I told a teacher that the thing we were doing in class was pointless and she replied by saying, "I know, but it's part of the curriculum. I don't want to teach it and I know you kids don't want to learn about it. There's much better things we could be doing, but we have to do this."
I remember in 7th grade we learned about the history of the Christmas tree, they gave us a long ass, historical text about it. I was just like '' WHO on earth needs this knowledge? "and I don't remember exactly what the teacher said, but I remember that she was lowkey offended and said something along the lines of '' You will need this later in life''... I felt like she was being stupid, obviously I didn't read the text and to this day I have no regrets
Tbh.. I feel that... The curriculum here just getting worse.. And somehow it keeps teacher do things that don't suit the students.. And everyone has to see it continues idk until when
+MYSTICAL ASSASSIN no it was saying things that are in school shouldn't be there and that they should teach life skills. The end line was saying that they need to "don't stay in school" or something, I can't remember the exact line though
I'm the opposite. I have this facade of comedy and stupidity around me, Which is easy to maintain and hard to break, instead of showing my intelligence. I write books and I am enthralled with anything philosophical. I just don't want the vulnerability of being wrong to go around with me for the better part of my developing self to deal with.
You're a nerd. I mean I'm smart but I can accept I'm sometimes wrong and it never bothers me. I know a lot of kids who brag about being smart and stuff. And it's because they brag about it that people tease them
I can also accept I'm wrong. What I can't accept is being branded for putting my hand up to answer questions in class, having everyone steal and pass around my graded tests and picking on me for getting something right, then the hypocrisy of later picking on me for getting something wrong, when I was never really anything special. "The smart kid" was in quotation marks for a reason. (Just trying to clarify what I meant by that, please don't take it as snarky or rude)
I actually had this moment in school. My train of thought went like this: Why am I learning square roots? For my future. Why do I need to prepare for my future? So you can have a good future. Okay, say I had a great life. What happens when it ends? (At this point in my life, I had converted from Christianity to Agnostic Atheism) Nothing happens. That's it. Every human being that has ever existed has died. I'm going to die too. Let's think about the big picture. How many humans are there? 7 billion. I feel so insignificant. And all of humanity is contained on this tiny planet. This planet is tiny compared to the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is nearly invisible when compared to all the other galaxies in the universe. And this planet is going to be incinerated by the sun eventually. All of humanity is so insignificant, and so temporary. Why even try? Everything I accomplish will eventually be forgotten, no matter how amazing I am. So why even try? Yep. I went from "Why should I learn square roots?" all the way to "Is life completely meaningless?" This all happened in the span of a few minutes.
Sophie Turner No, people take risks because they might gain something from it. If people only took risks because they'd eventually die and that'd be the end of it, that implies that theists do not take risks, which is absolutely untrue. I mean, look at the risks priests take when they molest children!
That is all true, but if you get a nice job you can buy nice things, which is a lot of fun. Also, if you get a really shitty job, you will have a lot of discomfort, and discomfort is not fun at all. Did I just make a case for success based on having fun? Yes.
I was, and still am, to a certain extent, the annoying kid who never really tried, but still got good grades and would be disappointed if I got lower than a 90 on a test everyone else failed and would complain while everyone else was probably vividly imagining ways to kill me. God, I was an asshole.
Emily Black I am what you are, I don't try but I've gotten 1 non-A grade (Algebra) throughout grades 6 and 7 (I'm going into 8th), however I am known as the person who jokingly calls himself crazy, the class clown, can't spell (a lot of this was spell checked), and is a know-it-all when it comes to random trivia and in general because I take the time to read about 10th grade physics. The reason I got that B was because while the teacher was explaining everything I would read books about astronomy and particle physics. (Everyone hated that teacher but not me) Thankfully my somewhat large social group are either people who also game to the X-TREAM, or are also ridiculously intelligent. I've also been taking ballet since I was 5 and am now 13, I preformed as the prince in The Nutcracker last Christmas. I happen to not get made fun of for it just because I'm male. Well this was shorter in my head.
I had my own "eureka" moment at the end of 10th grade, which revolved around art. I had taken art classes before, such as in middle school and elementary, but never anything too serious; I was far from an artist. As I sat in English class that day, I realized how much free time I had all the time in school. I needed something to do to fill all this wasted time, so I took out a sheet of paper and decided to draw an eye, just by the trial and error of getting the rough shape correct. At that moment I decided I wanted to become an artist because I realized something very valuable: every time you try at something and do it wrong, you know what not to do next time. As long as I learn from my mistakes, by the sheer nature of these things, I WILL get better!
I had a eureka moment too. all the fucking art teachers in the school are crazy, and the ones that aren't just got laid off because of the 1.1 million dollar defecit brought on by the plague of trying to compete with more prestigious schools in terms of sports and instead of the money going to something useful like the lunch that sustains half the school, it went to the goddamn pool.
Art teachers are dumb. Those who can't, teach. If they were talented at art they would most likely be rich living in a manor selling million dollar pieces
The reason I hate school is cause they make you DEVOTE all your free time to school me: "I'm going to a sold out concert that will only happen once" school system: "but you have 9 homework assignments, 3 1,000 paged S.A.s and 1 project due tomorrow"
Just ignore school if you really believe that. Don't do your assignments and just learn. Figure out how to sneak in learning for six hours. If you have access to the internet, it's surely possible!
Did you hear? School has improved again as now we have to remember a ton of equations and quotes so it's just a memory test now :( and my year are the Guinea pigs for it as well
They change how the GCSEs are laid nearly every year. Us being the Guinea Pigs for it isn't that bad. Especially considering every person in the UK has done their GCSEs. Just stay calm and don't stress and you'll be fine. Like I hardly revise and I'm doing perfectly well, the only time I really drop marks is if I don't read the question properly. (Sorry if that sounded like I was bragging :/)
Ice_conspiracy 16 Well my state just passed a bill recently that allows more funding for charter schools so maybe there is hope :) Though I already graduated several years ago so it doesn't really matter to me :D
I am from Switzerland, where we have to learn EVEN MORE to pass the finals. And that's nothing personal, it's just that the bar is INSANELY high (Some of the maths you learn for the Abi, we have to learn in like 9th grade). I am half a year away from finally leaving behind school, and I'm basically grasping at straws by now. The one and only reason I still get up every day is because of my friends. Because they get how it feels. The last 3 years have sent me into a depression, none of the things I loved to do really make me happy anymore and I have zero motivation for anything. It's a horrible, disencouraging feeling that makes you slowly hate yourself for not doing better, when in truth you feel like you're slowly and inevitably being sucked dry of all life. I just want it to be over. I hate my current life, but I love living. When this year is done, I'll finally be free. I have so many things to do.
I'm in sixth grade in the USA so I haven't had much experience with school as a whole, so take this with a grain of salt as my opinion might change over a couple of years, so bare with me I think mandatory education is a must, just not the way school is doing it 1.) They're teaching you things that I, and the majority of my class won't need in the real world, Dave talked about this, and this was the main point in the video so I won't go on about it. 2.) They don't give you freedoms a normal person would have, if you have to go to the bathroom, ask, if you need to wash your hands, ask, if you need some water, ask, if you need to do basically anything that isn't sit down and do what the teacher says, you have to ask 3.) I agree, they should open up about mathematics, literature, and science, but not to the point of what they are doing, yes make us learn the basics, and then let us choose if our career needed it, or we liked learning about it, then we should go to that class, but if you disliked it, you don't have to go to the class, you already have a basic understanding and what you would need in the real world as a normal human being by fifth grade. 4.) It's mandatory, everyday mandatory, Mandatory education is fantastic, it's a human right after all, but if we're sick we shouldn't be punished "So you didn't come to school yesterday, here is the work, an top of work that you missed!" they make you feel like you are a trash human being because you were sick, just let us be, also they reward attendance, oh you came to school everyday, even when you were sick, so you could probably spread it to other classmates, here's a prize 5.) They (mostly) do absolutely nothing about bullying, they hang all of these posters "no bullying" but when somebody does bully, the teacher doesn't even bat an eye. 6.) This one is really dependent on your parents, but I feel like it fits the majority, you see, if your parents don't care about your grades much go to 7, you see, were going back to point 3. I feel like parents judge you by your grades, you get one bad grade, oh that's it, and they punish you. It's really stupid too, we take these standardized tests, some people are good at them, and some just isn't their cup of tea, they don't handle them well, but you are expected to handle it well, and answer them correctly. 7.) I feel like the teachers don't teach you, now hear me out they do teach you, but not really, they say "read the packet" or tell you to read something yourself to learn it, some people who suffer from mental disorders or people who don't digest information from reading text very well, they're out of luck cause the teacher is getting paid to hand out the papers. 8.) They say school is suppose to help you in your career, and yes it could help you, if your into the jobs that come to head when somebody asks you what you think of when you hear jobs, but not other ones like an artist or music player, I feel like school thinks math is more important than art to an aspiring artist 9.) It sucks the creativity right out of kids, "this is how it says it" "stop doing it that way" "no I didn't tell you to do that" I feel like these come out of teachers mouths way more than it should, oh you found a new strategy to answering a problem that could make it more efficient so we're not wasting as much time on one subject as we have to, nah, we got it the old fashioned way and the old fashioned way is always better, but really, is it? 10.) School is WAY too stressful, the one minute of free time you get is devoured by homework, like heres a normal schedule for what I might be facing in the future. Probably 9 hours of sleep a night, school is 8 - 3 so 7 hours, 3 hours of homework and 1 hour of studying for a test probably tomorrow, add that up you get 20. 24 - 20 is fucking 4 hours of time to ourselves, only FOUR FUCKING HOURS JESUS CHRIST HOW INSANE IS THAT JESUS CHR- no wonder the suicide rate of students in 1/12 THAT IS FUCKING INSANITY I could go on and on about how school is a fucking waste of time, but I don't need to go any further, I'm only scratching the surface of why I hate school so much, so yeah that is my top 10 complaints, not in any particular order. just the ones that come to mind. If you read all of this you deserve a cookie
Y'know, I was a lot like Dave when I was younger. I didn't listen to music when I was younger, I would tell my mother (who has a very wide music taste) to turn on the talk radio station. Nowadays of course, I've nearly completely stop playing video games and spend most of my time listening to music and remixing songs.
School still feels pointless. I think if I would have had to teach myself the same as I get tought in school, but with the help of internet and my parents instead of teachers and books, I would now be finished with school. Also I think school is really bad for your creativity and in my case also for my self-confidence.
They force us to learn German as our 3rd language. They've been teaching it to us for 4 years and we still barely know anything. I've been teaching myself Japanese for a year and I know a lot.
+Bertuğ Manavoğlu because when u teach yourself, you aren't being forced to learn it so u don't make the connection like oh we have to do this ugh, it's like I want to do this so I will. And plus it's at your own rate
We have to choose a third language (we can choose between german and french but I am not interested in either of these languages),have to learn English,our main language which is Greek and also Ancient Greek which is a "dead language" meaning it isn't spoken anywhere.And on top of that,we have to spend a good 15 hours a week being taugh things that we won't be using in the future.And of course all that with the excuse of "finding a job".Don't get me wrong,being concearned about our future is importand,but I am 13, I spend my whole day studying and I have a master degree in English,a language I don't regularly use.Things would be better if we could choose a specific path we want to take and not spend countless hours on things that are in insignificant to us.
Μυρτω Καλλιν. Most students in my school didn't choose to continue Science and Maths. So 3 years of their school life was wasted with Algebra which they'll never use.
Actually I started talking to my teacher about how pointless I thought the majority of what we were learning in school was, and my teacher said 'then why don't you teach the class?' And I said, 'OK sure...' And I taught my class on what a mortgage was and that there are people who will make you pay more than you have to for your mortgage, what can happen because of this, and the many ways to stop them... And my teacher was shocked xD I should be a teacher... 🤔🤔
Still in school over here :] I used to be "the smart kid" as well, and everyone seemed so happy every time I did bad. It was this weird distortion of feedback that made me drop everyone and everything, and begin at a new school away from my friends. I figured that being lonely wasn't so bad as long as I got to do as well as I wanted. And it wasn't so bad. However, I have become more aware of the fact that possibly nothing of the information I get in school will be of any use to me afterwards, so my interest is lost, my grades are falling and I'm constantly bored. Yay school.
Yea, I remeber that whole experience. As someone who is a little a head of you on that road: anytime you're in a new setting with people that don't really know you, don't let them know how smart you are so quickly. You don't really need to play dumb (although it has proven quite entertaining in some instances) just don't let it become one of the first adjectives they stick you with. There's something about being "smart" that makes people inclined to reduce you to a one-dimentional character.
The only reasons i like school is because it gives me something to do, my music grades are the thing that made me realize I could be a musician and because I actually get a chance to meet people that i might actually like (the people near me aren't exactly people like me).
First week of school: teacher: "We are not are to teach you, you are." Mid term: teacher: you guys better learn all the crap we teach you or you won't get a job." Now what's that thing you said in week one Mrs teacher?
School hasn't really changed. Everyone in my Pre-Calculus class constantly asks, "When are we gonna use this in life?" The American education system is so fucked up that if you aren't a good test taker, regardless of how intelligent you may be, your chances at scholarships, good grades, and recognition (ha! like intellect is rewarded at all anyway) greatly diminish. Meanwhile my generation is twisted beyond belief and the 'current' generation refuses to acknowledge it. But hey, isn't that just the way it goes?
I would argue that if you're incapable of applying any knowledge you may or may not have, you're not really that intelligent, and so your complaints are irrelevant. Having a hard time grasping the subject matter is one thing. I can acknowledge that. That seems like a valid claim. Just in general not being able to remember which of these four possible answers is correct just specifically during a test, or not being able to do a math problem just because the piece of paper it's written on says "TEST" in the corner? That just sounds like an excuse.
It's funny how you claim I'm not really intelligent, when you know nothing about me. I, in fact, am an excellent test-taker and I'm nearly the top of my class. I speak from friend's experiences. Give them flashcards describing events in history. Done. Give them a homework assignment in math. Done. Have a discussion on the meaning of the Great Gatsby. Done. However, place them in a high-stakes position, as many assessments are nowadays, and their nervousness gets the better of their intelligence. I'm simply saying that "tests"" are inferior ways of evaluating the knowledge one accumulates throughout a class and are too heavily relied upon for deciding the fate of a student's future.
talknerdytome sevens - It's funny how incredibly common it is to use a nonspecific 2nd person pronoun in hypothetical situations, and yet you assumed I was talking about you, personally. So, what is the difference between a test and a worksheet, apart from the label? Why is a study guide just a normal, easy thing to do, and yet a test (you know, more or less exactly the same thing), is somehow notably more difficult.
I can understand the pronoun, thank you very much, but the format of the statement..."...and so your complaints are irrelevant." apparently didn't translate to your theoretical situation. Pressure. That is the difference. Don't people get nervous before job interviews? Don't people fear public speaking? Those apparently aren't any different than having a normal conversation according to your reasoning.
talknerdytome sevens - They're not, though? A job interview is just an interview trying to gauge your capacity to do a particular job. Yeah, if you're really desperate for a job, it'll probably start to come across like that, eventually, but it's not a super huge deal if your entire life isn't riding on this one moment. Talking to a large group of people isn't fantastically different than just talking to one or two people, they just get less chances to respond because there are so many of them and you're expected to be the one speaking, anyway. Especially when so many people have problems with public speaking. Apparently, most people have a huge problem with it. Why should you be nervous? They're all exactly the same. You're fitting in more than anything else.
It's really just sad what school in the US has become. We memorize things to pass standardized tests to get the schools we spend the majority of early waking life in more funding. This repeats until college where we are sent off with little real-world skill other than taking tests, the money for which puts us thousands of dollars in debt with no real guarantee to get a job. Passions and interests are disregarded during high school for what will "look good on a college application" or "serve you in the real world", while at the same time classes like higher math classes with literally no value in the real world are suggested, and sometimes required for admission into higher-level colleges. Personally, I've all but given up my dream of becoming a successful DJ/Producer because for the last two years I've gone to school, came home drained and laden with homework, and had nothing to put into my actual passions and talents, to the point where I can barely make music anymore. It's honestly quite depressing and I know a bunch of people who are in situations just like mine. It's a modern epidemic, and the reason for it is our outdated school system, which is a relic from a wartime when the goal was to get kids in and out of school and into the workforce with a basic talent to follow orders and quickly and efficiently as possible.
Then you need to man up if you really want to be better. Try working over 40 hours, and going to school fulltime, that will drain you, I know plenty of kids going to college and not or barely working and they seem to complain the most even though they usually have the most free time.
I'm still in school and I think about all of this every day, and have been thinking about this for many years. It may sound weird, but it kind of hurts. Both physically and mentally. I'm also really stressed which is not good. I don't really get that good grades, or rather I don't fail but I rarely get an A. But I don't study much. Though I just turned 15 which means next year I have to study to get into another good school and not disappoint my parents. But why should I study for something I'm not interested in? Why are others telling me what I should learn and think for 7 hours a day? (If not more) I don't really have anyone to talk to about this either. I don't trust easily because of past experiences so it takes a long time for me to build a friendship. So I just write down what I'm thinking. I've written so much that I could make it into a book. Because there is sooo much text. I'm not sure whether or not I should be happy about this..
I'm still in school, I'm in year 11 for anyone who cares about that. I've never had the reputation as the smart kid because I'm an average student, I'm on C and D grades mostly. I have quite a few reputations to be honest, I have the reputations of: emo, nerd, depressed ,insane and freak to name a few. Admittedly I enjoy emo music, I am a nerd I love video games and comics and anime and that sort of stuff. I'm not really insane I just have a knowledge of killing from anime and video games which people are ignorant enough to think is about real murder. They're right about the depressed part because I have been in a bad enough way to self harm, I did that for about 4 or 5 months. I'm known as a freak because of my emo music taste, the fact I spend so much time alone playing games and the fact that despite being a straight 15 year old guy I don't much care about sex. Now don't get me wrong from what I said before I do somehow have friends, believe me I have no idea how, and they're awesome. Despite the fact I do have friends I keep to myself a lot, just the other day a friend said about me "I've been friends with the guy for 5 years and I only just know him" which sums up how quiet I am. Sorry I've been rambling on about stuff which you probably don't care about. I could write a whole essay about this stuff but no one would care and it would take a while. Sorry again for my ramblings wasting your time if you've read this far.
You and i seem very similair but hang on, those people who doesn't accept you the way you are aren't worth your attention! If you like watching anime or playing games and stuff than just do it :D
Lucuo xo Thank you. I try my best to just ignore the people who don't like me but they're consistent and after a while I'll attempt to explain how they're wasting their time but they never listen so I just get back to what I was doing. I try to not let these people affect me but it can affect me sometimes and they're part of the reason I almost never feel good about myself. I do often use games and anime as a way to escape reality and just take my mind away from everything and for some time just feel happier than I do most the time
I totally understand it since i do the same, escaping from reality. But in the end it makes everything a illusion, well thats how i think. Those people are mostly negative about you since they don't know you! It's better to think more positive about yourself and about the things you do! c: Think about the friends you have and that they accept you as who you are right?
I noticed that in most, if not all of his vlog style videos there is no music in the background and I really like that. Most youtubers will need music in their videos to make them funny and pleasant, but with Dave it's different. I feel like you can concentrate on what he's saying and understand the message of the video much better. Anyone agree with me?
I definitely see myself in this. In school I just could not find the appeal of art and music. My entire focus was on school work and it wasn't until half way through my second year of university and looking at industry placements that it hit me - What the fuck am I doing with my life? I'd spent so much time making sure that I had everything I "needed" to do the things that I wanted, that I never actually figured out what I wanted. When I wasn't happy in school because of not fitting in or being bullied I was told that one day I'd be successful, and these people who put their energy into other things would be worse off. Utter bullshit. I remember feeling really angry - I'd worked so hard to be "successful" but the people who seemed to discover how to have fun early on in life were still having fun and I was stuck constantly worrying about failing tests and not being proud of things I was told I should be proud of. (Looking back on this, the attitude of "it will get better over time" is utterly toxic. Only YOU have the power to change things in your life. You might get less comments about being overweight but that doesn't do a fat lot of good if YOU still hate being overweight.) Of course, resetting to the complete opposite attitude of acting purely on impulse isn't any better. Depression has been a bitch to overcome, but at least it let me discover the side of me that I lost because I didn't have time for or closed away to stop the bullying. Now I can rebuild my life with a bit of confidence that it will be a life that I want to live, and not just hitting the goals set by other people. I think mostly it's just a shame that it took me 20 years to figure out all that. And the fact that I'm sure 16 year old me would probably think less of me now, even though I'm so much more whole as person. School is not an environment for raising well-rounded people. It did an OK job at teaching me things, and it's not like a regret learning what I did. But it did a terrible, terrible job at preparing me for LIFE. Not just on a practical level of self-efficacy, but also an emotional level of how to life a fulfilling life outside of a job.
My history teacher one year said this on the first day of school, "What I will teach you this year will have no affect on your life, you might as well learn this, pass the tests, and forget I tought it to you, have a good year." He said it with so much enthusiasm the whole class was laughing.
I know how a lot of people are talking about school in the comments but I just want to say that your hair, your eyes, lips and teeth are beautiful. You are an artists dream, you have such an interesting style. I have to say I've never seen anyone like you before. I would love to draw you so I think I will. On the topic of school though, I was kind of like you. I read at a high level for a long time, I loved writing and learning and my parents always introduced me to friends as "our Hermione". I prided myself on my intelligence and always aimed to get better each year. However when I hit 14/15 I slowed down. I was hit with this sudden bout of unreasonably heavy sadness and I couldn't concentrate on anything, the things I used to love became unappealing and the colour seemed to drain from everything I found happiness in until everything was grey. My grades have been dropping ever since. What makes it worse is that I can't afford to have them drop because my GCSE's are this year and if I fail them I'm doomed. I have to pick it up but I don't seem to have the strength. I just want to sleep all the time. I don't know if its laziness or if something is terribly wrong with me. That being said, I'm going to try my absolute hardest this year and I'm going to achieve what I can. I'm going make myself proud. I'm going to pick it up. Then my new years resolution will be to find out what's happened in the past year to make me feel like this.I hope you will wish me luck. I wish you luck (yes you, reading this) with whatever it is you're going through right now. You can make it work. Keep your head up.And Dave, stay beautiful! Sincerely, a dedicated Homeslice.
+GoNuts ForJoNuts Same here lol. Maybe change your routine a little bit? You never know where you're going to find your next epiphany and until you find the drive to complete what you have left to do, you just have to pull through and go through the motions. I'm still trying to figure it out as well. Good luck!
i started playing guitar aged 7 and sort of just played it without actually bothering to learn any of the hard theory stuff. When i was 9 i moved to France but i didn't speak french and i had no friends. Music was the only way to escape from the loneliness of school. I started teaching myself scales and theory and now five years later i'm a lead guitarist/vocalist in a band and not only do i play guitar but i play piano,drums and bass. just a few weeks ago i discovered this channel and despite not liking the particular genres that probably the majority of its viewers like i still find the videos really enjoyable and easy to relate to. MUSIC SAVES LIVES!!!.... \m/
When I was little, I also hated music, but now I am first in my states district for tenor saxophone, so that happened. I agreed with all your points, but I grew up with a musical sister and I began to join in music. I really started to play and like music. My mom now makes fun of me liking music. This seems to be like a story that I have taken.
School should teach people to learn. It should teach people that learning is fun. I mean, does it even have to teach that? Just look at young children. They think everything is interesting and they are interested in learning about everything. But when people go to school, they kind of lose the interest - I don't know why that happens. School should motivate people to learn. Most learning happens outside of school. If you are truly interested in something, you'll figure out about it. I think school should teach how to figure out about things. It should support people's interests. It shouldn't teach a lot of information (besides the basics), it should teach more about how to find information. It should motivate, not make people lose their interest in finding out about things. I do think the things you learn in primary school are kind of basic knowledge - there's nothing complex in it, they are the basics. But after that people should have more freedom. They should be able to choose what subjects they want to focus on. Because let's be honest - how much do you remember from the subjects that you weren't interested in? I can tell I don't remember much from them. I learned a lot more about the subjects that I was interested in. When you are motivated, you will learn a lot easier. School isn't all about career. That's what universities and professional schools and the like are about. Primary school is about basic knowledge. It's about learning to learn about things. It's about learning to appreciate and understand different opinions, different kinds of people, different cultures... Or at least that's how it should be. The teaching methods could be improved. It's not easy, of course. If people had figured out the way, the system would already be better. But I'm sure the system has got better over time. I'm not a school teacher but I study music pedagogy. I have been thinking about this - I was actually thinking of becoming a school teacher but music was my passion so that's why I chose music over it. At least music theory teaching has improved a lot - it is a lot more practical than it used to be when I took music theory lessons. I'm sure many people have similar views as I do and I'm sure the system will be improved. As I said, the music theory teaching has already become a lot more practical. I expect similar things to have happened in school teaching. I don't know about other countries but that's how it's in Finland.
I just ignored school and did my own thing. It was on a county youth wind band 'tour' to Germany when I was a 14 year old flute player that I realised I wanted to be a saxophonist, because we watched The Blues Brothers Movie on the coach there. 7 years later I'm still following that path!
when i was a kid i hated music and didn't ever want to listen to it but then when i was around 9-10 i got an ipod touch nano and i wanted to sell it but my sister tole me to keep it just in case and i was so glad that i did because i listened to it so much that now i am that one person that is always singing in class and everywhere i even sing without knowing it sometimes
I definitely had that "I don't care about these people" moment, but mine never quite ended. Especially not when my family moved from the north to the south. The horribly stereotypical accents combined with the huge amount of 'less intelligent' people just drove me to further despise my peers. I was instantly labeled the smart kid, not just for getting high grades but also because I would correct the teachers daily. Gaah! I hated middle/high school.
I thought Eminem was black as well! I'm finally not alone :D I had the same thoughts about school and left very early. And now I'm doing better than just about everyone that stayed in school. Apart from a select few Pilots, Doctors and Lawyers.
Camelworks you say that like if you had stayed in school you wouldn't be doing better and if everyone else left school they would be doing better. It's not about where you spend your time it's what you do with it...
It's no better on other countries. Here in the UK we MAY get taught how to write CVs (resumes, I think you call them), but that's about it. I was lucky, I took Health and Social Care in Years 10 and 11 which involved a work skills unit, in which we learned about being interviewed and taught about applying for jobs, but taxes, loans and money managing in general we were never taught.
I went through a similar phase in high school where I thought it was all irrelevant. I hated the abstract math, advanced physics, biology, etc. but by the end of it I was glad I took all of those classes because now I use concepts I learned from all of them in my job. I'm a 3d modeler, animator, and vfx artist and all of that "irrelevant" math suddenly became relevant, I need to know linear equations, I needed to know concepts of physics to recreate them in animation, I needed to know the difference between sin cos and tan. Knowing how things work on the inside, biology, has helped my modeling and has also helped me see beauty on a microscopic level and how animals should move, and how muscles should move. The advanced math has also helped me with problem solving in my day to day life. Everything is math and when you realize that many things become much simpler. No knowledge is irrelevant or useless unless you don't use it, and that is entirely up to you. I don't think schools should stop teaching the things they are teaching now because I would probably have never found my love for 3d. I did teach a great portion of the 3d concepts too myself but that doesn't mean I didn't need school. In short the knowledge schools teach isn't irrelevant or useless but they do need too teach more important life skills like finance, child care, first aid, etc. Luckily I went to a good school and did learn a lot about all of these topics, except first aid.
I’m 10 going into fifth grade and I LOVE music! My dad if a guitar player so I grew up around music.i always loved nightcore and I always will.i hope I get a career in music one day
I almost ranted at my teacher about how useless a school topic was when she told me to pay attention. Then I said "I'd rather follow my own pursuits." A couple minutes after she came up to me and told me to get off my iPad (we use them for school stuff, but I was making music) I just ignored her. She then pulled my earphones out, everyone heard the track I was working on, it went silent, the teacher looked like she was gonna explode and then: the only friend that knew I made music, started to clap. The whole class joined in, now that teacher actually respects me a little. Great experience and great story. Now my friends sample my music and my girlfriend has even started to take a liking to some of my tracks. Though she won't stop picking on me for not putting lyrics in, I keep saying "if I did you'd be the first to hear it"
I always think a lot about that school thing. How it is not that important, how it's wasting SO much time of my life when I could actually be doing something that I enjoy. In my opinion, school destroys creativity. That's why I want to leave so badly, but I don't have the courage to do it. I've never seen anyone do such thing and I'm really scared of the possible consequences. I'd love to spend most of my time with music, since that's what I really want my future to be about. Not maths or history. I know it's important to have basic knowledge, but we should get that education by ourselves. That way, we'd learn things that we're actually interested in and a lot more, in general. D: This education system really grinds my gears. It needs to change.
3:27 that is how I feel! This thing is so awful. And if you make a mistake everybody says: “OMG! She made a mistake! She can make mistakes! You are not the smartest person!” Dude you made 5 mistakes but you only care about mine!? And people don’t think that I am interesting person they just think that I am talking brain with legs and hands! And I’m just thinking: “If I’m not so smart so who I am?” It’s really big problem of excellent students. Thank you. I am not alone
My school years weren't too terrible until the end really, but I did have to repeat 2nd grade, I think. My schooling went as follows: 1st Grade 2nd Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade Freshman(9th Grade) Sophomore(10th Grade) Sophomore(online schooling) Dropped out, got GED Here's the thing, though. When I started high school, I had a lump in my neck that made me very lethargic and disoriented with no real sense of balance. After some point, I had to keep coming home from school and waddya know? It turned out to be throat cancer, yay~? After that, my school threatened to put me back into 10th Grade for the 3rd consecutive year, so I, instead, studied for and passed my GED. I was a bit like you, though, in some respects. I was also the smart kid, but I was also the lazy kid, y'know? That one kid with a lot of wasted potential? I had really strong bonds with all of my teachers and even the staff, some really good friends that I still have today(I'm 19 currently), and some good and bad experiences. I got in trouble a lot for really stupid reasons, such as: aggressively disposing of a yogurt container and skipping study hall despite attending the same one every day. So, long story short, my school days were simultaneously very good and quite bad. (Apologies for such a long post)
It is actually 2016 when I'm writing this and yet education still hasn't changed, in my opinion. This is a major disaster, to me, since they believe that I want to go on to be a hard working "desk person". I don't want to be that. I've always wanted to be a singer and UA-camr, but many of my teachers who I've told about what I wish my future to be have, surprisingly, tried to discourage me from such, and I quote, "A silly job because you have so much more potential". I find this disrespectful since their my teachers and should push me in the direction I want to follow. I'm 13 by the way, which puts me in year 9. I find school hard and always have but teachers at my school believe that even in year 8 we should be able to know what we want to do in the future which is why they made us chose our GCSE options. In year 8, to follow them through in year 9. We have 3 year and 5 GCSE slots that we can choose our courses. I, personally, choose to do GCSE music, drama, fine art, geography and triple science, with the mandatory English and maths. (Because I choose to do triple science I do physics, biology and chemistry in separate lessons with specialised teacher is those fields) But some of my year weren't so lucky, as their parents choose for them, but I'm not getting into that as that's a hole different rant. The only things that upset me about this is that I had so much stress building up to the time I handed in my from that I cried and that's very hard to make me do such a thing. The second thing being that I was just growing up, hadn't really had much maturity. I mean, sure I more than man kids my age as I have autism, like your friend Dan Bull, but in some sense I'm very lucky. From my autism I've gained a vocabulary of an 19/20 year old, the only down side to my condition is that going from brain to paper is very difficult. Say I think of an amazing sentence or way of explaining something and I have it all planned out, but when I then go to write it down, I forget it. Then are unable to remember it again which is then most annoying thing in the world to me. And my final point is that I was 11/12 when I choose these. In my opinion, that certainly not old enough to choose my future and understand what I want to do with my life, and even though I have a very rough idea of what I want to do, they are unable to cater to my specific needs in the school. Their training us to be certain people to do certain jobs which I don't want to go into.Very sorry for the long boring rant, Dave or anyone else, but thank you for reading this.
agreed. I have to deal with being sat down ever so often for the school to knock on my head and say, "remember, you still have to choose college and a career and manage community service with raising money for prom and also you gotta try And do homework and since you want to write and already are you gotta do that too and oh yeah we'll help by putting you into an English class three grades below what you can do and say you're too low a grade to go higher in English" And some other stuff. my school thinks that the definition of giving kids options is having a set amount of options chosen for them and letting them pick which one they like best. I can agree with your comment entirely, more or less on a spiritual level, purely because of the fact that your school is similar to mine. choose your career and what you want to do even though we've only shown you what we want you to do and you still haven't had enough options to make an informed decision!
I always loved music, but I have zero musical talents other than turning on the radio and opening UA-cam lol My mother always said, "if you cant sing well, sing loud". So I always did every talent show if I had talent or not. At the same time, at age 4, I begged "Santa" my Dad, lol for the book, Rocks and Minerals and have been into all aspects of science, as well. It was the teachers that bored me to tears.
I'm at school, i'm currently in year 11. I'm the smart kid, i'm the girl who won't get a date to prom, i'm the one who's not pretty, the one who never gets congratulated on their scholarship in Maths despite the fact i've been working really hard to get it for over a year. Everyone around me is always saying that science and maths aren't relevant, and they're pointless and it makes me feel pointless because i'm not good at anything else.I like school and i like learning and for some reason there's something wrong with that. I feel second best to my big sister because she's an amazing singer and actress and everyones always talking about how she's going to make it big. If anything is my epiphany it's that in the future i will be appreciated, hopefully.
Once you're out of year 11 and into college you'll be in classes with other people who want to do your subjects. It'll get better and by the sound of it you'll do well. I'm in my first year of college and shitting myself over my physics exams next month, but it sounds to me like you'd be the maths genius in my class I'd be jealous of... >.>
I was a C student in High School and since I was small would often just try to learn things for myself though research and curiousity. Being in the South, I didn't have much options. we didn't have a disposable income, cars didn't really interest me, but I found a fascination in firearms. A machine marvel that you held in your hands. My father had a semiauto Ruger 10/22 and ever since I was small I wondered, "how does it work? How does it automatically eject the shells out, without some kind of battety?" After that point I just kept getting nosier until I just taught myself (as much as I could without internet at the time) as much as I could possibly learn. Even though now I'm in college, I still have that interest of teaching myself about things, I still am fascinated by firearms, even if the ADHD that has crept into my life stumbles my progress. Cheers!
I am still in school. I’m obsessed with getting A’s to the point that my family and friends say I’ve gone overboard. I agree with your views. We don’t learn many things that could be used in the real world. I love “Don’t Stay in School”; it’s very accurate. Not much has changed, at least not at my school. I appreciate your videos though. They should honestly be discussed far more often. You always send a good message. Thank you.
+DaClassyDragon Yeahhh..... Common core, in my opinion, makes smart kids sound stupid, and less smart kids sound like total dunderheads... Cruel. Very, very cruel.. and useless. I mean omg, the creator of the common core courses and stuff wasn't even specialized in math- she wasn't a mathematician or anything.... She specialized in something like language.. My reaction to finding that out: Really? REALLY? OH MY GOD, THAT IS STUPID!
+DaClassyDragon your right the current version of it is completely pointless. The problem is there are so much stuff on there that doesn't need to be, and some stuff that should be isn't, that it completely fails to achieve it's own goal. and the way they are trying to use it also undermines their attempts to make a proper one. Like Dave said there are some common things but the schools also teach a lot of things are are not needed by most people and since they are using common core as the what topics are important in every class in every grade, discounting the elective classes that don't really come into play until there's only a few years left. There isn't that much stuff that everyone has a common need for so using it that way it can't help but to get bloated past the point of actual usefulness. But it's not just the school system for kids that does this. The adult version (college) does this to an extent as well. Honestly I'm at a loss to figure out why I need to two science classes, 3 history classes, 2 humanities classes, not counting the 2 English composition classes I also have to take and a public speaking class before I can even start to get to learning what I sighed up to learn there computer programming.
Sorry. Yeah, I really should know, and I know it's not really an excuse but I'm dyslexic and there are just certain words I never really learnt properly or the difference between two words ._.
Sorry I was rude in that comment. I just was really tired when I wrote that comment so I didn't think twice and my grammar nazi side got the best of me. Again so sorry please forgive me. Peace.
Although no one has said it to my face, I know that since I am branded as the “Nerdy, Gifted Kid”, when I get something wrong, I get teased for it, to some point. My other “Nerd” friends get that too. 😕
About your "why am i learning all this pointless stuff in school" thing. I would have totally agreed with you, i did for the 13 years i was in school in fact.-why do i give a shit about christopher colombus? hes dead and his "accomplishments" have been diluted by time to the point of meaninglessness. But in short i feel the more a person knows, the smarter they are and the smarter they act-leading to more successful decisions in life
But what point is pointless knowledge without a point? You will NEVER need to know anything about history unless you are a historian or a teacher of history; the only other time I can think of in my 1-in-the-morning-brain is for trivial reasons, (game-shows or entertainment purposes) A deeper* knowledge of any subject matter won't affect you passion for it, once you know the basics you'll have the understanding of your passions, iff you spend 3 months developing that solely, you'll know for sure if that's where you want to go in life. *As deep as Secondary School can be in the UK's current education system. And you have six years (previously 4) in secondary education in the UK; There is no reason for you not to be taught what YOU want to be taught instead of what they FORCE you to learn. If you had the chance to spend 4 to 6 years deciding what you want to be and then learning that while you're still young, wouldn't take it? The current system only ends up in some of the most important years of your life being wasted by being given garbage instead of information and experience in what you are passionate about! You don't need to know about the lives of all 6 of King Henry VIII's wives to know what your passion is! I know my Passions are in Programing, Food, Smithing, and Art in all it's forms. Wanna know when I discovered my passions? When I spent a year out of education! The amount of time spent learning things that will never be used is too damn high, The basics should be taught to everyone; Maths, English; The laws of Physics; and general life skills. But once someone knows what they WILL need, they should be given freedom to learn what they want to learn.
I disagree referring back to my original argument. Your example about the king's wives does teach you a lot more than just knowing he had 6 wives. it, unspokenly, gives you and understanding of facets humans are capable of doing and the lives they live. In the future you may have some weird conversation about people and you will refer back to your knowledge about the king and his 6 wives and that will give you insight on how to reply or how not to reply. Information, no matter how irrelevant it seems teaches you more than just the fact it presents you with
matt susman Fun Fact: Christopher Columbus never landed in what is known as America today. He landed in the Dominican Republic. He also enslaved Natives for gold, and his Men were rapists and murderers. They never teach you that in school. But they do on the internet. Edit: indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/events/8-myths-and-atrocities-about-christopher-columbus-and-columbus-day/ That's my source.
RK I agree. When compulsory schooling was first introduced literacy rates actually went down, and they had to get armed escorts to physically force the children to go, but the level of rebellion against the state reduced drastically.
RK I can't agree enough... It actually reminds me of the head of my 6th form, she's the strict type that forces us all to wear suits, or we can't even attend the classes we want or need to succeed in life... But I'm also forced to finish a construction BTEC because it was worded wrong to me, I picked it, wanted to back out immediately and wasn't allowed...
not really, i mean school needs to teach you how to read and write. and how to do a grammar. and about laws. also is where you are supposed to learn maths. public school is supposed to teach you the things almost every citizen should know. i agree one of those things should be how to teach yourself but that is not the only thing. and in certain countries (north korea for an obvious example) they dont want you to be able to teach yourself, so school isnt supposed to do that there. i remember in school. i was learning programming (C#) and the teacher said that the trick to solving almost any problem is google it. and that he, as a professional (and very good) computer/tech support person, does that often.
Several comments; 1) I used to do a lot of substitute teaching. Too many schools have been transformed into a type of propaganda tool, to the point of 3rd graders having trouble with 11-5. 2) I despise rap. If one actually listens, (not just hearing) to music such as Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite", or Rossini's "William Tell Overture", will come to realize that some forms of music, are actually better than others. 3) Back to schools, they have fallen into the program of trying to force you what to think, instead of how to think. 4) Another trap schools fall into; a cookie cutter syndrome, that some children just are not able to deal with.
With regards to #2, there's no such thing as objectivity in music. It's equivalent to saying 'My opinion is better than yours'. I've listened to and played in the Nutcracker suite but I still prefer to listen to Susumu Hirasawa and anime soundtracks. Don't try to say some music is better than others; it sounds both arrogant and ignorant.
Saying you despise rap music is like saying you despise music with snare drums. Rap music is any music with rapping. When one raps they're using their voice as an instrument, similar to singing without melody. So when you rap your voice is essentially a percussion instrument. Musically speaking the only difference between a song with rapping and without rapping is just that it has someone using their voice like a percussion instrument over the top All other aspects of rapping and the problem most people have with it are lyrical. And lyrics are not music. They are poetry (even lyrics that are bad are still poetry because they're just words). So I can see why you may despise a lot of rap music because a lot of it has lyrics about crappy subjects but regardless for you to write off any song with rapping in it is stupid.
Your just like me I went through an “emo” stage and I egnored everything and I was also the smart kid.Now I love music,I like your videos and I agree with your points,thank you.
I’m still in school, I love to draw, I do it at break dinnner in the halls before and after school, I draw in class sometimes on my hand if I don’t have paper. And pepole always act like it’s a waste of time even my own art teacher has tried to discourage my more anime-cartoon drawing style. She focuses more time on a girl in the class who is amazing at drawing realism and it’s always be more like her. It’s like now they’ve introduced creative subjects they are draining the creativity out of them and treating art as one thing to draw-realism that’s not what I want to do I want to be graphic designer
Ima go to school to learn a bunch of useless shit so I can become a teacher and teach people the same useless shit so that they can become a teacher. Yup that's basically what school is now.
I think this might be a racist thought but: I found myself surprised that a white person went to school in/near Dubai. Like not disgusted or overjoyed just surprised
I love your outlook on life. Im in 9th grade and i want to draw and animate but im stuck with history, algebra,economics accounting, geography and English among many other subjects that i WILL NEVER use in my art career. Thank you so much for your rationale mind and all your entertainment
One of my 'eureka' moments in school was when I learned about programming in computer class. I was told something very vague about batch files, then after that I was slightly interested. Over time, that 'slightly' became 'very' and the 'very' became 'insanely', because programming was how you created video games, and believe it or not, my very first video game I ever made was in the batch format: an ASCII-art based horror text adventure named 'RED N BLACK'. I still to this day haven't posted it online in batch format, however I managed to make it on a different programming language a couple years back, and it was really good for the time I was making it. but I look back on it and cringe a bit because it was sorta bad to present me. Anyways, I slowly became more interested in programming, and got into an online programming language named Scratch (yes, I did make RED N BLACK there) and started new, but grew more experienced as I knew more about the language. Soon enough, however, I switched rather quickly to GameMaker 8. I still used Scratch every once in a while, but GameMaker 8 was pretty much everything to me at that point. As soon as I realized that GameMaker: Studio was a thing, I IMMEDIATELY switched to GameMaker: Studio because I knew it had promise. However, with the recent release of GameMaker: Studio 2, I'm thinking about switching again, but that will most likely not happen for quite a while since the entire thing seems like just a cash cow. Anyways, that's one of my biggest 'eureka' moments - or rather, 'eureka' spans of time, since it all happened gradually. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I wish you guys a happy new year from January 2016! :)
i cant sing your cancer away but i can sing and draw my depressions away (at least it does help a lot) also being in a good mental state helps with diseases so it doesnt cure it, but helps to stop it :p or can you use medicine for mental diseases and keep people happy? art isnt above, but neither its over it
I have the same opinions on every topic discussed in this video. Even as I continue to do well in school, i can’t help but think that almost none of it will be utilized in my later life. The main issue I have with schooling is the amount of emphasis on grading and scores. Even when teachers tell their students that it doesn’t matter what they get, it just matters that they improve, the students who do poorly are treated as failures, whether it be through their parents or the other students surrounding them. The only way for students to truly be learning things that will help them, in my opinion, is to give them more independence in choosing what to do, and helping them succeed in those areas, rather than attempting to get them to understand unimportant information that’ll be forgotten about in a year or so.
I told a teacher that the thing we were doing in class was pointless and she replied by saying, "I know, but it's part of the curriculum. I don't want to teach it and I know you kids don't want to learn about it. There's much better things we could be doing, but we have to do this."
Lol at least she was honest 😂
Give her a Grammy
Said the same to my teacher a while ago and got suspended
I remember in 7th grade we learned about the history of the Christmas tree, they gave us a long ass, historical text about it. I was just like '' WHO on earth needs this knowledge? "and I don't remember exactly what the teacher said, but I remember that she was lowkey offended and said something along the lines of '' You will need this later in life''... I felt like she was being stupid, obviously I didn't read the text and to this day I have no regrets
Tbh.. I feel that... The curriculum here just getting worse.. And somehow it keeps teacher do things that don't suit the students.. And everyone has to see it continues idk until when
This is a total foreshadowing of the don't stay in school video
Was totally thinking the same thing!
+Monica M me too haha let's all move to Finland! ('_')/
They need more people
Char10tt3 ΘΣ Lol, I'll pack my bags! You with me?! :P Show of hands, who's coming ('_')/
+Jollycow that video was saying these are the things you need to stay in school for
+MYSTICAL ASSASSIN no it was saying things that are in school shouldn't be there and that they should teach life skills.
The end line was saying that they need to "don't stay in school" or something, I can't remember the exact line though
>Is "the smart kid"
>Gets teased for getting something wrong
>Cries
Holy crap you are me.
I'm the opposite. I have this facade of comedy and stupidity around me, Which is easy to maintain and hard to break, instead of showing my intelligence. I write books and I am enthralled with anything philosophical. I just don't want the vulnerability of being wrong to go around with me for the better part of my developing self to deal with.
NERD
You're a nerd. I mean I'm smart but I can accept I'm sometimes wrong and it never bothers me. I know a lot of kids who brag about being smart and stuff. And it's because they brag about it that people tease them
I can also accept I'm wrong. What I can't accept is being branded for putting my hand up to answer questions in class, having everyone steal and pass around my graded tests and picking on me for getting something right, then the hypocrisy of later picking on me for getting something wrong, when I was never really anything special. "The smart kid" was in quotation marks for a reason.
(Just trying to clarify what I meant by that, please don't take it as snarky or rude)
Cara Henney Oh right. My bad, sorry for calling you a nerd lol :P
am i weird or is your voice relaxing to listen to?
I was just thinking the exact same thing, haha
it is pretty relaxing
THAT ONE **leans closer** booper dooper
yeah ikr
Monsta Kit no it's super relaxing to listen to.
For a second I thought he was wearing lip gloss and now I can't unsee it.
Stellar Mia He isn't?😰😰😰
Your not alone me too
me. too.
how is he not? his lips are so shiny and pink
so if you genderswapped him you could not tell the difference
I actually had this moment in school. My train of thought went like this:
Why am I learning square roots?
For my future.
Why do I need to prepare for my future?
So you can have a good future.
Okay, say I had a great life. What happens when it ends?
(At this point in my life, I had converted from Christianity to Agnostic Atheism)
Nothing happens. That's it.
Every human being that has ever existed has died. I'm going to die too.
Let's think about the big picture. How many humans are there?
7 billion.
I feel so insignificant. And all of humanity is contained on this tiny planet.
This planet is tiny compared to the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is nearly invisible when compared to all the other galaxies in the universe.
And this planet is going to be incinerated by the sun eventually.
All of humanity is so insignificant, and so temporary.
Why even try?
Everything I accomplish will eventually be forgotten, no matter how amazing I am.
So why even try?
Yep. I went from "Why should I learn square roots?" all the way to "Is life completely meaningless?"
This all happened in the span of a few minutes.
Congratulations on your very first existential crisis!
Sophie Turner No, people take risks because they might gain something from it. If people only took risks because they'd eventually die and that'd be the end of it, that implies that theists do not take risks, which is absolutely untrue. I mean, look at the risks priests take when they molest children!
That is all true, but if you get a nice job you can buy nice things, which is a lot of fun.
Also, if you get a really shitty job, you will have a lot of discomfort, and discomfort is not fun at all.
Did I just make a case for success based on having fun?
Yes.
Haha that happens to me everyday and it makes me feel depressed.
DAN IS THAT YOU???
I was, and still am, to a certain extent, the annoying kid who never really tried, but still got good grades and would be disappointed if I got lower than a 90 on a test everyone else failed and would complain while everyone else was probably vividly imagining ways to kill me.
God, I was an asshole.
And I would never play video games or listen to pop music and I said my favorite song was Beethovens moonlight sonata. Wow. I would punch that person!
Emily Black I love moonlight sonata! it is my favorite classical song only however. i prefer stuff like johnny cash.
DividedBy Zero Yeah, its my favorite one, too. now i allow myself to say that I like other genera of music as well.
Emily Black the same, difference is, it's 'am' to me; present tense
Emily Black I am what you are, I don't try but I've gotten 1 non-A grade (Algebra) throughout grades 6 and 7 (I'm going into 8th), however I am known as the person who jokingly calls himself crazy, the class clown, can't spell (a lot of this was spell checked), and is a know-it-all when it comes to random trivia and in general because I take the time to read about 10th grade physics. The reason I got that B was because while the teacher was explaining everything I would read books about astronomy and particle physics. (Everyone hated that teacher but not me)
Thankfully my somewhat large social group are either people who also game to the X-TREAM, or are also ridiculously intelligent. I've also been taking ballet since I was 5 and am now 13, I preformed as the prince in The Nutcracker last Christmas. I happen to not get made fun of for it just because I'm male.
Well this was shorter in my head.
I had my own "eureka" moment at the end of 10th grade, which revolved around art. I had taken art classes before, such as in middle school and elementary, but never anything too serious; I was far from an artist. As I sat in English class that day, I realized how much free time I had all the time in school. I needed something to do to fill all this wasted time, so I took out a sheet of paper and decided to draw an eye, just by the trial and error of getting the rough shape correct. At that moment I decided I wanted to become an artist because I realized something very valuable: every time you try at something and do it wrong, you know what not to do next time. As long as I learn from my mistakes, by the sheer nature of these things, I WILL get better!
I had a eureka moment too.
all the fucking art teachers in the school are crazy, and the ones that aren't just got laid off because of the 1.1 million dollar defecit brought on by the plague of trying to compete with more prestigious schools in terms of sports and instead of the money going to something useful like the lunch that sustains half the school, it went to the goddamn pool.
kenneth bartholow you have free time in school i though it was impossible we can't even talk about phones
Art teachers are dumb. Those who can't, teach. If they were talented at art they would most likely be rich living in a manor selling million dollar pieces
They never taught you how to teach yourself because teaching yourself how to teach yourself is the first step in learning how to teach yourself.
Good point
* Inception noise *
***** M
C'est pas faux.
so....if you have to teach yourself how to teach yourself how do you teach yourself how to teach yourself to teach yourself?
I went to what is apparently the best school in England. I had so much work to do that I had a mental breakdown and left. It fucking sucked.
Yes. Yes it did.
Don't stay in school before don't stay in school was don't stay in school
The reason I hate school is cause they make you DEVOTE all your free time to school me: "I'm going to a sold out concert that will only happen once" school system: "but you have 9 homework assignments, 3 1,000 paged S.A.s and 1 project due tomorrow"
Just ignore school if you really believe that. Don't do your assignments and just learn. Figure out how to sneak in learning for six hours. If you have access to the internet, it's surely possible!
Did you just spell essays as S.As? Haha 😂
Am I the only one that couldn't stop looking at his incredibly smooth lips?
Oh My, I am not alone. What a relief!
Ambar Hernandez mee
no you are not :)
I literally scrolled through the comments for the sole reason of seeing if anyone else noticed.
GravityFallsGossiper 😂 Same here
Did you hear? School has improved again as now we have to remember a ton of equations and quotes so it's just a memory test now :( and my year are the Guinea pigs for it as well
same
I am also a victim of this hardship
They change how the GCSEs are laid nearly every year. Us being the Guinea Pigs for it isn't that bad. Especially considering every person in the UK has done their GCSEs. Just stay calm and don't stress and you'll be fine. Like I hardly revise and I'm doing perfectly well, the only time I really drop marks is if I don't read the question properly.
(Sorry if that sounded like I was bragging :/)
Ice_conspiracy 16 Well my state just passed a bill recently that allows more funding for charter schools so maybe there is hope :) Though I already graduated several years ago so it doesn't really matter to me :D
What even is the point of that??
OMG 12 year old dave is Hermione!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr Trilby fuck yes!!! 😂
Mr Trilby
😶😱🙀😮
And he has the hair now
Please leave this earth
Mr Trilby pls cite your source for the comment
(Lol)
I just graduated from high school in germany and have absolutely no idea who i am or who i want to be
just do things. what do you have fun doing?
What were your focuses (Leistungsfächer)?
I am from Switzerland, where we have to learn EVEN MORE to pass the finals. And that's nothing personal, it's just that the bar is INSANELY high (Some of the maths you learn for the Abi, we have to learn in like 9th grade). I am half a year away from finally leaving behind school, and I'm basically grasping at straws by now. The one and only reason I still get up every day is because of my friends. Because they get how it feels. The last 3 years have sent me into a depression, none of the things I loved to do really make me happy anymore and I have zero motivation for anything. It's a horrible, disencouraging feeling that makes you slowly hate yourself for not doing better, when in truth you feel like you're slowly and inevitably being sucked dry of all life. I just want it to be over. I hate my current life, but I love living. When this year is done, I'll finally be free. I have so many things to do.
lmao you guys are seriously complaining? Check Moroccan education then come back lol
I know who you are, you're David Moritz
I'm in sixth grade in the USA so I haven't had much experience with school as a whole, so take this with a grain of salt as my opinion might change over a couple of years, so bare with me
I think mandatory education is a must, just not the way school is doing it
1.) They're teaching you things that I, and the majority of my class won't need in the real world, Dave talked about this, and this was the main point in the video so I won't go on about it.
2.) They don't give you freedoms a normal person would have, if you have to go to the bathroom, ask, if you need to wash your hands, ask, if you need some water, ask, if you need to do basically anything that isn't sit down and do what the teacher says, you have to ask
3.) I agree, they should open up about mathematics, literature, and science, but not to the point of what they are doing, yes make us learn the basics, and then let us choose if our career needed it, or we liked learning about it, then we should go to that class, but if you disliked it, you don't have to go to the class, you already have a basic understanding and what you would need in the real world as a normal human being by fifth grade.
4.) It's mandatory, everyday mandatory, Mandatory education is fantastic, it's a human right after all, but if we're sick we shouldn't be punished "So you didn't come to school yesterday, here is the work, an top of work that you missed!" they make you feel like you are a trash human being because you were sick, just let us be, also they reward attendance, oh you came to school everyday, even when you were sick, so you could probably spread it to other classmates, here's a prize
5.) They (mostly) do absolutely nothing about bullying, they hang all of these posters "no bullying" but when somebody does bully, the teacher doesn't even bat an eye.
6.) This one is really dependent on your parents, but I feel like it fits the majority, you see, if your parents don't care about your grades much go to 7, you see, were going back to point 3. I feel like parents judge you by your grades, you get one bad grade, oh that's it, and they punish you. It's really stupid too, we take these standardized tests, some people are good at them, and some just isn't their cup of tea, they don't handle them well, but you are expected to handle it well, and answer them correctly.
7.) I feel like the teachers don't teach you, now hear me out they do teach you, but not really, they say "read the packet" or tell you to read something yourself to learn it, some people who suffer from mental disorders or people who don't digest information from reading text very well, they're out of luck cause the teacher is getting paid to hand out the papers.
8.) They say school is suppose to help you in your career, and yes it could help you, if your into the jobs that come to head when somebody asks you what you think of when you hear jobs, but not other ones like an artist or music player, I feel like school thinks math is more important than art to an aspiring artist
9.) It sucks the creativity right out of kids, "this is how it says it" "stop doing it that way" "no I didn't tell you to do that" I feel like these come out of teachers mouths way more than it should, oh you found a new strategy to answering a problem that could make it more efficient so we're not wasting as much time on one subject as we have to, nah, we got it the old fashioned way and the old fashioned way is always better, but really, is it?
10.) School is WAY too stressful, the one minute of free time you get is devoured by homework, like heres a normal schedule for what I might be facing in the future. Probably 9 hours of sleep a night, school is 8 - 3 so 7 hours, 3 hours of homework and 1 hour of studying for a test probably tomorrow, add that up you get 20. 24 - 20 is fucking 4 hours of time to ourselves, only FOUR FUCKING HOURS JESUS CHRIST HOW INSANE IS THAT JESUS CHR- no wonder the suicide rate of students in 1/12 THAT IS FUCKING INSANITY
I could go on and on about how school is a fucking waste of time, but I don't need to go any further, I'm only scratching the surface of why I hate school so much, so yeah that is my top 10 complaints, not in any particular order. just the ones that come to mind. If you read all of this you deserve a cookie
I'm aware that this is a comment from two years ago, but I agree with pretty much all of this. :D
@@LaurenT3G Well 2 years later I still agree with my points and this reply, epic.
Wish I have 9 hrs of sleep everyday... I rarely get to six 🥴
dude you were pretty mature for a 13 year old
Props to you
I see where your coming from. I do think the school system needs to change a big amount.
Dave is just one of those people who gets "it". I really appreciate that.
Explain?
I also get IT
You’ll float too
You can see how Don't Stay In School began.
Shawn Fernandes 😂
🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Shut up
yup..
Y'know, I was a lot like Dave when I was younger. I didn't listen to music when I was younger, I would tell my mother (who has a very wide music taste) to turn on the talk radio station. Nowadays of course, I've nearly completely stop playing video games and spend most of my time listening to music and remixing songs.
Robert Elven samee
Exactly same here. Now I want to be a rapper and producer when I'm older
cool cool
Robert Elven Same thing here
Robert Elven u
School still feels pointless. I think if I would have had to teach myself the same as I get tought in school, but with the help of internet and my parents instead of teachers and books, I would now be finished with school. Also I think school is really bad for your creativity and in my case also for my self-confidence.
They force us to learn German as our 3rd language. They've been teaching it to us for 4 years and we still barely know anything. I've been teaching myself Japanese for a year and I know a lot.
+Bertuğ Manavoğlu because when u teach yourself, you aren't being forced to learn it so u don't make the connection like oh we have to do this ugh, it's like I want to do this so I will. And plus it's at your own rate
It would have taken me 5 years thanks to UA-cam but nope I have 2 more goddamn years
We have to choose a third language (we can choose between german and french but I am not interested in either of these languages),have to learn English,our main language which is Greek and also Ancient Greek which is a "dead language" meaning it isn't spoken anywhere.And on top of that,we have to spend a good 15 hours a week being taugh things that we won't be using in the future.And of course all that with the excuse of "finding a job".Don't get me wrong,being concearned about our future is importand,but I am 13, I spend my whole day studying and I have a master degree in English,a language I don't regularly use.Things would be better if we could choose a specific path we want to take and not spend countless hours on things that are in insignificant to us.
Μυρτω Καλλιν. Most students in my school didn't choose to continue Science and Maths. So 3 years of their school life was wasted with Algebra which they'll never use.
Actually I started talking to my teacher about how pointless I thought the majority of what we were learning in school was, and my teacher said 'then why don't you teach the class?' And I said, 'OK sure...' And I taught my class on what a mortgage was and that there are people who will make you pay more than you have to for your mortgage, what can happen because of this, and the many ways to stop them... And my teacher was shocked xD I should be a teacher... 🤔🤔
na-na-rcissist.
oh sorry I sneeze
and I don't know where you live but I know most schools would of fired her
Let me guess, she never admitted she was wrong. Guess that about any teacher xD
+alexs123 it was for like 10 minutes though so oh well
Your Friendly Galaxy Cat okay I'm still sceptical
Still in school over here :] I used to be "the smart kid" as well, and everyone seemed so happy every time I did bad. It was this weird distortion of feedback that made me drop everyone and everything, and begin at a new school away from my friends. I figured that being lonely wasn't so bad as long as I got to do as well as I wanted. And it wasn't so bad. However, I have become more aware of the fact that possibly nothing of the information I get in school will be of any use to me afterwards, so my interest is lost, my grades are falling and I'm constantly bored. Yay school.
Yea, I remeber that whole experience.
As someone who is a little a head of you on that road: anytime you're in a new setting with people that don't really know you, don't let them know how smart you are so quickly. You don't really need to play dumb (although it has proven quite entertaining in some instances) just don't let it become one of the first adjectives they stick you with.
There's something about being "smart" that makes people inclined to reduce you to a one-dimentional character.
KamKomissioner Yeah, I've noticed that :/ Thank you for the advice ^^
Holy shoop, me too!
find something else you like and do that instead
The only reasons i like school is because it gives me something to do, my music grades are the thing that made me realize I could be a musician and because I actually get a chance to meet people that i might actually like (the people near me aren't exactly people like me).
You changed my world Dave.
A teacher literally said to me "I'm not here to teach you"
What the heck????????????
The teacher should just leave like ???
First week of school: teacher: "We are not are to teach you, you are."
Mid term: teacher: you guys better learn all the crap we teach you or you won't get a job."
Now what's that thing you said in week one Mrs teacher?
XD
School hasn't really changed. Everyone in my Pre-Calculus class constantly asks, "When are we gonna use this in life?" The American education system is so fucked up that if you aren't a good test taker, regardless of how intelligent you may be, your chances at scholarships, good grades, and recognition (ha! like intellect is rewarded at all anyway) greatly diminish. Meanwhile my generation is twisted beyond belief and the 'current' generation refuses to acknowledge it. But hey, isn't that just the way it goes?
I would argue that if you're incapable of applying any knowledge you may or may not have, you're not really that intelligent, and so your complaints are irrelevant. Having a hard time grasping the subject matter is one thing. I can acknowledge that. That seems like a valid claim. Just in general not being able to remember which of these four possible answers is correct just specifically during a test, or not being able to do a math problem just because the piece of paper it's written on says "TEST" in the corner? That just sounds like an excuse.
It's funny how you claim I'm not really intelligent, when you know nothing about me. I, in fact, am an excellent test-taker and I'm nearly the top of my class. I speak from friend's experiences. Give them flashcards describing events in history. Done. Give them a homework assignment in math. Done. Have a discussion on the meaning of the Great Gatsby. Done. However, place them in a high-stakes position, as many assessments are nowadays, and their nervousness gets the better of their intelligence. I'm simply saying that "tests"" are inferior ways of evaluating the knowledge one accumulates throughout a class and are too heavily relied upon for deciding the fate of a student's future.
talknerdytome sevens - It's funny how incredibly common it is to use a nonspecific 2nd person pronoun in hypothetical situations, and yet you assumed I was talking about you, personally.
So, what is the difference between a test and a worksheet, apart from the label? Why is a study guide just a normal, easy thing to do, and yet a test (you know, more or less exactly the same thing), is somehow notably more difficult.
I can understand the pronoun, thank you very much, but the format of the statement..."...and so your complaints are irrelevant." apparently didn't translate to your theoretical situation.
Pressure. That is the difference. Don't people get nervous before job interviews? Don't people fear public speaking? Those apparently aren't any different than having a normal conversation according to your reasoning.
talknerdytome sevens - They're not, though? A job interview is just an interview trying to gauge your capacity to do a particular job. Yeah, if you're really desperate for a job, it'll probably start to come across like that, eventually, but it's not a super huge deal if your entire life isn't riding on this one moment.
Talking to a large group of people isn't fantastically different than just talking to one or two people, they just get less chances to respond because there are so many of them and you're expected to be the one speaking, anyway. Especially when so many people have problems with public speaking. Apparently, most people have a huge problem with it. Why should you be nervous? They're all exactly the same. You're fitting in more than anything else.
I love Song 2 and hearing Dave mention it and say one of the lines is amazing to me even if it was 7 years ago
Am I the only one thinking his eyes look slightly pink in this? o3o
No,me too.
I only noticed it when you pointed it out.
Guuyyss, Just mellow out mmmaaaannnn. It's jjust 420!
+Kurai meth
+Kurai and that he looks like he has lip gloss on bc beautiful shiny lips af
It's really just sad what school in the US has become. We memorize things to pass standardized tests to get the schools we spend the majority of early waking life in more funding. This repeats until college where we are sent off with little real-world skill other than taking tests, the money for which puts us thousands of dollars in debt with no real guarantee to get a job. Passions and interests are disregarded during high school for what will "look good on a college application" or "serve you in the real world", while at the same time classes like higher math classes with literally no value in the real world are suggested, and sometimes required for admission into higher-level colleges. Personally, I've all but given up my dream of becoming a successful DJ/Producer because for the last two years I've gone to school, came home drained and laden with homework, and had nothing to put into my actual passions and talents, to the point where I can barely make music anymore. It's honestly quite depressing and I know a bunch of people who are in situations just like mine. It's a modern epidemic, and the reason for it is our outdated school system, which is a relic from a wartime when the goal was to get kids in and out of school and into the workforce with a basic talent to follow orders and quickly and efficiently as possible.
You just have to get back in the habit of creating music and it will come back. Don't let the mindless drones of the system suck your life out of you.
lets destroy the system! xD
lilmiss copypaster yes!
Then you need to man up if you really want to be better. Try working over 40 hours, and going to school fulltime, that will drain you, I know plenty of kids going to college and not or barely working and they seem to complain the most even though they usually have the most free time.
Gabe Rodriguez why/how the fuck would someone work fulltime and go to school fulltime too?
I'm still in school and I think about all of this every day, and have been thinking about this for many years. It may sound weird, but it kind of hurts. Both physically and mentally. I'm also really stressed which is not good. I don't really get that good grades, or rather I don't fail but I rarely get an A. But I don't study much. Though I just turned 15 which means next year I have to study to get into another good school and not disappoint my parents. But why should I study for something I'm not interested in? Why are others telling me what I should learn and think for 7 hours a day? (If not more) I don't really have anyone to talk to about this either. I don't trust easily because of past experiences so it takes a long time for me to build a friendship. So I just write down what I'm thinking. I've written so much that I could make it into a book. Because there is sooo much text. I'm not sure whether or not I should be happy about this..
Hey, it's been 4 years, I hope you're doing better now!
7:14
My names Blurrrrrrrryface and I care what you think...
LOL
I'm still in school, I'm in year 11 for anyone who cares about that. I've never had the reputation as the smart kid because I'm an average student, I'm on C and D grades mostly. I have quite a few reputations to be honest, I have the reputations of: emo, nerd, depressed ,insane and freak to name a few. Admittedly I enjoy emo music, I am a nerd I love video games and comics and anime and that sort of stuff. I'm not really insane I just have a knowledge of killing from anime and video games which people are ignorant enough to think is about real murder. They're right about the depressed part because I have been in a bad enough way to self harm, I did that for about 4 or 5 months. I'm known as a freak because of my emo music taste, the fact I spend so much time alone playing games and the fact that despite being a straight 15 year old guy I don't much care about sex.
Now don't get me wrong from what I said before I do somehow have friends, believe me I have no idea how, and they're awesome. Despite the fact I do have friends I keep to myself a lot, just the other day a friend said about me "I've been friends with the guy for 5 years and I only just know him" which sums up how quiet I am.
Sorry I've been rambling on about stuff which you probably don't care about. I could write a whole essay about this stuff but no one would care and it would take a while. Sorry again for my ramblings wasting your time if you've read this far.
You and i seem very similair but hang on, those people who doesn't accept you the way you are aren't worth your attention! If you like watching anime or playing games and stuff than just do it :D
Lucuo xo Thank you. I try my best to just ignore the people who don't like me but they're consistent and after a while I'll attempt to explain how they're wasting their time but they never listen so I just get back to what I was doing. I try to not let these people affect me but it can affect me sometimes and they're part of the reason I almost never feel good about myself. I do often use games and anime as a way to escape reality and just take my mind away from everything and for some time just feel happier than I do most the time
I totally understand it since i do the same, escaping from reality. But in the end it makes everything a illusion, well thats how i think. Those people are mostly negative about you since they don't know you! It's better to think more positive about yourself and about the things you do! c: Think about the friends you have and that they accept you as who you are right?
Lucuo xo You've made me think differently about this. Thank you very much. You are awesome my friend. Have an awesome day
Alex | Electrifyyy This is me too!!
I noticed that in most, if not all of his vlog style videos there is no music in the background and I really like that. Most youtubers will need music in their videos to make them funny and pleasant, but with Dave it's different. I feel like you can concentrate on what he's saying and understand the message of the video much better. Anyone agree with me?
I definitely see myself in this. In school I just could not find the appeal of art and music. My entire focus was on school work and it wasn't until half way through my second year of university and looking at industry placements that it hit me - What the fuck am I doing with my life?
I'd spent so much time making sure that I had everything I "needed" to do the things that I wanted, that I never actually figured out what I wanted. When I wasn't happy in school because of not fitting in or being bullied I was told that one day I'd be successful, and these people who put their energy into other things would be worse off. Utter bullshit. I remember feeling really angry - I'd worked so hard to be "successful" but the people who seemed to discover how to have fun early on in life were still having fun and I was stuck constantly worrying about failing tests and not being proud of things I was told I should be proud of. (Looking back on this, the attitude of "it will get better over time" is utterly toxic. Only YOU have the power to change things in your life. You might get less comments about being overweight but that doesn't do a fat lot of good if YOU still hate being overweight.)
Of course, resetting to the complete opposite attitude of acting purely on impulse isn't any better. Depression has been a bitch to overcome, but at least it let me discover the side of me that I lost because I didn't have time for or closed away to stop the bullying. Now I can rebuild my life with a bit of confidence that it will be a life that I want to live, and not just hitting the goals set by other people.
I think mostly it's just a shame that it took me 20 years to figure out all that. And the fact that I'm sure 16 year old me would probably think less of me now, even though I'm so much more whole as person.
School is not an environment for raising well-rounded people. It did an OK job at teaching me things, and it's not like a regret learning what I did. But it did a terrible, terrible job at preparing me for LIFE. Not just on a practical level of self-efficacy, but also an emotional level of how to life a fulfilling life outside of a job.
My history teacher one year said this on the first day of school, "What I will teach you this year will have no affect on your life, you might as well learn this, pass the tests, and forget I tought it to you, have a good year." He said it with so much enthusiasm the whole class was laughing.
I like your teacher.
"BUT IT DOESN'T EVVEN FUCKING RYME"
I know how a lot of people are talking about school in the comments but I just want to say that your hair, your eyes, lips and teeth are beautiful. You are an artists dream, you have such an interesting style. I have to say I've never seen anyone like you before. I would love to draw you so I think I will. On the topic of school though, I was kind of like you. I read at a high level for a long time, I loved writing and learning and my parents always introduced me to friends as "our Hermione". I prided myself on my intelligence and always aimed to get better each year.
However when I hit 14/15 I slowed down. I was hit with this sudden bout of unreasonably heavy sadness and I couldn't concentrate on anything, the things I used to love became unappealing and the colour seemed to drain from everything I found happiness in until everything was grey. My grades have been dropping ever since. What makes it worse is that I can't afford to have them drop because my GCSE's are this year and if I fail them I'm doomed. I have to pick it up but I don't seem to have the strength. I just want to sleep all the time. I don't know if its laziness or if something is terribly wrong with me. That being said, I'm going to try my absolute hardest this year and I'm going to achieve what I can. I'm going make myself proud. I'm going to pick it up. Then my new years resolution will be to find out what's happened in the past year to make me feel like this.I hope you will wish me luck. I wish you luck (yes you, reading this) with whatever it is you're going through right now. You can make it work. Keep your head up.And Dave, stay beautiful!
Sincerely, a dedicated Homeslice.
+GoNuts ForJoNuts Same here lol. Maybe change your routine a little bit? You never know where you're going to find your next epiphany and until you find the drive to complete what you have left to do, you just have to pull through and go through the motions. I'm still trying to figure it out as well. Good luck!
i started playing guitar aged 7 and sort of just played it without actually bothering to learn any of the hard theory stuff. When i was 9 i moved to France but i didn't speak french and i had no friends. Music was the only way to escape from the loneliness of school. I started teaching myself scales and theory and now five years later i'm a lead guitarist/vocalist in a band and not only do i play guitar but i play piano,drums and bass. just a few weeks ago i discovered this channel and despite not liking the particular genres that probably the majority of its viewers like i still find the videos really enjoyable and easy to relate to.
MUSIC SAVES LIVES!!!.... \m/
When I was little, I also hated music, but now I am first in my states district for tenor saxophone, so that happened. I agreed with all your points, but I grew up with a musical sister and I began to join in music. I really started to play and like music. My mom now makes fun of me liking music. This seems to be like a story that I have taken.
School should teach people to learn. It should teach people that learning is fun. I mean, does it even have to teach that? Just look at young children. They think everything is interesting and they are interested in learning about everything. But when people go to school, they kind of lose the interest - I don't know why that happens. School should motivate people to learn. Most learning happens outside of school. If you are truly interested in something, you'll figure out about it. I think school should teach how to figure out about things. It should support people's interests. It shouldn't teach a lot of information (besides the basics), it should teach more about how to find information. It should motivate, not make people lose their interest in finding out about things.
I do think the things you learn in primary school are kind of basic knowledge - there's nothing complex in it, they are the basics. But after that people should have more freedom. They should be able to choose what subjects they want to focus on. Because let's be honest - how much do you remember from the subjects that you weren't interested in? I can tell I don't remember much from them. I learned a lot more about the subjects that I was interested in. When you are motivated, you will learn a lot easier.
School isn't all about career. That's what universities and professional schools and the like are about. Primary school is about basic knowledge. It's about learning to learn about things. It's about learning to appreciate and understand different opinions, different kinds of people, different cultures... Or at least that's how it should be.
The teaching methods could be improved. It's not easy, of course. If people had figured out the way, the system would already be better. But I'm sure the system has got better over time.
I'm not a school teacher but I study music pedagogy. I have been thinking about this - I was actually thinking of becoming a school teacher but music was my passion so that's why I chose music over it. At least music theory teaching has improved a lot - it is a lot more practical than it used to be when I took music theory lessons. I'm sure many people have similar views as I do and I'm sure the system will be improved. As I said, the music theory teaching has already become a lot more practical. I expect similar things to have happened in school teaching. I don't know about other countries but that's how it's in Finland.
i like school
I just ignored school and did my own thing. It was on a county youth wind band 'tour' to Germany when I was a 14 year old flute player that I realised I wanted to be a saxophonist, because we watched The Blues Brothers Movie on the coach there. 7 years later I'm still following that path!
when i was a kid i hated music and didn't ever want to listen to it but then
when i was around 9-10 i got an ipod touch nano and i wanted to sell it but my sister tole me
to keep it just in case and i was so glad that i did because i listened to it so much that now
i am that one person that is always singing in class and everywhere
i even sing without knowing it sometimes
I definitely had that "I don't care about these people" moment, but mine never quite ended. Especially not when my family moved from the north to the south. The horribly stereotypical accents combined with the huge amount of 'less intelligent' people just drove me to further despise my peers. I was instantly labeled the smart kid, not just for getting high grades but also because I would correct the teachers daily. Gaah! I hated middle/high school.
I thought Eminem was black as well! I'm finally not alone :D
I had the same thoughts about school and left very early.
And now I'm doing better than just about everyone that stayed in school.
Apart from a select few Pilots, Doctors and Lawyers.
Camelworks you say that like if you had stayed in school you wouldn't be doing better and if everyone else left school they would be doing better. It's not about where you spend your time it's what you do with it...
Tbh I found out by watching this he's white😂
I'm really frustrated there is no class on taxes, or voting, or life skills in high school.
I must say also that I attended American schools most of my life
I knoooww!! I totally agree, they aren't preparing us for the things we will need most in life
It's no better on other countries. Here in the UK we MAY get taught how to write CVs (resumes, I think you call them), but that's about it. I was lucky, I took Health and Social Care in Years 10 and 11 which involved a work skills unit, in which we learned about being interviewed and taught about applying for jobs, but taxes, loans and money managing in general we were never taught.
well, there is a class for that, although in florida its on 12 grade... its called economics and government... so yeah.
Nicolas Vivas Maybe your school had it, but I live in a small southern state and no such thing existed when I was going through.
I wish my grass was emo
So that it could cut itself
Abhay Hegde RECKTUM OOOOOOOOOOOOF
Wait it will grow Emo hair so it will grow more
I don't know how to respond to this....
Not all emo’s cut themselves but I gotta give it to ya. 👏👏👏
That’s just dark
Re-watching this in 2020 be like "damn, he made Don't Stay In School like 2 years later".
Its 2021 now bro, get with the times 😂
I went through a similar phase in high school where I thought it was all irrelevant. I hated the abstract math, advanced physics, biology, etc. but by the end of it I was glad I took all of those classes because now I use concepts I learned from all of them in my job. I'm a 3d modeler, animator, and vfx artist and all of that "irrelevant" math suddenly became relevant, I need to know linear equations, I needed to know concepts of physics to recreate them in animation, I needed to know the difference between sin cos and tan. Knowing how things work on the inside, biology, has helped my modeling and has also helped me see beauty on a microscopic level and how animals should move, and how muscles should move. The advanced math has also helped me with problem solving in my day to day life. Everything is math and when you realize that many things become much simpler. No knowledge is irrelevant or useless unless you don't use it, and that is entirely up to you.
I don't think schools should stop teaching the things they are teaching now because I would probably have never found my love for 3d. I did teach a great portion of the 3d concepts too myself but that doesn't mean I didn't need school.
In short the knowledge schools teach isn't irrelevant or useless but they do need too teach more important life skills like finance, child care, first aid, etc. Luckily I went to a good school and did learn a lot about all of these topics, except first aid.
I’m interested in 3D modelling as well. Cool to know that all these things are needed.
that moment when you realize that his hair looks better than yours
Scarce that moment when you realize his hair looks better than your entire self
I’m 10 going into fifth grade and I LOVE music! My dad if a guitar player so I grew up around music.i always loved nightcore and I always will.i hope I get a career in music one day
I almost ranted at my teacher about how useless a school topic was when she told me to pay attention. Then I said "I'd rather follow my own pursuits." A couple minutes after she came up to me and told me to get off my iPad (we use them for school stuff, but I was making music) I just ignored her. She then pulled my earphones out, everyone heard the track I was working on, it went silent, the teacher looked like she was gonna explode and then: the only friend that knew I made music, started to clap. The whole class joined in, now that teacher actually respects me a little. Great experience and great story. Now my friends sample my music and my girlfriend has even started to take a liking to some of my tracks. Though she won't stop picking on me for not putting lyrics in, I keep saying "if I did you'd be the first to hear it"
Alicaido #thingsatschoolthatneverhappened
OMG I ACCIDENTLY DISLIKED THE VID IM SO SORRY DAVE I IMMEDIATELY LIKED IT
YOU TRAITOR!!!!!
AAA HHH we don't care
TRAITOR1!!!!!11
I love how you’re name is AAA HHH
Penguin King now it’s void mayonnaise lol
I always think a lot about that school thing. How it is not that important, how it's wasting SO much time of my life when I could actually be doing something that I enjoy. In my opinion, school destroys creativity.
That's why I want to leave so badly, but I don't have the courage to do it. I've never seen anyone do such thing and I'm really scared of the possible consequences. I'd love to spend most of my time with music, since that's what I really want my future to be about. Not maths or history. I know it's important to have basic knowledge, but we should get that education by ourselves. That way, we'd learn things that we're actually interested in and a lot more, in general. D:
This education system really grinds my gears.
It needs to change.
3:27 that is how I feel! This thing is so awful. And if you make a mistake everybody says: “OMG! She made a mistake! She can make mistakes! You are not the smartest person!” Dude you made 5 mistakes but you only care about mine!? And people don’t think that I am interesting person they just think that I am talking brain with legs and hands! And I’m just thinking: “If I’m not so smart so who I am?” It’s really big problem of excellent students.
Thank you. I am not alone
Me at watching at midnight: I’ll go to bed in 5 minutes
Me watching at 2am: just 5 more minutes
You're really wise, dave😁 so happy I came across your channel!
My school years weren't too terrible until the end really, but I did have to repeat 2nd grade, I think.
My schooling went as follows:
1st Grade
2nd Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
Freshman(9th Grade)
Sophomore(10th Grade)
Sophomore(online schooling)
Dropped out, got GED
Here's the thing, though. When I started high school, I had a lump in my neck that made me very lethargic and disoriented with no real sense of balance.
After some point, I had to keep coming home from school and waddya know? It turned out to be throat cancer, yay~?
After that, my school threatened to put me back into 10th Grade for the 3rd consecutive year, so I, instead, studied for and passed my GED.
I was a bit like you, though, in some respects. I was also the smart kid, but I was also the lazy kid, y'know? That one kid with a lot of wasted potential? I had really strong bonds with all of my teachers and even the staff, some really good friends that I still have today(I'm 19 currently), and some good and bad experiences.
I got in trouble a lot for really stupid reasons, such as: aggressively disposing of a yogurt container and skipping study hall despite attending the same one every day.
So, long story short, my school days were simultaneously very good and quite bad.
(Apologies for such a long post)
Oh my god can someone PLEASE link me to dave's old myspace
It is actually 2016 when I'm writing this and yet education still hasn't changed, in my opinion. This is a major disaster, to me, since they believe that I want to go on to be a hard working "desk person". I don't want to be that. I've always wanted to be a singer and UA-camr, but many of my teachers who I've told about what I wish my future to be have, surprisingly, tried to discourage me from such, and I quote, "A silly job because you have so much more potential". I find this disrespectful since their my teachers and should push me in the direction I want to follow. I'm 13 by the way, which puts me in year 9. I find school hard and always have but teachers at my school believe that even in year 8 we should be able to know what we want to do in the future which is why they made us chose our GCSE options. In year 8, to follow them through in year 9. We have 3 year and 5 GCSE slots that we can choose our courses. I, personally, choose to do GCSE music, drama, fine art, geography and triple science, with the mandatory English and maths. (Because I choose to do triple science I do physics, biology and chemistry in separate lessons with specialised teacher is those fields) But some of my year weren't so lucky, as their parents choose for them, but I'm not getting into that as that's a hole different rant. The only things that upset me about this is that I had so much stress building up to the time I handed in my from that I cried and that's very hard to make me do such a thing. The second thing being that I was just growing up, hadn't really had much maturity. I mean, sure I more than man kids my age as I have autism, like your friend Dan Bull, but in some sense I'm very lucky. From my autism I've gained a vocabulary of an 19/20 year old, the only down side to my condition is that going from brain to paper is very difficult. Say I think of an amazing sentence or way of explaining something and I have it all planned out, but when I then go to write it down, I forget it. Then are unable to remember it again which is then most annoying thing in the world to me. And my final point is that I was 11/12 when I choose these. In my opinion, that certainly not old enough to choose my future and understand what I want to do with my life, and even though I have a very rough idea of what I want to do, they are unable to cater to my specific needs in the school. Their training us to be certain people to do certain jobs which I don't want to go into.Very sorry for the long boring rant, Dave or anyone else, but thank you for reading this.
agreed. I have to deal with being sat down ever so often for the school to knock on my head and say, "remember, you still have to choose college and a career and manage community service with raising money for prom and also you gotta try And do homework and since you want to write and already are you gotta do that too and oh yeah we'll help by putting you into an English class three grades below what you can do and say you're too low a grade to go higher in English" And some other stuff. my school thinks that the definition of giving kids options is having a set amount of options chosen for them and letting them pick which one they like best. I can agree with your comment entirely, more or less on a spiritual level, purely because of the fact that your school is similar to mine. choose your career and what you want to do even though we've only shown you what we want you to do and you still haven't had enough options to make an informed decision!
Why type so much
Lip gloss? XD
+Nit Ram I thought the same, he looks good btw
+Cristina Navarrete vaseline
I always loved music, but I have zero musical talents other than turning on the radio and opening UA-cam lol My mother always said, "if you cant sing well, sing loud". So I always did every talent show if I had talent or not. At the same time, at age 4, I begged "Santa" my Dad, lol for the book, Rocks and Minerals and have been into all aspects of science, as well. It was the teachers that bored me to tears.
You have no idea how often i look around me and think : 'These people could all drop dead right now, and i won't give a shit.'
Same
I'm at school, i'm currently in year 11. I'm the smart kid, i'm the girl who won't get a date to prom, i'm the one who's not pretty, the one who never gets congratulated on their scholarship in Maths despite the fact i've been working really hard to get it for over a year. Everyone around me is always saying that science and maths aren't relevant, and they're pointless and it makes me feel pointless because i'm not good at anything else.I like school and i like learning and for some reason there's something wrong with that. I feel second best to my big sister because she's an amazing singer and actress and everyones always talking about how she's going to make it big. If anything is my epiphany it's that in the future i will be appreciated, hopefully.
Hi im britney and i can help you
how?
Once you're out of year 11 and into college you'll be in classes with other people who want to do your subjects. It'll get better and by the sound of it you'll do well. I'm in my first year of college and shitting myself over my physics exams next month, but it sounds to me like you'd be the maths genius in my class I'd be jealous of... >.>
Florena I know how you feel. You're not alone
God, I'm so jealous of smart people.. I feel like so blind to things I can't understand and it would be so eye opening if I could understand.. :(
I was a C student in High School and since I was small would often just try to learn things for myself though research and curiousity. Being in the South, I didn't have much options. we didn't have a disposable income, cars didn't really interest me, but I found a fascination in firearms. A machine marvel that you held in your hands. My father had a semiauto Ruger 10/22 and ever since I was small I wondered, "how does it work? How does it automatically eject the shells out, without some kind of battety?"
After that point I just kept getting nosier until I just taught myself (as much as I could without internet at the time) as much as I could possibly learn. Even though now I'm in college, I still have that interest of teaching myself about things, I still am fascinated by firearms, even if the ADHD that has crept into my life stumbles my progress. Cheers!
I am still in school. I’m obsessed with getting A’s to the point that my family and friends say I’ve gone overboard. I agree with your views. We don’t learn many things that could be used in the real world. I love “Don’t Stay in School”; it’s very accurate. Not much has changed, at least not at my school. I appreciate your videos though. They should honestly be discussed far more often. You always send a good message. Thank you.
I never listened to much music until like, fourth grade.
Oh my GOD when I was eleven I got 97.5 on my exam grade and I was gutted! It was my second worst grade 🎓 ✌️ 🙂
You are, by far, this day's Shakespeare.
❤
common core is really pointless to me and thats all my school pretty much teaches me
+DaClassyDragon Yeahhh.....
Common core, in my opinion, makes smart kids sound stupid, and less smart kids sound like total dunderheads... Cruel. Very, very cruel.. and useless. I mean omg, the creator of the common core courses and stuff wasn't even specialized in math- she wasn't a mathematician or anything.... She specialized in something like language..
My reaction to finding that out: Really? REALLY? OH MY GOD, THAT IS STUPID!
+Elemental Flowers Common core isn't even difficult.
+HubsterRecords and its still just pointless
+HubsterRecords and its still just pointless
+DaClassyDragon your right the current version of it is completely pointless. The problem is there are so much stuff on there that doesn't need to be, and some stuff that should be isn't, that it completely fails to achieve it's own goal. and the way they are trying to use it also undermines their attempts to make a proper one. Like Dave said there are some common things but the schools also teach a lot of things are are not needed by most people and since they are using common core as the what topics are important in every class in every grade, discounting the elective classes that don't really come into play until there's only a few years left. There isn't that much stuff that everyone has a common need for so using it that way it can't help but to get bloated past the point of actual usefulness. But it's not just the school system for kids that does this. The adult version (college) does this to an extent as well. Honestly I'm at a loss to figure out why I need to two science classes, 3 history classes, 2 humanities classes, not counting the 2 English composition classes I also have to take and a public speaking class before I can even start to get to learning what I sighed up to learn there computer programming.
I was exactly like that. Now i am a hardcore metalhead \m/
+Bruno Martins ~ \m/ . . .
"I don't care about any of them" my mood every time I walk into school
ha..haha.... I'm just going into year 11 and I have no idea what I'm doing with my life ._.
Year 10 isn't so bad because you won't have many exams and you don't have to choose what you do in collage
AfroDucky69 You don't spell it collage, you spell it college. I feel like you should know this but then again I don't know you.
Sorry. Yeah, I really should know, and I know it's not really an excuse but I'm dyslexic and there are just certain words I never really learnt properly or the difference between two words ._.
Sorry I was rude in that comment. I just was really tired when I wrote that comment so I didn't think twice and my grammar nazi side got the best of me. Again so sorry please forgive me. Peace.
It's okay :) I didn't think you were rude at all. Thank you for picking me out on it :3
Holy shit this guy's early life was exactly like mine only I went to Qatar instead
Qatar is a country
No I think Qatar is the continent that Africa is in.
Qatar's in the middle east....
Dome Survivor but Africa is a continent...
Dome Survivor 😂😂😂
Although no one has said it to my face, I know that since I am branded as the “Nerdy, Gifted Kid”, when I get something wrong, I get teased for it, to some point. My other “Nerd” friends get that too. 😕
About your "why am i learning all this pointless stuff in school" thing. I would have totally agreed with you, i did for the 13 years i was in school in fact.-why do i give a shit about christopher colombus? hes dead and his "accomplishments" have been diluted by time to the point of meaninglessness. But in short i feel the more a person knows, the smarter they are and the smarter they act-leading to more successful decisions in life
But what point is pointless knowledge without a point?
You will NEVER need to know anything about history unless you are a historian or a teacher of history; the only other time I can think of in my 1-in-the-morning-brain is for trivial reasons, (game-shows or entertainment purposes)
A deeper* knowledge of any subject matter won't affect you passion for it, once you know the basics you'll have the understanding of your passions, iff you spend 3 months developing that solely, you'll know for sure if that's where you want to go in life.
*As deep as Secondary School can be in the UK's current education system.
And you have six years (previously 4) in secondary education in the UK; There is no reason for you not to be taught what YOU want to be taught instead of what they FORCE you to learn. If you had the chance to spend 4 to 6 years deciding what you want to be and then learning that while you're still young, wouldn't take it? The current system only ends up in some of the most important years of your life being wasted by being given garbage instead of information and experience in what you are passionate about!
You don't need to know about the lives of all 6 of King Henry VIII's wives to know what your passion is! I know my Passions are in Programing, Food, Smithing, and Art in all it's forms. Wanna know when I discovered my passions? When I spent a year out of education!
The amount of time spent learning things that will never be used is too damn high, The basics should be taught to everyone; Maths, English; The laws of Physics; and general life skills. But once someone knows what they WILL need, they should be given freedom to learn what they want to learn.
I disagree referring back to my original argument. Your example about the king's wives does teach you a lot more than just knowing he had 6 wives. it, unspokenly, gives you and understanding of facets humans are capable of doing and the lives they live. In the future you may have some weird conversation about people and you will refer back to your knowledge about the king and his 6 wives and that will give you insight on how to reply or how not to reply. Information, no matter how irrelevant it seems teaches you more than just the fact it presents you with
matt susman Christopher Columbus had no accomplishment aside from getting lost. lol
matt susman Fun Fact: Christopher Columbus never landed in what is known as America today. He landed in the Dominican Republic.
He also enslaved Natives for gold, and his Men were rapists and murderers.
They never teach you that in school. But they do on the internet.
Edit: indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/events/8-myths-and-atrocities-about-christopher-columbus-and-columbus-day/ That's my source.
School isn't for teaching people stuff it's for teaching people how to teach themselves stuff...
RK I agree. When compulsory schooling was first introduced literacy rates actually went down, and they had to get armed escorts to physically force the children to go, but the level of rebellion against the state reduced drastically.
RK I can't agree enough... It actually reminds me of the head of my 6th form, she's the strict type that forces us all to wear suits, or we can't even attend the classes we want or need to succeed in life... But I'm also forced to finish a construction BTEC because it was worded wrong to me, I picked it, wanted to back out immediately and wasn't allowed...
Romando That's not even remotely true. Not in America at least.
Romando That's what it SHOULD be for, but many schools, like mine, really aren't.
not really, i mean school needs to teach you how to read and write. and how to do a grammar. and about laws. also is where you are supposed to learn maths. public school is supposed to teach you the things almost every citizen should know.
i agree one of those things should be how to teach yourself but that is not the only thing. and in certain countries (north korea for an obvious example) they dont want you to be able to teach yourself, so school isnt supposed to do that there.
i remember in school. i was learning programming (C#) and the teacher said that the trick to solving almost any problem is google it. and that he, as a professional (and very good) computer/tech support person, does that often.
Oh my god you’re almost telling the story of my life! I hope I carry on to become a musician some day
Several comments;
1) I used to do a lot of substitute teaching. Too many schools have been transformed into a type of propaganda tool, to the point of 3rd graders having trouble with 11-5.
2) I despise rap. If one actually listens, (not just hearing) to music such as Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite", or Rossini's "William Tell Overture", will come to realize that some forms of music, are actually better than others.
3) Back to schools, they have fallen into the program of trying to force you what to think, instead of how to think.
4) Another trap schools fall into; a cookie cutter syndrome, that some children just are not able to deal with.
With regards to #2, there's no such thing as objectivity in music. It's equivalent to saying 'My opinion is better than yours'. I've listened to and played in the Nutcracker suite but I still prefer to listen to Susumu Hirasawa and anime soundtracks. Don't try to say some music is better than others; it sounds both arrogant and ignorant.
True, music appreciation is subjective. However, there is a reason why some music from hundreds of years ago, are still popular.
One of the recent "Lone Ranger" movies had the William Tell overture on it. It brought chills like in very few modern music pieces.
11 through 5?
Saying you despise rap music is like saying you despise music with snare drums. Rap music is any music with rapping. When one raps they're using their voice as an instrument, similar to singing without melody. So when you rap your voice is essentially a percussion instrument. Musically speaking the only difference between a song with rapping and without rapping is just that it has someone using their voice like a percussion instrument over the top
All other aspects of rapping and the problem most people have with it are lyrical. And lyrics are not music. They are poetry (even lyrics that are bad are still poetry because they're just words). So I can see why you may despise a lot of rap music because a lot of it has lyrics about crappy subjects but regardless for you to write off any song with rapping in it is stupid.
Your just like me I went through an “emo” stage and I egnored everything and I was also the smart kid.Now I love music,I like your videos and I agree with your points,thank you.
I’m still in school, I love to draw, I do it at break dinnner in the halls before and after school, I draw in class sometimes on my hand if I don’t have paper. And pepole always act like it’s a waste of time even my own art teacher has tried to discourage my more anime-cartoon drawing style. She focuses more time on a girl in the class who is amazing at drawing realism and it’s always be more like her. It’s like now they’ve introduced creative subjects they are draining the creativity out of them and treating art as one thing to draw-realism that’s not what I want to do I want to be graphic designer
Sometimes I don't even care what you're saying, I just like the sound of your voice and looking at your hair XD
Ima go to school to learn a bunch of useless shit so I can become a teacher and teach
people the same useless shit so that they can become a teacher.
Yup that's basically what school is now.
Just looking through the comments makes me love this community even more and to be really proud of being one of Dave's subscribers. :)
When I was in school... oh wait im a dog nvm
I think this might be a racist thought but:
I found myself surprised that a white person went to school in/near Dubai.
Like not disgusted or overjoyed
just surprised
There's a surprising amount of white people in Dubai.
Really
Now there's a surprise
Captain Princess Sorry, but icant take you serious with that profile pic lol
I am a hoers
I love your outlook on life. Im in 9th grade and i want to draw and animate but im stuck with history, algebra,economics accounting, geography and English among many other subjects that i WILL NEVER use in my art career. Thank you so much for your rationale mind and all your entertainment
HOLD UP! Eminem is not black?
Everyone thought he was black bro.
are you really little lizzerd
I hate you.
TylerTheLizard Gaming gud
***** lol
I love listening to you talk.
You didn't say HAI !!!!!!!!!
WHAT, ART IS NOT BELOW SIENCE? WTF
+dayum Science* . AND WTF YEAH
Science*
caitlin lavelle-roe Someone already corrected it.
I forgot who said this, but I’m going to say it because it’s hilarious 😂. “Sing me my cancer away.”
One of my 'eureka' moments in school was when I learned about programming in computer class. I was told something very vague about batch files, then after that I was slightly interested. Over time, that 'slightly' became 'very' and the 'very' became 'insanely', because programming was how you created video games, and believe it or not, my very first video game I ever made was in the batch format: an ASCII-art based horror text adventure named 'RED N BLACK'. I still to this day haven't posted it online in batch format, however I managed to make it on a different programming language a couple years back, and it was really good for the time I was making it. but I look back on it and cringe a bit because it was sorta bad to present me. Anyways, I slowly became more interested in programming, and got into an online programming language named Scratch (yes, I did make RED N BLACK there) and started new, but grew more experienced as I knew more about the language. Soon enough, however, I switched rather quickly to GameMaker 8. I still used Scratch every once in a while, but GameMaker 8 was pretty much everything to me at that point. As soon as I realized that GameMaker: Studio was a thing, I IMMEDIATELY switched to GameMaker: Studio because I knew it had promise. However, with the recent release of GameMaker: Studio 2, I'm thinking about switching again, but that will most likely not happen for quite a while since the entire thing seems like just a cash cow. Anyways, that's one of my biggest 'eureka' moments - or rather, 'eureka' spans of time, since it all happened gradually. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I wish you guys a happy new year from January 2016! :)
Art is below science.
Or can you sing my cancer away?
fight me
It's a matter of personal interest, opinion, and upbringing. The world would be a much worse place without them.
i cant sing your cancer away but
i can sing and draw my depressions away (at least it does help a lot)
also being in a good mental state helps with diseases so it doesnt cure it, but helps to stop it :p
or can you use medicine for mental diseases and keep people happy?
art isnt above, but neither its over it
marcos segon actually you can
bruh i got a 110% ony constitutiom test get on my level. not even joking
they have to git gud
lmao I don't even know what a constitutiom test is
James Moriarty that's the murica spelling.
TwinBorn
So it's like a test over our ConstitutioN ?
You put a m
James Moriarty its an inside joke the made a typo on our test.
Thank you, you helped me with song 2 lyrics !
Your not the only one who used to think M&M was black😂
I still do... wait.
Did you just spell Eminem as M&M? 😂 You’re just like the guy I replied to who spelt essays as S.A.s.
KhOrganization, does it matter?
Thought this was just me
@@KhOrganization S.A.s wtf😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love you Dave
I have the same opinions on every topic discussed in this video. Even as I continue to do well in school, i can’t help but think that almost none of it will be utilized in my later life. The main issue I have with schooling is the amount of emphasis on grading and scores. Even when teachers tell their students that it doesn’t matter what they get, it just matters that they improve, the students who do poorly are treated as failures, whether it be through their parents or the other students surrounding them. The only way for students to truly be learning things that will help them, in my opinion, is to give them more independence in choosing what to do, and helping them succeed in those areas, rather than attempting to get them to understand unimportant information that’ll be forgotten about in a year or so.
5:36
"Because I just joined a band"
Guess you could say
You were a
*Boyinaband*