Five dangerous things every school should do | Gever Tulley | TEDxKids@Vilnius
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2015
- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Gever Tulley presents an opportunity to practice the art of tinkering. There is a whole world of possibilities hidden away in the most unexpected materials. He lives the art of tinkering in his Tinekring School and share it with you!
Gever Tulley is the founder of Tinkering School, an internationally known summer program for children. He is also the founder of SF Brightworks, an innovative K-12 school in San Francisco that emphasizes experience-based, hands-on, experiential learning. As Gever notes: “I have made it my mission to re-introduce the world to children: the real world as revealed through unscripted, hands-on, meaningful learning experiences.“
Gever is an author of the book Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do), the TED book Dangerism!, and the children's book The Little Girl Who Sneezed.
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Let's put 30 kids in a room and tell them not to interact with each other
Then make them put letters in math problems. GrEaT iDeA
Katie Bug that point doesn’t make sense cuz algebra is super useful
@@christianjoseph6502 not for a child
@Christian Joseph
Well yes but they don’t specify which type of math “hmmm”
@1 MILLION PIXELS
Amazing point :)
I agree
Much yes
Very good
humans are a very freedom loving species. spending 8 hours a day in a cube is not a good place for learning
Amen to that but the cube follows us long after we finish school in the form of corporate labor which is the purpose of schools to begin with. To create obedient workers, not thinkers & creators. Schools are a 16 year indoctrination into modern slavery nothing more.
Yes isn't it strange that yearning for freedom led us to making our electronics more practical and free. Phones no longer mounted on a wall or tethered to it. We have made free all these things around our life, and should be more free than we've ever been. Yet were not. At this point my view on it is "To have a life, is to relinquish it."
Freedom at its core has been an illusion that none of us have had since the creation of government!
Nihilistic pancakeface thats why i kept getting punished for fiddling and walking around.
@@djfox1555 The funny thing is my school recently banned phones
educating children is the last priority of schools, teachung them uniformity and compliance is the first
well how else will they obediently lick the boots of the rich when asked?
There are idealistic teachers. The administrators quickly weed them out. The primary goal of administrators is getting paid. If that means risk avoidance, so be it. if that means teaching to the test, so be it. sometimes, almost accidentally, learning happens.
Aand this is why my teachers either got along, or they'd get very ticked off and couldn't find out who to blame
We are taught to memorize, not understand.
"Never let your schooling get in the way of your education" --Mark Twain. I've been living by that one since junior high...
1. Let children be co-authors of their own education.
2. Trust children. (They should not need permission to go use a bathroom).
3. Say yes more often to children.
4. Focus on habits and character (not grades)
5. Let’s agree that everything is “interesting”. Let the kid follow their curiosity and do projects which they find interesting (eg spend a day without sight by putting on shades for a day).
6. if the government won't let is do it, let's cheat
Just to subscribe
Lol
Is it bad I read the comments before watching the video
It’s a child’s choice to cause themselves suffering and to live as a failure
@@Adventure_fuel Yes, let's let human's with severely undeveloped minds dictate the course of their life.
Some of the things we did in high school in the 1970s would not only get you permanently expelled but arrested today.
Brian Bixby true, while currently the most extreme I've ever done (grade 9 2016-2017) is neutralize sulphuric acid (watered down to roughly 1% dilute) boring and irrelevant, what if schools were like this guys school, but what if we made schools sort of like one week is math, science, etc but the next week was time to explore and create and try to understand the world we live in.
Hmm, I'm a teacher. and the most extreme things I and my mates have witnessed are possibly criminal. Throwing school furniture from the third floor, using permanent marker to graffiti the white board and even the walls, breaking windows, putting up satiric posters about teachers who are considered tyrants, Chanting slogans which would be considered foul, dancing in the bathroom with music at full blast.
Yeah, school should give some leash but there should be a limit.
T H E F L Y
That isn't the point. The reason those things happen is because kids aren't given the freedom to express what they're thinking so they do it in other ways. If we let children follow what they wanted to learn they wouldn't have to take everything out on the world.
@Lola Shields: xactly.
@T H E F L Y: There's "crime that should be crime" and "crime that shouldn't be crime". Those are actions in the first category. The former is about behavior that across all time would be considered disruptive, immoral, etc. The second is about stuff that we restrict more and more by the nanny state.
"And it has to do with algebra, which u have never done. But u dont care cus its what standing between u and burning a marshmello with sunlight, and thats worth doing so im gonna do this math." Amen to that
2 year old comment I know, but this part is so important. We shouldn't give kids a lesson and tell them they will get the reason behind it 10 years later. They should get the reason for learning the lesson, and then in 5 years time they will understand all the intricacies on their own without having been forced to do it. All major learning happens through self motivation, not from force fed information.
Daniel Kemnitz i was gonna comment this but very well said bro.
@@technorazor7328 So I'm not the only one who was randomly recommended this four year old video? Sweet. Also yes, I absolutely love how the students at his school are excited to learn about math and other stuff because they have immediate, real world things they can do with that information. I wish regular public schools taught information like that and then used it for practical functions instead of just to complete a test correctly.
Alright but like that is an absolute truth I cannot count how many times I've been like "I don't know how to do this, but I wanna do that" and then teach myself basic physics
I pick up a LOT of hobbies that way. Languages are the major focus of my attention, but I like Rubik’s cubes and knitting/crocheting or even swimming. I learned about aerodynamics by trying to figure out how to swim faster. Knitting and crocheting taught me consistency and knots/strings (I think it’s related to math, but I don’t remember) sometimes, I even watch tv shows or play games and wonder: “I could probably pull that off” and then I learn to pen spin and build my own mind palace (memorization techniques) or even launching a coin from one hand to the other DBH style (trajectory and force) I even pick up some textbooks because I am interested. If I lose interest in a day, I might pick it up later. Now that I’m in high school, I haven’t done anything. I even dropped art (my number one hobby)
I just realized that school totally killed me.
Jeah I have good grades ... The price? Totally everything I wanted to do as a kid.
Me too. I don't know what to do.
A guy came to our class in elementary and asked kids what they wanted to be when they grow up. He would always respond "well that job is not stable and you probably won't get it"
Yeah, school is basically all my identity. I wouldn't have done anything else without school though, because my parents never taught me sports or skating or things like that (except swimming and biking.)
UA-cam YT I always got “that job will never pay enough be a doctor or a lawyer”
I don’t know what to do after school now. I get home and I don’t know how to relax.
Can this guy be the head of the department of education?
Armed Titanium amen!
I wish my education was like that. I lost all of my creativity until I started playing D&D after highschool.
I always felt from early in life id say at age 6 I felt like something was missing, too young to really figure it out, but I wanted to because it was hard for me to invest in schooling, this struggling. Then I had my first GREAT teacher that showed a side of education similar to this when I was in middle school and it clicked. Things that make us smile or things that insight Awe in a human being. These things will cause curiosity. Curiosity will birth a yearning to understand. And with motivation behind that the topics that are being taught just become a obstacle between you and this cool thing. It just works. To preface, I always struggled with English, spelling, and vocabulary. Still with spelling every now and then but the others I built not through a text book and tests. Instead through the passion for the arts and poetry. I enjoyed writing poetry and songs and as such wanting to be better and being tired of using the same words over and over, the passion for that activity led me naturally to learning new words and different ways to construct those words together. He's got my vote. A line that seems fitting from another video, "If modern education was truly about learning. F would not stand for failure. It would stand for Find another answer."
YES please
can this guy be my school's principal instead of some random lazy nun?
okay
so
I'm an 8th grader at my school
and after watching this I suggested a Students Government at the school.
after a while, we had our own 'government'
with president, vice president, speaks man, elections every year, making and modifying laws in the school.
Then I was elected as the First Students President, and suggested to have a referendum.
Now.
Most of these things said in the video are implemented in our school, and we now have a City Student's Government as well. it is absolutely amazing how things like overall morale, productivity, and unity between the students and the schools have increased.
Thank you for the tips.
Brilliant
Duck Is Coming good job. I really wish our school did some of the things in the video, but the county that I'm in is terrible and they really don't want anything to change. It sucks.
Duck Is Coming
That's awesome! But for my country there's a strict curriculum that we have to follow which leaves us with pretty much no time to do extra stuff. Still, great job putting things in place in your school!
thats amazing
If it helps I started with writing a 13 point list that included everything that I wanted to implement to the government
But before all of that I tried to be cool with all the more influencial teachers (attending their competitions, trying to build a more friendly relationship with them, trying to be trusted by them) so they will accept my deamands.
And it worked. Yes it took some time but it was worth it
awesome! please consider politics as a career path :)
When he mentioned children asking questions that aren’t related to the class, it reminded me a lot of my favorite high school teacher. He taught history, but at the beginning of class, we would always take an ungraded “general knowledge test.” It was just ten questions about random but useful things that had nothing to do with history. Like the pronunciation of often mispronounced words like “preventive.” Or maybe about the length of the Nile River, or Mark Twain’s real name. And he wouldn’t grade the tests; we students would exchange papers, and he’d tell us the correct answers. By the end of the semester, we’d all be making near 100%, but none of this would be factored into the grade for the class. It was just for fun. He’d also add random jokes and puns when giving out the answers.
These tests would take up the first 5-10 minutes of class, and then he’d go on and teach actual history. But it made the class fun and woke us up. I still remember many of those random facts to this day.
Before taking his history classes, history was my least favorite subject. But after that, it became my favorite,
Any chance his name is Mr. Crabb?
@@sajpar9765 commenting i wanna know the answer
Random fact me
@@Biosquid239 same here
Dunkin Coffee Nope.
“And its a little bit embarrassing to be an American.” Yep he got that right
I find myself being a bit embarrassed to be an American much more often than I should be
canadian checckkk
True that.
Nathan W. Which state?
I'm 15 years old and sick of learning absolutely nothing that I actually take an interest in. We can't choose electives until year 8. A lot of people have it worse than me but I am sick of having no control of MY LEARNING. I only work during school to please my parents and teachers. We must approach education in a completely new way in order for kids to learn. I don't blame children who are not doing 'well' in school. It is the fault of parents and schools to expect a 11 year old to be enthusiastic something that they hate. If a student is enthusiastic about their learning then they will thrive. If they are FORCED TO STUDY topics they hate, they will never give 100%.
having just left school I understand exactly where you're coming from with this and you want the truth I completely agree with you
Annie Luk I'm 15, in grade 10. Been in the top 10% of students in my school at my grade level since I started there, I understand the struggle. I live in Canada, we have kindergarten then primary then grades 1-12 then university, college, etc. we are only allowed to choose classes starting in grade 11 it's bullshit. I honestly believe that the school board has never went to school, otherwise they would know how to make students want to go to it. This guy knows what he is talking about and I would love to go to his school seems like a amazing place. But this wouldn't be hard to implement into any school in the country, they all have fairly decent budgets and if they were increased could easily do things like this. We should be able to pick classes at around grade 5-6 not grade 11 and 12 because by then you already are pretty much done school and don't have time to learn everything you may want to know.
Agreed- Most people (especially young people) are naturally curious. They deserve the right to explore different subjects, consider new ideas and develop unique skills that they take an interest in.
Education is too 'forced'. I believe that the best learning comes from curiosity. I know that if I want to know something, I will research for hours on end without hesitation or complaint. However, when I am forced to consume information that I have no interest in, minutes can feel like hours.
I think the point of the talk was to make students love everything they study instead of letting them study only what they love...
Salwa Nausheen Bariah I think the video was mostly trying to create a unity between those two ideologies. We have a certain amount of fundemental knowledge we need to teach but kids will have specialized interests, but because topics like mathematics, chemistry, English, and history are factors of everything (hence why we even have education) then it also makes sense that we could use anything to teach a topic. So even if I only ever want to study bio and need to take a foreign language class and world history class, I could find or co-create a history of Hispanic biologists class in Spanish.
Student: I want to make fireworks
Him: yeah sure just do all the research required
Student Hunts for books about fireworks
Him: also if you blow you're self up you're paying the insurance
Student also finds book about how to pay insurance
This reminds me of Anohana, for anyone who’s seen it
._. ok ill admit students need more freedom but encouraging a student to make explosives is a terrible idea.
Holy Ravioli hence why they would need to find a legal and safe way to do it as stated in the video
@@holyravioli5795 that sound like someone who's overprotecting a child am i right ?
@Salivar Ravilas I really tried not to laugh at that, I swear.
Schools in my town: Only do what WE say. No creativity!
Also schools in my town a few years later: now come up with a creative way to do this
My creativity has left the server.
My life was wasted in the stupid school system.
nice, mine will too
@@helpiamsuffering603 not f you dont let it.
How old are all of you? There's no way you've consumed even half of your potential lifespan. Stop making excuses for being an absolute nobody with no general goals or directions.
Roddy It’s definitely an excuse. We never act on our ambitions, interests or passions. We blame external places and people for our own faults
@@rodbot Contradicting yourself. Nice
Why has this not become more popular? It is something I would love to have in my school.
because it involves uncertainty
and people don't like that.
humans are all paranoid twats who can't make a decision unless they know exactly what's going to happen, it takes a certain kind of person to run a school like that, and it takes a certain type of parents to send their kids to a school like that. sadly those types of people are rare. extremely rare.
which is all the more reason for us to have more schools like these.
@Potato:3 Well there are many far more dangerous things that humans deal with all the time, and far greater uncertainties. Thus I think you drastically underestimate humans, and show a historically and geographically myopic view of things.
@mike4ty4 True, but most of these things happen when you have no other choice except certain failure. When there is the option of sending a child to a safe, curriculum-set school the parent would usually much prefer that option.
Potato:3 is right in the fact that you do need guts to send your children to a school like that, but I reckon it would pay off in the end. Certain teachers are required to teach students in this more hands-on way, otherwise the children wouldn't be learning anything useful, but just mucking around.
.....
there's a thing called outliers.
most of those things you talk of were done by a tiny portion of the people who've ever lived, under specific circumstances.
@Potato:3 Well under that theory then we don't need a lot of schools like these if only a very tiny little proportion will ever be able to benefit from them. Just a few such schools would suffice.
Headpop.
the 12 people that disliked this video want kids to be perfect little robots
YayaAnimates probably all the nervous parents
@@gale5714 The nervous parents and normal school board executives probably
Probably my dad
Sounds like my dad.
Or just did well in school and enjoyed it. They're now either working in an office or have anxiety because life is chaotic and only rewards those who can cheat the system without being caught.
"Dangerous things schools should do"
Trust Children
I’ve seen you before
Dang. These videos advocating for freer forms of education always get me feeling some type of way. I’ve always done well in school; I pick things up pretty quick, I’m good at taking tests, that kind of stuff. And I’ve had people tell me plenty times that I’m smart, creative, etc. I never been one to point out huge glaring problems with the education system, but then again, it’s been a long, long, time since I’ve been genuinely interested in any sort of task I’ve been given. As soon as I’m away from an environment that doesn’t demand something of me, I do nothing. I have no desire to work towards anything that won’t have some sort of immediate practical benefit. Because why should I? I’ve learned that it’s a lot easier and a lot safer to just dedicate myself to working within the lines. I’m in college now and the one thing I just really want to gain back is motivation. I want to be excited about creating like I was when I was really little. And hopefully still be able to be successful
Play Minecraft. It may sound silly, but I played Minecraft for the first time in my life in my sophmore year of college and it was first all-nighter doing ANYTHING, schoolwork, other video games that I loved, ANYTHING. The freedom and the possiblities it offered were huge and the possibilities are much greater now than then thanks to years of updates. It helped crystallize my desire to create and learn and explore. Somewhere in that game (or another sandbox like it) you may find what you really want to do and get the kick you need to pursue it.
Try to mess around with things. I don’t know, it’s probably way more difficult then it sounds, but ask yourself some weird questions, try some random stuff. Acting on something often leads to motivation. Good luck
I have the same problem, but I use art to get creativity flowing again. Even just doodling in the margines of your paper helps, and it helps to keep engaged!
Same, dude. Same.
When I was in 7th grade, my social studies teacher Mr. Gillespie would always ask the class if anyone did anything interesting over the weekend, or someone would bring up a recent event and more often than not it would start a conversation that spans half the class period about something interesting that the class wants to talk about. We'd then spend the rest of the period doing minimal notes on the unit we were doing in social studies at the time. Because of those conversations that was my favorite class in my entire school career, and this talk just helps in proving why!
my english teacher in 7th grade used to do the same :)
My 12th grade chem teacher does this :)
My grade 10 Physics teacher used to challenge us to find something he doesn't know about. Some of us would spend the whole weekend looking up the weirdest and newest Science and Technological innovations in hope of knowing something he didn't. He then spent most of the period explaining to us how this random thing works... We all loved his class.
A similar occurrence happened to me when I was a high school sophomore. What was different though is that, we, as a class re-directed the conversation often without our teacher knowing. Usually, it was because he taught our class out of the textbook, which many of us found really dull and boring. So, one of my classmates would ask a question about religion, to which our teacher would respond and get sidetracked in a whole conversation about religion that actually interested us as a class more than the lecture he planned to give us.
Did you go the brook elementary in oak park Illinois? I had a teacher by that same name and would do the same thing
These 8 year-olds are way smarter than me...
A fifteen year-old honors student
In the Netherlands there’s a tradition called a dropping. A dropping is when you take a small group of kids (8-14 yeast I believe) and just drop them somewhere in the middle of nowhere between 10-12pm and the only thing they can take with them is s compass a map and one phone and they have to find their way home on their own. Almost every child in the Netherlands has done this at least once and tbh that’s one of the coolest things I ever did in my life.
Judansha
Honest questions
1) is there a time limit for the kids?
2) is something that the parents do or the schools and if schools do it do all schools it?
3) are there any safety measures for the kids?
@@personal5306 the netherlands dont do thus no more
@@personal5306 not everyone still does it but no, theres no time limit and yes there are safety measures (one person is allowed to take their phone with them) sometimes its from school and sometimes tte parends organise it
Judansha
thank you for the information
Oh.
That's really cool.
eleven overprotective parents disliked this video.
Caleb Birchwater no 14 but 2 in 4 weeks is really good
Not really overprotective they just want their child to have a good education
@@christianjoseph6502 are you one of the people who disliked this video
159 now
@@christianjoseph6502 I don't think so
honestly, it moves me that somebody said exactly that out loud. you never really realize how bad our society, schooling and parenting has gotten over the years. it sucks that in those decades we just went with the flow and didnt try to preserve the natural beauty of the world and its limitless potential. looking back at the 13 years I spent in school, the only moments i remember werent even in this country. it was of a small, poor town called bardarski geran. those months of freedom during the short summers where the only things that stuck with me. I feel it takes less than a week to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. not 4 years. don't you think that we should let brains properly mature before ramming books down their throats too?
I agree! We should really learn to trust each other.
Mr. Grogenov but what are people that have the awareness done about it?? We keep blaming and not acting on it
If learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division is the only thing you've learned at school, the problem isn't the school system, it is you.
In addition,
A brain can learn better if it isn't matured yet.
@@femke7551 I agree with this comment but your previous one is entirely wrong because your subjecting the student to a uniform system. It's almost totalitarian no wonder the students of colleges today sympathize with socialism even in the face of today's Hong Kong demonstrations.
My school lives off the whole “own your education” thing but isn’t really implemented. Sure we can learn things at our own pace but class lessons are always taught at the regular, possibly slower pace from what normal schools do. We don’t do experiements much, and now they have gotten rid of our right to go to the bathroom after lunch.
In my opinion my school is worse than most public schools because they gave us the hope that we can do what we want, when we want, but instead we are allowed even less than what a normal school is allowed.
Ballistic Bee it surely depends!
Maybe you can stand up against that?
I think I would actually look foward to going to school everyday if we learned with activities and experiments instead of copying words off of the projection on the wall. This school looks so fun and I honestly wish it was in my state so my future kids could go. Hopefully schools will improve to be like this one soon.
Only thing I remember was the bagua chart used with feng shui from one of the few good teachers I actually thought was interesting
can i go to this school?
YES!
No it closed down, this man was arrested and all the children were sent to foster homes
@@iKoper Where did you get that information? I can't find anything saying his school closed down and he was arrested. In fact, I found the opposite, they actually opened another location and several workshops, and Gever Tulley released a book. If you have a way to counteract that please link me the information
@@eleventeen4759 it was a joke
@@YM-zf8mt, not a good one. Not even a funny one. I like edgy humour, but that's because they would be so ridiculous, it would be too bad to be true. His/her joke was definitely a definition of "too bad to be true", but there was no indication.
"""High Achieving""" Senior here in high school studying engineering in dual credit at UTA atm... I wish. I wish. I'm awfully tired of the numbers game I've been playing for all these years. It's numbing.
:(
The 'Summer Camp' sounds like my engineering class. We have a robotics team where we build a robot in 7 weeks and then bring it to a competition.
"And yes, it flies" that made me laugh a bit too much.
This is how a lot of my art and technology college courses are taught
I'm 14 years old, and seeing what these children are able to do, compared to what I am able, literally made me cry.
I'm mourning in my room, watching a ted talk knowing that my life will never be like that.
I'm in high school currently, and we have a brilliant physics teacher, who instead of talking about theory for an hour straight answers our questions, uses close to us, real life examples. I wish there were more teachers like this.
This definitely one of the best ted talks I have ever seen!
Leon Winkler go watch he's other one fine dangerous things you should let your kids do or the ted talk by Eddy Yhong they are both good
You haven't seen the TEDx: Open defecation - video yet. That's the most fun you'll ever have.
Leon Winkler agreed.
Man, cool school. Wish my kids could go! It's exactly how I think of schools, and how they SHOULD be! Great job.
Troy Starkey after watching this I kinda wanna be a teacher so I could use some of these tips
Yes
My brother!
I WANT THIS MAN AS THE NATIONAL LEADER OF THE US EDUCATION BOARD!!!
Daniel Nunya Bidnezz *world
I love this talk. Teaching all kids like this would build an entire country of legitimately free people who don't need the government's permission to get married or divorced.
as a teacher I love this idea! :)
Aleksandra Kulecka do it.
Aleksandra Kulecka yay
Go be the change you want to be in the world!
Heyo. It's been two years, have you..... done something fun with or for the kids..? Just checking.
@@satyre_1 Yeah lol I wonder
How did a 40 age man
Start a school
I really want to know
Naftaliten Better question: what's stopping _you?_
buca117 regulations. finances. conventions.
40 age man
Naftaliten because he believed in something that needed to be done
$$$
the problem with schools like these is that it is almost impossible to reproduce at a mass scale, we can't find a reliable way to train more educators into Gever Tulleies.
It is not about the materials. The sole purpose of this school is to practice the three simple principles mentioned by Gever Tully, which can be used in all kinds of subjects. These three principles are what drives our personal development.
@@vkarlsen1992 No The Problem is that you cannot get enough teachers for that style of schooling in a nation wide scale. Because 90% of ppl of our current teachers should be doing something entierly different. And many possible good teachers will end up in the "real" industry because they are great....
First thing: that is lunch with friends. Ask a question, suddenly everyone talkes about that then hops to a random topic.
Ms. Friz: "FIELD TRIP EVERYBODY!" (This reminds me of the magic school bus.)
Magic school bus was my favorite thing ever from when I was about 3 to when I was about 10. I think that series is what made me interested in learning, well, everything. I had a magic school bus book on electromagnetism, a MS VHS of the show on rollercoasters, a MS game about the solar system, and one about the dinosaurs. No topic was too much or too complicated for them to tackle, but they always made it kid friendly and FUN.
This talk makes me feel so conflicted, yet so happy, all in the same minute. Thank you Mr. Tulley
it is the sad story of the dependance to the parents education because the only people who learn to enjoy this kind of things and science and learning are the kids who have parents who are doing it home, and the others are mostly lost. What a wonderful idee to create this school!!!
I like the way this guy thinks. He's got something here.
This hits hard for me- I went to an international private school in Sweden for a few years, staring when I was 7. Everything was incredibly free spirited, lessons were taught creatively, it was very diverse, questions were allowed, and the adults trusted the students. When I moved back to the United States, it was almost a slap in the face when test after test were shoved my direction, talking was banned, and when I got up to go to the bathroom(we didn’t need to ask at my previous school), I was shouted at and ridiculed, which seemed absurd to me at the time. Now, a few years later, I’ve eased into this harsher system and am sad today I’m used to it. Two of my three main teachers are harsher than I’ve ever had, but my third still gives me hope. She genuinely cares about us learning, not just grades and statistics and a pay raise. I’m happy to see there is still some hope for creative thinking, but I think it’s easy to say the American school system is for the most part limiting and honestly just sad.
This is the kind of education I WISH I was getting as a high school sophomore.
That's an amazingly true statement! "The kids didn't know how to ask", this a real life eureka moment for me thank you sir
If this was schoo, I would definitely be a more different person than I am today, but I know I would have loved that person, I love this....
This subject is the reason why if I ever had a child I would be terrified of sending them to traditional schools. I survived school with my child-like creativity intact. I'm not afraid to try fixing something I know next to nothing about or even trying to build something I know next to nothing about; usually works out well after enough study and experimentation. My greatest fear is that I will have children and be forced by the legal system to either send them to school or teach them the subjects they pick. I agree that grammar, history, mathematics and hard skills need to be taught early during school years; however a lot of subjects I was forced to fail through have had absolutely no impact on my life despite trying hard to think of any situation in my life where knowledge of those subjects would have helped me at all. So I would have less time to teach said child things that are actually useful: repairing machines, building furniture, designing and repairing electronics, repairing and remodeling homes, chemical properties that are useful and ones that are dangerous, and any number of things I've had to learn on my own or from my father because school failed to teach me these things I actually want to do with my life.
You have to open your eyes to see just how dangerous this system is and why it's so monumentally horrific. Because I failed in those unimportant subjects that were not essential for me to develop into a productive member of society. My grade point average was below what was required to get certain grants and scholarships that would have paid for further, more specific education. What if whether or not you got into college was determined by a grade in a class about computer programming, or hair styling, or baking or any number of good but not required skills. That's what I faced and had to suffer for.
I only had the weekends to partake in learning all of the skills I actually rely on. I would have loved the 70ish days worth of PE to have been spent on building stuff with my dad's tablesaws, drill presses, welders, grinders, lathes and hand tools. Probably would have given me the better start I needed into adulthood to actually utilize those skills toward a good life where I'm doing something I enjoy and making money doing it. Instead I'm sitting here without a job trying hard to determine how to take this hack saw, old grinder motor, washing machine motor and whatever wood I can salvage from demolished houses in the area to make the tools I need to break out of wage slave work and do something productive. I'd like to see any of my "teachers" in school design the belt drive that can handle multiple large tools on a single powerful motor with decoupling capabilities to free up power for specific tools when tough materials are used, because I have exactly that worked out on paper and it actually looks like a sound system.
Alan Hunter holy shit you wrote a fucking essay
@Alan Hunter: It also depends though on having access to those kinds of resources. Sounds like your family had a fair bit of _owned wealth_ (especially in more general senses of the term "wealth" than just its naive sense). Whereas in my case, I never had that. Homeless even at one point. No formal schooling here either.
UA-cam algorithm brought me here in 2019
Fitting how this is TEDtalk is happening in the most depressed country in Europe.
As a kid...i wish i could go to his school...my school is so miserable... this was severely depressing to me....
I wish there was a college like this, I wouldn't have dropped out and I'd be a lot happier and more engaged with life in general and in a more interesting world with more interesting people I could relate to
honeslty...
Well, what are you doing now? Go and do something you've always wanted to do, now that you have the freedom!
He might be one of the best human being I have ever seen. He is the root for good. Thank Gawd people can be good.
I just had this pop up in my recommendations. Being someone who just finished their primary school years I cannot agree with this man more. I really do hope for this to make a change in our world. That was one of the most moving talks I’ve ever listened to
The only cheating I condone: Cheating the government system so you don't get in trouble for teaching kids the right way. :P
Btw, I now have an idea for something I want to make. I'll be back in a few weeks with my PVC pipe and canvas sheet contraption.
HauntedShadowsLegacy Did your invention turn out well?
Ya back yet?
Guys i think he forgot to look up how to do his project safely and legally
I did not know Bruce Willis gave inspirational talks!
literally how do we make all schools be like this i support this with my bones and my body and my soul im shaking i will do anything to make this happen
What an amazing TED Talk! I went to a Montessori school from kindergarten through middle school, and it's all about letting the kids follow their curiosity and run around and stuff. In 6th grade, we planned our own itinerary for our New York trip, subway stops and everything. This guy knows what's up, and I wish more education was like this.
Exactly my girls went to Montessori this set them up for life
god i wish this man was in charge of my education
As a kid I hated having to wait a lot of years just doing what I wanted to do. I hated to do 'fun' things once in a while like drawing and swinging on some ropes. I always wanted to create all sorts of things myself.
8 year old me: Can I drive the car?
Mom: YES!
No one:
Schools: straight a’s or the highway
I choose the highway it's less painfull
Fantastic talk. I was a child of the late 70's and 80's. My brother is 3 years older than I. While in grade school, I recall that in his class, the students got to 1) engineer the best vehicle for an egg drop and drop it from the roof of the school. 2) Build model rockets and shoot them off. 3) build hot air balloons using tissue paper and tea candles. I remember thinking, "I cant wait until I'm old enough to do these at school". We never did. It became too dangerous. ;(
Because I saw these things my brother and his class did (but didn't get to do myself), I still became an engineer. These things fascinated me.
Greed: Ruining everything since the dawn of time
This made me cry, I don't know why
Julia Michelle Cuz the government wasted your most important part of life with useless things maybe.
Oh that's it thx
No problem
Or maybe you are moved, because the future does hold hope after all. And maybe you didn't have the perfect childhood, but people can be good, and you can help them be good, and the world is always changing.
Michelle Ziems same here. I think it's cuz my country would never have something like this, for me or my future children (if I have any)
at some point of this Video I realized that I was smiling...
This guy gets my imagination going as to what a good school would be like. I long for an education like the one he describes, but alas I live in the USA with the horrid education-in-a-box system it, and many other countries, have. I once had a teacher who had a classroom that, although not having quite the amount of freedom as desired, it still had enough to make it one of the most favorite classrooms in the school, practically unanimously. All-in-all, school needs freedom. School needs a rework.
I had a Geometry teacher this year and we would often have conversations in the class and I learned more in those conversations than anything I’ve ever learned in school.And that was the most that most of my classmates have ever heard of me. I’m gonna miss that class and I’m sad I didn’t get to finish it.
I'm actually sad that this only got 268 likes because theis is some pretty important stuff and even tho it didn't get any dislikes it surely deserves a lot more likes (sorry for miss spellings)
where is this school so I and my children can attend
This guy needs to be Head of Education Everywhere
i wish more people thought like this, i always think about how school robs you of your creativity and i feel like it is shaping us into people that cant think for themselves and that you are "wrong" or "stupid" if you think differently or outside the box, and its valuable time that we wont get back and we have no say in it. I really hope that we can make a change as soon as possible
is it ironic that i watch this in school?
hans Jøingsli No, that is not irony.
It is destiny
No it's not
My principal is one of the 112 people that disliked this.
I am very glad we have free thinking hippies like this in our country. I'm also glad we don't have an over abundance of them.
Randall P Hey Randall, I’m curious as to what you mean by that?
This is one of the better talks about scholastic development that I have seen. Adults might actually listen to it.
Psst, in the description you put Tinekring School instead of Tinkering School.
I just asked my mom if we can move to go to this guys school. Fingers crossed 🤞
One of the best Ted talk on education.
Shoutouts to the guys making the translations for these talks. You are awesome.
Best talk ever on education system with real solutions.
This video needs to be more famous
"Let children be co-authors of their education"
I wish someone would tell my mother this. I have been going to this private for the past 5 years. And i must say they have been the most miserable of my my entire life. I am a very passionate person with big dreams but i can find the motivation to do things. I feel like this school is like a ball and chain attacked to my foot holding me back. I've tried to motivate myself but then i remember that i have school tomorrow and everything I've worked on i suddenly just cant anymore the creative spark is snuffed out. This past week that our school has been out I've been the most motivated inspired and happiest i have in a while.
Many times i have begged my mom to let me transfer even to the point of tears (and i never cry so that's saying something) but i cant have any say in where or what i learn. I wish she would at least listen to me and try to understand how this school makes me feel but apparently mother knows best and my opinion means nothing
Your idea of school might have some problems but anything is better than our current education system and I'd love to see this idea become more common place.
The idea of doing a project a fun project without the condition that you'd be graded on it would be a blessing.
I wish I still had that childlike wonder if I'm, not being forced to do something then I just do nothing.
I love this man and his ideals
1. I wish I focused more on history and English and less on math and science, but schools don’t like children having choices
2. I wish they fixed bullying, but they don’t
3. I wish they focused more on things I will 100% use, not 2% (taxes, insurance)
This reminds me of a summer camp I go to we’re me a kindergartener was tought how to shoot a bow and carve tools. I was able to make my own perfectly working bow by the end of the week with arrows I built my self. Like that was more knowledge then I we’ll ever get in my entire years of elements
I've ALWAYS had something else that took my interest when I was little, either physics, or art, or how things work but since it was not about class I was told to keep them for home, I was tired by the time I ended my homework, every word he said seems like a dream, being told yes, not having to be where someone wanted me to be and being trusted? irreal
As a tenth grader doing eleven math in Canada, this would make everything sooooo much easier
9:58 The curve made by a piece of material with evenly distributed mass is actually exp(x)+exp(-x), not x^2, which was for a long time the best approximation known.
Shout out to my high school English teacher because he also understands the importance of freedom in education. He’s always encouraging us to bring ideas to the class. Unfortunately the school system won’t allow him to do much of it.
Has anyone see that school that has no rules at break time? It's amazing.
And after break time the kids all concentrate 100% because they've done exactly what they needed to do.
It's on UA-cam somewhere!
I recommend watching it
I want to go to that summer camp.
Wish I could've had a camp like that.
I helped raise my sister. She was born 3 and half months premature at 1 pound and 11 ounces. She was delicate, but tough. To this day she thanks me for making everything fun. Chores, work and fun were treated alike and we found a way to make work play. I had an active imagination and most of what we did was make believe, and maybe take a few risks Momma wouldn't have let us. Children need to be challenged in healthy ways and parents need to learn to breathe. Realizing that they survived the dangerous fun from their own childhoods.
Well done Sir! God bless you and your endeavors.
This is almost making me cry as I watch it. Currently halfway through my junior year of high school. I'm feeling so burned out and I just desperately want to experience this, to feel like I can make something new or exciting or just SOMETHING more than the nothing that my life feels like it is. So, for those who still have time, can we please follow this lovely human's advice? For our sake.
I wish i went to that school
What about finances? How will you be able to fund all these small amazing projects? I for example have a large interest in building computers and seeing just what makes it tick. Putting together different computers with different parts. I have no idea how to do this and I don't have the finances to do this. If I went to this school, how would they be able to fund this on top of the other student's projects. It's an amazing idea I am definitely behind but I don't see how you'd be able to keep it up for more than a couple years.
ignorantaussiegamers Schools get a lot of funding from the government, if not the government, they get it from private donors. Plus it was mentioned in the video that they mostly use scrap parts and think that are very cheap. I really don't think this idea is far fetched.
The majority of schools don't have rich donors (in fact it's typically just the ones that are already rich). And most schools don't get a ton of money from the government either. There are plenty of schools (especially in more urban areas) where they can barely afford pencils and paper.
you can build a computer out of parts you can find on a scrapyard or someone might just give you an underpowered one.
I'm sorry what? do you know anything about building computers? sure, metals, plastic and stuff are in the yard but you honestly think any self-respecting school will let their students dig through a scrapyard or take the easy way out and refurbish an old under-powered computer? Don't think so
ignorantaussiegamers Just order an Arduino from China for a few bucks, maybe some wires, resistors, transistors, a breadboard (important). And you can start doing electronics and computers in no time.
If you want to learn how a computer works then building one won't help you at all. If you want to learn how it works at the metal, I'd suggest UA-cam creators like Computerphile (start at the older videos), games like Human Resource Machine and Tis-4300 are also a good start. For something more serious you could learn a computer language like C. If you want to learn about pure computer science, even an 80's 8-bit computer is enough.
Thank you , Gever. Seems you like kids as much as I. Only wish I had you I my school or better yet as my teacher. I had a few really great teachers somewhat like you, I’d say maybe 4 from grade 1-12. That was 1974-1986.
This guy is an absolute genius! I would've WANTED to go to school if learning was this cool. School was torture for me from beginning to end because very little would interest me. I learn how to do things so much easier by doing them. I'd probably also know what I'd want to go to college for. But I'm 23 and am unsure what I want to do for a career. I've been too busy explaining the things I never learned in school.