Why the School System SUCKS and How to FIX IT 

Elementry school is when you learn the most

i hate when schools expect you to get 8 hours of good sleep, but make you be at school at 7 am and give you massive amount of homework that you stay up all night doing.

This video was made 7 years ago, but the fact it still applies to today is insane. My biology teacher last semester is one of the best teachers I’ve ever had. He fully understands the subject, and he actually makes the effort to INTERACT with his students so they can also understand. One of my friends had a different biology teacher, and they literally had to LEARN FROM MINE just because their teacher couldn’t teach biology.

As a pupil in poland, i have to say that when my parents were at a teacher - parent meeting. THE TEACHER SAID 40% OF THE SCHOOL PROGRAM IS USELESS. And guess what? The only thing we do in school is write, and at maximum theres 1 assignment per two weeks.

My mom once said: "The school system is making kids stupid so that it's easier to control them".

its almost like the system doesnt care about the students, oh wait, they dont!

I honestly don’t regret being a rebellious, underachieving student in high school. It wasn’t until high school that I said, “fuck it.” I didn’t do homework, didn’t pay attention in class, skipped classes when I could, didn’t follow the rules, and drew in class wanting to focus on art. Art was the only class in high school I actually got A’s in. However, the 12th grade came along and I actually applied myself then and got A’s, B’s, and C’s just so I could graduate. Afterwards, I didn’t go to college. Why the hell would I want more of the bullshit I just went through, this time it actually costing money? I made the best decision of my life by joining the Air Force. Stayed in 8 years, got permanent disability pay for life, and now I’m still working for the government. One of the most secure jobs someone can get. I’ve seen the world, experienced amazing things, and learned more than I would have ever learned in school.

Personally, school has made me depressed and hate work, every effort is too hard for me to just think about it to the point that I'd rather die to stay alive to make all those efforts to "Get better". But y'know, "Dying is not good" so I'm stuck having to swim against current of the river or drown.

Finland: 3 hours of school, hardly any homework. England and USA: 6 hours of school, lots of homework, depressed, stressed and tired students. England and USA: *I don't see the problem here!*

My school encourages us to sleep 8 hours each night then gives us 6 homework assignments due the next day and complain when we didn't sleep. There's just no way to win. On a different note your video is a breath of fresh air even though it's 5 years old now.

This school system really is fucked. I wake up at 6 am everyday (I’m a 7th grader) and go to school, and the fucking teachers expect me to pay attention while I’m a tired mess in the morning. You barely get any sleep, you have the stress of doing homework, and since I’m a kid that plays an instrument in band, I have to practice that too everyday for at least 30 min. It feels like school is just the same exact thing everyday, doing the same shit everyday, waking up, going to a building for 8 hours and come back like a tired slop, do homework and practice and eat and sleep then repeat. I have to do this shit over and over again until I earn a piece of paper with words saying "you graduated college" so I can get a job that is also probably as stressful as school, but at least you earn something from it other than a piece of paper with an A on it.

when i was in second and third grade, i went to a montessori school, it was a private school, and the system was completely different. we actually learned real life skills in a way that small kids could grasp easily. we didn't have classrooms, we were in a house that was renovated to be wide open and there was a kitchen. it was all independent work, we wandered freely, we were supposed to take out a rug, take out a tray with a "work" on it, and then we'd lay out the pieces how they were supposed to go (for example: matching term cards to definition cards, it was usually more interesting but that's the only kind of work i remember) then we'd get a teacher to look at it and sign our work plan. at least once a day someone would turn the rainstick and we all circled up for a meeting and the teacher would teach something new or maybe just have a talk. lunch was an hour long, a student was chosen to do the dishes after lunch, and we had nap time after that and we could make requests for classical music. if you were asleep at the end of nap time, they let you sleep. there were flower beds outside and we each had a section where we could grow things, i grew a hybrid plant and harvested multiple squashes and a watermelon. we did hands on activities together sometimes, like going out to a field and unrolling a giant black rope with a tiny strip of white at the end to show how old the universe was compared to the earth. they also took us on walks to pull weeds and return shopping carts. there was a chicken coop, and we hatched chickens in an incubator, named them, and cared for them. we did art projects and creative writing all the time. a lot of things i needed for high school came from montessori too, like the periodic table or biological concepts like producer, consumer, decomposer. sometimes we played the matter game where the teacher would call out "solid!" and we had to stand close together and vibrate or "gas!" and we all ran around really fast. i think more schools should be like this, and it sucks it only went up through sixth grade, there should be a less childish but similar approach for us high schoolers too

the worst part of it is that they trick your parents into thinking the same so your life at home gets ruined

My dad always said, "School is just here to teach you how to do things that you don't want to do. That's what life is about when you grow up." My dad is a workaholic and wannabe perfectionist, and this is why.

1:53 This part is so understandable for me because I cry a lot in secret places of my home when nobody is watching, and it's become really repetitive. So much, I can never stop crying over it, and never stop thinking about it, its because I usually think about how people are *better* at me just for doing something or getting it right in *their way.* Grades don't really scare me, but catching up really just gets me. For example: Teacher: Hello! So did you finish your homework that was assigned 2 days ago yet? Student (you): No... For me I don't finish the work because I'm like "WHAT THE FLIPPING FLOPPY FISH I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS WORK NOBODY WILL EVEN USE IT IN REAL LIFE AND PLUS WHY DOES THIS HAVE TO GO ON A GRADE JUST TO MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER OVER DOING GOOD ON A PRINTED PAPER CALLED A TEST?!" I take A LOT of time on things like making good art, drawing a few frames for a animation, or even doing my most favorite things. But HOMEWORK. That's not on my list a single bit! Why? It comes at you, back and forth, being literally SHOVED in your face. I don't care for it that much because teachers always like to remind you constantly and I can't stand it. Its like a whole entire ocean of disgusting black goo sticking onto you and slowly drowning you as you look around for anyone just for help. That's exactly what I'm in. That gooey black ocean? That's my pain, anger, sadness, and anxiety. I stopped being inspired on something I really wanted to do because I started thinking about how people are *better* at me than doing something I usually like, its like when your in a race, and your the slowest one in class so everyone beats you and you feel bad about yourself.

I think the main problem with school is doesn't give the stuedents goals to reach, which leads to bad grades, low self esteem, kids not knowing anything and with all that they just lost more options for future goals and could even possibly lead to depression and maybe suicide. it really makes me sad that parents wont even listen to their hard working kids and tell them to "do what you were asked to do or you wont have {one or a few of their hobbies} for a month, how dare you disrespect me".

I started to realize that when I reached middle school I stopped learning and started trying to get a good grade. Most of what I have learned has been lost because I have to put all my time and thought into what I am learning at the time and can’t stop and think of what I am “learning” sometimes.

Fun fact: did you know that the guy who made homework made it to be stressful but it was only for the bad kids in his class and it worked at making the kids better in class But the school system thought that the homework was made for all the kids and made them smarter

I don’t go to school anymore because its given me anxiety so many times that even if i think of the Word ”School” i start feeling like theres something in my chest, and this isnt just because ive been scared of failing in a subject. Theres so many other things that has given me anxiety in school, when i had to talk infront of the whole class, when everyone in class was talking so loud that my mind could’nt even count to 3, when the cafeteria was so loud all my energy ran away, when i had to talk to my classmates in a group subject, when it felt like people thought i was weird because i wore the same clothes and had dirty hair, when i didnt know something but was to afraid to ask for help, etc. All that was happening almost every day for so many years. It all seems not so bad when i write it down, but because i was feeling anxiety so often it became something really big. I hate school because it made me hate life. I really hope they find a better way to teach children that doesnt give them trauma.

Once I was talking with my biology teacher (the nicest person and the best teacher I've ever met and after I graduated from school, I still stay in touch with her.) said that the biggest issue in modern educational system is that usually students and teachers see each other as blood enemies.

i had a teacher a few years ago who got fired because he would tell stories at the start of class. i didn't understand back then but now i see that it was to get us all in a lighter mood and concentrated. mr foy you didn't deserve to get fired, you had good teaching. thanks for being a good teacher

Schools (in my experience at least) implicitly teach you... 1) that scraping the barrel is acceptable 2) that the majority is always right... 3) ...unless it's against the establishment 4) that one size fits all 5) to be cognitively dissonant on the state of the school system (and in general) 6) to be intellectually dishonest about the state of the school system (and in general) 7) to be unable to reason properly/use logic 8) improper ways to argue (logical fallacies, etc) 9) to be an unnecessarily slow learner 10) to overlook the obvious 11) to be unintelligent 12) to be a shallow, simple-minded and low-resolution thinker 13) pathological academia 14) to be one-track-minded (by extension of the previous point) 15) to lack emotional intelligence 16) to be an irresponsible consumer 17) to be unable to use social media properly 18) to be unable to recognize mental illness 19) to be unable to do research 20) to lack the intuition to differentiate between facts and fiction 21) to be financially illiterate 22) to be business illiterate 23) to be scientifically illiterate 24) to be technologically illiterate 25) to be historically illiterate 26) to lack basic skills in statistics/statistical analysis 27) to be not well-read in general 28) that you are a powerless individual/how to be powerless 29) to be a slave/how to be enslaved 30) that being abused is OK 31) that intrusion into your personal life is acceptable 32) that authoritarianism/totalitarianism isn't a bad thing 33) that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear 34) that the teacher is always right 35) that life is unfair (even though the teachers and/or staff make it like that) 36) to be overly dependent on someone else, especially authority 37) to trust businesses/institutions/government/authority without questioning them 38) to be blindly obedient to authority 39) that you are guilty until proven innocent 40) that you, as a child/minor, don't matter 41) to be institutionalized/have an institutionalized mindset 42) to be nihilistic (perhaps because you feel powerless) 43) how to be disrespected and, by extension, disrespectful 44) that respect & politeness are the same 45) that respect & obedience are the same 46) that lack of obedience to unnecessary, pointless & petulant commands shows a lack of respect 47) how to be manipulated and, by extension, manipulative 48) if you can't be bothered in class, it's because you don't care about your future 49) to feel guilty over the lack of "education" poorer countries receive when you complain about school 50) that school is synonymous with education 51) that school exists to benefit you 52) that subjects taught at school are the same as the names given to them 53) that your worth is defined by grades 54) that your intelligence is determined by grades 55) that intelligence is the same as/linked with knowledge 56) that future prospects/success is determined by grades 57) that you are defined by your academic ability (top/bottom sets, etc) 58) that grades have any kind of significance 59) that people are the same today as yesterday 60) that a university degree is a prerequisite for getting a good job 61) to be a vain person 62) to be an entitled person 63) to be lazy (with respect to school if you are ahead of the class) 64) to fear failure 65) to be unable to write a basic description of something (maybe because you fear failure) 66) to fear the unknown 67) to fear asking questions 68) that losers win and winners lose 69) to put the cart before the horse 70) to work hard (without showing you how to work smart) 71) to focus on your weaknesses (when you should be focussing on your strengths) 72) to be unable to set clear objectives/goals for yourself 73) to be unable to stick to a particular mode of working (start something, then drop off after a while) 74) how *NOT* to use your time wisely 75) that life is a zero-sum game 76) to be against others in certain situations unnecessarily 77) to have a vengeful mindset 78) to have a petulant mindset when working with kids 79) that people with money are to be automatically respected/money is respect 80) that you can't have fun while "learning" or playing 81) that learning is a chore 82) that reading is a chore 83) improper ways to learn how to read as a child 84) that basic maths is hard 85) that there is something wrong with you if you are an introvert 86) that there is something wrong with you if you are a "loner" 87) that social circles should be determined by age to an unnecessary extent 88) computer programs you'll never use outside of school 89) other useless things you'll never use outside of school 90) to not work on your own style of art/to focus on copying someone else's 91) that sleep isn't important 92) to be sedentary (stationary for long periods of time) 93) that exercise isn't important (by extension of the previous point) 94) to lack training in basic first aid 95) to lack basic survival skills 96) to be unable to survive a crisis/apocalypse (by extension of the previous point) 97) to be unable to live outside your parents home 98) to not be job-hunting savvy 99) to lack the ability to communicate effectively 100) improper ways of using certain styles of assessment (GCSEs, A-levels, etc) 101) to focus on things that don't matter 102) to put your exploitable skill(s) behind your schooling 103) that learning Shakespearean material is important 104) that learning poetry is important and finally... 105) to be unable to recognize what school has done to you

"The internet to puke up information - we need innovative thinkers, not robots." I really like this vid, as I'm currently studying to be a math teacher, and I want to help all of my future students to see the wonderful simplicity in math!

The main driver for school is fear, not knowledge.

i feel like the way that school drills information into us is like someone forcing food down your throat and saying it's good for you

(Sad) fun fact: the "modern" school system was made during the industrial revolution (late 1800’s) back when most children were gonna be in factories, so the school system makes you feel like a robot forced to do the same thing over and over again, like in a factory

It is scary how accurate this video is 6 YEARS LATER

"once your at the top, you can never go down without someone having something to say"

I think the main problem is forgetting. people have life outside school, and remembering everything for every subject for ever is impossible. Most students forget the knowledge they learn after an exam. Why? because you don't need it, and there are 80 new things to learn. You will never forget how to write/read/do basic math ( I am talking - + * /) because you actually need that in life and use it daily. But school encourages learning for exams to forget shortly after if you want to maintain good grades while focusing on thing you want to focus home.

School has absolutely failed me. I get all A’s, but it has taught me minimal useful info. I don’t know how to really function outside of a school environment, because I’m at school for so long and for such long periods of time. It’s not just that I’m there for half the year, it’s also that I’m in school for half a year straight, with breaks that give me a taste of freedom right before taking it away again.

I remember this time in math when we learning this subject to solve questions and I understood nothing about what the teacher was saying. So, I used my own method. I got done really fast, and it was really simple for me to understand! It worked for almost all the problems, and I was super happy with what I had made. However, when the teacher saw it, she pushed me down and said things like “That’s not how you do it” and “that is not what we’re learning, can you even focus?” And my teacher kept pushing me down when I found my own solutions when I couldn’t understand what she was doing. At first it only made me feel a little down but as it became more relevant that I just was not good at match and would need to find my own path, I realized that I really couldn’t. I was backed into a corner where I could only do what the teacher wanted. It really harmed me and I still feel bad about it to this day. There were a few times where I would doodle on my paper, or something. But I have a really hard time focusing on ANYTHING. I mean talking, writing, typing, drawing, you name it. But when it comes to math, man. The teacher would say a few words and then I was in la la land. Off in my own world. And when I came back to reality, I had to do what the teacher and students had been doing. I had to find my own way. But as mentioned, I was pushed down and talked out of finding my own path and route to solving things. It real;y affected me, and I still hate math to this day. I’m not saying math is bad, I’m just saying there are a lot of problems with the school system.

School in a nutshell: “the internet can’t teach u anything, school = education” “U need to follow the higher authority’s orders” “Everyone learns the same way and everyone has to be perfect” “Grades are the most important thing” “We don’t care about what u have to say” “There is no such thing as activities outside school, stress and mental illness” “Every job in the world requires finding what x is” “Sleep isn’t important and sitting in a chair for a long time isn’t harmful” “There is only one way of finding the answer”

Ok this is more of a me thing, but I’m a freshman in high school, and for the final for my health class we are doing a presentation, it has to be on something we haven’t looked at in class. I’m kinda interested in snakes so I thought I would do my presentation on the effect of different snake venoms on the body. So I create the slides, with jokes, less words and more pictures, i memorize all the lines, try to have comedy to make it as engaging and entertaining as I can in about 3 minutes. It goes very well I got the entire room laughing, I even got the teacher laughing at my snake jokes (my teacher almost never laughs at anything so this was a huge accomplishment). I felt very proud, and I went back to my table and everyone there was like “good job, and it wasn’t boring at all”. Compared to other presentations which were them just reading off text from a white background. I got my grade, and it was a 22/25, which is a 88% for a final, which is good, yeah. But his comments were “you have to many jokes, be more serious”. The thing about a 22/25 is I had a group presentation before that, and all I had to do was one slide where I just say like a paragraph, I have some notes on a notecard and I just said like a paragraph, It has some lame pictures on a white background, it got a 23/25. Me not even trying got a better grade then my final that was funny, engaging and I think I got a lot of points down, but this one paragraph on a white background did better then that. And it really made me just not feel good about the education system. (Sorry this is so long, I was really pissed, and I’m kinda ranting).

Finland: 3 hours of school, no homework, time to just be a kid and enjoy life Everywhere else: 6-9 hours of school, 4 hours of homework, 3 hours of sleep and 12 mental breakdowns Finland: top grades out of the whole world Everywhere else: ImA pRetEnD I dIdnT seE ThAT

My school takes a fun ass trip every 9 weeks for students who Made amazing grades Barely missed any days ( I think they even count things like funerals) Did not get any d-halls for detention It does reward the students who are good students, and smart. While it might damage the minds of the ones who weren't able to go to the point where anything below a 80 or so is not at all acceptable, so they might beat themselves up about it while making no progress

When you started the video saying that you were still in high school, I was ready for an uninformed rant. To my pleasant surprise, you brought up a lot of well evidenced problems in our current school system as well as proposed solutions. There's a lot more stuff that you probably coulda gone into, but a video can only be so long, so that's totally fine. Well done on this. And this is coming from a High School Teacher :D

“I have never let schooling interfere with my education.” -Mark Twain

I hope one day we can be freed from are school system

This video are my thoughts exactly. Kids in my school barely try and have already given up meanwhile other kids like myself have anxiety which makes it so if you don't turn in a assignment your scared. I had to jump through hoops just to get a alternative to gym class which was making my life worse via the teachers yelling and the overcrowding. Everyone keeps telling me I'm so smart but all I do is try and then get told to do something better. To anyone whose struggling in any type of school right now from the bottom of my heart I wish the best for you and hope that someday we can all be accepted for who we truly are and not be robots like the school system wants.

Pre-school: You learn that it's fun to study Elementary: You learn the most out of it Highschool: You learn that it's not that fun anymore College: You learn that Study = Student dying

bro school is so anti-nerodivergency it hurts. by that i mean as someone with ADHD, i was incapable of working like a "normal" student in school and often times was marked a trouble child as results. no matter how hard i tried i could not bend to the school's will and suffered greatly both mentally and socially as results. i actually dropped out instead of finishing 11th grade when covid hit cause it was the first chance i had to run, and holy hell did my mental health skyrocket as results. i should not have had to drop out to such as feel like i was a real person again, but i did because school is built in a way that roots out people like me.

As a "Gifted student" I really loved the way that you accurately portrayed the inaccuracies and flaws in the school system. That the grading system doesn't promote or reward inelegance like it should, but rather promotes and rewards the students who happen to be with a teacher they resonate with and happen to know the given answers on a test. I was lucky enough to get a good math teacher who was very detected to teaching at a pace tuned to each student. This helped us learn what we wanted and what we needed. Definitely earned my subscription =)

You just found the words I've been trying to articulate for this whole year after my grade 12 graduation. And from over 7 years ago. Thank you kindly

I'm a seventh grader. This video is 6 years old and still fresh as brownies right out of the oven. All of the facts about what the school system skips helping with is true. You are amazing. Thank you.

I started liking school when I started picking my own classes. Aka highschool. Middle school is hell.

I’ve learned more things on the internet than I have at school to shape me who the man I am today. I have learned history, economics, and different political ideologies all on the internet, and I’m only in the seventh grade. Through my time of focusing, I have concluded that humans naturally are healthier and gain more experience in developing with the family, and learning actual useful things. After your abcs and 123s, school just pumps you up with useless things which will cause the student to be unhappy and stressed, which is bad for health, especially in a young student who their mind and body is still in development. Schools teach men not to be men, which spells a recipe for disaster, when you look at it in the long run, because families won’t develop without a true, strong man. Schools teach men and women to not defend themselves verbally and physically. I’ll provide an example for both. Ok so, someone in the hall randomly punches you, so you punch back, but you both still get the same punishment, which is suspension. The school wants you to rely on a higher authority for it to take care of all of your problems. And for the verbal part, if a teacher makes a shitty, dumbass move and then starts flaming you out, the second you respond, they will retreat to the old “stop talking back, that’s disrespect!!!!!!!” School doesn’t like free speech, they don’t want you to fend for yourself. That’s why schools are so cautious about their students going on the internet, because the internet can teach you valuable information, along with tactics to defend yourself verbally and physically. Good day.

Your absolutely correct, my grandparents and parents are so blind and don’t see what I see, this makes me not sad but it motivates me even more to make change to the education system

This is a wonderful analysis of what’s wrong with most schools. I was lucky enough to go to a “microschool” for several years that intended to buck off most of the negatives you mentioned and even partially implemented the solutions you proposed. It even let the students set most of the rules and disciplinary systems via direct democracy. However, the school *lacked any teachers* or experts to help the students learn; we were supposed to seek those people out ourselves via the Internet (incredibly intimidating for me as a child) or wait for the school’s adult supervisors to arrange for such experts to come in for a day (which they never did). Schools still need structure, and while I enthusiastically argue for the tearing down of the current structure, it must be replaced by something, something that isn’t up to the students to create.

You don't have very many views for being the first result for "how to fix school"

As a student with strict parents, school grades had been nothing but a rock in my path in my entire life. Due to the fact that im incapable of reaching higher grades than the ones i already own (and i have good grades, not even close to 0/100, as i dont have any F's), i've always been stuck, since i was little, with the mindset of seeing everyone as competition (which is not healthy at all for a teenager my age, im young and i don't want to be jealous of anybody or be malicious), due to my parents' urge to want me to be a "good student", comparing me to people i know merely because of a grade and saying that i "just didn't study hard enough" or "if i studied harder, i would've reached that grade" even tho i took my time to study, ignoring the fact that i could feel hurt, upset or feel like im not good enough, despite me trying my best to achieve that grade. In conclusion, they should really change the school system, as i would never had snapped out of this mindset if my friends didn't help me unfold what trutly matters.

I had an amazing teacher once. Whenever something happens she would explain it in so much detail. Like when one kid was tapping their pencil on the desk she explained how the pencil was made and how the lead inside breaks. ( I was in a lower grade level)

My native language class teacher was exactly the kind of teacher you said schools need and I can absolutely agree school was much more enjoyable whenever we had her classes to look forward to. Although she was extremely talkative and would get carried away with telling stories that had absolutely nothing to do with the day's subject and it admittedly would get annoying sometimes, we all still looked forward to her classes way more than we did to any others. She eventually said it herself; she can't control whether we'll listen and learn during her classes, but she can try to control a bit about how we feel during her subject and maybe even school in general. She knew what it was like having ridiculously strict teachers and she knew it made her hate school and learning for a long time. So she made it her goal to make sure none of her students end up like that and were instead taught to associate learning with positive emotions rather than just stress and high expectations, so that our current un/success wouldn't discourage us from trying to learn and educated ourselves again in the future. And it worked. I hated maths because it was slow to click for me, and the teacher had no patience for those who didn't get it right away. I still have a hard time forcing myself to try to understand it. I was bored and never paid attention during english because, even though I was good at it, I was bored out of my mind listening to the teacher explain all the grammar rules in the same monotone voice for 45-90 minutes. I'd still much rather take my chances winging it on an exam and hoping I do well rather than actually sitting down and studying the rules. Native language class though? Even though I by no means aced the exams in the class I still enjoyed it a lot. And I don't feel as discouraged from trying to figure out some rules I forgot over the rules because I can fondly look back on the memories I made learning them back in the day, rather than just reminiscing about how borderline torturous it felt to have to sit, stay still and quiet, and write for 6 hours every day.

what i hate about the school system is that they take marks off because you made a minor mistake on not adding meters at the result of your correct calculation or mispelled a word. They dont grade for your actual understanding for the subject instead to your alertness during a test

I hate geometry class. But I know that geometry could be interesting if thought right.

I agree that having self-motivated teachers that ooze passion for their respective curriculum is extremely helpful, and being flexible with how they educate is also unbelievably helpful. Aside from great teachers their’s the issue of under financed schools at lower income areas, this typically has correlation with wealth too and that’s problematic. In general I believe they’re some engaging topics that’d be beneficial for middle schoolers and high schoolers to learn of prior to college.

Thankfully, my math and physics teacher are just like you said and that made me love these subjects so much

I miss just looking down at my legs and wondering why it walks and how. Now it’s all about numbers, deadlines, grades and credits. It’s stressful. I was almost always getting praise from teachers because I was apparently smart. I went from loving school and always having almost perfect attendance into having 42% for attendance. School was one of the reasons my depression got so bad. The type of school you go to also matters, in that case I was unlucky. The teachers were getting paid below minimum wage and my school is too close to shutting down. I look down at my legs now not to wonder, but to make sure it’s still moving, and that it stays that way. I still love learning, how could I hate it? But I wish I was actually taught things that would directly affect my life, instead of the roundabout way that schools usually do. The teachers just ask me what happened, how did I come to hate school, when I’m obviously “not a dumb student”. I can tell they’re tired of dealing with students with mental illnesses. Went from calling me bright and smart to “not dumb”. I miss being a child, too much that it hurts. Life sparkled in a way that made me interested in it. Everyday, every hour was for learning and getting familiar with life. Being young, I was unaware of the limits. Now all school reminds me of is limits. It hurts. I used to love going to school, I really did. What happened, if I knew exactly what, I would have told you long ago.

“I don’t care if you got the answer right, you HAVE to do it MY way”

this is how i feel about school: everytime i have the realization or finally understood certain topics that i never understood at class, i get excited to continue learning about the topic. however, as soon as i got the awareness of what i'm doing all this for, which is to get a good grade, i get overwhelmed and go into an episode of being unproductive and not wanting to study anymore. and as much as i know that this won't do any good for me i just can't get myself out of the slump, also definitely not helping if most of my classmates are smart and understands what lecturers say always

Finally , someone who talks about a problem but also provides a nice solution for it 👍🏻

What's the point of school education? I forget most of the stuff we learn in classes in a day!

This made me realize that my English teacher who I used to think wasn’t a good teacher because most of the class discussions involved things that interested us instead of you know, English but as I thought about more I realized that she has single-handedly taught me more about English in less than a year that I’ve learned about it my whole entire life. But science on the other hand has taught me nothing, when it comes to science it’s the same cycle every single chapter. I read, I memorize, I do good on the test (sometimes) but do not learn a single thing. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

I am so grateful for what my parents did for my schooling. My whole life I never went to school and only did one little test every year. I pretty much just woke up, chilled, and went to bed. And once I turned 16 they put me in community college to get my GED. I've been going 3 days a week at most, 2 hours a day at most, starting at 10AM at the earliest for less than a year and I'm about half way through the whole thing.

I very strongly agree with this. Some examples of classes I’m taking this year are Photography, which is very hands on, which some people claim is a better way to learn. As well as Sociology, which I took not because I needed to fill out my schedule, but because the content of the class is of interest to me.

I don’t think schools are 100% the fault for this because a lot of students who’s parents are on their tail about their kids having high grades. Parents expectations are the reason for a lot of kids struggle for high grades.

Simple Math Reading Writing Foreign Language And Information Technology These are the only subjects that they should teach at primary schools

As a highschooler myself, I agree with every point in this, and the solution(s) you thought of all make sense to me as well

honestly i learned more during lockdown teaching myself than i learned in school in years

im in debt i don't know how to pay taxes i always lose a job im homeless and dying of hunger but hey atleast i know the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell -nobody ever

I'm the same as you! I'm still in school and I'm in year 11 (Nearly there, am i right?!) and all i see when i think back on what i previously did, i just see a stressed student that has to 'learn and 'study' when he just wants to game and continue his passions. School doesn't care about students. School doesn't care about anyone

7 years after and all is 100% relatable. Nice work!

I agree with your point. Motivation is key to helping someone learn something. That is why people prefer college, because they're studying a subject they're into and that they wanna take for the rest of their lives. School isn't giving real problems for us to formulate unique solutions, they are only prioritizing those who can memorize the biggest amount of raw information that they present, and instead of adapting your system to the students, they expect the students to adapt to the system. School is supposed to be educational in helping the students create ground to stand on their own, but they create the ground first and expect everyone to follow it. As much as I would like to teach people about this way of thinking, I can't say for certain what will happen if someone tries and the system finds out.

Didn’t a couple of schools change their starting time to 10am bcz they found out students work better later in the morning (what a shocker, its almost like theres a clock inside of us that makes teens stay up later and sleep in more)

I hated how they taught math in school. I would have failed if my mom who is a collage teacher stepped up to the plate and helped me enjoy math in creative and IRL settings where it could be used. Not The the stuff they drill into your head at school.

For this video to be 6 years old and i remember seeing this video when I was younger and it only has 425,892 views is crazy to me this is so underrated and so much of the truth and I think RU-vid is trying to hide the facts that this video has and hide it from billions of other people so they could get brainwashed by schools. Parents need to realize schools are basically controlling their kids and enslaving them and teachers need to actually teach actual things interesting things instead of teaching the same thing they taught kids last year that isn't important to the real world at all. I really hate the fact that parents punish their kids because of "having bad grades" and the school is making letters signify the kids behavior and convincing the parents that they aren't good. This video truly needs more views

I asked questions to our physics teacher in school about higher physics he couldn't answer it intead he said dont need to think much think about what is thaught in your book .what to do next time.

I work in pedi healthcare (kids) and the amount of suicidal cases that come in during any time of the school year is shocking especially during state testing season. It's absolutely mental. They always have to have someone observing them so they don't hurt themselves. That is insanely embarrassing

You have put my feelings into words. Thank you so so so so much.

Although I’m six years late to this video, I also enjoy physics! Grades definitely don’t say everything about your performance. I have an C- in Physics and to most that’s a bad grade, to me It’s my way of showing how hard i’m working. I get 100% on almost every assignment, I do have mess ups like Quizzes, tests, and some Lab assignments. Other then those I’d have a A+. I like my teacher I think she’s great and makes me like Physics. I’d encourage people to do physics cause it’s a great class and easy when you learn it. Im a freshman btw

The section about maths hit hard for me. Maths and science were always my worst subjects in school and I desperately wanted to love them, but because they were tough to me and the rest of the class learnt at a faster pace to me, I ended up doing quite poorly in these subjects. My interest in them never went away, but I despised the way I was taught them, and I couldn’t make up for it with an intuitive talent for the subject

hey bro pls don't give up i see huge potential in you and one day you'll be huge

I quietly agree with you ,there is a school out there i forgot the name but the students are doing well . With no assignment and test and they pick whatever they want to learn that school was wholesome

6:10 proof that school dont teach us how to read XD

Ever since I found my passion (animation) things just started to go down hill. More new ideas kept hitting me, at least 3 times a month. And when those ideas start to overlap because when I try to write them down I forget what the story and characters were even about. Kept em locked on the back of my mind and I can still remember plenty of em. Thanks school, thanks a lot.

The problem with school is how they don't tell you what your gonna be using this stuff your learning for. They just tell you to do it which I find so retarted.

I just had my last mathematics exam for year 10, and I feel I didn’t do well. Luckily, I’m not doing the subject next year, and seeing this video has helped. So, thanks.

I know this is an old video, but I’d say that you’re correct and I’ve seen it myself. Last year my math lessons were repetitive and that barely ever changed. I got lower scores because I had lower attention and interest in the lesson. This year, my math teacher mixes it up a bit each week, which I’ve focused more into

You know:I’ve only now realized how much of a major ego check I’ve needed just now,I didn’t ever brag about it but getting high grades made me think I was smart,thank you for talking about that.

I learned many things from school, true, but I learned much more about life by myself, on internet or with my family and friends. I've always had good grades and I thought it was everything, but I started watching videos that explain why the school system is bad, and I realise now that what I'm "learning" or more like remembering untill the test and then forgeting, isn't what I need to learn in life. For example : I learned how to talk english on the internet, not in class (I live in France) and I'm bored in english class because I already know what the teacher is teaching my classmates. I don't think I was dumb for believing school and grades are everything, I was told that my entire life after all. I'm just someone that couldn't realise what I was doing was messed up. Sorry if there are any spelling mistakes and thanks for reading. :)

Another thing that we need to teach them is proper confidence and the struggles of immitation I've had so many problems because I imitated everything that people did and it missed up my mind. Also one of my friends told me that the reason why he was able to get all A's was because he learned from preschool that all the things that you will learn matters and should be considered in a very delicate way. I wish I learnet that earlier. Another of my friends who got all A's said that he learned it during his childhood, where he realized that even cartoons can impact how we think of things and how every was interconnected. If we were taught that I think I would have a bigger motivation on life right now.

My math teacher is like the good way of doing school and that’s why he’s one of my favorites, he plays games with us all the time, he gets us interested in maths, and he always guides us too the answers and re assures us that being wrong is okay I’m so gonna miss him next year

100% agree, school can be really fun but only with good teachers. I’m a good student and work really hard to get A’s for same reason you do. I’ve always thought this about the school system

I definetly agree with at 6:34 about saying that there isnt only one way. For example I'm not great at math and when I ask adults outside of school for help, they almost only always have a different (and easier) way that's usually outdated with schools. Which is fine but school can be so strict that they only want THEIR WAY when in reality we should open to doors to many different ways to get the same answer because it may work better for some students.

As someone who graduated OJR High School last year, this video hits home for me. I had the worst last year of school in my life. My teacher started off as a nice person, but at the start of 2021, she became this very demanding and inconsiderate person. She barely did anything to help anyone who needed it or didn't do anything to stop any student who was being disruptive. For example, one of them was quoting the Will Smith Chris Rock slap crap at the Oscars and what did she tell him? Nothing. She was right there on her desk, clearing hearing everything and she just let him do it. I asked them if they could please stop saying it and I got yelled at by her all because I just wanted to stop hearing that whole thing constantly. (Plus, it didn't help that the teacher thinks Will deserved his Oscar win. I'm not joking). One time, I was even accused of making fun of someone even though all I was focusing on was drawing and that's it. I told her I didn't, but she just kept saying they saw me do it when I wasn't looking at their face at all. The student even started laughing about the terrible experience I was under with another student and while she got yelled by the teacher, she didn't even think, not once at all, that her laughing was a dead giveaway that she really was framing me for something I didn't do. It didn't help that the student played innocent after getting yelled at that she didn't make it up, but she clearly did. Another time was when we were reading the book, Holes, and some of the students were reading pages that we already read and she didn't correct any of them for the whole year UNTIL the last month of school. I even tried helping one student read the page they were supposed to be reading and they actually started reading the right page, but the teacher just shouted at me, told me to stop doing it and accused me of confusing them and she forced them to read the wrong page AGAIN. I wanted to just lunge at her and go full on Ralphie vs Scott Farkus in Christmas Story or Byron Hadley beating up Boggs in The Shawshank Redemption on her miserable butt, but even then, I knew it would make the pain I had to endure worse. The worst part of her was that she straight up wanted me to be a "leader" for my classmates in some way (because some of us were diagnosed with autism). I really didn't like the idea and refused the offer, but she couldn't take no for an answer and demanded that I be a "leader" anyway despite knowing that the position wasn't for me, so all I did was just nothing and acted nothing like a leader at all. All I wanted to be was just a simple, regular student who didn't want my disability to be some kind of guide to who I am and leave school with a sense of satisfaction, happiness and just a little hope that going to school was worth it in the end, but she couldn't give me that. On my graduation, she suggested my parents to make me wear "something nice" for the event, only to find out on that very day that all of the students were wearing normal clothes. I even called her out it and she tried to excuse it by just saying that she wanted me to look nice on graduation again and again and AGAIN! Not to mention saying also that she forgot to tell everyone the same thing. I'm sorry, but how the HECK do you forget something like this?! She clearly did it on purpose because she had this smug look on her face that tried to be all innocent like and all and I was just not buying it for a second. Graduation wasn't any better when she flat out lied to everyone that I was a leader to my class when really, I wasn't nor did I want to be one. All she did was gatekeeping. What a facist prick she was. All school year, she wasted my time and patience and her smug thought that I'll miss school is the most selfabsorbed thing I have ever heard when she clearly knew what she was doing to me and I'm so relieved that I now have a new job run by people who appreciate me for who I am, where I'm understood and where I can be me and that I never have to see or enter that hellhole ever again.

I agree, that’s why i started to interest myself in chemistry and I tryed finding my own recipe to do make something

I used to go to a French school where I got so much homework. I was getting more homework that my sisters in high school, and I was in 3rd grade. They were pushing so much homework onto young children to "prepare" them for high school. I also remember stories my mother has told me about lack of adult awareness in the school. To be fair it was a poor area though, and they were doing their best. I eventually switched schools, though, and my only homework was reading for 6 hours a week. That was it, and it was great as I loved reading anyway, and I still do, so I often read way more then I had to. I feel like I learned a lot better without much homework, and my first school let me get away with so much bad behaviour and just being a brat. My switch helped me a lot with learning that I couldn't just cry to get through everything, as I had the right teacher. The fact is, it depends on the teacher who will make or break your experience. It also depends on the way the school is ran, and if if it has enough money, but really the teacher is going to change you, for the better or the worse. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Totally in love with this channel, keep up the good work and I guarantee one day you will be as famous as the big channels!

7 years later and this sadly still holds up.

Honestly i wanna focus on my dreams instead of school but at the sametime i wanna learn about how the world works so i can use it in my future life but the school system is messed up all it is about is remembering things and drilling useless knowledge into your head they should teach us about things we actually need in life for our futures so for me nowadays i make time for myself so I ain’t burnt out and depressed sure they manipulated my parents but i wanna do what i wanna do in life chase your dreams you have and if you can’t make them dreams happen!

I have a school system that's *3 YEARS AHEAD* of what is normal. I'm in 9th grade and I'm learning things from way later and I have been for almost my entire life and I just can't stand it! One day I thought the next year I was going to go to a school without that system, I was shown some examples of the work a few months before I planned to go there and... what was this??? I could actually.. COMPREHEND IT??? But then no, it was a special private school that was full, so then I had to go back to the exact same thing and it's hellish. I'm going to shrivel up into a sad, depressed little raisin