What's up guys here we are
Reaction video. I just want to say I'm very excited. Shout out to nest day. Joe Joe
Hodges Spencer Dennis Travis everybody who was a part of this piece this education piece
I'm so happy that a lot of people are talking about it
I mean this video has reached over a quarter of a billion people on Facebook and YouTube combined so
Education is such an important topic if you care about poverty race relations climate change, then you better care about education
So without further ado, let's get into this reaction video fine brothers. What's up?
Albert Einstein once said
Everybody's a genius
if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree
It will live it's whole life believing
That it is stupid of course rigid in
Ladies and gentlemen up the to roll today on trial we have modern day schooling tell me school
Are you proud of the things you've done? Oh, I think I've seen one of this guy's
Turning millions of people into robots. Do you find that fun? I call school to the stand and accuse him of killing creativity
Individuality and being intellectually abusive. It's a great message
Here's a modern-day fault recognize it here's a fall from 150 years ago big difference right stay with me
Here's a car from today and here's a car from my husband. We still use the same books
Here's a classroom of today and here's a class we use
150 little fearless hair now ain't that a shame and literally more than a century. Nothing has changed. Yeah
Changed nobody ever brings that to light, you know
How school hasn't changed. Do you prepare students for the future or the past?
Everyone can experience classroom will expected
No, have they seen results you were made to train people to work in factories, which explains why you put students in straight roles?
Nice and neat and tell them sit still raise your head speak. Give him a short break to eat
For eight hours a day. Tell them what to think. Oh
I've never thought of it like that. That's terrifying
So you scientists will tell you that no two brains are the same and every parent with two or more children will confirm that claim
Yes
That's my parents teachers should earn just as much as doctors because a doctor can do heart surgery had saved the life of a kid
But a great teacher can reach the heart of that kid true
True teachers do so much for the society yet. They are like the lowest pages
Customized help so much cars and Facebook pages. It is our duty to do the same for education to a greater change
He is like representing stance no more common core instead. Here it comes
yes, no more common core sure math is important, but no more than art or
Art schools are good, but countries like Finland are doing impressive things, right? They have shorter school days teachers make a decent way
is
Non-existent in a focus on collaboration instead of competition that is true anger
I completely support this their educational system
Thank you for every other country in the world while students may be 20% of our population
They are 100% of our future
Solicitous sure. He's right on a lot of this. There's no telling what we can achieve
This is a world in which I believe a world where fish are no longer forced to climb trees. I
Rest my case. That was beautiful. That's very important education is a right not a privilege
There are a lot of people who are really smart but their grades just don't tell the same story some of the most successful
people in
our society
Weren't good. Students didn't go to school the people who we look up to and learn about in school
George Washington Abraham like these guys didn't even go to school
There's just so much anxiety surrounding school now, it's more intense than ever
I'm gonna go back to my high school and every single one of my teachers
I'm gonna put this on their on their front desk and I'll be like watch this
I'm gonna tell my little brother to come to school on Monday and see if it's any different so
This video
Artist Prince EA who makes content around issues to take a harder look at in society
So what do you think was the message? He was trying to get across with this video
I think he was trying to encourage students that kind of feel like failures at school stop
Putting our children in like machine stopped taking the creativity out of school
Everyone's different that we really need a loser push schools faster and because we're really stuck in a really stupid place
Although education is important. There are also other factors like arts and stuff that helped mold
Students as far as creativity goes you look expect to learn
You know valuable information that's gonna help prepare you for the real world
But you don't learn any of this you don't pay taxes on finding a job
education systems in most of America are not working and are not
Geared for the children of today the same way they were taught
5060 years ago is still how it is today traditional schooling is like
You go to school. You study. You get an A and then that's it. Well, it's your right
The cycle is almost like bulimia right you you you go to school you
Consume they feed you this information and then you throw it up on the test. And then you go on to the next subject. It's
Educational bulimia, he was criticizing us when he was pointing the finger not at teachers not at schools individually
But as at the system as a whole so being a teen yourself and someone who is currently enrolled in our school system
What do you think about your current education and if it is preparing you for your life as an adult?
I do not think it prepares as far as our life as an adult yesterday's Common Core
Hey, it was like health was gone sex ed was gone, which we really need now. They are teaching us a lot of important things
Obviously, but I don't know how to like pay bills and stuff and like I need to know that well
My class is like I'm not I'm not getting anything out of them. Just to be honest. I'm sort of doing the world
Get that piece of paper that says I graduated my school's project-based
So we learn about a topic and then we make a project off of it
And that's how we learn it prepares us for life my school
But it doesn't prepare us for college and so a lot of kids struggle going from our high school to a college
Where do you learn how to be on your own?
You know
It's just like do you expect us to learn on our own because there are a lot of stuff that we can't learn by ourselves
You know, I was just again when you go to school. You can't you can't find that in school either because school just teaches you
just want to
Buy a new customized learning initiative called ESA or education savings account. Is this something that you've heard of before no
No, I haven't heard of education savings account
So there's a premium as available in some states that if you can get access to it, it provides funding not just for college
but even earlier for things like private schools or individualized courses or programs for a child's education almost like
Customizing parts of Education if something like this worked and was able to roll out in a larger way
What do you think the impact might be?
I think it'll help
Students more because I know a lot of people they will be struggling in classes because they don't learn the same way the teacher teaches
But don't have the money to actually get tutors people went happier courses will kind of be fit to them and their specific
Interests people who train the craft they want to train and will be really even more adequate. That's what I think
I think they would spend most of their time on that
Not to worry about other things have to get good grades in it would make it much more
Personalized in a much better way because the important thing is to talk to your child
They're not just this blank slate that you can push into exactly what happened to you. They have their own thoughts and opinions and feelings
But it's not the big issue
The big issues these principles and these people that make all the legislation are so anti-technology
Why can't you use your smartphone? I'm smartphone in school as a college student. I honestly cannot live without my smartphone
I have all my lectures on it. I have all my slides on it. I take pictures of everything
I need it's better for both me and my teacher. I think it makes sense
You know a lot of teachers in class they take the cellphones away from the kids. No, don't be on yourself
listen, let's put the curriculum or the lesson in the phone where their attention is, you know, let's just use technology and
Enhance learning through technology. That's it makes sense to me and I've heard other teachers tell me that they want to do this
But you know the way the school systems are structured
They can't the finally we asked us through the adults when we covered another one of Prince EA's videos
So we'll ask you as well
What do you think is the impact of videos in art created by people like him that gets shared on social?
Media in this way is for these important issues
Compared to when you hear from let's say like a politician sadly temporary
We're all going to talk about this for two weeks
And then we're all just going to brush it aside politicians and that sort of whole group
They just seem like a puppet to most of the country seeing these people like it's more whatever
He just seems like you know
He seems like a person like he's there and the way he talks like usually gets to it's coming from someone
That's just like you like if someone has a camera
They have a voice in most media and they can say whatever they want and have their own opinion
And this person doesn't have like an agenda to push to help him run for an office
He's just trying to get a message across and it's very very pure and innocent. Thanks for watching this episode. Wow. There you go
So you go. Yeah
a lot of people want me to run for president run for office, but I always say, you know
The first thing I would do if I was president is resigned
You know
For me the message is about the individual, you know individual
Responsibility and taking it upon ourselves
So now the question is how do we fix it? I've read your comments and they say Oh Prince
Yeah, you you know, you have all these great big $10 words, but you never give us any solution
So you never how can we fix it? I can't
Right now right here right now. Let's talk about how we fix it
I have four ways on how we can fix the educational system not only in this country
But in the world number one, we have to look at education
Education comes from the Greek word adduce
meaning to draw out as in to draw the talent out of a person school on the other hand is about
putting more stuff in putting more and more stuff in
so in that sense school
Well education can get in the way of school
it's a it's unfortunate when it's a big problem when the number one most asked question in classrooms is
Is this gonna be on the test? That's not good. That's that's terrible, but it is so important to look at the cognitive
Sciences and try to integrate that into the classrooms
Molecular biologist John Medina, he says that if you wanted to create an educational system that was directly opposed
To what the brain was good at doing then you would design a classroom a modern-day classroom
You know if I told you that students should have less homework they should wake up later
They should be able to take naps small naps in between classes people would call me crazy
but when you look at the cognitive science, when you look at it, you'll see that these things actually
enhance learning
Number two, we have to bring the joy back into the classroom
The brain works best when the person is happy if a student is stressed out if they're miserable
How do we expect them to learn efficiently? It's not going to happen
So we have to bring the joy and the happiness and the fun
Back into the classroom number three, we have to look at what's working countries like Finland
They they're doing something and we have to look at. Okay, what are they doing differently?
How are their their scores and their students outperforming us by so so much. What are they doing?
Well, it's interesting. Their whole paradigm is different. You know, what the number one most sought-after
career in Finland is
teaching teachers, you know that they they
Finland takes care of their teachers their teachers aren't two and a half times that of what American teachers aren't and they have more rigorous
standards you need a master's degree and an
Experienced teaching before you can become a teacher in Finland here. You don't need that and lastly
We need a more individualized approach
see every child has a gift inside of them, you know a lot of a lot of people say oh
I want my kid to go to a gifted school or give forget there are gifted schools that every child is gifted
It's about us trying to draw that gift out of them. You know, I always say what if the cure for cancer?
Exists in a in a child right now sitting in the back of somebody's classroom not being engaged
You're not motivating now raising a hand
but the cure for cancer exists inside of them and if that bad
Potential if that idea was tapped into they can save million billions of lives
but right now they're just
Fish being judged by how well they can climb a tree
Alright, so last thing I want to tell you guys is this these were some of the books that I use for research
For my project. I just suit the school system. This one is called I love learning I hate school by
Susan D bloom
This is an anthropology of college amazing book. This one here is called brain rules
John Medina, this is this is a great book to not only help you
Understand yourself, but also a lot of teachers I think would find it
Useful in their class to use some of these techniques in their classroom and this one probably the most dangerous book of all
By this guy. John, taylor gatto an underground history of American education
Gatto was New York's Teacher of the Year. He is probably the most well researched
Academic on the subject of school where it come from the factory origins, but there's a lot more
I just hope that everybody does the research for themselves that goes for teachers
Principals faculty staff and even students very important for us all to learn more and more about how we can change
This educational system in this country and around the world. My name is Prince, EA and
peace