what's going on everyone my name is drew welcome to my channel and in today's
episode I'm going to be telling you why oh we spilling all the tea hey before we
hoppin in this video I just want to let you know that this is from my
perspective so college or Business School might be a good option for you I
just can't truly learn by sitting in a classroom and listening to a professor
and really what it comes down to a self-awareness you have to know yourself
know your strengths and then adjust accordingly so without further ado let's
get into it I currently attend a business school that's one of the top 40
in the entire nation my first two years I attended a community college and I had
to maintain a 4.0 to transfer into the business go on in now out of thousands
that applied to this business school only a hundred transfers got in every
year so I had to make sure that I was on top of my grades when I asked my
advisers what I needed to do to make sure that I'd get into this business
school they told me that GPA was the most important measure of thumb now off
the bat that kind of seems a little ironic to me instead of the business
school truly valuing what it means to be a successful business person they base
your sole worth on GPA in extracurriculars so instead of being
curious to what I was doing for the business world my grade in a geology
class was more important to get me into the school the first two years of school
I took you know a few economics classes a few accounting classes but mostly I
was taking Texas government US government classes I had already taken
in high school a geology classes math classes classes that didn't apply to my
major but I still had to take them and pay a lot of money business is rapidly
changing day in and day out we're becoming more of a globalized economy
social media marketing algorithms so many different things are changing and
developing every single day and so it's obvious that business is gonna be a
completely different climate from when you first join college to when you leave
because it's a four-year degree and a lot can happen in four years so instead
of making a business degree filled with a bunch of useless geology classes all
these electives that don't even apply to the major why not just make a business
degree 18 months pack in all the important classes that you need to know
about business and then send you out in the real world oh that's right because
the primary goal of colleges are to make money
but drew isn't it important to be a well-rounded individual? of course it's
important to be a well-rounded individual but paying thousands of
dollars for courses that one can be found all online and to don't even apply
to the real world marketplace I think there's better alternatives for becoming
well-rounded my whole geology class was just learning the material and taking
tests so guess what yeah I had to take a whole semester worth of learning about
rocks but I didn't retain most of the information because the way the system
is set up is that you download the information into your head memorize it
for an exam and then go on to the next material without truly retaining that
knowledge and that's not how you really learn that's surface level retention if
you're like what is it occasionally you're basically downloading data and
algorithms into your brain and it's it's actually amazingly bad in conventional
education because like it shouldn't be like this huge tour yet even with these
flaws college tuition is rising more and more every year putting tons of people
and thousands of dollars of debt the current student debt is over one
trillion dollars and it's just rising for an education that is lowering in
value every year so for example if one of our grandparents you know someone in
the baby boomer generation decided that they wanted to get a college degree they
wanted to go to business school they could do that for a fraction of the cost
and have a better guarantee of getting a good job see nowadays everyone has a
degree because the access of federal loans has allowed many people to go get
the college degree but on a logic level more people have a degree therefore it's
not worth as much as it used to be there's even articles that explain that
nowadays a degree is the equivalent of a high school diploma then why are tuition
rates inflating at such a high percentage there was an article I read
recently that said in the past 10 to 15 years household income has only risen
20% but college tuition has inflated way over a hundred percent colleges all
around the u.s. are taking advantage of the consumer because they know that
anyone can go out and give federal loans to pay for their tuition so what are
they doing they're raising the prices on everything more and more every year you
really want to know how you can learn about business look at the business of
college if you actually look into how most colleges use their tuition money
you'll probably be pretty surprised so it's finals week right now I actually
just got done taking a final today for one of my information system
management class basically this is a business class that teaches you about
the ins and outs of computers interestingly enough our professor
doesn't allow us to take notes on our computers in class because she says that
for memorization it's better to write it down on a piece of paper and that's true
you can retain knowledge more that way but when that translates into the real
world it's a old system everything is on computers right now the modern world is
changing so quickly and to be honest College cannot keep up with the
invention of Google human knowledge has been democracies for everybody any topic
that you want to delve into you can find using the Internet and our professors
will even say that like we're stupid they'll be like oh well if you don't
know the answer just google it as long as you're a proactive learner and you
have the discipline to delve in the deep topics on the internet through web
forums through Google searches through YouTube videos you can do that free of
cost without having to go into thousands of dollars worth of debt so like I said
I took my final today and I want to show you all what kind of material was on the
test here's a six page review packet talking about HTML language default font
size implemented in almost all browsers is an answers three now look a
fundamental about business is that you can't avoid failure you need to embrace
failure because you learn through failing
you learn from your mistakes you get back up and you take that knowledge and
apply it to your next venture but classes in Business School
discourage failure because if you fail you have to retake the course so
everyone does everything they can to avoid failure the entire purpose of a
good university is to give you a foundation to fail not a foundation to
get an A and if you graduate from college with straight A's you have to do
some serious soul-searching as to why you chose to spend your time do so for
example in this review right here they want me to memorize the default font
size of an HTML code and the best way to do that is to remember that information
until the exam is over and then forget it that isn't true learning you're not
applying anything you're just downloading this info in your head until
you use it for the exam that's not how life or business works you think there
are too many tests we give kids to any test I think your emphasis on what the
meaning of the test tests people it's a way to find out what you know but don't
then say if you don't know this there for the rest of your life is screwed
no no because go find people who are successful in this world fine you know
talk show some comedians and novelists and
attorneys and go get the politicians put him in a room say how many here got
straight A's throughout school none of them are gonna raise their hands by
throw-in inventor's throw in all these people none of them are gonna raise
their hand and the funny thing is exams are the most crucial part of every
course you need to pass the exams in order to pass the class so rather than
truly valuing intuitive business traits Business School puts more value on
memorizing information than actually applying it now the ironic thing about
memorizing for exams is that everything that's taught to you is taught to you in
a list right when you're looking at the PowerPoint and taking notes you write
down case studies you write down definitions you write down important
names legitimately one of my test questions in this class at the beginning
in the semester asked me what the color of IBM's brand logo was versus and all
and I got it wrong because I said that IBM was blue and Amdahl was orange but
it was really IBM was blue and Amdahl was red that's what they wanted us to
memorize so by teaching everything as a list that you need to write down they
fail to recognize that everything is interconnected that's how it is in the
real world and that's how you learn by making connections and finding out how
all this knowledge connects together for the bigger picture guys you can really
tell when I'm upset when I start sweating like crazy
you see these pit stains come out that means that I am spilling tea okay so
let's bring this down to a base level if you're not really learning a lot in
Business School you're learning how to follow instructions and listen to tasks
and complete them efficiently and on times okay so that's all business school
is is being able to be given a box given instructions on how to fill out the box
and do it on time then what about entrepreneurs I have friends that are
doing tons of things in entrepreneurship and are being successful in it and every
single one of them that I've talked to has said that you cannot teach
entrepreneurship it is something that you can only learn through doing instead
of filling out a box and memorizing the info that I need to have for the exam
what if I have an independent thought that has never been thought of before
I'm left high and dry because I think now that because I failed an exam I'm
stupid and I'm not a good business man exams aren't like the business world so
why is there so much emphasis on it the only way you can invent tomorrow is if
you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by
the exams written by people who are trained in another generation look ya'll
I could give much deeper to this topic we can talk
about how school only caters to one type of learner we can talk about how school
puts way too much value on literacy and not enough on creativity we can talk
about how school fails to cater to your happiness we can talk about instead of
finding something that you love doing and getting really good at that one
thing school tries to tell you that you need to improve on your weaknesses
instead of doubling down on what works for you we can talk about how expensive
higher education is and how life crippling that debt can be we can talk
about how loan providers are monopolizing the market and making it
super hard to do anything with your college debt we can talk about how the
school system is stuck in an archaic way of learning that doesn't adequately fit
the modern day we can talk about how school doesn't have any core classes
about dealing with depression stress mental health the list can go on and on
and I am more than willing to make any video on any one of those topics that I
will Yap about if you're willing to listen and I have only touched the
surface on all these topics so if you're interested in that leave a comment below
and I will spill all the tea that I have about this broken system something needs
to change so please if you watch this video and
you have any comments insights leave them I want to discuss this with you I
don't fit into this system and I know a lot of other people don't too so thank
you so much for watching today's video and I'll catch you next time peace heyyo
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