Inspiring and impressive talk Domenico! Your leadership to start the new renaissance using your 'creativity and passion' is what we need in today in order for our future generation to be successful. The current system is broken and not sure anyone is focused on fixing it. It's encouraging to see people like yourself with great ideas to help solve the problem. Thank you - you are amazing!
Domenico, I am so impressed with your ideas and your inspiring presentation. You are a credit to your family, and your community I do believe that with your "creativity and passion" you will be a leader of this new renaissance.
i tutor kids who can't learn , this idea is brilliant ,it should be for every school on the planet , to brilliant , love this idea...........................
Just look at the Russian school system, they are able to choose a "career path" early in high school. One road goes for specific non college jobs like plumbers and such while the other path is the college path where you focus on your wanted major. They also have a "undecided" path if you don't know what you want to do.
Those things stopped being important to our education system. Schools are encouraged to get higher test scores and that means improving students performance on standardized tests, like the SATS. Scores on tests have become more important than an individuals actual skill or level of ability.
I'm Russian, live in Russia, finished high school in Russia, graduated from a Russian university, and I have a masters degree in biophysics. Little did I know that all that degree did for me is get me a job as a translator (I was born in the US). Degree in biophysics = absolutely unrelated career = 5.5 years of wasted time. Thing is, I still don't know what I want to do with my life (no purpose).
To preface this, I'm a millennial. Public education is certainly a deeply flawed and archaic institution. The focus on well-roundedness is good up to a certain age, but by high school there should be more specialization. I took almost all AP classes my senior year of high school and spent a huge amount of time on them. As an entrepreneur, I can't think of a single thing I learned in those AP classes that helps me create value in the economy. It's anecdotal evidence, but I'm sure there are other millennial entrepreneurs in the same boat.
His educational reform ideas are right on target. It's frankly ridiculous that this high school student has figured out a method to improve our public school system but our educators and governors haven't. Or, perhaps more accurately, refuses to implement any useful change.
have you heard of tiger moms...nice for you that your parents did not force your lifepath. Many do not have that freedom until college or later. The "balance" effect allows exposure to "nonparent approved" areas of interest. More exposure to the "real world careers"; so students get a clear vision of what life at work is really like may help with student decision making. Motivation from companies, relatives, highschool & higher educayion. All, not more of one flavor.
Why do I think the millennial stereotype applies to upper middle class children. Others work hard and do the best they can to take advantage of their opportunities and even help their families who have little means.
When I was in highschool, I already knew what I wanted to do. Art, and technology. I'm a creative that likes to paint and code. And I have always been very passionate, self driven, and an extremely fast learner. In school I got to take 3 art and programming classes, but I also had to take classes I hated, like History (forgot it all, also Canada's history is significantly more short and boring than other countries) and French (which I still can't speak in) have wasted literally years of my life. As someone who wanted to get get A's even on classes I hate, all the time I spent on it (first going to school, then doing the homework, then studying) was agonizing, because it was keeping me from what I wanted to do, which is art and programming. It continues to leave me with regret, because time is a special resource, and if I had been able to 100% pursue art and technology during those 4 years, I could literally be a professional right now. Now, I am in university, finally studying in a program where I can do both programming and design, and getting my first related job. And I can say that through my highschool, those 3 classes and time I spent out if school, learning from internet tutorials and such have been far more useful to what I'm doing and what I want to be doing than the rest if those 4 years of highschool. I still look back at highschool with regret, because those are 4 years I will never get back. Even in university, it is moving at an excruciatingly slow pace and I have to be tested on knowledge I have already taught myself, which ironically takes away time which I could use to learn more things or work in my own passion projects. The school system is really messed up. I'm 19 now, and I feel like it has wasted most if my life.
I think this idea was put into action just 4 years prior to this. In my freshman year I had the choice to join the Engineering academy, which is out of 3 others at my current highschool.
I always knew what i wanted to do but my school didnt really help me with it. I would say 90% of my lessons and what i learnt at school didnt help me at all. Because of this i lost quite a bit of passion for it (was ignited again later on) i strongly believe that if you know what you want to do then they should do something like tailoring it for you to help you succeed
I agree with you, do not take this in a hurtful manner. Learn English grammar as both the written word and the spoken will be a major point of others assessment of your intelligence. [learnt] will not work on a resume, good luck.
I can understand being frustrated and annoyed at public education requirements. However, as a graduate student in biochemistry, I am so grateful that I was forced to take English and writing classes, not only during public high school, but also at my private undergrad university. It opened my mind to diverse ways of thinking. In general, taking a range of classes allows you to become a well rounded person -- you can communicate with more people and express yourself better if you have more (educational) experiences. I will admit and agree with you that the current structure of education is unfortunately very passionless.. But I don't think that's much to do with the class requirements but how classes are taught or how students are evaluated.
This video should be perhaps be called "Proposed Education System to Avoid the Millennial Stereotype" as you do not go into how to change pop/youth culture in any depth except through education.
Ok, first of all, early specialization is not a novel idea, there are scientific papers written both for and against it. In REAL America integrating companies with schools will lead to what? Yep, corporations doing what benefits them, instead of what benefits the people - they will continuously nudge the system into creating narrow-minded drones specifically tailored to work in that exact corporation. And this is just one of many potential downsides, and he addressed none. This idea is really interesting, but there main part is in the details, which he completely ignored. As it stands, he simply retold a very basic version of other people's ideas. Next, his belts and pop company has nothing to do with this. Literally. He simply took an existing idea about education and hastily attached his commercial enterprise to it. While seemengly absurd from education perspective, it makes perfect sense from the perspective of an entrepreneur - to piggyback on a worthy cause and exploit public goodwill to his advantage.
This would be a better framework for college education -- no need for general education classes that take 2 year to get through. You should get a well rounded education in jr and sr high school.
I feel like this is great for the future but not present. Asking for good leaders in the working force is difficult and puts children in the reach of manipulation from managers. Your system seams to be no different then a specialised school like performance art schools. I hope you put more thought into rural communities which cant afford specialised teacher ^_^ Hope your dream works
In lithuania last 2years of highschool is either a or b level. Must have 4-5 subjects a level where you focus. And b usually simple shit. So at 15-17 y/o you select where to focus. And only last year a marks and a exam results are final values for universities to decide.
My two cents. You're wrong. About our whole generation. Yeah, some people live out the stereotype. But most of us aren't, and the numbers show that. You just want to believe the worst about us.
It's like that stereotypical 60s pot smoking hippie that was exempt from the draft because he went to college. That was what people thought of Boomers back then. History always preserves the upper classes. In high school, kids read what the intellectuals recommended, rather than the pulp fiction working class people actually read. Ageism is just a scapegoat for the ongoing class struggle between the rich and the poor, but the American public brushes this under the rug because that's commie talk.
While the idea of pursuing your passions is great, redesigning the school system to squeeze students into a niche you assume will carry them throughout their lives is naïve and short-sighted. Decades ago we had trade schools as alternative to high schools, and these trained people for specific jobs. These jobs were lifetime jobs, and these people did not change careers. We still have trade schools, but they are at the secondary educational level. These are great! But they have their limitations too. From a social perspective, even if you become a rock star, you won't be a very interesting interview subject without a "well-rounded" education. It's important to know a little bit about a lot of the world, so you can hold your own in a conversation and know what is going on in the world around you. It will serve you throughout your life more than you realize at your young age.That said, I encourage you to follow your passions--but keep yourself well-informed about many subjects! Throughout your life you will have many epiphanies and your life will change--a lot. The world will also change around you. Do not let yourself become irrelevant by painting yourself into a corner that may not serve you years down the line. Think of life as a buffet--try lots of things, and keep an open mind. :-)
you don't listen very closely do you? I'll spell it out for you. better to find out early what you don't like/want, then to struggle at college later trying to make up your mind... "knowing" as you put it, "what is going on in the world" doesn't mean a damned thing if you end up broke and miserable and lost because your "well rounded" education gave you NOTHING TO WORK WITH. Get it?
Wow, you really know how to talk down to people in a way that is both condescending and patronizing. I submitted a comment that considered a different viewpoint, and while acknowledging the merits of the video, offered another perspective based on real-world experience (rather than unhinged speculation about how destroying education as we know it would solve all our problems). Your "explaining" your perspective to me in such a derogatory manner while failing to use proper capitalization, spelling, and punctuation just underscores your lack of an educational foundation and undermines your argument. I've been on all sides of this situation. I have had both vocational training (in high school) and a well-rounded 4-year education, as well as decades of career experience in a number of different fields and disciplines, some requiring a 4-year degree and some not. Vocational training is important, but it is not the perfect solution for everyone. Being "broke and miserable and lost" is part of the human experience of learning to be an adult, but the trick is to learn to find your way through that experience, not to wallow in it for the rest of your life. If 4 years of college gave you "NOTHING" to work with, maybe you are the one who needs to learn to listen. The term "well-rounded" implies you learned something from those 4 years. If you didn't, don't blame the system; life is what you make it, so you might try taking a little more responsibility for yours.
Keys to breaking the Millennial stereotype. 1. Shave. 2. Get to work early, stay late. 3. Take on additional tasks without question. 4. Stop complaining. 5. Do your best, even if you fail, give it everything. This is a good start.
Sounds like Anti-christ idea to me I just have a feeling it's to good to be true however in my heart and mind its telling me to stay away my children's crazy feeling I have. He does talk good and his ideas are like a dream come true but something in me is telling me to run from this.
What do you need biology for? Hm... perhaps one should realize that they are a biological organism and that everything we do effects our biology. I'd rather know what my doctor is talking about rather than not. I had no problem taking classes I did not like in high school and I am better for it. No offense to the kid but I don't think he really get's what he's talking about. Other than what he says he's done I have no evidence to look at what he's done to prove that this system would work for more than just him.
This is a really smart kid, but the education system doesnt want people that can do critical thinking. You just need to be smart enough to do your job but not smart enough to ask questions.
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this makes me proud to be from Morris county
how do i sign up man?
Aye!!
I'm a high school student and that system sounds like a dream to be honest
Inspiring and impressive talk Domenico! Your leadership to start the new renaissance using your 'creativity and passion' is what we need in today in order for our future generation to be successful. The current system is broken and not sure anyone is focused on fixing it. It's encouraging to see people like yourself with great ideas to help solve the problem. Thank you - you are amazing!
Domenico, I am so impressed with your ideas and your inspiring presentation. You are a credit to your family, and your community I do believe that with your "creativity and passion" you will be a leader of this new renaissance.
Quite similar to how Finland have restructured their education system
Fantastic dissection of the school system, there needs to be a reform to better connect students with their passion/career.
I thought of this in high school and strongly agree
i tutor kids who can't learn , this idea is brilliant ,it should be for every school on the planet , to brilliant , love this idea...........................
Just look at the Russian school system, they are able to choose a "career path" early in high school. One road goes for specific non college jobs like plumbers and such while the other path is the college path where you focus on your wanted major. They also have a "undecided" path if you don't know what you want to do.
Those things stopped being important to our education system. Schools are encouraged to get higher test scores and that means improving students performance on standardized tests, like the SATS. Scores on tests have become more important than an individuals actual skill or level of ability.
I'm Russian, live in Russia, finished high school in Russia, graduated from a Russian university, and I have a masters degree in biophysics. Little did I know that all that degree did for me is get me a job as a translator (I was born in the US). Degree in biophysics = absolutely unrelated career = 5.5 years of wasted time. Thing is, I still don't know what I want to do with my life (no purpose).
To preface this, I'm a millennial. Public education is certainly a deeply flawed and archaic institution. The focus on well-roundedness is good up to a certain age, but by high school there should be more specialization. I took almost all AP classes my senior year of high school and spent a huge amount of time on them. As an entrepreneur, I can't think of a single thing I learned in those AP classes that helps me create value in the economy. It's anecdotal evidence, but I'm sure there are other millennial entrepreneurs in the same boat.
His educational reform ideas are right on target. It's frankly ridiculous that this high school student has figured out a method to improve our public school system but our educators and governors haven't. Or, perhaps more accurately, refuses to implement any useful change.
Thank you.
Great job Domenico!!
amazing
I have been talking about this sort of thing for years! I completely agree with this!! 100%
have you heard of tiger moms...nice for you that your parents did not force your lifepath. Many do not have that freedom until college or later. The "balance" effect allows exposure to "nonparent approved" areas of interest. More exposure to the "real world careers"; so students get a clear vision of what life at work is really like may help with student decision making. Motivation from companies, relatives, highschool & higher educayion. All, not more of one flavor.
Why do I think the millennial stereotype applies to upper middle class children. Others work hard and do the best they can to take advantage of their opportunities and even help their families who have little means.
really good idea. This is exactly what I think I needed in high school
YES !!! reinvent education !!! sign me up for curriculum development!!!
When I was in highschool, I already knew what I wanted to do. Art, and technology. I'm a creative that likes to paint and code. And I have always been very passionate, self driven, and an extremely fast learner.
In school I got to take 3 art and programming classes, but I also had to take classes I hated, like History (forgot it all, also Canada's history is significantly more short and boring than other countries) and French (which I still can't speak in) have wasted literally years of my life.
As someone who wanted to get get A's even on classes I hate, all the time I spent on it (first going to school, then doing the homework, then studying) was agonizing, because it was keeping me from what I wanted to do, which is art and programming. It continues to leave me with regret, because time is a special resource, and if I had been able to 100% pursue art and technology during those 4 years, I could literally be a professional right now.
Now, I am in university, finally studying in a program where I can do both programming and design, and getting my first related job. And I can say that through my highschool, those 3 classes and time I spent out if school, learning from internet tutorials and such have been far more useful to what I'm doing and what I want to be doing than the rest if those 4 years of highschool.
I still look back at highschool with regret, because those are 4 years I will never get back.
Even in university, it is moving at an excruciatingly slow pace and I have to be tested on knowledge I have already taught myself, which ironically takes away time which I could use to learn more things or work in my own passion projects.
The school system is really messed up. I'm 19 now, and I feel like it has wasted most if my life.
Well, most of us Millennials are out of school. This is for Gen Z lol
All I could say the whole time was YES YES YES! I am a Junior in Highschool in NJ also and everything he said is 100. I am in this with you
PREACH
Okay, so I know that I am being vain but screw it, this young man has a jaw that can cut glass! I am completely swooning.
I think this idea was put into action just 4 years prior to this. In my freshman year I had the choice to join the Engineering academy, which is out of 3 others at my current highschool.
I always knew what i wanted to do but my school didnt really help me with it. I would say 90% of my lessons and what i learnt at school didnt help me at all. Because of this i lost quite a bit of passion for it (was ignited again later on) i strongly believe that if you know what you want to do then they should do something like tailoring it for you to help you succeed
I agree with you, do not take this in a hurtful manner. Learn English grammar as both the written word and the spoken will be a major point of others assessment of your intelligence. [learnt] will not work on a resume, good luck.
I can understand being frustrated and annoyed at public education requirements. However, as a graduate student in biochemistry, I am so grateful that I was forced to take English and writing classes, not only during public high school, but also at my private undergrad university. It opened my mind to diverse ways of thinking.
In general, taking a range of classes allows you to become a well rounded person -- you can communicate with more people and express yourself better if you have more (educational) experiences. I will admit and agree with you that the current structure of education is unfortunately very passionless.. But I don't think that's much to do with the class requirements but how classes are taught or how students are evaluated.
This video should be perhaps be called "Proposed Education System to Avoid the Millennial Stereotype" as you do not go into how to change pop/youth culture in any depth except through education.
Dem cheekbones tho
Awesome job, for some reason I feel like a bit of Steve Jobs inspired this guy
Ok, first of all, early specialization is not a novel idea, there are scientific papers written both for and against it. In REAL America integrating companies with schools will lead to what? Yep, corporations doing what benefits them, instead of what benefits the people - they will continuously nudge the system into creating narrow-minded drones specifically tailored to work in that exact corporation. And this is just one of many potential downsides, and he addressed none. This idea is really interesting, but there main part is in the details, which he completely ignored. As it stands, he simply retold a very basic version of other people's ideas.
Next, his belts and pop company has nothing to do with this. Literally. He simply took an existing idea about education and hastily attached his commercial enterprise to it. While seemengly absurd from education perspective, it makes perfect sense from the perspective of an entrepreneur - to piggyback on a worthy cause and exploit public goodwill to his advantage.
The entire school system is dishonorable. Seriously you do well yet can't find a job because they never showed you how to provide value.
This would be a better framework for college education -- no need for general education classes that take 2 year to get through. You should get a well rounded education in jr and sr high school.
I have to watch this for school and I'm bored
Gen Z where you at
I feel like this is great for the future but not present. Asking for good leaders in the working force is difficult and puts children in the reach of manipulation from managers. Your system seams to be no different then a specialised school like performance art schools. I hope you put more thought into rural communities which cant afford specialised teacher ^_^
Hope your dream works
In lithuania last 2years of highschool is either a or b level. Must have 4-5 subjects a level where you focus. And b usually simple shit. So at 15-17 y/o you select where to focus. And only last year a marks and a exam results are final values for universities to decide.
My two cents. You're wrong. About our whole generation. Yeah, some people live out the stereotype. But most of us aren't, and the numbers show that. You just want to believe the worst about us.
Matthew Cooper c: exactly! I dont understand how people can question certain generations for the future they are going to leave behind for us.
It's like that stereotypical 60s pot smoking hippie that was exempt from the draft because he went to college. That was what people thought of Boomers back then. History always preserves the upper classes. In high school, kids read what the intellectuals recommended, rather than the pulp fiction working class people actually read. Ageism is just a scapegoat for the ongoing class struggle between the rich and the poor, but the American public brushes this under the rug because that's commie talk.
Apatthetic Man Thank you, this is the truth.
Usual Rain Exactly
I feel like you totally lost the plot bruh...
Crimson and grey! GO COUGS! WOOO!
Robert sinaga SH & dominico Randazzo
I support this except the free labor part
You guys...braggadocios is an actual word!
While the idea of pursuing your passions is great, redesigning the school system to squeeze students into a niche you assume will carry them throughout their lives is naïve and short-sighted. Decades ago we had trade schools as alternative to high schools, and these trained people for specific jobs. These jobs were lifetime jobs, and these people did not change careers. We still have trade schools, but they are at the secondary educational level. These are great! But they have their limitations too. From a social perspective, even if you become a rock star, you won't be a very interesting interview subject without a "well-rounded" education. It's important to know a little bit about a lot of the world, so you can hold your own in a conversation and know what is going on in the world around you. It will serve you throughout your life more than you realize at your young age.That said, I encourage you to follow your passions--but keep yourself well-informed about many subjects! Throughout your life you will have many epiphanies and your life will change--a lot. The world will also change around you. Do not let yourself become irrelevant by painting yourself into a corner that may not serve you years down the line. Think of life as a buffet--try lots of things, and keep an open mind. :-)
you don't listen very closely do you?
I'll spell it out for you.
better to find out early what you don't like/want, then to struggle at college later trying to make up your mind...
"knowing" as you put it, "what is going on in the world" doesn't mean a damned thing if you end up broke and miserable and lost because your "well rounded" education gave you NOTHING TO WORK WITH.
Get it?
Wow, you really know how to talk down to people in a way that is both condescending and patronizing.
I submitted a comment that considered a different viewpoint, and while acknowledging the merits of the video, offered another perspective based on real-world experience (rather than unhinged speculation about how destroying education as we know it would solve all our problems). Your "explaining" your perspective to me in such a derogatory manner while failing to use proper capitalization, spelling, and punctuation just underscores your lack of an educational foundation and undermines your argument.
I've been on all sides of this situation. I have had both vocational training (in high school) and a well-rounded 4-year education, as well as decades of career experience in a number of different fields and disciplines, some requiring a 4-year degree and some not. Vocational training is important, but it is not the perfect solution for everyone.
Being "broke and miserable and lost" is part of the human experience of learning to be an adult, but the trick is to learn to find your way through that experience, not to wallow in it for the rest of your life. If 4 years of college gave you "NOTHING" to work with, maybe you are the one who needs to learn to listen. The term "well-rounded" implies you learned something from those 4 years. If you didn't, don't blame the system; life is what you make it, so you might try taking a little more responsibility for yours.
Renee Patton points duly noted. don't mind me. i live in hell. have a nice day.
you are incredible
Keys to breaking the Millennial stereotype. 1. Shave. 2. Get to work early, stay late. 3. Take on additional tasks without question. 4. Stop complaining. 5. Do your best, even if you fail, give it everything. This is a good start.
New renaissance is a tautology.
ha! finally the perfect millennials are fighting back. They say their wonderful now. It's not their fault.
He needs to also use his vouce in the next gta 5..mob boss lol norn 82 xennial here. Lol windows 95 was the greatest lol
Sounds like Anti-christ idea to me I just have a feeling it's to good to be true however in my heart and mind its telling me to stay away my children's crazy feeling I have. He does talk good and his ideas are like a dream come true but something in me is telling me to run from this.
How are you going to engage in creative writing if you have no idea what you are talking about?
How did this guy get a Ted talk?
What do you need biology for? Hm... perhaps one should realize that they are a biological organism and that everything we do effects our biology. I'd rather know what my doctor is talking about rather than not. I had no problem taking classes I did not like in high school and I am better for it. No offense to the kid but I don't think he really get's what he's talking about. Other than what he says he's done I have no evidence to look at what he's done to prove that this system would work for more than just him.
T. Reality take a look at the school system in Finland.
This is a really smart kid, but the education system doesnt want people that can do critical thinking. You just need to be smart enough to do your job but not smart enough to ask questions.