Hackschooling makes me happy | Logan LaPlante | TEDxUniversityofNevada
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When 13 year-old Logan LaPlante grows up, he wants to be happy and healthy. He discusses how hacking his education is helping him achieve this goal.
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This video is 7 years old, so he's 20 years old now. I wonder if he has done a sequel..., and I do hope he's happy.
Ye
He works at a sticker shop
was thinking the same thing and instantly went to look him up on the internet lol
His LinkedIn says he is self employed with a marketing company for public speaking.
School is about passing rather than learning anything. Today, most kids just google anything they need and as soon as the homework or test is complete, we immediately forget it again. This is why I will be homeschooling my children rather than taking them to public school
what is google...
goes to google "what is google"
I have been homeschooled all my life (I am a sophomore in high school now) and it truly is a wonderful experience. For the parent doing the homeschooling, there is probably going to be many stumbling blocks, but the whole experience really pays off. I'm so glad you guys will be homeschooling! There probably will (and already are) people who will either oppose or say negative things to you guys because of it, but that's because people have a big misunderstanding about homeschooling, and I really hope that one day, someone will set them all straight, because homeschooling is really a way of allowing each individual child to learn at their own pace. Public school does not allow you to do that. And with homeschooling, a lot of museums and other places have homeschool days (even my local YMCA does!), so that's another benefit. I wish you guys all the best!!!!!
Natalie Grace Thanks. There seems to be a misunderstanding that homeschoolers live inside their homes all day and don't talk to anyone expect their parents. I try to tell people that the child will reflect the parent. If the parent is always at home and unwilling to go next door and socialize with the neighbors, then the child won't do it either. It all depends on the parents, not whether the kids are homeschooled or not. Anyway, the "friends" you make in school are not really friends since you will not see 95% of them after graduating and moving to another school. The only reason children at school socialize is because they are placed in the same environment, rather than the kids having things in common with each other that can make them friends forever.
Exactly! They make "friends" because they are forced to be with those people all the time. I found that I have much stronger and better friendships than other girls my age. Also, homeschooling is wonderful for the children because the parents have so much time to teach them life lessons along with school lessons. It also brings the family closer together, which is a wonderful thing especially in our day and age.
Natalie Grace Definitely. Society lacks morality today because family unit has been completely destroyed. What will a 10 year old boy learn from another 10 year old boy at school? I'll tell you what he will learn since I went to public school myself and experienced it personally. The 10 year old boy will learn about masturbation, sex, and how to use bad words. If you wonder why kids today are over sexualized and looking at porn at the age of 9, you can start with the school system.
I honestly don't understand why people think homeschoolers will never have any social skills. Just because a student might be with kids the same age doesn't mean he/she will blossom socially. I'm in a public high school and I have little to no social skills, I feel too afraid to talk most of the time. It really doesn't make a difference people
+Jimmie Price public/private schooling will make your social skills worse but will give you ALLOT thicker skin... home schooling will make your social skills better but you'll be as soft as a dandy and wont be expecting as much underhanded treatment as your bound to get... children NEED T.L.C. in both it's litterations... but they need to be taught how to take a low-blow aswell...
+Jimmie Price I was homeschooled. I can understand why they would think they would not have social skills since they may not necessarily be around volumes of people everyday like their public schooled counterparts are.
Interestingly, though, homeschoolers tend to spend more of their time around people of different ages, creating more of a stretching affect to relate with those who do not look like us. Family is the foundation, but not the be all and end all.
+Jimmie Price A little of both, but in some rare cases, home schooling might be better. If you can afford really good teachers. I think i might've benefitted more from a homeschooling. School was a living hell for me an only set back my self confidence to zero.
+Jimmie Price I know right, I've been homeschooled since 3rd grade, currently in 11th, and I have amazing social skills lol.
+Jimmie Price Dont be afraid. Humans are social animals. Even introverts. Try. Then try again.Until it comes naturally to you
he seems so prepared for life
Loool that actually made me laugh for some reason...
Do u hate ur life or something?
now i'm just not ready to be an adult... :(
I'm sure he'll have his soul destroyed soon enough :)
I get you
Dave Davidson 😂😂
This kid knows more than 90% of adults, myself included... Thanks for the inspiration kid ;)
^ :O an Interneter who is actually humble!
Remember, they're an endangered species, so don't touch!!!
Then you are pretty uneducated...
And there^ is a regular Interneter. Meh. I don't think you need a license to hunt them
Marcus Rodriguez I always just inferred that whatever career I was interested would make me happy. But never thought of just happiness for its own sake. I have a problem with the concept of intrinsic items. Happiness is a result of something. But its pure and simple, pick careers that make you happy for as much power you have in picking the career. But don't try to conform your happiness around a particular career or try to make a particular career into happiness. Do what makes you happy and healthy is what I got out of it.
Which is wise in its simplicity. Becomes more difficult when trying to fill this out in detail when life hits. That's age of experience starts to either pat you on the back if you're successful first time, or beat you up if you fail once or several times in life.
Yass haha
you know john lennon once said "My mom told me to grow up happy. On a test they asked me what do you want to be when you grow up? I answered Happy. They told me I didn't understand the question. I told them they didn't understand life."
"When I grow-up, I want to be happy". What a lovely child. "Happiness is a choice".
This guy is going to grow up a genius.
+Viskosity I will follow him, then
+JohnEyes lmao have fun having no legacy left behind
+yung indigo Yes ! Every kids are genius before school, and so rare after… This is reality of schooling it's really bad for kids. I'm doing professional studies to do teacher but I can't do it like classic school really bad for kids but with a school where the kids are free to learn what they want. They are happy without a lot of problems and it's working. We have to change mentality of education !
yung indigo he...kind of already is, no?
Absolutely.Not your average genius, but still a genius.
I was homeschooled my whole life, and not a day goes by that I am not unimaginably thankful for it.
Homeschooled my daughter after 12 as well....
well interaction with other humans is important, but i guess home schooling is more customized
Sadly not everyone can be homeschooled :( That's why we need to be changing our public school education to something more along the lines of more interaction with the outside world.
now here's the question I have. Were you homeschooled within or outside the religious spectrum?
Good lord to say public school is only alternative to home school is to condemn kids to a mired of brain shrinking contamination.Public school, a proven track record where today,all kids get left behind. But hey,who cares right?They can all smoke out and rap out and learn a lot of other useful social skills the best being the prevailing anti intellectual attitudes today.
with a thirteen year old kid speaking in a way that normal kids dont(at least in my country), actually amazing with such a mature mind, no fear of public speaking(doesnt mind if hes wathcing the screen or not), surely environment does have a impact on the kids, really amazing!!1
People like me.
There are people like us out there just... a lot of them can't express themselves. But it shows how some people can be really smart and have good ideas and show that this generation isn't completely fucked due to technology.
But take this. Why is it that we outstand a lot of other people socially? Why are we interested in these topics? Why are so mature like this? Am I an old soul? Idk...
But one of the answers is education. Not what it teaches us, but rather what it refuses to teach us. Im sitting there in science class and I'm like "They didn't mention this thing I heard on the news the other day". That's when I go into the bigger picture researching this kind of stuff. Interesting mature subjects nobody at a young age would even think of looking at. All because it's left out at schools. We want to know what they don't teach us because it could be important.
Why don't they teach us this? Because they think we wouldn't understand it. Now that's true. But what they do instead is teach us something much less complicated and advanced but that isn't all true. Thus leading to bias beliefs later in life because they were taught in school. But people like me go beyond to learn the true science and material not taught in school.
Fuarian Ya I am one of them too, although I am deeply involved in technology, I have the hacker mindset.
!!1
I am dumb as fuk, but I can speak to anyone.
I'm 14 girl and l speak just like that about every thing but everyone says l should shut up cuz l'm a kid😑😒
I find this pretty accurate. And it's true, school isn't about learning, it's about passing.
School in a nutshell:
Listen in class
Study for exam
Get good/bad marks
Go back to the first step.
EXACTLY
The fact that that 13 year old kid can stand up and talk in front of that large of an audience is just mind boggling.
He's so articulate
she is a girl dude
+Tarun Kumar Ha, Nope.
Antie Cuteness he is a boy?
yes he is i don't see decription
aceinthe hole , and he has a pretty deep voice for a girl.
School is a waste of time. Learning, on the other hand, is freakin' magical. I had so many teachers in the public school sector that could not use the words than/then correctly it's not even funny.
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luky wabi same though
Omg 💀
"making a life rather than making a living" thanks for the wise one.
This is why I'm so glad that I was homeschooled, I would have shriveled up and died in public school. Honestly I would have become a very different person, and I would never have gotten the creative opportunities or skills that homeschooling allowed me to pursue.
You me alike :P
Zeke Krahlin look I'm really sorry that you don't like homeschooling, but even with your concerns I would not change the way I was educated. For many people homeschooling is an excellent option.
I believe home schooling was and is amazing. All those distraction that schools have where gone, I didn't have to impress anyone, I didn't get in trouble cause of my behaviour.
I was in my learning space which also increased my independency. Everybody has a different way of learning, mine was by being by myself or one on one.
Mayovka Coywolf what kind of creative opportunities or skills do you think you developed from not being in public school?
Tam 23 well especially when I was younger I would finish school super early so I was able to devote a lot more time to drawing. Not that you can't learn art in public school but it was enriching for me. I was also pushed to read a lot more classic literature, Paradise Lost, Dante's Divine Comedy and such. I recognize that homeschooling isn't for everyone but I really enjoyed it :)
I'm so glad something like this is trending. I share a lot of these thoughts and I'm from Germany. I'm doing my A-Levels in 1 year and I can already feel the stress of all of it. I love that someone finally said "I want to be happy when I grow up". I sit in school and later on at home and force information into my brain, after which I sit and cry because I can't remember it or feel like I don't have enough time to learn it. What he talks about is just amazing and something I hope will be avaliable for everyone by the time I have kids:) I don't want to be scared of the future anymore.
This young man has figured it out. He is what you call enlightened.
Probably the least annoying 13 year old you could ever run into on Call of Duty.
+WALTERRIFIC haha :D Nice that you ride and play. My bikefever started again just by watching your videos! Keep the positive mindset and i keep supporting you.
I doubt very much that this child plays Call of duty (kill simulator)
Bless you
sup
in before he predicts your path and calculates the angle of his frag grenades, not allowing you to ever get out of your spawn.
That’s crazy, this kid and I live in the same place, I see him at Starbucks all the time and I never knew he was so brilliant
Seriously dude. I'm 29. I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up. Thanks Public School!
He's so confident for his age! Such a brilliant talk, wish I knew a lot of this at 13.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life... John Lennon
I love the comments of these TED videos because it shows the diversity in human thinking and nature. This is the main reason I don't believe in world peace or the absence of evil or crime based on certain dependents. We humans will never agree on one answer, or one way to live life... Not everyone will be an optimist and not everyone will be a pessimist. It's good to have balance anyway. I personally love topics and videos such as these. Yet I don't expect it to be groundbreaking or change the world. Take it in individually if it rings true with you, and keep it moving. Simple right?
+KeiyaValecourt And you are, a cutie ;)
Lol thank you
+KeiyaValecourt Untrue, unless humans get wiped out soon, which is pretty likely, we will definitely grow to an intelligent species and will agree on everything.
+_Ryan Joseph (HopeYouHaveAGreatDay_) that's an interesting concept that I don't oppose (although I haven't heard of that idea). You truly believe that there will be a world of authentic, intelligent humans (not cloned,etc) who will, of their free will, agree on EVERYTHING, including personal opinions, if the world keeps on going and nothing happens to destroy it, etc?
KeiyaValecourt Yes, humans evolve,and if we dont get destroyed before we do it we will manage true intelligence. Hopefully the technology to download the human brain into a piece of technology is researched, that would speed up the process monumentally.
Wow, this kid's talk makes me want to cry and start my life over again.
Oh yeah, I remember that video n_n Very interesting talk and point of view.
lol true
then contribute to his ideas and if you are reincarnated you can live his dream
then do it man start over its not as hard as you think just let go of your fears ad jump man go be happy make your job working to get well
Damn this guy is lucky to have had his parents pulling him out of school. I am 21 years old and crying looking at his future... But it's not too late and I am happy to have seen this. I am finishing my Bachelor this year and then, a gypsy life for me as I have always dreamed of.
Je t'aime Maya :)
je suis heureux de savoir qu'on va voyager héhéhé
Hahaha c'est trop drôle la seule raison pour laquelle t'as vu mon commentaire c'est parce qu'il a été "liké" par du monde :P Gabi... Ça me fait rire que tu as vu ce que je voulais te dire depuis 3 jours par mon commentaire :P
hahahaha vive les commentaires
***** Enjoy the gypsy trailblazing globalhopping, hack it!
I also cried watching this. I'm 20 and I feel like I honestly learned nothing in school. Everything I've learned, minus some very basic math, science, and writing, I've taught to myself after dropping out at 16. I'm now very successful (happy) but I wish I could've had this from the starting point. Imagining how my life could be if I'd had this freedom makes me feel so robbed
A great example of a kid growing up happy and growing with intelligence.
So much that he is speaking on TED to an audience full of adults who came to seek some of his views and knowledge.
I love what this kid calls "hackschooling." - I do it. Except,
I go to public school right now. I am in 10th grade.
Let me say that I am one of the worst students in the school!
What I mean by that is not my grades. I am in moderate to advanced classes. My GPA is 3.8 or something like that. I don't know. I don't identify with that much because I don't believe a number tells me how much I'm worth.
What I mean is that I hate school an awful lot. I have a countdown app on my phone for when I get out. I find it very interesting to talk to other kids about what they're going to do when we get out this summer. What I find the more and more with kids I talk to, there really is no love for learning at school or in life in general.
Everyone says that they just want to sleep. Literally, that's it!
I don't want to sleep. WELL, I do want to sleep, but I only want to get enough sleep so I can function healthily during the day so I can be productive. I am going to pursue my skills in cooking. I am going to get up everyday at 7:30 AM, walk while listening to TED talks or other forms of knowledge. Perhaps I will listen to the French language. I hope to become fluent in French this summer. I am putting my phone in French, labeling everything in my house, learning to think in french by trying to put everything I say/ think in English in the former language, and I have contact with other french people so I can make sure I am doing it right. They will help me learn french in exchange for the help I have given them in making money online.
After that I am going to eat a big breakfast at 8:00 AM. Then I will get to work on perfecting my Javascript so I can build my photography website. - I love photography and have bought equipment for it.
I am going to get back into lifting weights. I did 5x5 last summer and gained 30 pounds and I filled out in a lot of areas. I want to get back into a weight lifting program.
Why am I a teenager that likes doing all of this? Because I like making myself a better person... And I like inspiring others to do the same.
My friends and I said we are also going to ACTUALLY learn German together. We are going to help each other with it. We are going to speak with each other in it when we would normally speak english.
Why was actually in all caps?
You see, I took German at school (but I am done). I never learned German. I MEMORIZED German to pass my tests. Just like I did/do with everything else at school. Other children don't learn anything at school after a certain age.
Actually kids do learn things. They learn how to be fake. They learn how to make themselves look like they are more important than they actually are. Or better than they actually are. They know how to goldbrick. They want a good grade. Not a better mind full of practical knowledge that helps make them and in turn the world a better place.
KIDS LEARN TO HATE LEARNING.
This is so dangerous. If we as a society actually were smart, wouldn't we see this as a MAJOR PROBLEM???
People hating learning is like people hating sex. WE NEED PEOPLE TO LIKE LEARNING OR THE HUMAN RACE IS GOING TO DIE!
Without people who like learning, we won't be maximizing our potential. People never get to live there life full. We need creative people in this world! We have over 7 billion people on this planet and very soon a lot of aspects of our life will need to be reinvented!
There is hope for everyone. The kid who's parents neglected him his whole life. The football jock who has everything handed to him in life because he plays sports. The pretty girls who rely on looks to get through life. Everyone can be morphed.
But we won't get there with this current education system that facilitates contempt towards learning. People need to love learning! they can! I am an average kid! If I can love it anyone can! The right conditions need to be placed in our system.
Help ME!!! I am dying from this. Everyday I wake up going to a building that teaches us nothing but how to get through life and not how to live it. Our potential is at stake! We have SO MANY RESOURCES. Anyone with internet can learn anything for free these days. We are, for the most part, well fed, we have clean water to drink, computers, cars, computers, AC, heating, and plumbing. All these useful things.
I think it is time we all be brought up in a culture that facilitates the love of learning and allows people to use these tools to make the world greater.
I wrote so much. I am just so glad to see another kid with my views on life and learning. Poor, poor, public school children, who may never know how fun learning is.
Joe.
Agreed
Joe D What you said is so true and I totally agree with you and really glad to find someone like you is out there who thinks just like me people do need to understand that we can't really learn without the love for learning
Dayum imagine living a life without deadlines.
We think alike!
Your comment was very interesting and raises importants issues about education and I truly think like you and like the wonderful guy from the video...
Thus I was a bit troubled while I read your com. because I realised that these problems about education is not a problem that exist only in my country (I'm French and as you can see I do not speak English very well) but maybe a problem in the developing countries in general where education is more a competition to get good grades than a way to be good citizens, humans.
I wish more teens were like this kid. Kids like these give me hope for the future.
I think there are plenty of teens who have his mindset (myself included) but they give in to authority and society's conformity, and are so afraid of spiting the education system that they never speak up like this kid.
Julie Syverinsen
More like coercion. There was a bit of fuss around here when I was in elementary school about parents pulling their kids out of school for home schooling. A few people even got prosecuted for doing so. I wanted so badly to tell my mom "no, I'm not going to that school anymore but I'll still study every day" but I was so afraid what would happen to my mom if I did that. I'm not the only one either. The school I went to were pretty bad when I was there, made national news a few years ago for the wrong reasons. I doubt any kid that really wanted to do something good with their life wanted to be there.
Julie Syverinsen that's so true! I'm seventeen, and I wish so badly that I could school like him, but his aunt made that "Hackschooling" idea in a reality, but he should have added ways in his speech to how other kids can do this, we're not all as lucky as he got, what do I do? man school is so boring, graduating highschool almost seems impossible to me... :/
They are a very cool kid, but also it has a lot to do with the parents trying to give their kid the best education possible. I hope we also see more parents who raise their kids like this (:
Bravo. This kid reminds me of a quite a few of my fellow home schoolers from when I growing up. This type of "genius" and poise is not so uncommon in the home schooling community.
I was homeschooled my whole life until college and I had to watch this video as one of my assignments for my freshman seminar class, and the whole time Logan was talking, I was like, "This is what I've ALWAYS been doing as a homeschooler!" XD
These kids are so lucky to have easy and quick access to whatever information they want. What a glorious time it is to be young.
Yeah but were accelerating down at a fast rate so this gen is pretty much screwed.
*Sharp young man!* Amazing speaker!!
RIGHT ON, Logan!
*~kudos to his Mom.*
Great one, Sammi P. Glad I watched this one!
Thank you, Sean Cowen ! As was I!
Except that homeschooling is either more expensive or requires really intelligent, well-educated parents, which not all children are privileged of having. Some can only afford free, public education, and still deserve to be believed in.
I was actually home schooled for all my schooling (with the exception of college and university) and I was actually in a lower middle class family, and both my parents only had high school education. Now, I'm no genius and home schooling is not for everyone but.. I'm very happy with my experience and haven't come out any worse off then anyone who went through public education. Again, it's not perfect or for everyone, but neither is public education. It's good to have alternatives to both, because, everyone learns differently.
not necessarily. there are lots of online type educational programs parents can have their kids do so they dont have to be really intelligent themselves. it just gives them control and direct access to what their children are learning about. or you can have a family outing at a park that involves exploring nature around them, looking up info about plants and animals right in front of them on a smart phone rather than reading about it and looking at pictures in a text book in a stuffy, boring classroom. the parents can even learn right alongside their kids as they help them or have a discussion about a topic, whenever, wherever.
i think what he's getting at is, the majority of kids who get bad grades in school do so because sitting and being lectured to is just not a very good way for kids to learn. what with the technology we have at our fingertips today, learning can and should happen ANYWHERE, because getting kids involved hands on, learning at their own pace in their own way usually reaps far better results than shoving knowledge down their throats.
That's another point I have to agree with. There are really no qualifications to homeschool your kids
The state of Virginia and many other states only require a ged and they have a free online k12 online education
I am proud of this kid- I may not know him but the way he was brought up is amazing. The ways that he has learned throughout the years actually makes me feel jealous. I am a 17 year old girl, who just found out this way of living. I wish I had found it sooner but, I am glad I found it.
I'm Thirteen and this is so true other kids my generation want to be cool I just want to be happy.
Same...
I am now 23, still studying! I used to feel the same about happiness. I once wished the life could be more meaningful. I am really good in musical instruments and sounds, I believe I have a knack and sharp sense for music. But, I always knew that my parents would invest in nothing other than studies, so I just had to comply. And here I am still getting educated and no particular skill at all.
How many people are sitting here after watching this, regretting having fully gone through public school? Well, worry not. You can't change what has already happened, and it's not too late to start now; it's never too late. Start making changes to your life right now.
This ^
This is why we are homeschooling our children, it took 2.5 years of public instruction with the oldest to leave me disappointed, concerned and inspired to find an alternate to meet our child's needs and hopes. I haven't looked back, homeschooling is the best! We just need more adults who are less focused on themselves, willing to make the sacrifice and work hard, believe in themselves to learn how to home educated. It doesn't mean workbooks all day or no socialization. We're typically so busy with activities, friends and school that I say no to many invites and opportunities. Homeschooling my children has taught me so much perseverance, patience and of course, just how bananas it can be without balance. I cherish our time together, every day and will never wonder where the time went, only how it went so fast. I have been there right by their side the whole entire time, and watched them grow! Both my spouse and I were public school kids, we didn't even consider homeschooling an option, it may not be for you, but you'll never know if you don't try.
He is my hero. Awesome kid. It's good to know the next generation will have people like him in it.
Everyone of us can learn a little something from this 13 year old. I know I sure did. Thanks Logan. Stay happy.
Stop hating, this kid barely hit 13 or somewhere around those lines. He'll make the panties drop when he's older just watch. I'm glad he's happy doing what he loves to do, thats what life is about.
This boy is going to be grow up a genius. He very certain of what he is doing and what he is continued to be doing, in this age...? Amazing!!! He knows more than 80% adults knows, including me, very inspiring and impressive!! We do need to respect kids thinking, they see the world differently, sometimes we adults just need to be see and think like children...
+Vivienne Lu this is common knoledge for people my age (young teens) but it seems the chances to speak these ideals out is close to impossible with the exemption of people like the kid up there.Quite a loss really.
Different aspects of learning, helping people/society and giving back already at such a young age... I hope you know you are blazing an amazing path and inspiring us all. You earned this opportunity to be on TED! ...you gave us more than words...Thank you.
I would like a followup video by his parents, going into detail about how to afford to have one parent stay home to teach the kids, how they make ends meet living at a ski resort, etc. Although I think Logan seems like a great kid who is taking advantage of all the opportunities available to him, I suspect that his family is highly privileged to be able to afford to give him those opportunities.
That said, pursuing happiness is not a bad goal if you've already got financial freedom. It's just not all that relevant to the rest of us.
I can't speak for these parents but we are raising our child in a similar fashion but we are life-hacking too. We have a lifestyle that does not require two incomes to start with. Financial independence can come by changing your expectations about what that means. We are far from rich but we have a happy comfortable life and 'want' for very little. It is possible to live in a nice place, have a decent life, and have the freedom to raise our child in this manner. It is a choice we made before we had our child. We feel much better off taking a hacker approach to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Please don't assume it takes money to help this type of child come into their own. Money has so little to do with it.
givebirthathome Are you sure? It's not clear to me that he's on his own during the day. It seems more like he studies at Starbucks and attends other activities outside his home.
Chris/ Hackschooling dosnt warrant having a guardian. Logan can work from anywhere, starbucks with his friends or at home by himself...its a non issue...its simply down to being self motivated and disciplined.
givebirthathome And this is the key. He teaches himself.
As an educator (and avid learner) for almost 10 years, who shares this attitude, I know the hard truth that while this is BY FAR the most effective way to learn anything (increase relevance and desire to learn will overtake any teaching method), it is a very rare student that can understand and accomplish this.
This is why there are schools. Because in reality, the majority of students lack this initiative. The reason may simply be that the system feeds itself, but the fact is that most students will tend towards doing nothing when a few will take responsibility for their education. Those that lack the clarity to see that education is worthwhile often cannot even be shown this through persistence.
The schools are the drag net that catch these fish and put them in a safe place that puts them through a type of training that gives them all a basic platform and standard. But the failing of a drag net is that it is incapable of isolating the valuable, the higher achievers. And often allows so many of the smaller fish to slip through the giant holes that make up its very structure.
In order to have higher effectiveness in school, it is necessary to put more EFFORT into educaton. And of course do that in a way that is intelligent, not simply pushing more homework.
Filling in the gaps left by the school system with practical education is rewarding but so difficult to organize and accomplish when parents feel that putting their kids through schooling is enough.
I often include my boss's children and other children I know in activities of my spare time, including repairing vehicles, working with wood and making guitars, painting, building and repairing computers and working on various DIY projects around the home and office.
Sadly, there doesn't seem to be a way to use that to replace the regular education system.
eschelar I agree, however, i feel kids lack the initiative to educate themselves due to years of having their backsides wiped by the education system. Kids know they have an option of learning in school which enables them the chance to adopt the lazy attitude of "ill learn when im at school and ill play when im at home". What if attending school became a rarity though?, what if it were normal for kids to learn online from the moment they can speak?...if this were the case, i dont think any child would have a problem educating themselves.
So many of these kids sound so much older and wiser than their years.... I love this stuff!
I'm 18 now. Everyone is telling me 'Don't shut doors for yourself.' 'Twitch Streaming is not a living.' 'Being self-employed is not a real way to live.' And they're right, but very wrong. I wrote an article online at 14 that is in a professionally done Mormon Magazine. I'm definitely not the kid up there on that stage, but one day maybe I'll care enough about TED for it to be my 'next best thing'. I'm a violinist, a blogger, an insomniac, a youtuber and whatever you guys want to call me, but bottom line is I taught myself how to be who I am today, and not because my parents told me to 'get into the best colleges' or 'stay in school', it's because I tried and when someone said 'Get out of the way nerd', I said 'I'm sorry that you're insecure about their intelligence' and they'd look at me like an alien. So will I change careers in 10 years? Hell yes, I'm tired of video games already. Do I love sharing my love for pro esports with other people? Of course. But does that define who I am today? No, of course not.
DeathUnbound Gaming Happy for you yo!! Keep growing and being awesome. One adventure I'd invite you to take is reading the book 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts (if you haven't already). Saw that online on a review when someone said if there was 3 books you should read before you die Shantaram would be the 3rd!! You just KNOW I picked that one up. And after I was done I bought it for my boss and mom. Magnificent
Jean Paul Limage I'm a huge reader. I'll definitely check that out!
Enjoy the ride yoooo!!
Hey I subscribed to you to support you! !! Even though I'm not a gamer, but definitely want to be and get started. ....since I just got my own device!
Im with you man
This young man gave a very informative speech! Literally better than most public speakers!
THIS young man is fucking AWESOME!!!!! He encompasses EVERYTHING I write about in my first published book Life Long Learning on homeschooling 10 years ago almost and everything I did in raising my boys in homeschooling! WOW!!! Check this out!!! YES!!!
Wicked!!
YES!
Rick MacDonald Indeed :)
***** YES! Indeed :)
This kid would go places. Awesome parenting! (On the comment that he said "more better," cut the kid some slack. He must be nervous, but he nailed his speech. Can you do it? I don't think so!)
HE WAS 13 YEARS OLD AT THAT TIME? THEN NOW HE'S 16 YEARS OLD? OMG
The question I'm gonna ask kids from now on will be "How happy do you wanna be when you grow up?"
+Kevin D. Najera they'll say very happy
+therealwhat.. haha true that! the next question would be, "what are you willing to do to achieve it?" I guess.
dont do that.. raise their hopes poor lil buggas.. then most of them will work a 9-5 they hate for the next 40 yrs and will curse ur name :P
I don't see what's so sad about my questions... I feel having a vision for your future gives you the peace to support happy thoughts and a solid hope for a greater future :), it works for me and lots of people I've meet so far.
This is why I dropped college. I learn more from TED talks than from many useless classes. And TED is just a grain of sand of the available information in the internet.
In the future we shall date our days as Before the Internet and After the Internet. It is such a big deal, it is taking us entire decades to fully understand its potential.
don't use TED as your excuse to run away from school. go to school AND watch TED. that's better.
mathew633man Why waste your time and energy in a failing system?
mathew633man
I think students would feel more comfortable learning from the world, following the stuff that interests them on the run. You don't sit babies at a set hour to learn how to use their hands. They just learn. It's their nature. That is why kids ask so many questions. But how is some teacher that barely knows his stuff going to answer all curiosity? That's why we create illusions of fixed hours and try to shove specific stuff at specific times, with specific "experts". And if your town has no specific expert of X thing then that's gg for you.
I believe the internet can change that tho. All you could need in a single place. It even sounds utopic. If only we could get rid of copyright... But that is another topic of discussion.
Yea, I am also taking some time off the world after college to learn about myself and what I like to learn about. But my parents are really grilling me for not doing things the social normal ways.
I think you are just very lazy. This is not revolutionary or game-changing, they've been homeschooling children since no one can remember. I think you have to learn something decent first and then you can do whatever you want (start a stupid revolution, go rioting like a smelly hippie etc...). If you're smart enough it doesn't matter if it's home schooling or public school.
When I was asked as a kid, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said "Older."
I always said "rich"
Smooshé Pepper I always said "employed"
i will say a lawyer, doctor, midwife and nurse. also be happy and have 4 twins
It's all well and good that a middle class boy can do this, but what about those who have literally fucking nothing? They only route they can take is the traditional one because that is what employers tend to look for, so they don't really have much choice.
Nonetheless this kid is pretty incredible for his age with is competence and vocabulary at 13 is outstanding.
This is LITERALLY why homeschooling is a better option. If you train them in school to be an employee, that's what they will be. If you offer them the option to get out there and experience everything they can, build their enthusiasm and independence and let them choose for themselves, you don't cement that path for them. I make a lot of sacrifices to homeschool my two kids (15 and 11 and never been to school) and have VERY little money, but it's worth it to give them the best education *I* possibly can.
Thats a kid with access to a lot of fab programs/people/places, which is amazing. However so many children in this world don't have access to supportive, safe and inspiring learning hubs, clubs, centres or even older positive role models. I suppose what I got out of this talk is more about, the fact that all of us all over the world as communities should focus on providing these opportunities for kids to be able to access wisdom and knowledge through their local communities?
Scripted or not, what this young guy says is ahead of our time. Unfortunately, it's going to be a long time until people start to see past this whole education sham.
I'm a grown man and I'm in tears (of joy) that there are actually kids like this in this world!
Great job, Logan.
What a great head on your shoulders!
Damn you can see the hackshoolings is getting real results, very impressive!
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dats y he is up talkin n u nut dud
This young person should also be giving this talk to every grade school, and high school. First, in her city, and then the state, and grow outward.
On second thoughts, I've been played. The kid IS playing the game. Website, public speaking, potential book...
loopBum ?
loopBum Kekule's model of benzene wasn't strictly correct, if you look at the bond lengths between single and double bonded carbon atoms they actually differ in length significantly, therefore making the proposed 'perfect' hexagonal shape benzene impossible. With the advent of SEM we were able to confirm that indeed, the benzene ring is a 'perfect' hexagon, and so (stacked up with other evidence which disgreed with observation e.g. halogen reactions like bromine) Kekule's model was finally thrown out and replaced with our current model, the delocalised electron structure (or alternate double bonds).
When I grow up, I want to be as inspired and inspiring as this kid. Thanks for the reminder, Logan!
This kid is a perfect example of how rich people can raise a smart person.
love this comment
I know kids that love horseback riding and Disneyland and have only done it once, if ever. And the outdoor activities are part of a non-profit foundation... assuming his parents are rich and being pessimistic about the potential of lower/middle class homeschooling shows your own prejudice. Maybe he goes to Starbucks because his parents can't afford wifi. Maybe he went skiing once for his birthday and has loved it ever since. Maybe we as adults should be paying attention to the kids that are willing and able to communicate their perspective.
Not sure where you get that idea from. I homeschool two boys with next to zero money but they sure as heck will do better in life than I have. In Canada at least they also get a small amount from the Ministry of Education to put toward extra curricular activities like this, or music or sports or dance etc. Not a lot but it helps for sure. When you learn to work symbiotically with your community and your kids are good kids that build healthy relationships with others you don't have to pay for experiences. Volunteering is not cost prohibitive and there are plenty of non profit programs. It's about finding creative ways to work out what you want.
Yet there are many rich people with kids who just do drugs and buy staff to show it on instagram. There is his own effort in it too and his parents'.
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I thought this video would be about this kid being a computer hacker that was taught by his school...
+R3MIX MODZ yeah i know... i thought it was gonna be about some little animal comming out of the closset LOL!
hahaha
i thought the same, sadly its just something... Not even profound. i have heard this 10000 times before.
The thing is, not all kids have the wealth that this kind of education needs. Furthermore, schools especially public ones don't have the funds to operate in such a way. I think that the education model of "hackschooling" is really interesting and looks beneficial, it's just the economical aspect of the subject that makes this hard to be implemented...
It doesn't take wealth, it takes connections. You have to get out there and meet people, talk to people, ask them if you can learn from them. The apprenticeship program can be rebuilt if people seek it. And what's wrong with a kid getting a job so they can support their education?
Karen Butcher I refer to a much greater scale were hackschooling could be available for all. This needs funds that schools simply don't have. Taking a small group of kids to an excursion is a totally different thing than taking a whole school out for the same reason. The latter needs far more money and the quality of the whole experience may decrease in some cases that demand a small amount of participants.
Furthermore, poor families may not be able to support all the necessary activities that a child should experience in order to get spherical knowledge. Camping, visiting museums and historical sites or even a trip to see how a company works most likely requires money. Not only this but in some cases parents may not be able to guide their child in a correct manner due to their being illiterate. A tutor on the other hand will definitely cost them money.
What a cool kid. He can teach a lot of grown folks how to be more self-aware.
Jo Anne Mosley, well, I’m a 13 year old who spends a part of his weekends arguing with grown ups in UA-cam about topics ranging from vaccines to nationalism using his mother’s account. I wonder what those adults would think if they found out they were arguing with a kid...
@@anjusanal LMAO
He made more sense to me than my formal education ever gave me
Dang. His verbal skills are so, so good. It's so wonderfull to see a kid with such high verbal skills. Standing strong in life. And being so intelligent.
This young man is going places.
Not college, but places.
LostDreamerX eff college if you can still accomplish something with your life
Miaw I think that's what he/she was saying.
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***** well yes we dont know if the person talking is a guy or girl or anything else ha ha
In life, you learn that sometimes you have to do the right thing, which doesn't always make you happy. You cannot teach happiness in school, but you can teach a kid how to rationalize a problem, how to interact with other people.
Going to school has never made me unhappy (except for Mondays) and has never prohibited me from being creative. In some classes I was encouraged to be creative, while in others I was thought fixed sciences that leave little room for creativity.
Most kids that are home-schooled in the USA are home-schooled because their parents don't want them to learn about the Big Bang and Evolution. This affects kids more, in terms of self-development than public-schooling.
Public schooling should be reformed and we have the tools and technology to do it. But, creativity will not help you in every situation and happiness is something you find out on your own.
Even if that were true (and it is not). How much do the things you learned in school about the big bang and evolution REALLY effect how you live your everyday life?
Negligible impact in the lives of most people.
I'm a qualified teacher without ever studying evolution in school. It's not necessary to becoming a well-educated person. There's a TON of other important things that students should be learning in their science classes, which get cut out in favor of studying evolution. When I took my first college biology course, I was so irritated because I'd already done every single lab back when I was homeschooled.
Jaquelynn Gering In school you have to present kids with all kind of opportunities. That is why you teach them evolution and other theories. You never know: some might become a biologist. In the absence of him/she being thought evolution and biology, he might not be able to discover his passion for biology.
While these theories don't impact your everyday life, they have another impact. They help explain the world to you. Look at all these people claiming that the world is only 6000 years old. Do you think these are people that are worthy to be politicians and conduct policies that influence nations of millions?
And you have to look at the bigger picture. Even if you never need the theory of evolution in your every day life, is it really that bad learning it. Children should be thought science, learn to appreciate it.
I agree that in school you should have more practice. But, without learning first theory, how do you expect to know what to practice?
Because you are home-schooled, you don't appreciate evolution and the fact that studying it and improving the theory is the basis for modern medicine today.
Alexandru Avram-Rusu
"In the absence of him/she being thought evolution and biology, he might not be able to discover his passion for biology."
That is absurd. I studied biology. When I took my first college biology course, I was astounded to look at the syllabus and see that I had already done literally everything on it.
While you were listening to your teacher lecture about origin theory, I was in the lab cross breeding plants and dissecting sheep eyeballs and lungs.
I studied geology and life science and was ahead in those subjects as well.
"While these theories don't impact your everyday life, they have another impact. They help explain the world to you."
No, they offer ONE explanation of how the world came to be. Why should children have one perspective forced on them, while all others are banned?
"Look at all these people claiming that the world is only 6000 years old. Do you think these are people that are worthy to be politicians and conduct policies that influence nations of millions?"
Totally irrelevant to the job. What does it matter how old they believe the earth is? If a person is honest, credible, hard working, compassionate, able to competently perform the job, and happens to believe the earth is only 6000 years old, you're going to say they shouldn't run for office? Discounting a person's entire worth because they hold a personal belief you disagree with is incredibly idiotic.
"Children should be thought science, learn to appreciate it."
Science and origin theory are not inseparable. As I said, I loved biology in high school. I loved it less in college when we spent hours in lecture and got just 1 hour a week in the lab and wasted it doing things like practicing using the metric system. Apparently the public schools were busy teaching origins and didn't have time for weights and measures.
"I agree that in school you should have more practice. But, without learning first theory, how do you expect to know what to practice?"
This is just absurd. I can't dissect a pig without studying first what it evolved from billions of years ago? I can't study photosynthesis or the circulatory system without talking about humans coming from apes?
"the fact that studying it and improving the theory is the basis for modern medicine today."
That is an absurdly grandiose and unfounded claim. Speculation about how organisms developed billions of years ago is not the basis for modern medicine.
Modern medicine is based on science that is observable and repeatable. Macro Evolution cannot be observed because it happens so slowly, and even if could be observed is could not be repeated, because they are far too many variables. It is like conducting an experiment with no Control. I wouldn't want a doctor to use a shaky foundation like that to determine how to treat me.
Jaquelynn Gering Lets be clear. Science is what explains the world as it is. Evolution and the Big Bang Theory are "universally accepted" by the whole scientific community.
Sure, there are many views and believes, but when it comes to science, evolution is real whether you like it or not.
If you don't understand evolution, you don't understand how organisms came to life, how the grow and how they will change in the future. This is absolutely vital in a world threatened by the possibility of another pandemic.
Macro doesn't always work slowly. All our domestic plants and animals were created by artificial selection, which works evolution on steroids as we created a number of species in the space of just 10.000 years.
So, there you go. Two fields where evolution is actually applied. Sure, you can dissect a pig, but what's the point of dissecting a pig if you don't have the curiosity to uncover how it came to be.
Jaquelynn Gering The educational system in my country is down... In 12 years I went like 4 times to the biology lab and 2 times in a chemistry lab.
I had a physics teacher for two years that took us to the Physics lab and we could see how we could apply the theory in the book and we all loved it and understood what we were doing.
So, I know all about flaws of the public system. It should be reformed so that we can all put into practice what we learn in theory.
You cannot have only practice. You need to have theory before you practice something.
This kid...
A concept that took me almost 20 years to figure out... he understands at such an young age!
only upto the first 2 minutes and already in awe. Really wish i could have a decent convo with him.
He gets to access a lot of fancy life experience in such young age.. no wonder how inspirational is given. Jeal
Good video. I would like to add my thoughts on one thing. He said he likes to log out of reality and spend time in nature getting connected to the spiritual, I say spending time in nature connecting with the spiritual is true reality, not being plugged into the false reality that man lives in (especially today).
this kid just explained why i am dedicated!
Woah, calm down Jamal. Don't pull out the nine.
SILENCE VERIFIED
This kid is such a talented public speaker. So intelligent!
This is by far the best thing I watched in weeks
Far out dude, that is exactly the same upbringing I had! I was homeschooled from 9 to 13 and did all those sorts of similar things. Keep up the good work man.
haha - it is true though - odd upbringing indeed.
Thank you for those kind words, little big boy. :)
I loved being homeschooled, from K-2nd I was in two Private Christian schools the one I was in for 1st-2nd grade I was being bullied everyday, and this was in Private Christian. It got so bad I would play suck just get to get out of going finally when I was going into 3rd grade my parents put me into private Christian homeschooling. It was amazing.
Been homeschooling because of this video and haven’t stopped for 10+ years and wouldn’t change a thing!
I am twelve years old and when I grow up, I want to be a computer/software engineer. Last night I UA-camd a SciShow video on plasma. My head now is full of ideas. I remember that stuff. But tomorrow when I go to school, do you think I will pick up an ounce of data that will help me in my future? That's the question kids have been asking for years.
"When will I use this?"
I love what this kid is doing, and think he is awesome. Plus, he memorized that entire speech?
Probably the most talented kid speaker I've heard.
Judging on the comments, I was the only one who thought he was a girl.
LifeAs Amanda nope
Me too
LifeAs Amanda I did think he was a girl, but since he's not, with that face..he's not gonna have any trouble getting girls to like him.
Gameinatrix.com hes kind of got that douchebag look a little to
That's what you think. My daughter who is his age, thinks he's cute. There is always someone who will love someone, no matter what.
After puberty we start losing neurons. Which is why it's important to have as many educational experiences prior to puberty so you can make the most of that explosion. With the brain, if you don't use it you lose it.
Proof that you can be wise at any age :)
This little dude has got it down, especially for his age! I myself was home schooled, and post high school, I started teaching myself everything I could from computer programming, musical composing and 2d & 3d animation. If you can learn one thing, learn to live to learn, because people like us enjoy creating within the world, not just consuming.
I really love him when he talks about humor, He's a super genius.
this kid has better presentation skills than me and i already graduated from college, now i see that homeschooling can sometimes be beneficial for kids to develop creativity
Not all knowledge comes from School & College!
The thing about this kid, he is being taught to be self-motivated. Which is what most traditional schooling lacks; traditional schooling teaches you to be dependent and take orders, exactly what people who enter into a pre-established company would be good at doing: letting others think for them and tell them what to do. People who create new companies are kids like this. College is no guarantee for a better career (as so many have found out recently), and life is not about that anyway - that is just what people have made life about. Life is anything you want it to be, and this kid probably has a better chance at creating his own life in a successful manner than most kids graduating college.
This kid is going places.
he going 6 feet under someday
Jan but not the barber...
rubie vanlan good Joke. 😂
That was awesome. Major win for the homeschool camp! I only homeschooled freshmen to senior year. Yet because of that short experience (and more importantly the way schools are today) my brother and his wife will be homeschooling their kids for the majority of K through 12. And I couldn't be happier about that.
that's true smart kid
hackers are creative people
hacking is the art of thinking outside the box
As amazing and interesting it may seem, this kid just remembered the whole talk by heart.
You would've been an inspiration for me as kid back in the days. Stil you could be. You are.
When I was only a little younger than this, I came up with the answer, I want to be successful. Boy, my definition of successful has changed many times by the time I got here.
sometimes i wonder how these kids get so smart..
loopBum I would say his off-handed mention that he was watching TED since he can remember also has something to do with it. Far better casual use of time than what many watch/read/do pre-10.
Unfortunately, making the school system THIS flexible for every kid is not possible. We're gonna have to think up different ways to cater to the individual child's needs, while providing them with a starting point to their social lives, making the system economical and still having well organized structures, to make sure everyone learns enough and everything goes smoothly.
***** Parents should not have to be teachers too, otherwise that would have to be every parent's career choice. They have their own careers to take up their time and there are no two parents for every child. Parents should be guardians, good examples, and confidants. In order to teach a kid correct general knowledge, they'd have to have a lot more time on their hands and they'd have to be unbiased and competent researchers and be good at explaining.
Some parents can do it because they're living in a fitting financial situation and they have that time and dedication. But it's not perfect for everyone. This kid was lucky to have what he has, especially to have parents with a good head on their shoulders. But if every parent were to school their own children, many of us would not be better off and civilization would be much less functional.
The education system is the big problem and should be fixed but not eliminated. Homeschooling is and should remain an option.
***** Kids can trust other adults too as long as they're respectful and that's not a good enough reason to homeschool every kid.
Santtu Salmela There would have to be the right programs available online for them to learn correct info from the internet and currently, much of that is up for debate. Personally, I believe that at a young age, kids don't have enough independence to get up and think "Okay guys, let's learn things together on our own!" and even at an older age, in my opinion, they would need some kind of guidance to steer them and give them the best options.
Teachers don't have to be experts at everything, true, just a good handful of general things, as there are now, teachers for every general subject, nothing wrong with that. Then I'd like to see experts of a wide variety of things, (not necessarily school subjects) with many recommendations which would then be available to choose from by the kids themselves when they reach a certain level and giving them more freedom in the matter. It would be amazing if schools were all funded by the government too. I hope to see some real changes in the future.
MissPurpur You said "I believe that at a young age, kids don't have enough independence to get up and think 'Okay guys, let's learn things together on our own!' and even at an older age"
Here's a TED talk you should see:
www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves?language=en
www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education?language=en
They came together to figure out this computer Dr. Mitra installed in wall. At one point a "teacher" emerged from the group. They not only learned the computer, how to play games and surf the web, but they also learned to read English.
Also, In Dr. Nicolas Negroponte's (MIT's Chairmen Emeritus) OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project with the new android tablets, they have also rooted the device are writing their own programs (apps) for it.
"It would be amazing if schools were all funded by the government too."
Public schools are, but private schools are private on purpose. I don't want the government funding all education, because then they would be in a position to set all curriculum. Some people, me included, don't want their children feed the government indoctrination program.
FORTUNATELY IT IS POSSIBLE! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education
I'm one of those parents that watched those Tedtalks on unschooling. Last Tuesday I took both my boys out of the public school system. The WASHOE COUNTY school system. You have two new peers, Logan. Great talk!
wow. just wow. I think I couldn't act as calmly as he in front of cameras and people.