all attending the same school, we were all obviously smart enough to get in, so we were all the same. As a matter of fact, all of the people around me had way more to boast about outside of their SQA's, GCSE, SATs, etc. They managed to be hot, popular, well-traveled, interesting AND educated at the same time. It was then that I realized my grades could only get me so far. They mattered in terms of GETTING into uni but, unfortunately, my high school never prepared me for what was after that finish line. Suffice to say, things have gotten a lot better for me now. I took a gap year in 2016, wherein I got to enjoy all the experiences I had missed out on in uni; learning new skills, making new friends, sowing some wild oats, joining clubs. I even managed to discover my true passion for film making. I'm giving it another go next month at Queen Margaret University. Hopefully, I should know what to do right this time. As much as I learnt from that experience, I still feel that had I seen this video back in my senior year, it would've saved me from a buttload of trouble and a fucktonne of disappointment.
*Update, November 12 2017:
The course at QMU was trash. It was really dry and theory-heavy. Got depressed af and now my studies have been differed pending a mental assessment in January 2018. Idgaf tho. This is gonna be the third and final time I bother with university. After the assessment, I'm just gonna hit the bricks and do what I do best; making movies, making contacts and building up my production company- which has just secured a third client.
*Update April 12th 2018: Decided I'd be better off doing the whole filmmaking thing as just a hobby. Atm, I've just secured a high-paid internship with the council, working in their museums sector. The historic element of the museums sector still vaguely pertains to my flair for storytelling anyway. So, basically I'm in the perfect position.
A.D Suri give me a call when you reach back Bombay . We'll get in touch and work over something .
SAIBAL CLUB Oh...um, thanks, man. I had a look through your channel. Are you an actor too?
A.D Suri well yeah mate .. I'm an actor . My UA-cam channel is only for audition purposes so it's pretty basic . I'm doing better otherwise , have done various advertisements and would be doing a serial from January .
SAIBAL CLUB Jesus Christ! Are you serious?!? Well done, man. Same thing with my UA-cam channel, all the films there are just part of a little portfolio. At the moment, I'm in the process of building up my own production company. So, I have those films there to show prospective clients.
A.D Suri I want to work for you
I was raised to believe that as long as I study and stay in school I will get a good life, but even watching this video I still don't understand what I can do to get a better life, how will I find a good job if I don't have a degree? Will anyone respect someone who hasn't finished school? I just don't understand what else I can do
You need to think about practicality of a discipline/the job market and what you're interested in. Take pride in any job you do and network.
They aren't asking you to drop out of school. They are asking you to invest you time in building up a strong personality and not just be a person who blindly wants to please others.
Just an example, my bio teacher gives us projects and shit and the kids who decorate their stuff in rainbow colours and glitter tape and what not get the highest grade. They suck up to her all the time, and she loves them for it, they maintain top grades and all. But the question is, will they really be able to perform very well as a doctor or researcher?
I keep failing in education. But that does not necessitate to me not doing well. I for instance have managed to find lab work just through asking different professors about the work they do and if I can help doing it. From that I have managed to move up into research despite my below par degree grade of 2:2 So with the education do not think that it is just this straight line, for many its a very wobbly line.
Also many employers want experience and value that much more that a degree. For instance if you where taking an apprenticeship in lab work then moved up through the laboratory system you can start getting a degree if you really want them a decade on when you are most knowelable and have a solid working knowledge of how science works in the real world. With the apprenticeship route I know of many people in my family managing to find work that they love. :) So it depends in what you wanna do and if you feel you are not academic enough follow an apprenticeship and eventually get a degree if you feel like you want one, but if you love the position it gets you keep following that. :)
A lot of people in western countries haven't finished school yet they are highly respected and highly successful. They own large companies and have millions of dollars in investments. In my opinion to be successful like these people just work towards what you like or are talented at try and achieve your Ultimate goal. This will be a hard, irritating or dangerous journey but keep going in spite of that. You might not be successful, wealthy or well known towards the end of that journey but you sure will be fulfilled. I'm not speaking from experience and I'm definitely not an expert on this but this will get you somewhere till you realise what it is you must do. Try reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho its a really interesting story with a philosophy based on this direction.
This is it ult1mate... they've taught you to think you can't get a job without a degree so you feel helpless. As someone who has started a business without any qualifications I can tell you that the only important question you need to ask is "how can I provide value?", the rest will fall into place :)
One of the worst things about schools is that they don't allow you to talk(because they think that everything we talk about is just nonsense)........like we can't even share our thoughts to those who really care and are interested.
I agreed.
this video literally speaks to my soul. I'm 16, in my last year of british secondary school. and although school is useful in teaching your academics and other skills, it doesn't prepare you for life. not to mention it stresses you out, and gives you the false mindset of thinking that a letter on a piece of paper determines your self worth. now I'll stick it out in the education system, try and get a decent job, but I know that the real skills in life, you unfortunately have to learn outside of school.
*school is just there for you to be too busy chasing grades, rather than real life business opportunities*
Good luck getting a steady job without a diploma or even a GED.
Thank you. Yellow Cat, please edit your sentence. It was painful to read.
I have to admit, that was a good one though +Yellow Cat.
Yellow Cat Why thank you.
Muahahahaha! That was hysterical! Well done, you! Good thing you never bothered with all of that stressful homework, huh?
When I was eleven, my English teacher gave my class an assignment. The assignment was, everyone had to make up- what they believed was- the perfect school/ school system.
Then, we all had to write a paper and read it to the class aloud.
I got a B-.
My Paper:
At the beginning every school year, students would take a personality test.
Based off of the test, a system decides what jobs they would be best at, and what jobs they'd be the worst at. Then, students take a test to see what jobs they'd enjoy the most.
Then, the job that fits into both categories best, would be the best job for that person.
After they find the best job for them, students could choose what classes to attend, based off of the job.
Zero well there are flaws on that system since no one is built to be a doctor. anyways , you still should have gotten an A. It's a pretty good concept
The problem with your system is that people's personalities change over time.
Saphiria TheBlueDragonKnight It says 'Every', do you even read?
What do you mean by every and how does that relate to my comment?
Saphiria TheBlueDragonKnight Notice how she said a test EVERY year. Just saying.
School literally killed my self esteem to do anything im proud of. good thing i didn't let them take my creativity hahaha
School took away both of those things for me. Whenever I want to be creative- mostly with storywriting and stuff- I always get writer's block and I can never think straight and it get's frustrating when I'm not that expansive on my vocabulary.
Woking in an office 8 hours a day REALLY kills my creativity. You are crazy.
The amount of pressure put on me just makes me sick. I don't wanna be a disappointment ya know. I want to do well but school Is just so crappy it's hard for me to focus. I don't even know what I wanna do in the future. I'm not good at anything I'm just trying to survive in this life I guess
i noticed that in school, some of my classmates are having a hard time with critical thinking. they always have to be spoon-fed information and cannot think deeply in order to solve a problem, because they believed there is only one way to solve that issue. good grades don't come from knowledge, it comes from the ability to memorize specific information and how tactical you are at taking standardized tests.
Yeah i remenber most of classmates demanding to be spoon fed with info :P . I have done this sin as well but i feel i dont do it as much as them (( at least i can try to think about my own solutions and answers anyways))
I know why people who get low grades become succsesful (ITS BECAUSE THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING THEY LOVE, THEY DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT GRADES,ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS THE THING THEY LIKE,THAT WILL BENEFIT THEM IN THE FUTURE)
Yes. So true
LeoDaVee but why not just get good grades and do what you like/love at the same time.
M L Lol I am the type of person to not give a shit about school I gave up on school in 7th grade the only reason I'm doing school is because I need a degree to teach high school drumlines!
LeoDaVee Just like Jaden Yuki did at Duelist Academy
LeoDaVee that's kinda like me. i am succeeding at school but school isn't gonna help me become an animator so i need to partially educate myself
8 hours of school vs 8 hours of learning how to code which can really get you an awesome job
I’m really pissed off now I’m banned from my electronics again for some unknown reason so I can’t even do what I’m interested in
@@Dark-xv9iz Same here man, I'm in a similar situation right now. It seems parents don't understand today's world.
Really gets me thinking if I'm like that (Obedient on the outside, but rebellious on the inside)
No wonder we wear a square hat during graduation. To let people know that we think inside the box.
did u succeed in school?
Ya, no creativity
hahha thats a creative joke!!
Very smart joke
YES
I'm don't really know what i'm good at. i'm good at getting good grades but when i get out in the real world, i feel lost. Not sure what i want to do either. i mean i like baking and you tube so i can start there but my parents want me to have a real job. I'm almost done with college so maybe after i can explore a little more.
I*
That's life, get out of high school and enter college and everything seems to stop
Prince Devante true
I'm like that as well. I wish we could start a club of all the people like that, and then we'll earn money. Idk what for yet I didn't think that part through lol
Being successful at youtube is hard. "real job" = sustainable income. so, follow passion just remember don't put self in a financial crisis.
This channel never ceases to amaze me..
I m good at school and nothing else
I m kind of worried now
BlackSeep its not the point of this video to make us nervous about our future behaviour..
u did a good work at school so why u think u can't at life?
yassin ghareeb same for me fuck school tbh
I'm turning 27 next month and have nothing to show for it except a crap degree, $17k debt, a dead end, part time minimum wage job and the feeling that I wasted my most valuable years getting something nobody values anymore. Meanwhile I know people 5 years younger than me with zero degrees getting jobs that pay twice as much because they someone convinced someone they deserve it. And most days all my energy goes to just trying to hold it together long enough to get by, and so I'm too exhausted to change my situation. Most days all I can do is try not to hurt myself. I'm completely broken and nobody I knows even cares... 😭😓
It's true, but that doesn't make the feeling any less valid.
Sharing your disappointments doesn't automatically mean you're a victim. Don't listen to Katherine. She doesn't want to help you. She wants to put you down to make herself feel better. She experiences self doubt too but is too ashamed to share it with others. Recognizing your disadvantages is the first step to trying harder. Thank you for sharing your pain. You are showing others they are not alone.
What did you study? Anyway, have you spoken to your parents about your struggle? Ask them for advice on how they had started their journey in young adult life. And what about employment agencies, have you tried those (they've gotta have them in America too, right)?
17k? Mine is 50k god dang it....
+Eli Cruz yourself*
Guys school is still very important and you shouldn't flunk school, but focusing on life is more important. Think about what you are good at and what you can do and to help out yourself and your family!
CashZero I have to agree with you. I think my best bet in becoming successful from now on is sticking to being a helpful person for my family.
couldn't say it better myself, school is somewhat important, because you know, edumacation
Yeah, cuz Shakespeare’s plays will be important for me in my life. Watch “The Lie We Live”
Nerd
School is not important, education is
After 4 months of doing homework at at home and being able to schedule my whole day by my own, I had one week of school and it felt like hell. It‘s all about waking up at times that are waaayyyyy to early for your brain to work, stress, people commanding on you and feeling like a failure. When you say „I‘m tired“ everyone says „all the kids to through school, it‘s not that hard“, „what are you tired from, wait until you have to work“ or just a „the go to bed earlier“. And then people wonder why the depression and suicide rates are do high...
With 5 years on the internet i learned how to speak english
With 5 years on school i'm still learning about verbs
Where are u from
I was bad in school, now I own two restaurants. 😎
How much for hour?
The Dude don't belive ya
The Dude ur using an cringy emoji.
Dont belive u
ReEz why do u have that "cool" emoji thing? Why do u seem to be proud? That's nothing to be proud of if somehing u should be ashamed of yourself u has the chance the become somthing better.
ReEz he's far too edgy to even grasp humour
Fuck school, I've been an A+ goodie two shoes my whole life and it's getting fucking annoying
I feel you friend. Fuck school I SHALL NOT PASS anylonger!!!
Me too...
YouShallPassGas same :(
YouShallPassGas I was a backbencher . Got my ass kicked like almost everyday . Today I pay taxes to the government while 80% of my intelligent classmates don't even have a fixed job . I can feel you mate .
Read more I clicked that *Read more* like 5 times 😂
You see if I showed this to my mom and dad, they would kill me! XD
Same lol
Take it slow, they will eventually give in if you know what you are doing.
I REALLY wish this video existed a decade ago when I was still in school. When I think of all the time I wasted trying to be a "good student," it makes me wanna gut my own throat.
No wonder why violent people finish first. Take a look at Jordan Peterson.
@@celebrity_rooster7488 I can't stand the guy, but you're right.
I graduate from high school this year and I'm so scared that this might happen to me. Every day is a struggle when I think about the future.
ItzRKnight12
What do you want to study?
what are you doing now
a negative times a negative is a positive
a negative plus a negative is negative
me and my mom had a 2 day long argument about that same rule.
... MY MOM AND I
+Me 12 Year Old not necessarily
I struggled in school from grade K through 12, went to college struggled even more, now I'm doing something at the very same place I dreaded the most growing up; teaching
I have learnt more in past 3 weeks from Udemy and UA-cam than I did during my 4 years at University.