STOP STEALING DREAMS: Seth Godin at TEDxYouth@BFS 

Thank you!

Dont forget DMT.

Nick Smith but I think his point is asking why is it important to attend these schools? I believe MIT posts programming courses free online, for example.

@@greanch1234 you didn't get it

And no degrees!

Michael Oghia I can only agree with you

Logicrats!

In my experience, university is mostly about how to think. Some high school classes (literature and science at least) as well were, to a significant degree, about how to think.

What are you doing in your community? What are you doing in your local school to help change?

Doesn’t that depend on who’s teaching them how to think… then would you want unsavoury characters planting seeds in teaching humans how to think! Teaching how to think is the same thing as compliance. Encouraging people to challenge and question everything is key

In this day of 140 characters there isn't the chance to argue a point anymore. Gone are the discussion or debate. You get maybe two back and forth discussion on the merits of the discussion before it devolves to, "your an idiot" or "i've had enough of your nonsense, good bye." Write an argument and see how many people will read to the end. This guy's video is 16 minutes. I rejected most of what he said by 3 minutes. I gave him the time by speeding up his speech by 1.25. Still got his message but got through it quicker. He didn't impress me because he requires me to accept some of his premises as fact for his argument to make sense. He confuses order and obedience as the same thing. Then uses obedience as a fear idea. I've used the any color but black car statement but not in the context he used. Same with rules. He sees them as without merit unless he sees merit in them. Cannot make an argument when there is a high degree of arbitrariness in the structure of his argument. Public school has a component that every child of the village should be given a basic education so they can better aid in the growth of the community. Its to give that person the ability to understand the rules, structures and direction the community is going so they CAN make an informed decision. For to me, that is a purpose of schools. I don't want lemmings who blindly push a button on the polling booth. I want them to be able to vet the candidates before them with the thinking, what is best for the community and who has promised me the most bread and circuses. The idea given regarding the KKK getting kids out of school is to difficult for me to accept unless we are going to agree that Hillary's Clinton's progressives she holds in high regard supported using the KKK to get little kids out of the factory and into school. I've always been under the believe that the child labor act was against the fat cats of the guilded age who saw little to no value in children from "those" families they deemed as insignificant. Compulsory attendance laws were made to force parents who don't give a damn about these children to break that cycle that has the parents believing in the folly of an education.

I'm truly interested in the breadth of responses you received and The outstanding responses. I lectured at a university to juniors who universally said the only thing useful from their time as students had been the internships.

+LaWaune Netter I agree. I was very good at memorization. I still use the math facts I memorized daily, and I know all the countries in each of the continents (learned it by song) close to two decades ago and it has helped for years in my understanding of world events and culture. Memorization is definitely something to be encouraged.

+LaWaune Netter The point is, there is no need to teach "memorizing" in school, which basically is what most of the classes teach you, there is no need at all, you can look it up. Of course, an effective learning strategy can be to memorize things, just lookup ways of learning that skill and apply yourself to it :-). It's definitely worth looking that up.

School prepares you to be a useful worker. There, I answered it for you.

Kristina S. but what happens if you don’t want to be a worker. A RU-vidr or a business owner? Dummy

THIS!

+Phonominal Let's just say my baby is 31 and I had 4 kids in 5 years.

+J Pierce Yes, this is why I am homeschooling my children also! I was taught at home for 6 years, and in the 6th grade I was put into public school. All I know is I loved learning and loved myself until then, and after public school, I hated learning and hated myself. I have had to undo all of the unnecessary myths and lies public school ingrained in me for so long. I will not do that to my kids!

+Katy Holbein Good for you! It is hard, especially in high school, but worth it. In Georgia where I live, kids can go to college at any age if they pass both SAT tests. My daughter went at 14 1/2.

Agree - this is why we home-educated our daughters. They explored, questioned and taught themselves. They chose to attend school from age 11 and only went to school the days they chose to attend. They are still learning and self-educating

Your next class should be grammar 👍🏼

+Alphfirm He'd be a wonderful Secretary of Education

Next election, I'm writing Seth's name in when I vote.

I've heard that progress is science made one death at a time.

You even have people that still damage control the outdated culture of education, even if they admit that it's not perfect. It seems rather hypocritical to make excuses for all the flaws of the tradition with the expectation of adapting to it's imperfections, yet anyone else who has flaws is punished for it? This double standard also needs to go away for change to happen in meeting common grounds.

Pretty much

You're not supposed to be creative, you're supposed to be useful.

Kristina S. That's fuck up

Kristina S. Creativeness prosper uniqueness and that uniqueness become usefulness

@@christinas.4342 Creativity can fuel usefulness.

"That thing with the blocks is so true!" I don't agree. I think if I got together with a group of people and we were tasked with that challenge, we would find it quite interesting and fun. We would be doing our best to think outside the box, we would be discussing possibilities, and we would come up with SOMETHING. And his comment that "There is no right answer, and there's a million wrong answers" is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what I would be thinking, and, I believe, what most people would be thinking. We would be thinking, "There are many right answers, and no wrong answers." If you really would think there would be no right answer and a million wrong answers, I would genuinely like to know that. But only speak for yourself.

Absolutely true- when a hobby, or art, become the job, they tend to be work and not fun anymore.