The Most Humiliating Event In Michio Kaku's Life
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Michio Kaku shares one of the most humiliating event in his life.
Michio Kaku is a Japanese-American futurist, theoretical physicist and popularizer of science. Kaku is a professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York.
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The mental abuse of cramming your brain with information, self inducing headaches and crippling stress kills the passion for science.
um try typing in "easy" after typing in what your looking for on Google or any search engine, a computer goes off keywords.
A similar thing ruined reading for me. I used to read at least a book a week. Reading class brought that down to maybe a couple a year.
N. Guy Having to learn new languages could be hard, I sympathize with you. :(
No, it is not hard to learn new languages! The Europeans usually know at least 3 or 4 languages, besides their mother tongue. On the other hand, the Americans also know the process of "speaking in tongues" which is the American way to learn a foreign language! (Well, I am an European...LOL)
48acar19 That's because you all live, like right next door to other languages, so you can learn faster if you have many language friends. Not saying that that is the case, but it probably is. :(
Yup. When my grade school teacher kept failing me not because my math work was wrong, but because I didn't follow his precise steps, I was done with math.
exactly, often i had all the answers right but only got a 2 or 3 (1 best, 6 worst). It was then when i stopped doing anything and even left school before getting a finish cause i wouldnt be able to do it cause no motivation, when i was asked to skip a year a couple of years ago cause i was one of the best in my class. i got no motivation for anything anymore
What is Wrong With the World I'm sure it wasn't my own work. I'm no Newton. I'm pretty sure I didn't invent any new approaches. My work was just how my brain solved the problems. Perhaps my way was longer, perhaps it was shorter, all I know is it wasn't the way the teacher did it so it was marked wrong.
にリス yup. My school had a policy not to advance advanced students. Instead of bringing the class up to the level of the faster students, they brought the faster students down to the level of the class. It was revealed to me that I would have doubled grades but it wouldn't be fair to the other kids. Worst part is I'm older now and my mind is pretty fried. I no longer consider myself gifted but there was a time when I was firing on all cylinders. Now I'm just a washed up old dude. Such is life. Best of luck to you, Brother.
Sal C yeah i got no job but i dont want to either anymore, i hate the world. gl to you aswell
にリス
Don't give up. I dropped out of school as a teen but then went on to get a Master's degree. I am sure you excel in one area or another. You have plenty to offer the world and our bad experiences in the past do not need to define who we are today.
This guy is the reason I became a scientist.
him? and not and endless feeling of curiosity and wonder?... by the way you are pretty hot I want to have little scientist babies with you and grow old together.
Issac newton That's very sweet of you, but I am actually married.
+mercilessv I need more information!!!!
"Launch forth, bravely, into the unknown."
+mercilessv Is that stuff I can look up?
Education should make us say WOW, not OH another homework.
ALLAH-RASOL-MOHAMMED . I know. Getting around 10 or so projects in the first week of a new term doesn't help either. It has to be all about keeping it interesting, not stressing students out.
We have to understand Modern day Education is all about becoming a part of labour force. Its not to make Einstein or Bill Gates. That is the cause of all problems. If education believed every child is special and can end up doing a great deal to humanity we would all be in a much better place. However, for a young person girlfriend, next American Pie movie or getting a good grade seems to be the horizon.
The elite don't want free thinkers
I agree 100%. I live in southern Alabama and I've yet to meet a single young person who cares to learn anything. Most people see science as a stressful, tedious endeavor. Even the honor students in the high schools have a complete lack of common sense or critical thinking. There rewarded and told they are smarter than the rest because they invest more time memorizing random info.
+josh bolin You do realize, or should, that anti-intellectualism is a real shortcoming of American culture and public attitude and that this kind of attitude is particularly pronounced in the South and in any part of the country dominated by conservative politics. Get out of Alabama. (Conservative politics isn't inherently anti-intellectual but in America the habits of mind tend to be held by the same people.)
? Conservative politics don't rule American schools you mongoloid. Any public school which receives public funding is forced to learn curriculum set by the US Government in D.C. Why do you think every southern state teaches evolution.
+Vasting We're not talking about curriculum, we're talking about common attitudes about education, academics, books, ideas, advanced degrees - there is anti-intellectual bias in America and that bias is strongest among those with conservative political and social. It's a simple idea and obviously true - it ain't rocket science.
OMG
David J Gill Because perhaps those states are poor..
it is true stupid school's methods of teaching make learning so boring and as a consequence kids and teenager lose interest!!!!
Shcool isn't about gaining information, it's about learning how to be in the same place doing the same thing every day .It's conditioning for your nu-natural adult life.
+Smokey MacPot but the way to create that condition can be teach more actively, that is my point.
Also if i said fuck off to a teacher i got 10 days suspension. OHHHHHH I want to bring back the paddle. beat their asses into obedience. As the Bible says, Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them. (NIV)
curb your enthusiasm.
Yaknow your brain works according to the rules of "path of least resistance". Its not conditioning its human nature....
Or if you really want to be the devil's advocate on this long time ago somone decided this should be human nature and over the course of our history we adapted to it.
DUH! lol
DUH, he always makes that and is amazing!
The Duh can't be removed! haha
made my day
Sad but its the same story everywhere, they design the system as pure measurement of how many hours can somebody put in pure effort to beat peers in memorizing things and performing mostly mindless chores all in order to produce the most compliant working force for the system. It may produce competitive herds but not true human souls who genuinely love science and nurture curiosity.
I'd like to say it produces hordes but even then in New Zealand only 800 engineers graduated from university last year apparently, the small population that does commit to science are efficient but its not enough compared to the other enormous faculties of Law, Arts, Social science, economics and Management. Hence the high demand, you don't even need passion here you just need to have a science degree.
I didn't have any interest on these things until I ended high school. interestingly, what inspired my passion with knowledge were video games. my fascination for science came from mass effect, history from assassin's creed, learning to speak the italian language from assassins creed II, learning english from games like god of war which were not translated in latin america.
I would not have leared English (or be learning at the current level, I shoud say), if not video games. I *hated* Polish translation and actors in video games. I hate how many rules out of nowhere are in this language (example: u and ó. They sound the same, but if you mix them up... same for ż/rz, ch/h... and that's just the tip of the iceberg). I still don't know all of the rules of English, but I can speak it thanks to listening to it passively for ~10 years.
I am aware, that my English isn't perfect, but knowing it on B1/B2 level is always useful and I think, that it is the go-to lingua franca. It's simple and logical.
Yep , watching 2001_: A Space Odysseus will surely broaden your horizon. Even Kubrick was not a physicist but had a knack for Sci Fi. And anyone who loves Sci Fi will surely marvel at the wonders of our Universe
@@exandra. yeah i know what you mean. i had no interest in learning english. but it sort of naturally happened by playing lots of games, and watching a shitload of dragonball z. before i knew it, my vocabulary was more advanced than school could teach me.
Assassin's creed is spot on bro.
Dr. Kaku is such a pleasure to listen to, no matter what the topic!
I am a curious person. I was in the top 2% going into the College of Engineering.... but never graduated from the major university I attended for over 4 years. Rather than work and live with other science-minded computer scientists I live in the redwoods and serve the elite in this CA college town. I fully appreciate what Michio has revealed publicly. I am amazed at the lack of creative imagination, and the lack of recognition of creative types, in well educated and so-called visionaries of society. I do have Nature as my endowment, so I must have had good judgment in my youth even though society would label me a failure.
"wildflowers survive where soils are harsh; avoiding alligator shoes and careless hearts"
~~cc
American schools also put way too much emphasis on standardized testing. First we bore kids to death forcing them to memorize things they'll just look up as adults, then we stress them out with the SAT's.
Then they go to their local college and wonder what life they even have.
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Agreed. Look Up the Thai Farmer Jon Jandai. He home schools his son. He did a TED talk in English, and then another in Thai. The Thai TED talk focused on the education system of Thailand, and why it is failing the common people.
Yep, I totally agree. But, the system have found out that the more people memorize things the more stupid they become and system needs stupid people to reign indefinitely over them. Why do they become stupid, you might ask. Well, because they're unable to connect the dots, just memorize, connecting the dots is intelligence ... DUH!
You might also ask why the system needs 'stupid' people, and one answer that has been given is that they will not question a certain authority, and historically this is the reason why much information was kept away form the masses. The fear is that making people smart leads to change, and this has happened before and still happens and leads to progress. But I think nowadays it is more and more clear that there are smart people that will resign to situations and responsabilities, and not so smart people (or at least missinformed) that will challange a certain authority without a proper reason to do so.
Ive always been interested in science, even before i knew anything about science, and it stuns me how people can't be absolutely ennamered by everything in science, i love learning new things and i hope to continue to.
I'd say the worst convictor this is Chemistry, i remember at highschool level having to memorize all the elements, and pointless figures and numbers since these weren't provided during exams. In univerisity all of these are provided, the formulae, a periodic table everything but the focus is shifted to teaching theoretical situations rather than memorization.
Schooling should be about understanding and teaching how to think, not memorization and testing.
It's the reason why I believe that a lot of people hate Mathematics, because it's the only subject that requires you to understand the concepts presented in a sea of memorization
So well said
Schooling should be about understanding and teaching how to think,
...that doesn't make money (not measurable)
not memorization and testing.
...that Makes Money (measurable)
Our entire life is about "Making Money"
Think about that for a moment.
That is what EXACTLY happened to me when I was in my bloody high school !!!!
I think math and science should be combined into a single class, because they are connected. One cannot exist without the other. When you teach them separately like we do now, it creates unnecessary confusion about the purpose of both.
Give kids the theory first, then once they're hooked give 'em the numbers and equations ;D
True
The most humiliating moment of his life was when he told RT, he believes the u.s. government about what happened on 9/11
a true scientist never do that
You want to get kids into science ? Teach them about catapults and siege engines. Show them to build scale models that work. Trust me.
that's engineering not science.
+Themayseffect Science is everything... Also siege engines work off the priciples of kinetic forces which is physics which is science
Science is a systematic approach to testing and studying. Engineering is the act of creating and building. OP's exact statement was the entire problem Michio was explaining about endless regurgitation of science that has already been explored and tested.
+Themayseffect so what you want is to teach kids highly complex ploblems in which our greatest minds are yet to understand? How are kids even capable of understanding any of the sorts when they can't caculate nor understand the effects of gravity on objects?
I agree with Michio on the memorizing of names and useless knowledge like it, but the knowledge that could be learned from siege engines are necessary to learning any more complex concepts of the field
Andrew Godly
You do not understand his point of the matter. Nor my point of the differences in "engineering" and "science" in the purist forms. You are still specifically talking about Engineering. Not science in the form of exploring and testing and studying unknowns. His entire point is that students at a young age are not taught how to perform science in its most basic form, which is simply to test and study unknown and new ideas. Students in the early ages now are taught to learn and study "principles" that have ALREADY been tested and "confirmed" as science. THIS act is purely regurgitation and remembering applied and previously documented information. THIS is not science, it is purely the studying of documented science.
There is nothing wrong with this in itself, but the problem he is saying is that students at a young age are not also taught to go "discover" and research as a part of studying and testing.
You guys keep talking about "siege engines" and making things. This is all another example of applied engineering as all of it is previously documented and created examples of engineering. It is more regurgitation. Yea it may be "fun", but it does not allow the young minds to freely explore new boundaries of science and engineering. As a result the fun will turn to boredom and the boredom will turn to a lack of interest.
See what i did there? I regurgitated the same information in a different form.
This interview describes my school experience. I had so many dreams, all crushed by memorizing all this crap that changes with every new study that comes out regarding that issue.
Michio Kaku although maybe a bit overestimated as most respectable scientist today, he is still in front and doing what someone is suppose to be doing, that's by giving inspirational and motivational speeches to the next future scientists.
Michio Kaku is one of the founders of String Theory.
That's a decent achievement, I guess :-)
+danpt2000 -- I didn't know that. He has a great talent in speaking in common terms to the common man.
That "duuuuhh" at the end got me lol
Exactly!!! That's why I hated my parasitology class because it was only about memorization!!!
Our school system is designed to produce factory workers. In junior high, my teachers would just answer "Don't worry about that, just do it this way" whenever I asked questions.
We alienate our children by sending them away to school If I were Michio I would have home schooled her. I know that going to school as a child in my day was pretty traumatic to begin with. I can't imagine how bad it is for children now. Home School your children.
I too am going to homeschool my children in English Russian and Chichewa (Malawian girlfriend) I HAD ENOUGH of the educational system I was mislabeled misdiagnosed and controlled to a millimeter of my life my girl was bullied because of her racial background I HAD ENOUGH I HAD ENOUGH
yes sir ,im thinking of home schooling too
I went to school in Australia and had an Asian science teacher for geology. The first thing we went into was continental drift. I became a computer scientist but now my mental capacity is being crushed by the corporate world.
Alienated k
I definitely agree. The presentation on subjects can have a huge impact on a student's curiosity and wanting to learn more. Like math for example teachers teach math to student as something that is important and they must know, but they fail to make us realize how we can use it in our everyday lives to benefit ourselves
had the exact same thing in my highschool years. we had multiple geology exams where we had to memorize dozens of minerals including all their properties and what role they play in geology. truly ridiculous what nonsense we have to memorize that we have no clue about a few years later and yet you have to memorize everything perfectly unless you want to fail the class
Thats where the science of cheat sheets comes in handy
oh shit, no wonder why i didn't really like chemistry when I entered AP chemistry.
It's soul crushing man, glad I started getting more of an interest in subatomic/computational physics.
I am in Medical field, and I got to learn how to find area under the curve by memorizing some formulas. Before that, I had to learn the history of art. Finally, I am getting into science a bit, but still I have to memorize so much garbage. I learn more at home looking at things and learning as I go than sitting at University for hours and wondering how I ended up in here?
When I was younger I would view Science as being some boring dorky guy in a lab coat playing around with test tubes and flasks. It wasn't until later when I really got what it was really about and its vision on the world. Science actually became cooler than cigarettes!
as soon as i left school my curiosity for the unknown come back i learned more from my own research than i did from school
I HATED biology in highschool. It was the only class I was bad at because it was almost all memorization. It's funny because before I took the course I loved reading biology books and watching biology documentaries. Highschool crushed my desire for knowledge.
Could not have said it better. I have been wondering school systems could fix this problem, if they even can at all. Thoughts?
+flmvdvsrg kids are lazy.... When the average kid spends 9 hours on social media / playing games a day... Then bitches about homework being too hard.... Then we wonder why high school graduates in other nations have the same education as our 4 year college degree students. Lol
The problem is the parents who think their kids are special snowflakes who shouldn't be challenged or have their feelings hurt.
The problem is the money in schools vanishes like all government entities.
The problem is underpaid teachers.
The problem is far leftists constantly destroying the system so that kids are more ignorant and easier to indoctrinate.
The problem is America and his we went from a monster powerful conservative nation of teaching success is good, it's good to challenge your thoughts and explore all views and be able to figure out flaws and learn cause and effect.
Now we demonize success, we don't challenge thoughts in school, we dictate thoughts and fail those who disagree.
+flmvdvsrg it's this country, and the parents and the helpless teachers who have all let future generations down by allowing this entitlement mentality to take over.
And no, the problem will never be fixed until leftists fully take over the nation and the system fails and a civil war/ overthrowing of the government takes place in order to reset everything back to the way it was.
+flmvdvsrg and what agenda do you think I have? My agenda would be to instill logical rational analytical thought processes into young minds and teach them to understand cause and effect and to always challenge what they are told, what they read etc.
And you are wrong. Conservatives are not trying to teach the bible and bash science. It's something some religious people may want, but that ideal isn't limited to conservatives. Just not all conservatives are religious.
Your response shows that you have a pretty linear thought process and that you have a lack of understanding of this countries educational system, it's history and issues that have made it what it currently is.
Not to insult you, it's okay to not know things. But it seems everyone has an opinion these days and yet most people do not study or pay attention to the full scope of any issue.
When universities around the US are harassing and kicking kids off campus or calling the police in response to those kids
+flmvdvsrg handing out free constitutions. That's a problem.
When extremist leftist students go and riot and start public property, then blame the man for the damage they cause and claim they need counseling for emotional trauma because a conservative business man wants to speak at the university, that isn't American or acceptable.
The problem stems down from the early 1900s when extremist leftists started to slowly take over everything.
+flmvdvsrg or how about when a student disagrees or even proves his leftist professor who supports socialism and communism the student is failed on the exam.
Conservatives have hardly any impact on schools anymore. Nor will they.
Same with the legal system.
My math teacher puts grades based only on tests. She's a strict teacher known in my city,that students try to get some tutoring classes with her as early as possible before the 8th grade exam. (Which is the exam taken for deciding to what high school you'll attend based on your results).
Because of this,she goes on with the mindset 'tests are the most important-all important exams in your life are written exams'. So her tests are strict,some of them even similar to exam simulation papers.
Her tests aren't hard. I don't even find math that hard. She's a good math explainer after all (when she isn't angry like she is most of the time) - but not a good math teacher.
Getting good grades in her class is harder than math itself honestly. Still,I struggle a bit to write everything during the time limit,and still make some mistakes while trying to fit in the time limit (making the situation worse)
I love math and learning,doing the exercises and figuring out things by myself (like how something should work/how to solve something),still,it seems like we mostly focus on the grades rather than the learning part.
So it just really doesn't seem to matter at all (in the school environment) whether you're truly passionate about a subject,if you really take it in serious and have potential. All that matters is that test at the end of the chapter.
And even that test doesn't seem to evaluate you're knowledge,but rather how well you're able to write some stuff during a time limit on a damn stupid paper.
"DUH!" Lol :)
School destroyed my sense of curiosity. Thirty years later I watched school do the same to my daughter. The education system is full of sadists
Nobody ever told me that math was used to help physicists understand the universe. If I known this I would’ve been much more interested.
pretty much got into it after school,i feel so grateful for the greatness of the system
ALL TEACHERS PAY ATTENTION!
....1:41 When I watched popeye...I wanted to eat spinach. When I watched bugs bunny, I wanted to eat carrot. When I watched star trek, I became interested in things like phasers, warp, space, quantum, etc....I guess its just that there isnt enough entertainment industry nowadays that would make science looks fun.
I grew up while Sweden was at its most socialist, the mid-to-late 90's. People today complain that socialists, leftists and liberals are what's wrong with the world, but back then we had a different approach to learning.
We had to study dates and tables, sure, but we also didn't have multiple choice questions or anything like that. Even for simple maths problems, we were given 1/5th of a paper to explain in text how we arrived at the conclusion. For more advanced ones, we were given note pads instead of pre-written test papers, just so we had enough paper to write down our answers.
The question was never "What is 5x(2+3)", instead it was "How do you get the result of 5x(2+3)".
In schools today, students are given one paper with questions and another pre-filled with numbers and the letters A, B, C, D and E, so that they can circle the letter corresponding to the answer and the teacher can just put a cheat-sheet with holes cut out over the answers, to see if it was correct. More efficient for the resources and finances of the school, but of little to no use for the student.
So now, let me ask you, which is better? The rightist way of having financial gain in school, or the leftist way of letting the students express themselves?
I prefer to be a "special little snowflake" with scientific curiosity and the knowledge to separate fact from fiction over a dumbed-down, table-reciting money-or-nothing kinda guy that believes everything he reads if it conforms with his beliefs.
This guy is right on ... the US education system is ineffective ....
I love this guy so true. However, if you get your kids interested in science before school even starts they may love it. It worked for both my boys.
He's wrong, continental drift is an out dated proven wrong theory. I believe what he meant to say is plate tectonics.
He's saying learning stupid FACTOIDS is like caging up and locking up your thoughts.
To put it bluntly, you're forcing thoughts through a straight path instead of a circle.
Most young teachers in my school are open minded but the old ones sometimes get very arrogant.the only reason I go to school is just because I don't want to waste my parents effort and make them sad for me which is the reason why I have been going to school for the past 12 years
Yepp, I had to memorize over 100 mineral formulas for a mineralogy exam. But the ones who are passionate about their program perservere such courses used to "weed" out the weaker students.
LOVE THIS GUY!
I love this man.
Us in the east follow the memorizing technique. I hope we quickly change to more practicalities.
I was so into universe and physics by his book... It wad like living magic book to me and like his daughter, it crushed away and dissppear when I wad in high school ...
when i first look at the table of elements, damn this is cool, as we study it, i wonder why are we studying it, and not even one experiment in my school days we get to see that table of elements in action
He's right, take away the creative, inquiring minds, put a manual for failure in front of students and you have basic common core standards. What happened to science teachers doing actual experiments in school, you learn more by doing, seeing the results than demanding memorization from school children. Taking the fun from learning. Why learn, go to work, now it's to collect the paycheck to live and survive. So many have lost the passion for learning more.
That's what happens if you choose politics and theocracy over science.... we took a wrong turn many many years ago.
That's more hilarious than humiliating. That's like Richard Dawkin's having a child that said "daddy, how on earth could anybody be an atheist". That's the kind of thing that should be caught on camera.
He loves repeating his quotes, but they're so true.
Funny thing is that in fifth grade, I completely aced the kind of geology test that Dr. Kaku describes.
u missed his point
His second most humiliating; when he pulled his pants down for a girl the first time , something about a one inch equation.
Don't let school interfere with your education.
"duuuh" - Michio Kaku
I love it!
this man is simply brilliant
A huge fan of MK but he's lived a sheltered life if that was his most humiliating moment.
I lost interest in the school's science but I went home and learned my own. My junior year I took astronomy and that was the only class I liked.
Michio Kaku explains how idiocracy starts.
I want to travel with that guy! Tesla would love him!
I'm glad my geology class was interesting, even though it was the hardest class i ever took
And it gets worse in college when you're forced to cram 4-5 entire text books worth of science and mathematics in only 4 months time. Good luck.
your desire was once strong kaku
I'm a PhD student at one of the top US universities now. I don't want to be in academia anymore, because it's more like a cult. I don't want to participate in that. Better I go and earn much more $$$, doing something, that will also give me some free time on weekends.
when I was little, I was good at math and science, not great. My special ed teachers said that I would never get past the 20% score-wise. I made it into the 80%. Then my family and teacher decided that I needed to spend more time with English (because I said odd, creative things. they should really do a psych exam with the IEP), which doesn't even make sense when you're in school because the classics are written for adults, not eager 11 year olds or freshmen. They don't have the life experience for it. You don't have to spend your life writing puns in a drunken rage. You can further humanity and yourself. I love writing, but I can't help but be a little irritated. I love science more than anything in this world. I wish they would have steered me in the first direction.
My interest in science grew after I dropped out of high school. In three years I learned how to THINK, I memorized more information, than I did through all of my school years. (Also, my OCD was gone after dropping out. I was getting a lot of crap for it from teachers, but I didn't even know I had it, because they don't teach about it in schools, duh.)
I can thank my school only for teaching me how to read and write. But I payed with my mental health and 10 years of life for these two skills. Not worth it!
This is perfect.
Couldn't agree more.
And then when you do use the driving force behind science, curiosity, you are considered as inferior, or suspicious, or weird.
I was expecting something humiliating but yet recieved an enlightening message about our flawed educational system ruining the concept of the wonder of science. Well, expected nothing less from Michio Kaku.
you expected humiliation alone without the enlightenment...so you DID expect something less from Michio Kaku ya silly goose
Michio Kaku is truly a beautiful human being.
Yes, he's quite the looker.
So true!
Crushing kids' curiosity, enthusiasm, and motivation is a 'people' problem. Most parents are woefully inadequate caregivers. It's chiefly parents - alcoholism, divorce, narcissistic verbal abuse, sexual abuse, etc. - who crush the kids. It also goes without saying that parents make up most communities, so even if one kid's parents are healthy, chances are their neighbors, who are also that kid's teachers, are alcoholics, abusers, etc., and it all gets handed down. Most (maybe all) abusers were abused as kids. This is why schools are more about obedience than learning, and ultimately why we're overpopulating, warring, whoring, drugging, and wrecking the planet.
Well said
The way the public school system teaches destroys people's interest in any subject
Artists say we are all born artists, and scientists say we are all born scientists.
we all are, our intelligence is the evidence we are meant for more than getting the money to pay rent, food..
totally agree. i thought only education in Asia has this problem.
education system is created by people that wanna have alot of slaves they dont teach you how to think but ton of usells crap that you need to remember.
wow that made my heart clench...
The educational system could use some serious reform.
The same pass in Portugal on Mathematics
If he's a scientist, than I' must be The king of England.
Jacque Fresco is a scientist!
This guy here, is a talker.
fus ro DAAAHHHHH!!!!! 1:42
The American education system is straight garbage. It's not about trying to learn something interesting, it's about being taught somethings so that you can remember it long enough to pass a test, then forgetting that thing over the summer. I didn't know a single person through school that was actually excited to learn something, they went to school to pass, not to learn.
It's like pavlov's dog, except in this case, we're conditioning children to associate stress and boredom with accumulating knowledge.
Step 1: privatise education
Step 2: make it non mandatory
Step 3: watch the flocks of children plea for a chance to get into school.
kids want what they can't get
if u privatize education than it will immediately become too expensive for lower income people to send their kids to school. Yeah kids want what they don't have, problem is if ur parents have money theyll buy u that thing. we have a problem with stupidity in the United States. we don't need to make more stupid people by making it harder to get an education.
+mike A wouldnt the natural response be a cheaper school? In a free market if the demand is there it will be adressed.
Michaael allen yes it would be nice for school to be cheaper and I'm not against the free market. The problem is school is very expensive, even if u take ur kid to the cheapest school u would still be looking at a few thousand to 10,000 bucks a year. If ur a single parent making 20k you'll think twice about ur kids education.
I hope you're joking... I seriously do.
So I guess Dr.Kaku's never been caught rubbing one out. He's had a life of pretty soft blows to the ego.
great man
The most humiliating event of his life? It's not like his father walked in on him fucking an apple pie whilst shouting "Show me the secrets of gravity! Show me like you did Newton!!"
That would have been humiliating.
Humiliating?! He's just telling the truth.
Michio has great hair....
Flowers will bloom when the season comes. Don't force it before that!