Suli Breaks - Why I Hate School But Love Education [Official Spoken Word Video]
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As the cyclical and seemingly never ending debate about education rages on, the topic - somewhat ironically, often poses more questions than it provides answers.
But what is the value of mainstream schooling? Why is it that some of the most high profile and successful figures within the Western world openly admit to never having completed any form of higher learning?
Paying homage to Jefferson Bethke's "Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus", a piece that received 22 million views in the space of a week, I address a number of these issues in my offering "Why I Hate School, but Love Education".
With scores of school leavers wanting to further their education with no guarantee of their dream job at the end of it, we should ask ourselves whether qualifications still hold the same value now as they did in previous years?
Does success in the school system correlate to success in life? Or is the school system simply geared towards fact retention and regurgitation?
What is true education?
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I have a history teacher who goes against the curriculum and hasn't assigned any book work all year. But every day, he says "What would you like to debate about?" We all have our arguments and rebuts, and guess what? I have learned more about people, how your background can influence people, controversial topics, and certain lifestyles in that one class in one year than in any of my classes all together my entire life. I enjoy going to that class. No one falls asleep because we are so excited to get our opinions out or listen to other's opinions. The teacher wants us to think what we want, not think about facts that we don't want to learn or will forget after the period. This history class has actually helped my social skills dramatically. A's do not mean that you are smart. F's do not mean that you are stupid. I currently has horrible grades. Not because I don't understand the material, but because I don't do the work. I don't want to become a biologist. So why should I waste my time doing a 3 page packet on the splitting of DNA?
Katie Rose *have. Not "has."
To prove you are capable. And to show you have a wide array of knowledge, whic can impress your employers.
SuperMegaUltraPigeon stfu
Katie Rose good luck finding a job and don't forget to blame the bankers when you can't find one you dumb liberal hippie
***** why find a job when you can simply create one
''If you dont build your dream someone else will hire you to build theirs'' Dammmnnn!!
that was deep!
Anselmo Foxx for sure!!
Collinz ikr that was so deep
totally right my homie
That’s a quote from Tony Gaskins.
If you don't build your dreams, someone else will hire you to build theirs." Damn, that hit me deep.
+orrin jones No kidding, I think I'm going to start checking out more videos from him. I found him from Joyner Lucas's music video "I'm Sorry." You've got to check it out if you haven't!
it hit me too. I literally got chills after he said it
Wow man, good luck! Life's too short to not do or say what you want the first time around. They say regret is forever so you might as well try it. Got nothing but love for ya! Goodluck to you on your journey! And let me know whenever you check out that I'm sorry video, promise you won't regret it.
Same, well feel free to check out that I'm Sorry video by Joyner Lucas as well. It changed my entire opinion of life. Definitely worth it.
+orrin jones Oh awesome, when I first heard that song, It gave me chills. It changed my life honestly. It reminded how important it is to spread positivity and love in this world.
I love how he does this right in front of a school and is not ashamed
That's the art of it.
Isaiah Ruffin you right he should not be ashamed because he is telling the truth
thats so strong of him man
Isaiah Ruffin 😂😂😂yo
We got set this for English homework
School isn't even about learning anymore. It's just about trying to pass
EXACTLY
iot's about creating an easier future for the people in charge
Hugo Yolo While you may never have a practical need for knowing every single detail of an author's life and emotional state when they wrote a particular piece, you will need to know how to read, write, and communicate effectively. You'd be amazed at how many university level students don't know how to write a simple email to a professor; I get at least 1 email per class each semester reminding me how to communicate with said professor. It's all about how the skills you are supposed to be learning translate into being an adult. Is the system perfect? Ha! No way. Will it ever be perfect? Nope. But it can be worked on and improved upon; the system can't make you learn. What you learn or don't learn is entirely up to you.
Chris Dueck Sometimes people who do not spell well have been failed by our current and historic educational systems... they may be dyslexic or have other learning disabilities that have gone and continue to go unremediated on a daily basis in this country... I am for education, but really, I have serious doubts about the quality of education in this country today and for at least the last 3 decades since I have been out of school... It appears that students no longer are graded on what they know, but instead are graded on just putting something down on paper, even if it is not a quality answer, and being given credit for handing in a piece of paper ... even if it is totally inaccurate, wrong or incomplete... Yet this passes for an acceptable education today... I now know why so many people have lost faith in our current education system... More than 7 out of 10 students graduating from high school are unable to read, write or do math proficiently, and these are the ones GRADUATING and being handed a high school diploma (it doesn't even count the ones that dropped out of high school!) .... so I would have to agree with this video in many respects... as a traditional education obviously doesn't seem to matter or ensure that it will give students the solid foundational skills that they will need to be successful in life outside of this parallel universe called K-12 education in the USA...
Icewolf187 ur right school nowadays people try not to fail .not neccessarilly passing
Lmao people are misinterpreting it. He didn't say you shouldn't go to school. He is just saying that Education is key, You don't have to go to school to be smart.
Uhmm not exactly.. He said that school is a bad place to learn, and that you could study on your own time, and become smart. He's not saying '' drop out of school'', you still need a degree or something to prove you have experience.
superope100 No you're misinterpreting it. He quoted proverbs 17:16 which says "it does a fool no good to spend money on education". It was pretty clear.
The Moral Crusader Prov 17:16 (GNT) says it does a fool no good to spend money on education - this rule is true for fools because fools have no common sense.
Above that, if I quote from KJV or NIV or NASB or other versions, it speaks of 'wisdom' and not 'education'. Wisdom cannot be bought - that is what this verse means. It does not mean to not go to school. School imparts knowledge. People get wiser everyday, by making rights decisions or learning from the ones wrongly made.
BC.Alvin Tay That's the version he quoted though. And how exactly can you spend money on wisdom?
The Moral Crusader I think that's quite the point of the verse. You can't.
School has become less about education and more about passing. I go to school to pass, I have no intentions of learning, tbh.
Yolo Lexi trrruuuuu
I find that's true with most students these days. They're studying for the grade not for the sake of learning, which was why school started in the first place.
lern what ever you want as long as you have no grade you will live in the sewers
Yolo Lexi the same i feel like i go to school so i can say i went there
AB H I guess you didn't learn anything from this.
He's not saying ditch school, he's saying think about what you're getting from school. And what you're giving up to get it
Well put
@@stevecorlew7187 yeah but the result will be the same we like school or not we are depended on those grades and degrees
Education is the goal, schooling is just seen as a means to the end goal, hence the reason a graduate is offered employment by companies, that piece of paper 📄 simply shows that you should have done at least the bare minimum requirements of learning that trade or skill, in truth there could be the most skilled person on the planet that doesn’t have a piece of paper that says they passed tests or took required classes,
But they would still know more than any living being on the planet about that skill,
That is,if they were truly the best on the planet…
5 million people have watched this video and yet, we will go on living as we have. When I finish typing this comment I will go back to studying for my chemistry final in the morning, and the thousands if not millions who have been inspired by this video, will wake up the next morning to rush to class only to fall asleep in the corner. We know its wrong, but its the way it is. We know nothing else and and as a result we know nothing.
What a dull and bleak reality we keep on living...
How is the system wrong??
its not a weak mentality its the truth. It doesn't matter how we think if we don't act on those thoughts. You may have been inspired by this video but tell me, what have you done differently afterwards? Exactly.
Andy Chen I agree with you. 100%. Its not what we think, its how we act. And without action, thought is useless. You could think about how to improve but its useless if you dont improve. People always get inspired, see people do good, and say to themselves, 'I want to be like that'. They watch people, and think, but they dont act.
Peace.
Wrong. Im trying to tour with my band by next year. Every since you were a child, you always wanted to study chemistry eh?
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
lol
+David Liu but it aint the biggest part of the cell
yes 😂
Yooo don't stay in school
Phillip Harris i should, how else am i supposed to make a living
school is just a memory game. who ever can memorize material the best succeeds.
That true
well said
+jet Remastered You can change that actually. You can go to school just because you want to discover the world. now discovering the world using basic textbooks is not the ideal way. You need to check out vlogs city pictures using the internet. read about life in other places. read about how thing work the sun the soap. why the sky is blue and why are you here? and learning the basics in school 100% helps you. the basics is a relative word . so you should consider that. don't go to school to pass exams. Before you learn math ask yourself why i am learning math ? if you didn't find the answer stop. and ask someone who is good at math more like professor or something why would you need to learn math . if he didn't give you a good answer. don't learn and pass the exams but if you ask me . math builds critcal thinking and its widely used. it's used in all the things in your phone , your computer everything . it's the things that protects your passwords and privacy it's everything in the technology world. so you need to know a little about the basics. to get an overview of how it works. and the make things work. but studying math by itself without knowing why. is 1000% useless for you (I think).
Moaz Eldefrawy Thank you for telling me this. I never like until I read this
Blackkidwithskil You never liked what ? I am so grateful that I helped ^^ !!
Middle school tells me I'm smart. There are posters that tell you to keep trying. The teachers tell you that you are smart you just haven't put in enough effort... But the system tells me something different. It tells me that I am a percent, just a number. It tells me that if I don't get a high enough score then I'm dumb. It tells me that if I fail I'm worthless and will never amount to anything. It's funny how the system tells you one thing but does a different thing. How it makes you feel like a failure. Telling you that you have to try harder. Telling you that even if you are going through depression, anxiety, ADD, ect. You still cannot fail. The systems treats us like worthless robots trying to motivate us to do something and not fail for the "big picture". Because they want the state scores to go up. They don't care about whether we are prepared for the future. Prepared to do taxes and get jobs. It's for their own selfish gain. Sorry :P just a thought. I don't know I haven't really looked at the flaws to this way of thinking so there may be some things that don't make sense :3
i totally agree ^-^
i totally agree ^-^
:3 thanks
Very true unfortunately
Yeah :(
"if you answer something outside of the box the automatic response is a cross"
BEST THING I EVER HEARD
I have listened to this a few times now, but the message only makes to a certain degree sense. "So you want to get a degree? Why?" Well, in the modern world of the 21st century, if you want to work as an engineer, scientist, doctor, be a professor etc, you need a degree. There is no way around it. Airbus is not going to hire you as an engineer if all you got is a high school diploma. Those "statistics" this guy mentioned, are not statistics, but facts. There are a few people who have a clear business plan and do become successful with it, without having got a degree. But MANY, fail in life because they chose not to get a degree.
However, I don't disagree with everything he said. "Education is about inspiring ones mind, not just filling their heads" This is true. Most school systems fail on this one big time. You will not be taught to understand the stuff you are learning. It is only to be filled in your head and you know it is like that, but you don't know why.
A simple example: What is 3²? Now, we all know its 9 because we understand the concept. We know that 3²=3x3. Now, lets pretend you are tutoring someone who is learning this right now. If you tell him 3²=9, he will know from now on its 9. But if he gets confronted with 3³ or 4², he will not have a clue how to solve it, because he was never taught to understand this. And this problem, applies with everything. Many probably know that the derivative of f(x)=4x³+3x²-8 f'(x)=12x²+6x is, but how many can actually tell me why this is?
"Memorizing equations facts and dates" Memorizing is the least helpful thing you can do in order to educate yourself. How does memorizing vocabulary help you learn a language? Not at all. You need to combine the vocabulary with the grammar and literature of the language you are learning. Learning vocabularies for a quiz is useless regarding education, because you will forget them straight after the quiz. It's just like in math. If you memorize the pattern to the solution, you're cool. But as soon as something comes up that you don't expect, you're clueless.
It's people like you that give me faith in the world. We are taught to remember but not to think, but the thing is, how do we teach others how to think? Better yet how do we evaluate thinking? That's the problem
***** It is not impossible to teach someone to think. My step mother has been a teacher for several years, and when she explains something, she doesn't just tell you what it is and to remember it. She will approach you from different angles, and have you thinking about how to get to the solution. She will only guide you. You have to do the thinking yourself. Once it clicks in your brain, you got the whole thing figured out. Now that you know how to think through the task, you can also deal with things that come unexpected. Someone who was told to memorize the solution pattern, would now be in trouble and have no concept whatsoever.
You can also find MANY (millions) with a degree that failed. Then, you also have those that ask themselves how someone like Jobs without a degree can be so successful. Society tells you that you have to get a degree to be successful, "education is the key". That's just a lie, and that's where this video is pointing at. What is important is knowledge, it doesn't matter how you get it. If you get it in school, good, if you get it some other way, even better. Your goals shouldn't be a degree and money, but knowledge and success
macrojd
Do you have such a business idea that will make you millions of $? Without it and/or without a degree, you will only be hired for jobs that don't require a lot of pre-studied knowledge. For instance, you might work at the grocery store, or collect garbage, bus driver etc. If you can create a business that will secure your future, go for it. If not, working daily jobs can (and most likely will) be a pain in the ass.
If you pursue a degree just for the money, then you won't be successful. You pursue a degree in a field of study that interests you. I didn't say that you will be automatically successful just because you earned a degree. However, you will have the least difficulty finding a job than someone, who is not specialized in a certain field.
I know plenty of people that have pursued getting a degree. They are now all working in respective fields, make enough money that they don't have to worry about their finances, and live a happy stress limited life. On the other hand, I also know people that have not pursued further studies, and they are struggling now. Working close to minimum wage, difficulties paying their bills, constantly cutting back and sacrificing from things, stressed out, from time to time on welfare, and they are not certain for how long they will have their jobs.
Society doesn't tell you anything. Society is just the world we live in, and it has its way of working. In the modern era, people such as engineers, physicists and scientists, mathematicians, computer programers and engineers, managers, accountants, lawyers etc are all fields, that are needed. Why do you think you can immigrate so easily into another country if you have a degree in one of those fields, and those who don't have a degree hardly get a residence permit? Its because, those are people that are needed in the modern workplace, not a hairdresser or a garbage collector.
Society isn't telling or forcing you to get a degree. That's your own choice. But open your eyes: In the modern world, you are nothing without a degree. Sounds harsh, but its the truth.
LSBonnPower I think you still have a lot to learn about society and what it does, What it expectS from people, the life and the world that it proposes to the people that is involved in that society, The paths that are previously set for those people. Everything is planned for you. You are a social slave, unless you understand why and how society tells you what to do and how to do it. If you really think that "Society isn't telling or forcing you to get a degree" or "Society doesn't tell you anything" you are already a slave. It may sound like an insult but please don't take it that way. It's just reality. In fact, if we go further, you can even see how society murders you, convincing you that you HAVE to die and forcing you to accept dead without doing anything about it. That influential is society in the life people live and how they live it. And again, about getting a degree, the same way you can show me happy people with a degree I can show you pathetic people with a degree. Society tells you that a degree and education is the key, and that's a lie, as the video explains.
I was considered smart. Won bunch of awards and graduated valedictorian. People thought I got there because love learning but I got there because I unconsciously thought number was all I was. I wasn't fighting for my future, I was fighting for my worth.
RELATABLE. I'm really relating rn.
Most of people compare money with success, that's the problem! =(
Your totally right, it has taken me 3 years to realise how very right you are about this.
It's strange, watching my videos back at times, and realising some of the things I have learnt since I created them. At the same time, I guess that's the beauty of life.
+Suli Breaks you're
Yeah at school they say do good to get ready for the next school and then to get a high paying job but school can't help me find what will make me happy. Not to say I don't want to be successful or that I'm lazy, but I want to go into amusement park type stuff and it seems like they're trying to only get me into a bland average job. Then, sorry if this is a bit off topic, but they assign us with summer work to make us always feel stressed and to try to turn us into drones who will do whatever someone says it seems like instead of being who we want to be.
And there are so many tests on us that we become more lab rats then students it seems like and they tell us about how it will help us be successful in college, but what I've found is that I can't even get where I want there and will only end up in debt. What's my motivation? I feel like this is all for their self gain and they're trying to brainwash us into doing what they want instead of what we want. Or am I overreacting?
+Alberto Tirado The Greatest overconfident, I see
I hate school but I wanna be a doctor so...I'm kinda stuck.
***** you are terrible wrong he didn't say leave school he said there is more than one way in this world to be educated man . he didn't say leave school lol . what if i want to be a pilot ? and doctor needs to try on patients not just watch and read lol. thanks for your comment .
***** tough world we live in but you need some writing on a worthless piece of paper to become a legal doctor, unless you live in China - then you can be anything.
He's not saying drop school. He's just making examples of people famous because of their success, that didn't do too well in school, or didn't go at all. An educated doctor is a doctor who didn't just right a dissertation, or regurgitate what their lecturer told them, he took what he was told and practiced it, he performed it on something else.
***** If my brain surgeon said he'd learnt how do what he was about to do from courses on the internet because he hated school I'd walk out the door.
***** If my brain surgeon said he'd learnt how do what he was about to do from courses on the internet because he hated school I'd walk out the door.
The thing I actually hate about school is the fact that I have to wake up every morning, let them take 11 hours of my day (1 hour bus ride, 7 hours of school, 1 hour of after school sports, and another 1 hour bus ride) and then come home to a pile of homework, which takes another 2-4 hours. Then they expect you to socilize even when you have no time.
Oh and did I mention the mean, judgemental kids? Don't even get me started,
haha whoops i meant 10 hours....
"If education is the key then school is the lock."
@Ravinder Sian man didn't even watch the video
Ravinder Sian I found the shit I loved and wanted to learn about long ago but now I’m learning about shit I don’t give a flying fuck about.
Half the people in school are not even doing what they went to school for.
@@ichangedit5847 def more than half
Yeahhh
Watching this in 2021 is heartbreaking, nothing has changed
When there are students who are so terrified at the prospect of getting a letter other than an A on their report card or test, when they would rather die than get out of bed in the morning to go to a place where they feel worthless every single day and when they feel sick at the idea of school, I think you should know that there is something very wrong with the education system that has been passed down for generations. Education should never ultimately be a value of what letter you get on a piece of paper but teaching kids to think for themselves, not turn them in mindless formula/fact memorising robots designed only to complete a test.
You described me very well :(
I'm sad to hear that
I just wish I knew what to do. I don't have any problems with school other than what you described. I love learning but it feels like a chore to learn. I think I'll just graduate high school & then start producing music. To tell you the truth the only reason I get up every day is because I want to make great music & spend whatever time I have to write lyrics. I don't really care about being a super rockstar or anything like that, but I do want to make enough money to provide for me & my family. I'm very unsure about this idea though......
Seriously, if it makes you happy just do it. You have one life. Don't waste it on something that makes you feel like shit.
TheMegaGamingWizard Be wise and realistic. Music is great and wonderful but don't let your passion override your need to support you and your future family. Always have a backup when going into a high risk field like music.
Glad I am starting my own business. But I am going to college for a backup job. I refuse to work for someone my whole life.
Marcus McCloud Working for yourself is one of the greatest things you can do, improving on your education while doing so is even wiser. I wish you the best of luck for the future.
Larry Thompson thanks
Me too!
Marcus McCloud Best of luck to you :)
Marcus McCloud exactly my plan! good choice!
My teachers tell me I'm lazy, not trying hard enough, failing. They compare past statistics to present numbers. School is not education, Education is intrinsic understanding of passion, not numbers, and it is not passing school. School offers a path for those who wish to simply add to something that is already built, a dream, a goal from another they constructed through their understanding and hard work. I may not be phenomenal at science, but i can rebuild a engine of almost any kind. I can play guitar, violin,and piano with ease. I can out work and out will anyone of my piers. Failing school when you give it all of your effort doesnt mean you are lazy, I believe it means you need to form your own path, instead of the one society laid out for you. Failing doesnt equal laziness, and you certainly wont get anywhere without effort. Failing just means you found one way a system will not work, so make your own
Patrick Starr yes but is mayonnaise an instrument?
Rose Tyler that used to be my google name, of course it is dumbass
Carson Myers Thank you Carson I needed to hear that! It's millions of talented people across the whole world including myself, that can turn their talent and ideas, to their own multi businesses!
Carson Myers Excuses.... Do you know what the maximum effective range of an excuse is? 0 meters. Sounds to me your teachers are right you're making excuses why not try your hardest and prove them wrong you can only better yourself but instead you want to complain and only prove them right. Work smarter not harder figure out what works for you and then do it to succeed. Because in this world you better have an education or you're not going anywhere. And before you start naming off people who didn't have an education I want you to name as many as you can tell go on Google and look it up research it for the next year and then what I want you to do is look at the population of the world and then figure out the percentage of people who didn't go and get an education that succeeded to the point that they made millions upon millions of dollars if not billions and are a complete success today compared to the overall majority of the world that didn't go that route and instead got an education and became successful. That's just like somebody saying I'm not going to play sports but I'm going to play in the NBA or I'm going to be an Olympic gold medalist or I'm going to play in the NFL or I'm going to play in the Barclays League. You have to have that foundation in order to succeed and Sports in other words you have to move your way up through the ranks from a kid to adolescent to a young adult to hopefully as an adult you make it in the big time but if you look at how many people play sports as children that actually make it as a professional athlete it's painfully obvious how hard it is. The same applies to education you have to have it in order to succeed you have to crawl before you can walk and you have to walk before you can run.
I'm stressed.. so stressed you have no idea. I'm having depression because of my shitty college. And my parents pressure are not helping. :(
You CAN get through this, I was depressed 2 years ago but I eventually got through it
NoTearsInHeaven
go fuck yourself you troll.
Lily Fiel
thank you for your encouraging word. I'm still stressed right now. But I'm trying to stay strong.
+Joe Pasco lol , for real ?
Joe Pasco
this was a good advice. And you should definitely give me live example of your advice by performing it on yourself. :)
"If you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid."
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Wow this is deep.
Love it
I hate how society use this ranking system.
Iqlima Bachariputri you hate society but you I and the the world that we live in is society
Life is what you make it. Everyone has their talents and abilities, so embrace yours.
You play that nipple harmonica with all your might and you will reach the stars.
Looking at all these comments that go against this video simply tells me that you guys don't get the message. The title simply saids it all "Why I hate school but love education", no but some of you are taking this waaaay out of context. He is not encouraging laziness nor is he saying to not pursue a degree. He is simply speaking on the behalf of school and education. Being educated and being schooled is two different things. You see, if you are educated than it means that you have a complete logical understanding of that subject. But being schooled is what was mentored by an educated person with an logical understanding.... *you just been schooled*
Thus why education should be put more into the school system instead school trying get every student into a machine mind and preventing that mind from Opening. #closeminded
Thank you! Some people completely missed the point of this vid.
***** Totally agree.
Jack Brilla Wrong...He quoted proverbs 17:16 which says "it does a fool no good to spend money on education". It was pretty clear.
Okaaaay
"My Proud Mother Didn't even Turn up to my Graduation"
that hit me deep
You've just taken the words outta my mouth, i wish i could like this 9999 times
Don't ya agree?
+snoopy dog I AGREE
Same
I agree!
In all honesty high school rarely taught me anything it just taught me repetitive learning , except when we would have discussions I learned a lot of things by being open minded viewing things from a different standpoint.
Exactly. When I was in 12th grade (I'm a freshman in college now) I was so dumbfounded when like 3 teachers of mine literally taught the same curriculum from 9th grade but just tried to teach it a different way. I was so pissed after that I barely went to school that year
BLVCK LORD BEATS yea its sad what we are actually being taught in schools these days after the ninth grade I could have literally taught myself some of those things people should pursue what they believe in and not follow everyone footsteps
Jack Thread exactly
+BLVCK LORD Didn't expect one of the top rap commenters to be on a spoken word video. You got good taste fam
Mktrenton appreciate that, I'm all over
This brought tears to my eyes. I cannot describe how accurate this is. School kills me everyday. People look at me, they judge me bc Im poor, because i'm not pretty enough, because I got a C in math. They criticize everything I do. The work is overwhelming. I have to stay up late doing homework, and then get up before the sunrises. And they ask me why i'm tired. I have bad thoughts, bad dreams, bad feelings, stress, etc. But I can't tell anyone bc they'll give me a therapist, and a daily guidance councilor. And they'll think i'm stupid.
Sweet child
remember Proverbs 31:16-17, and all will be ok. Nooo education for this
Its been 5 years, how ya doing now a days?
One question I've always had in my head is, "Who are you without school, grades, and education alike"? All these kids who cry over getting an 89% on an exam, who spend their whole weekends studying for a test they don't give a damn about, who are they when all that is taken away? Who are you without all the external influences and predisposed ideas affecting your own thoughts? Do you really enjoy solving for the missing angle in a triangle, or learning about the chemical makeup of a cell, when you have no desire to become a biologist or chemist in the future? To all you adults out there, when's the last time you've used ANY of the subject material you learned in grade school? Sure maybe its good to know about how the physical world works, and how the different nations on our earth have come to be, but how does any of that help you build and grow as a person? Does it teach you how to see other people's perspectives, or to show compassion to the people around you, strangers included, or to think for yourself and form your own opinions and ideas? Are you really living your own life? Or are you following a guide and a path that someone else has formed for you? Whats most important at the end of the day is YOU, not what someone else thinks of you, not someone else's opinion on what best for you, etc. We all know our education system is outdated, and frankly, I don't feel comfortable following something that was developed so long ago, with nothing in mind but the control and the "greater good" of a nation, not the individual. Why do you think the arts, and other creative, mind provoking subjects are so poorly funded and supported? The powers that keep us in control have a certain agenda, and how we feel about it does not matter to them. We grow up, being taught and conditioned to think and act in a certain, limiting ways. We go to school, put countless hours and loads of energy into subjects most of us have no interest in, just to go to suped-up, less restrictive versions of the same thing in college. We present employers a nice fancy piece of paper showing that we graduated, even though all it takes is the ability to remember facts, dates, names and numbers, and to plan for following assessments accordingly, much like what a robot would do. Most of us give in to the corporate slavery that is working as an adult, where all we do is go to our mostly boring, repetitive jobs, make money, buy consumer goods, pay taxes, etc. Where is the LIFE in that? In this whole process, where is there room to think freely and follow our own desires and ambitions? School does not TEACH us to do any of this, it only delays our pre-programmed, voluntary submission into a system designed to keep us down, and follow orders given by people who's thoughts and ideas may not be any better than our own. Only the most intelligent (and often outspoken :/ ) of us can see through the facade and open up our eyes for once in our lives. I don't presume to know everything, as I am only 16, but what I do know is that true joy stems from doing what you want to do, because you want to do it, not because someone else told you to. Like I said I'm not trying to act like I know all there is to know about whats going on in this world, but I, at the very least, encourage you to think for yourself, and find ways to do what you enjoy. Money can be made in a myriad of ways, don't let that be the sole factor that decided what life you're going to live, what job you're going to have. Don't be afraid to look into and research what doesn't sit right with you. Its ok to let go of certain thoughts and beliefs that, although may have brought you comfort and "ignorant bliss", may not have been the best for you in the grand sense of things. Love you all :)
Wow...I'm speechless.
Very well said!
amazing comment
i wish i can show this to my school. I mean...they tell us all of this stuff that we should know. Example algebra or how to do well on your exam. Or using in text evidence. Geez...they have no idea what i wanna do when i grow up. No, i dont wanna sit at a desk working for someone else's business, i want to do my own work. something i would enjoy.
Grades don't make you smart. Good grades are due to good memorization. Study a bunch, memorize it, take the test, get an A, then forget all about it. So we aren't really smart from good grades. I've seen people fail everything in school yet they became smarter than some of their teachers.
Have you but? grades are just a mark, it's what's in your head that counts.
Such a true video, my dad had a GED because he was terrible at school. And now look at him even though he died, selling his oil company years ago for $7.2M. And even starting broke poor. As soon as I graduate in a few days I will go to the Marine Corps and then start my own business when I am out. If you want to be successful in the world, why make someone else rich with a job instead of making yourself rich. Starting your own company is the key to riches my friends.
My dad started a company and made tens of millions of dollars too. He did it with the skills he developed while earning his master's degree.
The truth is that neither of our anecdotes prove the value (or lack thereof) of school, and that the success rate of starting companies is a abysmal.
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Stop learning by imposed topics, learn by personal projects.
What a lot of people seem to miss in this video is that he never once said not to go to school. All he said is that you should be making your own choices in regard to your education and your life. He even specifically said that school isn't evil. If you want to do something where you need a college degree, then go get a college degree because you want to, not because you feel obligated for whatever reason.
His point is that if you want to do something where you don't need one, and you don't want one, why get one? He doesn't support abandoning getting an education, he supports making your own choice. Being an individual. If your choice is to continue school, then go to school.
Yes, you can be successful with or without a degree. Make your choice about whether or not you need one.
Amen
When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning. -Neil Tyson
that´s why i sheet
He forgot to mention one of the smartest people in the world " Albert Instine" who dropped out of school in 4th grade and didn't talk until he was 8 years old. But made some great inventions and figured out that E= MC square
Einstein not instine.
He also graduated with a PhD in Physics from the finest institution of Physics in his country.
I still can not believe this is over a decade ago. I listen to this ANYTIME I'm feeling down. This man alone has kept me going.
It's a pleasure!
I can completely relate to this, I love to learn I have a huge interest in expanding my mind but, in school I don't do well. What they force me to learn doesn't appeal to me.
Same here. I enjoy reading and studying all sorts of subjects, but when it comes to school I become unmotivated to do so. Even for things I enjoy most -like art and maths.
same here! i took computer science as my major which is my interest. i want to learn in what interests me more, but they tell me whaat i should learn. if i didnt, they call me dumb or cocky. but still i am good at what i learn myself. fuck the rest!!!
When I enroll into college they will force me to take math. I can't stand math also I am horrible at it. From the opportunities I have there's no avoiding math.
I wish I could but from the way things seem I'll just study my favorite branches of science as a hobby.
It's the fact that they forced you to learn it that makes it uninteresting, at least that's how I feel.
I really love this video. I'm a seventeen year old girl who had passions in multiple things, but people try to tell me: "No, you can't chase your dream. You are not qualified enough in these certain aspects." Or- "That's not a real job." Trying to tell children who are told one moment they are too young to make decisions for themselves, and the next to choose what they want to do / how to spend the rest of their life. I find it completely hypocritical, why should my dreams define anyone but myself? How can I learn from my mistakes if everyone around me is preventing them? I have a job on top of education, and I pay a few personal bills, nothing major, but it frustrates me people are so focused on what society tells them, they would trade common sense + being wise, and not to mention in my own opinion, true intelligence, for a grade and a gold sticker, and then surprise, usually after you finish college/uni good luck finding/getting a job; because in this economy none are truly available, it's a double edged sword. I hope anyone struggling finds their passions and succeeds, because this society is, for lack of words, suckish. :/
"If education is the key then school is the lock."
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This is true , you can be educated all by yourself towards any SUBJECT or outcome , self taught people almost always become the most successful
People are missing the message of his speech. He isn't saying to not go to school. He clearly states that education is important. He is trying to tell people that they shouldn't stress and summit themselves to a "standard" system of learning, for there is more than one way to "educate" yourself. Some of the people he named (Jesus, Mohammed, David Beckham) they weren't educated to a degree (and in some of the cases educaucated at all) yet the were educators..they tought people things, they were still successful. He was asking us why we were going to a Unviersity if we OURSELVES didn't know what our for "learning" was (when he refers to the "students wait in line like zombies to turn in a assignment") he was stating that they were there to be there...just following the status quo of getting to the next step. Listen and look deeper into the context... His points are really valid.
This made me cry so hard, because school's killing my 'demon'! Before I liked studying, but now, in that crowd of zombies, of comformed people... In all that building of lies, where you must be on time for learning something... I'm just spending money learning nothing.
And my dreams, everybody tells me I'm crazy, everybody says that I'm just stupid because I'll never become a singer, or an actress and I'll never publish a book.
I wanna say thank you because you let me open my eyes, letting me see that I don't want to leave school because I'm lazy... but because I want to spend my time improving the talent God gave me. So thank you. Thank you.
ancient, in poetry language , demons were related to pure self expression and they were all our secrets,they were ourselves...
Of course I wasn't talking about any ritual or satanic thing LOL
+Thepalenigga yep Dont drop out of school.
+Thepalenigga yep dosnt matter what age you are what job you do where you are in life.. ALWAYS follow your dreams.. dont end up wondering what if. Dreams are there to be built and followed .. nothings impossable ( except my spelling )
School is important, all of this is just bs.
+OfficiallyFJ I hope you NEVER stop chasing your dreams! If they don't get or like your dreams, so what, they don't need to get or like them, because they're your dreams, not their!👊🏻 I wish you the best of luck
There are so many people in this comment section trying to be profound and end up looking like complete twats.
Yup that's why videos like this kind of make me cringe "in the comment section"
I agree
*This is exactly what everyone is thinking.*
If you don't build your dreams someone else will hire you to help build theirs.
Imran Esmail That isn't quite true; if you look at American history you see the opposite - when people can gain wealth by building their dreams, that wealth spreads in terms of jobs, charity they give, etc. read Mary Ruwart's work "Healing Our World" (read online free at her site). explains it very well.
Truth Stands Clear well, look at it this way. Let's say i was the boss of a company and you were just an employer of my company who is the one with real success you or me? Unless you are comfortable working as an employer. That's what they guy is trying to say.
Lol we all can't be employers
As if those were the only two options.
***** getting hired by Microsoft ya thats a dream but how about getting hired by McDonalds or KFC or any fast food restaurant
school isnt about education anymore in all honesty its about memorization instead intelligence
It never was
I've been too much surrounded by people who are nagging for good grades. Yet that's not what I'll call motivation. Thank you for showing us the true way of motivating.
this is so true. I honestly love learning and the subjects I'm studying at school. but school just ruins it by turning learning into a chore, and with the atmosphere of judgement and academic pressure. not to mention they don't teach you some of the most important skills in life. they don't even teach you how to get a job or how to function in society.
oh my fucking god. he isn't slamming on religion, or putting down his mother. His point is simply that school and grades and things that have scores shouldn't define what you're capable of. You can agree, or you can disagree, but you can't say that you've never gotten a bad grade and felt like shit about it. Think about how you felt; that's his point.
Everybody in the comments are so picky. They pick apart a video that is supposed to be inspiring to the point where some people no longer find it inspiring. Are you really defending our outdated education system?
Preach
Poor logic does not inspire. It misleads.
Epic Senpai I haven't read the comments, but I will say this:I do not defend our education system, which is no where near to ideal, but the points this guy made in his video are just not related or helping his idea.
So what if their is ten, or hundrent, or a million people who could get to an amazing place without school? these people are UNIQE, they are abnormal, they are prodigies, and even if there is a million of these prodigies (and there isn't a million of them) then this is a million divided by 7 billion, that means they are ~0.014% of the population, that's REALY low, and you can't count on that the you would like them.
It's stupid to hear 12-18 year old teens that say: "It's ok, einstein also failed math (which is not true)"
Or students who say: "It's ok Steve Jobs dropped out of college and look where it got him".
Well new flash, you're probably not steve jobs, and you need to study because YOU'RE NOT A PRODIGY.
simple as that.
Elder Gamer Nobody needs this, if your going to try to discourage people that are looking for hope just stop. It's just not necessary for negativity. I know your trying to be realistic, but your words are more powerful than you think and this simple stupid comment on youtube could have made the next prodigy or successful person not take that chance to be different or abnormal. With an attitude like this there is no Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or any other abnormal people. Not flaming you just letting you know that ignorance is bliss and everything is possible, maybe if you changed your outlook you could be the next abnormality.
Buizge Jones I'm not discourging prodigiy, prodigies usually know they are prodigies and that's why they have the confident, but prodigies are the beautiful lie that the other 99% tell themselfs, and that won't help when reality strikes them, and when reality strikes it does it with no warning.
I'm trying to give them to warning, don't count on it that you can be a prodigy, most software developers and such innovators DIDN"T dropped out of school or failed like that, they usually are very bright and have succecful background.
11 years and it still hits. I even had to take a break from school to *understand my motives* and *re-assess my aims.* It helps.
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Man, you smarter than 2/3 of the people around the whole globe and society looks at you lower than Justin Bieber whereas we live in a society of education but we thrive in a city of imagination and society looks at you lower than entertainment when they educated education themselves.
It'ss Jack Here!!! most people look down on others because of our society
He is explaining that success is not built on the foundation of a degree, or education. But what you make of decisions and life. Personally ive done ok in higher and college is driving me crazy. Im leaving with a hnc because i cant take being stuck behind a desk anymore. Im training to be a pilot.
I didn't take this very seriously a couple of years ago. I have seen it now... my dad was right. I have wasted so much time in school these years that it angers me. Waiting for people to teach me... I should have started myself.
Money’s only the medium by which you measure wordly success
I've never cried so hard listening to a spoken word poem before. It was cathartic. Thank you so much for this.
His message isn't 'wrong'. It just isn't for everyone. That's the thing with artistic expression, it's a message that not everybody can hear. He's not making an assertion, he's getting you to think
Some of the dumbest people you will ever meet are in a college classroom, point being going to school doesn't mean you're educated. Malcolm X was highly educated and never stepped foot on a college campus. Going to college is good, but if you're only learning inside of a classroom your knowledge is limited, because history and knowledge extends well beyond a classroom. In order to be truly educated one must research, read, and study things on their own outside of the classroom. Getting good grades in school only means you're good at memorizing information ( most of the time)
Amen!!
But it does look good on that application they wont even hire you at mcdonalds without a high school diploma
SOGFLY1
that is why our system is fucked up.
This guy is british. The british education system isn't based on memorisation, it's about developing skills. If you're good enough, you can revise little and achieve lots. If you can't, you practice until you can get it right.
AMEN!
But this is the world we live in today. Our system is a MESS. So there's noting we can do about it.
I actually discovered this guy from this video I was shown in my English class a few years back. Everyone was just drawn into this guy talking about education!
This title says everything to me!!!!
I cannot support school anymore is overwhelmed and sucks. When im at home searching for real self helped content, it brings fulfillment to me.
If you played attention, the majority of the materials you learn in school is by people who never frequently school.
College is good, it provides you with contacts. people to discuss, and also guidance. But truly education comes from the individual alone; only your interest and your individual effort will get you to be fully educated and capable. Don't rely on any learning institution to do the teaching for you; your room with your books, texts and your mind is the real clasroom.
May be true. But it's not needed.
True but still school is not needed to learn education
johnny drama School is absolutely necessary to get the proper education for many careers. There's no way around it. No amount of library books and diagrams can ever replace hands-on classes that allow a dental student to do a filling on a patient or a medical student to dissect and feel a cadaver.
johnny drama a good university is where you "learn how to learn". however, not the only place. I was really "smart" all through high school, but right now studying engineering in college I feel dumb as fuck. but I think you're missing the point of this video. he's saying that going to school does not have to be your only goal. its CHASE YOUR DREAMS. like david beckham dreamed of being a famous soccer star. don't go to school because someone told you to, that's what this guy is saying. follow your dream and be great
So in the U.K when kids are 10/11 we do these test called SATs. You do Maths grammar and reading. I was put in a group because I had the ability to get a 5. But I got a 4 in maths. Many kids were put in a group because they could get 6's the highest you guess. I was a few marks away from a 5. You know why because I did something to show my working out by writing it. But it said to do a number calculation. I spent nights up revising because I needed to get a 5. I love art but we did art well once every two months. But maths everyday. I know you need maths but my principal did assemblys every monday saying he loved creativity. But what he actually meant was that if it's academic or sports tell us. No artistic views allowed. We were like robots. All the same. I was put under pressure everyday. Bruh now I'm in high school. Humanties is basically reading a text book and answering question. Can I remember anything about the battle of hastings no.
Holly Taylor During primary school, I was legitimately the top male boy in the school, getting an award for top academically achieving male, being somewhere in the top 2% in the world, but now in highschool, I have no motivation to do good and I just started getting terrible grades, schools insanely painful and especially because of the amount of time it takes out of our lives with school time and homework. I've been self studying music at home because even the music course at school doesn't even teach us how to compose, just play which annoys the heck out of me.
My entire family excluding my mum is like this, my brother was terrible in high school, but now his only studying a single subject as a side job, (his main is a voice actor) which is IT, and his getting 95%+ for every test when at school he was on the verge of repeating each year. Pretty well paid jobs are already thinking about him once he finishes in a year. My dad use to hate school and he started working at a factory. In only 6 months he was promoted to the 2nd highest possible one, whilst others were working for years without a single promotion because of the way he thought, he had an invention which made the factories efficiency rate increase a pretty big amount and a whole bunch of other small stuff making that happen to him.
In what year did you do the sats? I dont mean year 6.. like 2005?
I took mine in 2012 and the system changed to where you only had to cross boxes and make sure they lines are clear since they go under a machine...
+Nayan Lad SATs are completely different in the UK than in the USA
+Maya Matthews Same acronym I'm guessing (sorry just finding this interesting XP)
Maya Matthews I am in the UK.
I didn't ask what grade I asked what year did someone take the test
I am currently in year 9 and took it in 2012.
School takes this wonderful idea of learning and turns it into an institute of social hierarchy, stress, depression and makes kids go to sleep every night wondering what they did wrong.
I'm homeschooling my way through high school doing things my way. Learning about things that inspire me
How are you able to come up with such strong, brilliant, and profound words. Isn't it hard performing your own work on UA-cam in front of millions a people. Have you ever been criticized for speaking the truth.
My God, you know.
When I was younger as a high school senior. I was called evantually crazy, a dreamer, stupid, dumb, people laughed at me, made fun of me...
At my 17, a senior was the year I revealed myself and took the first step to be myself. No one knew my History Or my Darker past.
I list plenty of friends because we used to be known as Kinda the wild populair jerks and etc.
So with that Popularity I lost everyone and when the faillures came I lost everything.
People, even teachers who used to believe in me, gave up on me. I remembered how one teacher was dissapointed because I wasn't the person they taught I was. I gave it my life and soul to make my Dream a reality.
However I Told myself that it didn't matter how many people would give up on me. As long I didn't so despite whatever and everything I fought on and again and again. Even when they all Said it was impossible and laughed.
I was probably the dumbest of my class. However after high school I Kinda rolled into leading an organisation and evantually turned it into national company. As my second job I was an actor/director. Again when I followed that path there were people who told me I would never make it. Because I am Asian.
My path was lonely, hard and rough however I was able to turn my biggest enemies who were supposed to bring me down into my biggest strengths. I'm 21 now I made a council to help me lead the organisation. Since it was not my main Dream yet.
So I Could still act and study further. I can't explain it. When the whole worlds tells you you can't every bone and muscle within you tells you, yes you can. You go on afraid but brave. Because this is my Dream and screw those who can't see it for me. Because I haven't come to make friends but to win.
What I learned it's not about winning so much but about not giving up. If you are true to yourself and your dedication to your Dream. You Will never lose a battle. Each second counts.
Even when I was like becoming Kinda succesfull here in Europe I even started to have more haters. Not for who I was or how I threated people. But for what I did. They taught I was stupid cuz there wasn't Anyone else who worked that hard as me Or took all those crazy actions. Even when I failed I still came back no matter what to do it again. I told my teacher once they Could take all the time from me that they want I don't care.
I'm here to win and I don't care what might Appose me. I have come too far to give up now.
Funny thing is I am 21 and I am the first person of that school who became CEO at 18 and made it. The only millionaire and since a few weeks I just made it as a rising actor in that industry. Suddenly all my friends came back.
Not sure what to do with them. However even If I did. I wouldn't care since the matter of fact I'm always working.
But this vid made me feel warm and gave me a tear. Since it's all true. I have been known as one of the dumbest persons cuz of my grades. Even had to double a year. Yet I'm the only one who made it since the simple fact I believe in more. More for me. Because to me it was all personal. Never Quit.
Bullshit, prove it
Alright mate calm down
TheFocker Didn't think I came across as that agitated but thankyou, thanks to you I'm tip-top, so calm :))
Pat Stevenson Suck out mate I wasn't even talking to you.
TheFocker :(
No parent should miss graduation. It's an absolute crime!
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school is just a memory game. who ever can memorize material the best succeeds.
School is indoctrination. Remember this quote from Mark Twain: " I will not let schooling interfere with my education". You certainly don't need to go to college to become educated nowadays. Most things you need to know can be found on the Internet, and you certainly don't need to waste tens of thousands of dollars to become "educated" by college. Pretty much the only reason anyone goes to college anymore is because many jobs now require you to have a college degree even though you don't really need a college degree for the job.
College is really a huge waste of money if you are expecting it to educate you. The only reason anyone goes to college is to hope that their degree can land them with a high-paying job.
I noticed since high school that I was learning way more stuff on the Internet than from my classes in school. I noticed since first year of college that I was learning more stuff on the Internet than my courses at college. It is a complete lie that you need to have good grades in school to become financially successful. Some of the richest people in the world never finished either high school or university. I heard of people making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year selling drugs, and the people doing this don't even have a high school diploma. I am not saying you need to sell drugs to become financially successful, but you certainly do not need a university degree to make a lot of money. Hell, you don't even need to finish high school. But I suggest you finish high school just to make people not think you are lazy. But finishing university is mostly a matter of being able to afford it, and has little to do with your intellect or perseverance. So screw university, and only go if you are able to meet the following criteria:
1) Don't go to university unless you are able to afford it without student loans. Student loan debt is very crippling to your financial ability after university is finished. Minimize the amount of money you spend for university by going to school at a local place (that way you don't need to pay for living expenses, and you can just live with your parents while going to school)
2) Major in something where the knowledge for the subject can't simply be
learned from the Internet i.e. becoming a surgeon because you need to go to school to acquire the skills for becoming a surgeon
3) Major in something that can actually land you with a high paying job i.e. a surgeon
If you can't satisfy the above criteria, then screw university, and go to an apprenticeship, learn a trade or start your own business.
Instead of indoctrinating kids that they must go to university to be successful, we should teach kids to become successful based on their own skills rather than earning an overvalued and mostly worthless university degree.
AmandaNerdBot Well said man:)
Just want to share a few awesome quotes I've saved:
"You enter school as a kid and the next 15 years is dedicated to molding you to listen and obey. The people at the top don’t want a society of thinkers, they want worker bees that never question anything. Once you get that new house, new car, and credit card bills, you’re now a slave to the system. People sell out their potential and dreams just so that they can keep up with the Jones. We only have one shot at life, why settle for being a hamster in a wheel?" - Charles Ngo
"School teaches you how to do what other people want you to do. It teaches you how to submit. It teaches you how to be a drone. Taking the career path less traveled takes you to some strange places, but its lessons are better than those taught in any classroom." - Susannah Breslin
"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
Exoro another thing I would like to point out is that nobody gives a shit about your grades in school outside of school. Nobody cares you were a straight A student from high school to college. At the end of the day, what people care about is how much MONEY you make, and how successful you are in life has absolutely nothing to do with your grades in school.
Based on my personal experience, our "education" system (more like indoctrination system) is very successful at creating obedient people who blindly follow authority. This is why people are so willing to believe in propaganda from the mainstream media. However, some people, despite spending over a decade of being abused by the schooling establishment, are still able to critically think, and see what the system is actually like.
School is designed to make you into someone else's bitch. I see nothing with dropping out of school, and pursing your own dreams because people like that are the ones who end up becoming the most successful rather than people who willingly become enslaved by the system known as school.
AmandaNerdBot I'm still extremely confused on how many people are so quick to settle for mediocrity. We live in a society that discourages entrepreneurship and many still wonder why it's so hard to find a job. Most people think that college packs you with secret knowledge and gives you a magical key to success in the real world.
Exoro lol at "college packs you with secret knowledge and gives you a magical key to success in the real world". Nope, I didn't learn any of that in college.
AmandaNerdBot Did they at least give you some handy-dandy student loan debt?
"EDUCATION IS WHAT REMAINS AFTER ONE HAS FORGOTTEN WHAT ONE HAS LEARNT IN SCHOOL"
(Albert Einstein)
100%
This is deep.
As someone who gets high marks in every subject in my exams, I agree, people need to be able to think outside the box and be their own person, not forced to do someone else’s wishes. Education is a passion, an understanding, a love for a subject/hobby, school doesn’t do that: it forces you to be in a box. 😢
he's saying you don't have to be academically successful to be successful in life. He's not encouraging dropping out of education.
Yep, It's fair to say that Learnt more off the Discovery and Natural Geographic channel and got me more prepared for life than University.
For those people saying this is stupid school is important he's saying he likes education but he dosent like the way they do it
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I love how he does this right in front of a school and is not ashamed
This is exactly what everyone is thinking.
Wow. This guys amazing.
I think many of our problems these days is many people limit their focus on wealth. Money is important, but is nothing more than a social construct. I wouldn't mind an unpaid internship, experience is more valuable than just a degree in many situations.
I absolutely LOVE THIS, I’m also a Spoken Word artist trying to make change and bring light to real life situations. MUCH RESPECT!!
This is exactly what I realized growing up before getting to college I felt it was a very hypocritical system! I was bullied and ignored, low self esteem and didn't even finish my 12th year of high school! I barely have worked a day in my life because I have always been doing what I know and love and learned at home in the evenings! At 12 I was doing my own landscaping and had two people working for me . with me how ever you think! I created over 5 clubs that I was a leader of before 10 so as I see it I desired toI lead and influence others, then the bullying started and it was gone so that's where my struggle in life came from! I rehabbed homes for 20 years and am great at it! No education I got from school did that I was goal oriented at a young age from my dad, wasn't I have always had huge dreams and school system slowed them down in my opinion but Ive since rebuilt myself and love education my self but I control what I learn! I am first time father of a 2 year old and am really torn from even grade school education as they are so false like the celabration of Thanksgiving is savage if you ask me! Beside I am happy all the time and thankful for what we have and don't need a day to reflect that! I have since started a drone business and again the only challenge I have is self esteem! I am my worse enemy but it stems back to my grade school experience a lot to unravel for something we are told is a good thing if you ask me! Any way a new subscriber! You're awesome!
You'd do brilliantly as a rapper
He is a rapper
Please no...He's an excellent Poet
+Tiffany Toure Rappers are poets. RAP = Rhythm and Poetry.
+Tiffany Toure not all rappers curse,shit and talk about sex money and drugs those are only the popular rappers which is like 20 rappers what about the other hundred rappers put here you've never even heard of
+Tiffany Toure Fuck you. Closed minded rude fool.
Dude lists exceptional people and uses them as an example for why YOU, a more than likely ordinary person doesn't need to jump through hoops for a successful future.
Well, color me inspired. I'm just gonna go break the system with soaring rhetoric as my sword.
I remember watching this in 7th grade in 2015 but now I'm 12th grader and I'm graduating on Monday, I've completed my path of grade school and I look at myself from a kindergarten and to a 12th grader and I'm like damnn how did I go through this quick.
That's right 😪💔
And now where are you ?
Not only institutional education should be considered important but also the informal education-what we are actually learning from our immediate environment matters.
I concur with 100% of everything this guy's pointing out,but in order for the society to function,we have to be educated otherwise we wont be able to contribute anything meaningfully.See if i werent educated,i could not have written this comment so being educated is hugely advantageous.
At least,educating your mind means working toward developing yourself.
This video is very misleading; it appeals to the few successful exceptions. For every Steve Jobs who dropped out, I can present you with ten-thousand bums who dropped out too. Where do you think your chances lie? Allow me to channel Tyler Durden: "We've all been raised on *sulibreezy's video* to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." School isn't what's stopping you from being a millionaire.
It's great to see your comments, DarkMatter2525.
I couldn't agree more. People are too willing to blindly accept a video like this that criticises the education system, because they want to believe they can just drop out of school and be successful without putting in effort. I think getting a university degree is the *easy* way to be successful. This video gives a bad message.
He talks about anecdotes and calls them statistics. I have to say, I wasn't fooled either.
The question for the further education dropouts should be, what will you do instead?
Personally I feel that further education is the only path I could take, but that's me.
It really comes down to what you are capable of.
As I just commented on GrapplingIgnorance's response to this video, the entire premise of this video is crap. Citing a few exceptions to a law does not make a new law. There are thousands of drop-outs who never made anything of their lives for every drop-out success story. Yes, it can happen, but the odds are stacked against you. The best way to get those odds in your favour is with a diploma or degree. Otherwise, the odds are that your future career will involve the words "You want fries with that?"
thank fuck that you said something DM... i'm astonished by how many high school drop outs have liked this video...and they all think they're geniuses, like the douchebag in this video.
***** i love that you tell us to look at the title while you seem to think it says 'why school doesn't make you a millionaire.'
This video made me believe why waking up early just for school every freakin day is a waste of time.
Suli Breaks: creates video on why school doesnt work
My school: makes us do an in depth analysis on the video.
Hey Suli, This may be a long shot, but I hope you see this. I've seen your spoken word many times and it still gives me the chills and gets me all choked up every now and then up to this day. I am currently in a class that's about the education system. I really love it. I've shown them "Why I love education but hate school", and "I will not let exam results decide my fate" and even "The American't Dream" to inspire them and get them thinking even more. I think you'd love this class a lot. I wish you can visit and be a guest speaker or something. But showing your videos to the class is like that already! Thank you for your words. Keep doing what you're doing.
"Education Is About Inspiring Ones Mind Not Just Filling Their Head"
This video agrees with me. I thought like this about education before I saw this video.
Same.
I really believe in this video. Education should make you excited, have a need to learn, and open your mind Infinitely. Most of things they teach at schools are facts, equations, and unnecessary homework. Just because you have the best grades doesn't guarantee you a job or that you'll be happy with what you do after school. My need to be free and grow as a person is stronger than to be trapped not achieving my dreams.
This really hit home. Im currently in University and just flunked out of my department, currently across the ocean from my mother country and family. I am at a crossroad with no idea where to go. Watching this gave me a bit of relief.