Paper towns and why learning is awesome | John Green 

Why not get up on a TED stage and mention one of your own crushes? You don't have to be a supporting character in an important person's life and nothing more. Find something significant to you and work towards it. Some of the worst decisions I have made stemmed from the belief that I didn't have what it took to go down the harder path.

@@SbotTV damn

@@SolaceEasy sounds like projecting

@@SbotTV ❤️

@@SolaceEasy Who hurt you?

...its tuesday :D

Faiyaz Kashfi Rian IT'S QUESTION TUESDAY

@@epicjoyfulcreations4580 the day i answer real questions from real nerdfighters.

@@magnuspeacock5857 lets get right to it!

Who the eff is hank?

+carrotsticks I think you're talking about "studying" here, not learning. Learning and studying are two completely different words.

+iGFXDesigner school however does have a way of telling you you are learning something when really you are just revising a concept that you were told about when you 12

It was the same for me. I loved learning until I got into high school. I would read all the time and I just loved to do school and to learn! It has now become difficult and I don't feel I can remember anything and it just feels like too much pressure now. I feel that I am slowly gaining back my interest in learning again. I think I need to get excited about Learning again and this is just might be the start of it all.

+carrotsticks I had a similar experience, but the opposite way around. My primary school was stifling while my high school was something akin to a sisterhood. It was just an environment of support and love and I had great teachers who cared about teaching, not just passing students. I realise how lucky I am to have had such an enriching high experience. Without it, I don't think I ever would have developed a love of learning

+carrotsticks I have had a very similar experience, but instead of continuing with brick-and-mortar school I transitioned to online schooling and it was probably the best decision that I have ever made.

I love you John

yeah, it's like a wonder full school.

Same!! ❤️

They should make an actual CC school!

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Ok I liked this vid not bad John not bad.

Butterworthy You should check out Crash Course and/or Vlogbrothers then :D

TheBillymybob Definitely will do. I like the stuff he does on Mental Floss also.

TheBillymybob Thanks, I will.

Yeah, after years doing vlogbrother its his new heights in his careers

Mari Israelyan Not supposed to be, but it's damned expensive and exclusive and should be free. Even RU-vid and TED is not fully accessible, unless you have a computer or a smart phone and can get a wifi connection.

Robin Gray Almost all local libraries have computers available for free public use, and lord knows they have books. That's neither expensive nor exclusive. Get yourself there and you can learn to your heart's content.

Robin Gray kinda right, more accurate to point out that for the people who are out to dominate others, it is only a piece of paper, and paying a lot of money is bragging rights, and cheating has no moral importance to them. And there are enough of those people to take up a lot of room at the top.

Erin Long Don't get me wrong, I love the public libraries and owe them more than I can say...but the NYPL, at least, has WAY fewer books than they used to. Our local branch has laptops to use in the library, and ebooks to borrow (if you have an ereader), but while there are still books, there are more totally empty shelves than full, and lots of the "full" shelves are full of DVDs and CDs and books on hold--and when I was a child they were ALL full of books. It's sad.

Rachel Reiss also you might notice a lot of technical and historical content on the curb, to make space for contemporary paperback gangster books.... unless your local branch has already stripped it's shelves of knowledge in favor of entertainment that glorifies hood life.... which by the way, in NYC at least, the safest big city in the country, romantic portraits of the ghettos is a way to control peoples's expectations of life, there by controlling them. I don't think Plato is that wonderful. But it might be helpful for a young intercity kid to see that the old white guy on the ten dollar bill was a Caribbean immigrant who advocated for the abolition of slavery... so the library is under attack from budget, and the contemporary commerce of "blacksploitation".... Do we have knowledge available? Do we encourage curiosity beyond commercialism?

sitting on a chair listening to your teacher for hours straight without room for imagination is not a good method of learning

@@viniciusbernardo5569 It's a good method for remembering things and literally shoving things into students' brain. That's why it's used, sadly.

@Jo Blow Yep. Schools were started to basically produce more workers for the workforce. Creativity and love of learning wasn't really a notion. It was more about making more cogs for the machine of industrialism. From my experience there are two types of people who go into teaching: those who want to share their success and those who want to hide their failures. Whichever of these two categories they start as they then often get pushed by the system or by their Boards and School Districts into teaching subjects they aren't qualified for or not passionate about. That's why you might sometimes notice that your teacher seems to have just crammed in the subject matter a few hours or days before they taught it to you. Oh, you like Biology but hate Chemistry? Too bad. We need a Science teacher so good luck cramming the chemistry curriculum into your brain in a few days/weeks! Or oh you're an Art teacher? Could you also teach History/Geography/Social Sciences this year? Or the very real situation where the job market for teachers doesn't include the subjects they are qualified for but they also need to pay a mortgage and feed their family so they just fake it.

There are different schools and different teachers. Not everything is bad, but there are concepts that are better then others. There are a few things everyone should know about the world or at least heard of. Beyond that we need teachers that show us doors with various topics on them and the freedom to decide ourself when and if we want to look in there at all. Or like a named place on a map - someone might just want to go there.

Yeh. The system of education is fatal at educating ironically.

Jennie Kerfuffle TIL scientists and academics have a slow sense of humor.

there is this thing that people have to like you before they laugh at your jokes so maybe that's an issue here

Jennie Kerfuffle There was nothing really worth laughing out loud at until then.

Jennie Kerfuffle Its not so much that the didn't find John funny; Its that they thought it might not be okay to laugh during a serious discussion. Humor is a difficult thing for these types of lectures. Most people going to a lecture expect to be lectured with minimal -- if any -- humor. With this expectation in mind, people who would normally laugh or at least giggle tend to refrain from doing so until they're sure its socially acceptable to do so. Even then it tends to be rather quiet and reserved laughter.

Jennie Kerfuffle I thought that too, maybe it just didn't pick up on his mike?

I was thinking the same thing hahaha

Christopher Hilder If he sounded more "dopey" he'd sound a lot like homer

I didn't realize until you just said it

Lol you took the words right out of my mouth haha

+Christopher Hilder That's the best thing I've read all day, haha.

Oh My God haha

Genius 😂😂

Der Jaaaaaaaaaaaaambuuuuus

John Green is awesome. Lol.

I didn't get it lel hahaha

true

PhantomRanger it's what you make of it

PhantomRanger true

True, but where i live they don't have any public libraries. So i have to read on the internet. No wonder i got glasses. -_-

true man

ooooohhh

Yes I screamed xD

Good find!

Jacob Israel Salazar too funny.

Lenda Thompson Pride of what?

Pride of the community, of the progress, of the journey, of the accomplishments, of the learning, and of course, pride of hank and john.

Raghad A Just make sure your pride does not make you act as if you're superior to the less educated who are less interested in sciences. Pride can be quite the weakness.

Victor G Pride ... or let's call it community spirit can also make you blind. On no other channel do I get attacked as viciously and irrationally for pointing out mistakes or inaccuracies as on SciShow. That community feels pretty poisonous to me to be honest. More like a cult :/

Yes of course no sense of superiority should stem from this pride at all, and accept my apologies on behalf of Nerdfighteria if ever you felt shunned or unfairly criticized; it definitely isn't right.

YES! ❤ 🙌🏽 ❤ I couldn't agree more.

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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 funniest thing I've heard.

😂😂😂 i love it

Me neither! I'M BAFFLED!!

Maybe you're stupid. IMAO

heyheychels me too. I'm going to go learn new songs on my ukulele now.

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heyheychels DON'T! I'm serious! Do. Not. Do it. IGNORANCE IS BLISS

+Chelsea Cassady I feel that! Such a great video!

+Chelsea Cassady so what new did you learn in the last 8 months since you saw this video?

+Jubayer Aahmed There you go! You learned something on RU-vid! Sweet!

+Jubayer Aahmed don't judge a book by its cover :D

+Info Sushy I had no idea as well and now I'm just shocked

+Bryan Avila When I found out the same thing I was also shocked AF

+great one I found out in sixth grade and I'd been watching his videos for like three years and my friend had "The Fault in Our Stars" and I was flipping through it WHILE WE WERE WATCHING CRASH COURSE IN HISTORY and I remember jumping up and making my teacher pause the video so that I could tell everyone in my class. I am now known as the girls who loves John Green and I'm in ninth grade now. I guess it's fitting considering I do a victory dance every time we get to watch Crash Course.

It bothers me that it was people holding bread instead of setting it on the ground.

@@samtheflutegirl1373 Air is an essential part of the world so I'm glad they included it.

Preaccchhhhh

Unless you pay entirely for your education, through savings or scholarships, you have an obligation to get a job with your degree. You rely on people working every day of your life; society depends on our contributions; there are people starving and thirsty who need development. Knowledge is great, but leave it unapplied and you've wasted your time. You were blessed to have 12 years of public schooling or loving parents who provided a tutor for you. It's time to make good on that investment and make a difference.

James Carmody The one obligation we have during life is to be true to yourselves. And there are only two things we really have to do in life, and that is being born and die. The first one is already down. Whatever we do before the other is up to yourselves only. We should not lose ourselves in the illusion that we should live life for someone else, may it be our family or the government, because they are living their lives for us. They are responsible for themselves and we are responsible for ourselves. Everything we do is our choice. Even choosing to live life according to someone else, which will only bring misery to ourselves. It may sound egoistical but we actually need to put ourselves first - it is good. Only so we can become free and then create real value for others. There is a reason why in planes they always tell you to put the oxygen mask on yourself first before you help others. Given the freedom and time to develop properly, every human will contribute something unique to this world

This!

@@jamescarmody4713 " you have an obligation to get a job with your degree." Hm, never heard of that law. I think you have an obligation to make your life a life worth living. Getting a job with your degree might not be in the trajectory of making your life worth it

@Dori Beverlee why would you copy my comment

"Seeking to become more intellectual is a pleasure that can rarely be found in other things". It's a powerful statement only few people can understand.

Viktoriya Kovalchuk Well Said

I couldn't agree more. Studies have shown that the happiest people are those that feel like they are reaching their potential and finding fulfillment out of life. People often forget that different people find fulfillment from different things from life.

Or you could go the Mike Rowe rought. Find something that no one else is doing. Find a way to do it then learn how to love it.

Yeah in this world of so much diversity we all can be strong in basics and Masters in our chosen professions .... A faster progress and happiness

Talk about a first world problem

Ted talks do have time limits

+osemudiame123 I was referring to the four minute time limit on vlogbrothers videos...

+sciencenerd1123 ah I see makes sense

He's profound in how he expresses what he perceives in the world,and how he expresses his feelings-he moves me too. I've not encountered that before in such a concentrated way.

yesssssss

too many meetings

John Green actually sounds remotely like Donald Trump.

StevemStevenson: haha yeah not at all. In like, every way.

@@stevemsteven6103 pfft is this a joke?🤣🤣🤣

I am still feeling unmotivated......😒

It's good to share your thoughts and feelings, hope you're doing well

Lorena Enciso History

Me too.

@@shabditarajesingh6945 me three

Anime Fan Anime and John Green! We have some common things!!

Anime Fan this is the most cringey thing I’ve seen today

Except mongols 🤣🤣

I agree, youtube is an amazing place to learn new things.

Learning makes life so much more interesting and makes junk fall away.

***** I agree somewhat - it's the current method of "schooling" that needs a make-over. Personally, I think the old style of apprenticeship --> artisan would be better. Whether you're talking about a craft, trade, or field of study. Today's education system may give people a more well-rounded experience but should be an enhancement, or extra-curricular, NOT the primary focus. What a waste of youth to force history, algebra, and sentence diagramming onto those who don't make a living in the fields they are necessary to! (Now don't get all excited - I'm not saying they aren't important or that they are unnecessary - just that they should be cursory rather than a major part of one's daily endeavors. Yes, algebra CAN be important - but what I wouldn't give to have back all those hours of frustration!)

***** Did you notice how Candy ended her post? I think you're saying the same thing.

***** I agree, but oftentimes wonder: Is testing important? It may be one of the biggest problems. Learning, in it's natural habitat, isn't linear and is almost impossible to quantify, but good teachers, when they aren't flooded with ridiculous class loads, know when their student(s) are learning. Teaching is an art; everyone can't do it. The travisty of No Child Left Behind is a good example.

Dude you're actually illiterate lmao

Mr aaaaaaa

Megan Smetzer I'm really grateful for having attended a humanist public school. An excellence institution that was a microcosmos of the larger world, but with its own set of rules that allowed for the pursuit of individual academic interests. A big library, nice places to hang out with friends inside the school, free courses, student empowerment in pedagogical decisions. A school so good most students never realize how great it is until they finally leave and experience other institutions. I got lucky, though. I'm also grateful for having had a great research group in college, in a public university. Professors, undergraduates, and post-graduates, all attended the same weekly discussions, everybody had their own research project(s). Everybody got 2 hours to lecture the others about their projects once in a while, even the undergraduates. People threw their ideas into that weekly maelstrom of ruthless criticism knowing that if anything survived it would come out better in the end. References were exchanged freely and nobody ever stole someone else's credit for anything. Scholarships were plenty, and I got 2 years to develop my own research before graduation. When requested to provide advice about subjects I was specialised in, the group sent me, even being an undergraduate student. I would have never had these oportunities in private institutions. A lot of the vitality and breadth of life experiences brought by people of all kinds of backgrounds would have just been ruled out by the paywall. I myself would have never been able to pay for the kind of education I got for free, since most affordable private schools and colleges are actually subpar when it comes to academic research.

Nowadays the internet helps immensely, my schools havent been great, but i can go onto the internet and just learn what i want how i want

yes!!!

mmmm i don't hear that at all

i noticed he was slurring a bit here and he wasn't moving his mouth very much. he's talked about his long running dental problems so he might have been having a bad day. (not trying to lecture you at all - i don't think you meant it unkindly. Just wondering if others noticed the same thing)

He doesn't normally sound like that. I'm not sure if it's the microphone or a recurring dental issue he had a few years ago.

I swear the first second before his face showed up I thought I'd see Homer xD.

+Eldie Summers Exactly! Learning comes in many forms, none better than the other.