School is just designed to prepare people for the workforce. That’s why it’s usually catered towards convergent (analytical) thinkers. Divergent (creative) thinking increases the potential of what you can be in life though. I think that convergent thinking determines your floor in life, while divergent thinking determines your ceiling if that makes sense.
You could maybe also say, convergent thinking determines your floor and ceiling while divergent thinking basically determines nothing besides maybe excluding mediocrity.
it can be doen more effeinctly without kicking out creativity or being so expensive in time money etc. i suppose most leanring shoudl be done when student is willin gwith purpse in life, and systems decentrlized from public school into household smaller schools and private schools, a god way for higher quality servce to be, and be done by women whod enjoy such job while being with their own kids , vs if she went out decreased profit poetnetial for others in otehr jobs
Yeah school is designed to put people into work. It should be that, because if everyone was the owner of a company who would work? Who would produce the money? But I think how school does it is a bit too little they could teach multiple things that has actually meaning, till doesn't change the fact the world needs workers.
@@deesplash7087 The people who want to run a buisness lacks the knowledge to do so or lack the effort to do it. the people who don't want to no idea about them that their choice but I don't doubt if it was taught ALOT more people would want do be a owner of a business they people who don't want to I really think they aren't bothered to learn right now and have a decent job.
I'm a high school math teacher myself and I straight up tell my students you'll never use most of this outside this classroom. However, I also reinforce that math is not about learning math. The purpose of math class is just as he pointed out; it's an exercise for the brain to build problem solving skills, creative thinking, and logical reasoning. Honestly if more teachers would present their courses this way you'd have more student buy in and appreciation of the material.
I had a teacher just like you, and he would always engage us in class, and would even talk to us about our personal problems. He cared for us, and just wanted to make sure that we developed and succeeded in life rather than in one insignificant highschool course.
@@sprawlz6466 I get that. But even in STEM majors most of those calculations are done by computers, especially once you actually start working in your field. For example, I was a pure math major and once I graduated college I can guarantee I'll never need any of those upper level maths again lol
The results of going to public school: Destroying your creativity Wasting your time and losing your greatest age Learning things that doesn't matter really Probably get depressed because of how people treat you Injuries most probably A low percentage chancs of becoming a bomber.
. Taught to subconsciously always obey to an authority (having to ask to go to the toilet, having to walk on one side of the corridor, only having 45 min of free time just to eat food, not being allowed to talk to each other and discuss things unless an authority figure says so) . Taught that you cannot learn things without an authority figure allowing you to, look at the amount of people who believe learning is strictly for school kids, university students and in jobs etc and that learning things in your "free" time is considered insane . Schools are literally prisons just without the gates, you are told to sit in a classroom at a certain time, memorise certain facts just to get a credential (grade) over actual wisdom or understanding something, eat when you are told, talk when you are told, leave class/school when you are told. Yeah you get my point, but modern western schooling is evil.
@@acrez3260 to break out of this conditioning I'm gonna have to catch some smoke from the feds and throw it back at them Touching grass isn't enough either i want to fight god and his angels
As a teacher, yeah, I agree. Most things taught in school are complete bullshit. I teach English as a foreign language in the Netherlands, so at least that's useful for my students later. But I'd advise my students to take what's useful/necessary for later, and as for the rest, do the bare minimum to pass and move on
fr. coming back to school and the self consciousness is hittin. i want to just be invisible and do my own thing without the stress of thinking im not as good as everyone else 💀💀💀
I had to wake up at 5:20 am for school because the bus would come so early. It was so draining doing that. Pretty glad I’m graduated. There’s some stuff that I miss, but the only things I miss are seeing my friends everyday and the community aspect of it. Seeing people everyday and dealing with the same shit as each other really creates strong friendships, so that’s really the one thing I liked it for
@@cremebrulee2484 it started at around 7:40 or 8:00 but I live 20 minutes away from the school and there were a lot of stops. I live kind of in the middle of nowhere so everyone around my area was on that bus. It was just a long bus ride
They are literal dream killers. I think its too late to be open ended until your 18. The people who excel at a craft have started at a younger age and had a mentor. Radical but at age 13 we should just have apprenticeships instead of waiting for college where you have to choose between 500 degrees with no direction at all.
Based but also what if you do a craft at 13 that you end up hating later in life? I think you are supposed to learn that kind of thing on the side while also going to school to get a broad education. I do think school day should build in hours for that though, cus people are just way too busy afterwards sometimes.
@@Sharpgamingvideos broad education works until you're around 8th - 9th grade. my whole entire high school experience was a rerun of everything i learned in middle school (i learned a lot of physics, chem, biology, etc all in middle school). bit of a bummer that college is not much different for the first half of it.
Bro, I got labeled ADHD in 1st grade. Up until highschool, I was under the impression that I had it, then magically I didn’t anymore. I talked to much and made sure I had good grades in highschool, not because I had to, but because I enjoyed learning. The catch is, I went to private school. An entire different experience. I got in trouble so many times for speaking my mind and beating 2 other kids up for talking fat. Didn’t go on my record, but I got suspended for a couple days. The double standard that is portrayed in schools is insane. I feel ya man
I went to private school too up until 8th grade. And I'm slightly conflicted on what I should have my kids do On my side, learning the differences of public school made me appreciate the education i got when i was younger. But I only really realized this because of COVID and quarantine as well, this giving me the opportunity to step away from the system for a second and think Of course I want my kids to start off in private school, but if I keep them there, they might be subjected into living in a bubble. If I put them in public school afterwards, they may lose the values that were instilled in them and not be able to see the differences. Then again, I'm only 17 and have had a VERY unique, once in a century experience. Idk what to think
its so true that school takes away the natural desire to learn and grow. I got kicked out of one of my old schools because you were forced to write 2 seperate essays of different perspectives of a book a week (on top of other homework) and I did not have the energy or even the motivation to do it. This made me hate reading, now that I'm really getting into self improvement I started slowly reading and cant believe how enjoyable and therapeutic it is. I now look back at my life and realize I kinda hated learning because of school. I would always try and escape by either playing games or by partying and drinking. Im living healthy now, reading, watching documentaries and working out and I am learning so much more than I was in school. Being 19 now, I've had the same life goals that I've had at 10. I just wish I was either in a better school, or not at all. I like this content so much because as you have said before, I cant really talk about any of this with the people in my life and seeing that there is people likeminded is really refreshing. keep making funny shit gerby, and keep the freestyles.
Man, that thing about teachers telling you to shut up all the time thing is kinda true. I went to a very uptight christian school and those mofos went hard on keeping the silence at all times. At the time my home life was kinda messed up and I'd come to school to talk and vent or some shit and I'll have these people shouting in my face to keep quiet. Now that I think about it, I think I'm the most reserved guy that I know of. I let very little of myself out. Its kinda fucked up what it does to your confidenve too. Fucking school dude.
It trains you to blindly submit to bs authority and work for long hours so that when you graduate, you will accept the unethical nature of modern employment without question. they want numb n dumb minds that act like workerbees so the have absolute control over the general population
I think it can weed people out who are the workers. The problem is the environment which is what the video is talking about. It's a requirement and a reality for a lot of people because it's the only option available that will yield any kind of normal consistent life when you mature in our society. Most things require a degree or diploma to get your hand wet into systems that cater to scholarly/trade/business seekers. It is a net drain and serves to fulfill the lowest common denominator a lot of the times.
Why do you view being “a classic 9-5 worker” as such a bad thing? Is it because it’s the norm now? I guarantee if only the wealthy/elite of society had 9-5 jobs, you’d want one too
@@user-gw4jp3xg3n most of the work was from 3rd party companies that would provide textbooks and tests so you could easily find it online meaning I didn't need to study or put any effort but that varies from school to school
@@user-gw4jp3xg3n lmao bro you even know how tests are done in public scores? They don’t matter. They don’t care about any individual student. Raise the average and get that money lmfao bro those tests are bs. Tests themselves are bs ask any educators with higher than a undergrad
Psychology major here. It's true that boys get diagnosed with ADHD disproportionately higher than girls. ADHD is supposed to be a disturbance on brain maturity, purely biological. In that sense, ADHD shouldn't have such gender differences (at least not to that extent). The fact of the matter is, ADHD expression is more annoying in boys than girls, because we are already more impulsive and confrontational
isnt the way that ADHD has been taught to us completely wrong? ADHD itself is a coping mechanism is it not? as per Dr. Gabor Mate who has studied it, he described it as a state where you cant fight a situation or take flight from a situation, the result leads you to get distracted and fidgety, among other ADHD symptoms. Dr. Gabor Mate states: “Rather than an inherited disease, Attention Deficit Disorder is a reversible impairment and a developmental delay, with origins in infancy. It is rooted in multigenerational family stress and in disturbed social conditions in a stressed society.”
10:50 This is the line I was looking for. Humans learn through experience, even in indirect relation to your experience . In History class, you cant be engaged or relate to the struggles of an American in the 1700s without context of living an adult experience. You dont care about English and Math until you realize your co-workers struggle to read and cant grasp basic geometry. You're correct that our education system is largely formed of information dumps that are uncatered to the individual, but its also very important to be introduced to many concepts such as algrebra or most basic science at a young age. You'll never personally put knowledge of photosynthesis or the tectonic plates into real world use, but its very important to understand the world and have a strong baseline with at least intermediate math. I think if kids had more freedom in choosing what they learned after middle school, most of this would be solved.
YES! THATS WHAT IM SAYIN!! I think high school (in america at least) is 100% useless for people who want to get anywhere in life. It actively puts you down And students should be able to choose and figure out what they wanna learn without the pressures of debt
I too am homeschooled and my only issue is lack of social interaction. I have “friends” from sports but we really just play video games together. It’s nice being able to work on your own schedule too. If you want to have a 10:00-5:00 school work time you can. Also, for me, the work especially at earlier grades took like 2-3 hours to actually do. There isn’t a mandatory wasted time waiting for the next class to start. You just go on to the next subject. One thing you need to do though is make sure the homeschool you go to is certified because if it’s not then a government worker has to come and verify everything is on the up and up every once in a while.
Bro this video is like hearing my thoughts speak. I 100% agree with the statement that grades aren’t a measure of your intelligence, but of your obedience. In my case, I always scored extremely high on the standardized math and English test, even scoring the highest in my district on the latter, but my grades always were average because I just didn’t give a fuck. I wasn’t passionate about anything I was learning, and I knew this shit wasn’t applicable, so why the fuck would I put the effort and energy into being good at it? That energy could be spent better elsewhere on trying new things and finding my passions and what I’m talented at. But instead, you spend most of your day wasting your time, instead of spending it on finding your future purpose and figuring out who you are at the stage in life where it’s most important. The problem is being forced to learn this shit, instead of naturally coming across it and learning about it out of passion and interest. School is basically a one size all glove that fits no one. Shit needs to change.
>go to school >forced to learn about stuff you don’t care about in ways that don’t make you learn material what’s the point? what use was my last twelve fucking years of my life? Gone. Never getting them back. And for what?
I’ve gone back and forth between private school and public school. I can assure you what you’re saying applies to both kinds of schooling. On my last year and it’s so annoying I have to waste time and have my schedule taken up over some bs.
By senior year I realized school was providing me nothing, I had a lot of open periods in my daily schedule and I showed up so little to my classes my teachers were so happy to see me when I showed up and most of them were very chill. My public school gave every kid an ipad with all our assignments and there were no due dates so I waited until the last minute, although it was a little stressful I basically finessed the system by only doing the tests and stuff like that which was worth the most points. The school system was so broken from COVID so whether you did your work or not you got 50% of points on everything. I had decent grades by doing shit here and there at home on the iPad. But I went to school to hang out with my friends and go to my good classes like weight training, cooking and creative writing. I don’t believe my diploma will get me the these rubber bands I’m chasing but the weight training was worth it. Definitely not putting my kids in public school made me procrastinate and it’s a major waste of time.
Not an accident. Industry is fueled by discontent and anxiety. In order to control, you must destroy. Those who are their own threaten central control.
"Nobody who works a 9-5 job is going to come home and start grinding" 😂😂😂 facts. Started full time college while working 40 a week and I save homework til the weekend or the day of
My last 2 years of high school were interrupted by the pandemic I learned more in that time than i did through the entirety of middle school and high school. I started taking learning guitar more seriously and had the energy to do so and read a few books. Not really a lot actually just more than I did at school. I had a very similar experience to gerby in public school. In elementary I had the most referrals in my school. When ever I got home I just wanted to relax and watch youtube, a habit that started in middle school and never ended until I got out. In the past year I have actually started learning just by finding books on the internet about things I care about and half ass going through them. I feel like the majority of stuff that is taught in school is useless and the things that are useful you aren't taught to apply. Math is an objectively useful skill that opens up a lot of things creatively but you aren't taught how to do anything with it. High school math classes don't make engineers and physicists they make monkeys who can solve math problems.
I’m an A student and miserable because of it. I hate how obedient I force myself to be, but I keep going because I’m afraid I’ll regret it later on if I don’t pass and give myself the best chance of success. I’m good at school and despise it. It’s almost over but still I still cant stand it
i relate with this a lot right now because i wake up at 6, go to school for 7 1/2 hours, go work out, come home, eat dinner, and then i have like 2 hours of doing homework and its straight to bed. the weekdays are so unbelievably draining and if i want good sleep, i have absolutely no free time. every time im at school i cant help but think how much of a waste of time it is and how i could be using my energy in so many better ways
When I was a junior I took AP classes and I had even less free time than that and spent entire weekends doing homework sunrise to sunset. When senior year rolled around I checked out completely and just took lower level classes and electives, and would come home and watch anime until I fell asleep. In retrospect it was the start of my serious depression but the relation to the stress of taking AP classes can't be understated. Homework is literally psychological warfare and you can't convince me otherwise
@@OPTIMUSL1ME yeah homework is awful im graduating early and im 12 days out from graduation. my motivation is at an all-time low when it comes to homework but i've learned to balance it a lot better and i've become a lot more relaxed since then.
the math you learn in school is basic, the actual useful stuff comes when you specialise. Although I agree that working on applicable skills right of the bat is way better than wasting years on crap
Nah, definetly most of the stuff you learn about in school is very useful for everyone. Everything up to 7th grade is basically just getting a feel for (big) numbers and learning the basic arithmetics (plus, minus, multiplication, division, fractures, exponential calculus) and after that its very applicable stuff too like trigonometric functions, basic geometry, rule of three, calculating interest etc. The thing is: He is right anyways, even about math, because he said it: its not optimised at all for children to realize how often and when you can apply all of thet stuff. Its done in a very abstract way. I always was VERY good at maths in school and now in uni but in school even i didnt get what i will need the maths for although i was acing every test. The abstract approach should be started in late highschool to get people ready for college and give a hint what college maths will be like and then obviously in college for people who actually use higher maths.
@@itsaireka451 Estimate interest Rates/returns (exponential maths), planning what furniture fits a room (Geometry), knowing what price/size is the better deal (rule of three), calculating price shares when buying something as a group, maybe with varied shares (basic arithmatics), even understanding how much a certain amount is (Million vs billion)/ in what metrics a calculator can operate (knowing and understanding relations and big numbers). Also statistics: thats what you probably need the most in day to day life to estimate dangers (what is more likely: getting a desease or having Side effects from vaxxines). Thats just basic day to day life, and you could go on forever probably. Will you die if you wont know that stuff? No, but you wont either If you cant read. Youre just really helpless and easy to scam. I would consider understanding results of scientific studies as day to day life of a normal adult as well, and that requires much more than understanding what different probabilities mean. Even derivatives and integrals are more useful than you probably think. Its just that seeing useful applications is harder than just learning how to solve them. And thats what my point was: Application doesnt get teached properly. Also: i dont know what you consider day to day life, but in most jobs you will need way more maths: everything related to IT, everything related to electronics or mechanics, everything related to business. Thats also day to day life to me.
Facts. My mom tricked the system in Germany and I was home schooled and I was constantly researching stof, wen I got back to school I lost energy to research freely, I still feel it some times but less and less.
I remember in High School I was called into the guidance counselors office because my of grades and behavior and was made to take an IQ test. I scored slightly above 90th percentile and the lady giving me the test looked at me and said, “you scored much higher than I thought you would.” Still, for the rest of the year I was put into a mandatory remedial class, with a kid who scored 132 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Give anyone a photographic memory and they’d be A students pretty easily. I was (overall) a straight B student and I got by with logic and a pretty bad memory. Not because I learned the material. Just because I knew what multiple choice to pick..
Been going through a terrible depression due to the loss of a close family member and fiancé, both in the same day. But your videos always manage to distract me from the hurt and make me laugh. Thanks man. Bless you
I was similar to you I did very well in school up until high school because I just stopped caring and started reading things for myself. I mean I got my act together because I had to face facts and realize that education was my only way out of my situation, but to what you said about truly discovering that's why I entered a master's degree program that's based around Socratic dialogue, where you have other people ideas bouncing off your own and you can truly try to discover like the ancients. There's a reason why we admire them so much. Edit: It's called St. John's College if any of you are interested.
I always thought I was weird when I'd go to school at like 7 AM, and then coming home anywhere from like 3 to 9, and then just not doing anything else. Ever. Like I do not remember a single moment of my teenage years outside of something funny that happened in school. I just worked. And then it was over. Half my damn life, man.
Me too man. That stuff was so monotonous it all blended together. You tell me to pick out a specific memory from each school year and I’m not sure I could.
Just found your page not too long ago and your videos are a breath of fresh air. Feel like I’m just listening to a friend go a a deep philosophical rant. I love these topics and conversations. #TeamGerb
The amount of time I wasted preparing for exams I had at the end of the year is ridiculous, considering that by the time they came around I lost all interest in getting good grades. I realised a while ago how much I dislike the system and that I would never again enter education once I'd finished school. University is a huge scam. Don't go unless you need a ceratin degree. You can go party and meet friends without it.
The thing I hated about school was homework. I don’t mind sitting down and doing work in school where I’m supposed to learn. But why tf do I gotta dedicate so much time outside of school on homework. But I guess it just trains you for studying once you get to college.
You know what i like about this channel? I like that he is genuine about everything because sometimea he stutters,sometimes he needs a moment to think about what he wants to say. Its more human this way. Like he is not reading off a script. Edit:Gerbert,if you read this,dont think about the fact that somebody already made a video about this topic.We want to hear your toughts about it.I really enjoy your content man. Keep it up!💪
I think school tries to push as much information in one time to grow your capacity to learn. Yes most of the information is bullshit, but it’s like training a muscle. You won’t know how to fight if you just have muscles but having that muscle helps you with fighting. It’s the same thing the capacity you get from school helps you learn complicated stuff in your life.
Also sadly this is only system that works it’s so hard to deal with millions of students who are different. And if you cancel school kids are going to be sitting at home scrolling through tiktok. This is the only system that can keep “most” kids from being complete losers. Btw I hate the schooling system and I’m blessed to be one of the kids who realized this and started working on shit outside school and not just rely on school, but if you think about it there’s no better system at least not within the realm of possibility and financially.
@@Engmelli Yeah I absolutely agree with what you said. Not everyone can afford to homeschool their children, that's why we should try our absolute hardest to achieve financial freedom to be able to do that and actually spend time with our children.
Plus no one ever brings up the fact that from a scientific angle, chronically sitting down as much as you do in public school is literally unhealthy and sets one up for future health complications. I taught about that shit a lot during high school (as I continually had lower back pain).
Bro everything hurts. I try and sit in the seat with good posture, it's uncomfortable as fuck, and my back hurts for no reason. You're not supposed to sit for 8 hours, it's crazy.
I personally always had bad posture so I'm not gonna completely blame school, but I'd be lying if I said school didnt contribute to my now diagnosed scoliosis...
12:00 this part hit my coochie so hard and fast I used to be so amped up as a kid, but after getting in trouble a lot for talking I just naturally stopped being talkative as a result and it stuck with me all the way up to my ripe age of 22. It sucks.
SO TRUE! As an 11 grader, I get 5 hours of sleep, I do approximately 10 hours of school work, but then I still have to work on my other things and to have that amount of work without breaks it's impossible.
I remember when I was in highschool my math teacher taught my class about taxes, how to buy a car and a house. No one really paid attention anyways. I don't think that school teaches useless crap but that most people have a natural proclivity to not care about anything that doesn't benefits them then and there.
I have friends now that went to technical high schools and I feel like my fucking youth was robbed going to a public school. Dudes were lowering cars for homework... wtf
I got diagnosed with adhd in second grade, because I always used to look out of the window and kinda get lost in my thoughts, while other people were working on their papers. So my teacher told my parents to take me to a therapist who prescribed me dr&gs to focus. Luckily my parents were against it, but considering how many kids told me the same story with a different ending, that is seriously scary considering how I could have ended up as a addict just because some teacher or therapist thought being creative and just simply a kid is a disorder that has to be “treated” with dr&gs.
Textbook reading becomes interesting once you have a big enough amount of knowledge in your head to begin with. For example, the innovation from reading textbooks that I get comes from 1) connecting the ideas in the book to the ideas in my head, 2) trying to understand why the author is laying out the content they way they are, or 3) thinking about how I can apply this knowledge elsewhere
College was 100% better than all my other years in school. I found a college that was smaller and it was overall such a great experience. Do what’s best for you
Smaller Private colleges are less w0k3 and there's a more intimate feel with classes, especially when you get deep into your major. Even when doing balls-to-the-wall hard stuff for courses, it was still way more fun and fulfilling than high school, which was WAY easier for me. Plus you have more freedom woth scheduling classes.
Yeah, growing up in an asian household here in the US, there was no way I was gonna get home-schooled so that I would've been freed from the mental exhaustion of learning nothing useful, because my parents have an authority complex where "If the big main system says it to be, then it shall be just" mindset. I hated it.
I went to public school in elementary and middle then transferred to private in high school… The difference was immense. Small enough to know everyone, like a real community (rare nowadays). Teachers who were respected by kids so didn’t have a nightmare job and with small classes they could give individual attention in. They really expected you to try and would personally meet you halfway to help, and socially too - it took a year til I joined extra curriculars but everyone tried the whole time to get me to connect. I had a huge amount of growth in that time… That was years ago and Im struggling now. But I always struggled socially and if I didn’t go to that school I’d be twice as fucked as I am right now. The money games behind education are massively ruining a huge number of children’s current and future lives
This definitely resonates with me, I was saying this back when I went to school, it's just so tragic that so many kids get their motivation beaten out of them and they are force fed a bunch of information that although useful in some cases, that's not what they wanted anyway.
Im 26 and i hated most of public highschool. I was depressed, Found an identity in music, drugs and girls. I got good grades and was an athlete, Fast forward, i went to a top 20 engineering school (CA state school) and i was extremely grateful i put up with the crap in HS. Everyones journey is different, but i have a career, purpose, knowledge and professional creative outlets that pay the bills. education gave me that. From HS, to the shitty content i watch on YT. Also, school allowed me to meet toms females and guys that i relate too, and helped me find myself. I realize i am privileged and we cant all experience this path. But We can't all be tiktokkers, youtubers and musicians. Plus, that lifestyle isn't as great as it seems. Life is hard work and painful no matter what. Get what you can out of your situation and adapt. Use that extra boring time in school to write, draw, think, dream, plan. I promise you wont have that same time when you're older. We are all really slaves to our own society and universe, not just public school. Stay positive. Always learn. You are a valid human.
Dude when I finished school I had the same oponion but now im in uni and oh boi was I wrong God when your parents tell you to learn at school and that education is important please listen to what they are saying because they went trough that shit and they know how hard the life can be for people when they have no diploma
You preaching fr. I hate school. The only good thing I get from being forced to go is selling there making money off a bunch of kids and I learn from it for real.
Even college is the same man. I am an architecture student college from 8 to 4. Where most time is just wasted. Then a ton of homework that keeps me up at night.
Yeah honestly about 87% of the shit I learned in HS was completely useless, with the exception of two of my English classes (both classes' teachers were very engaging and made me like the act of analyzing rhetoric and reading in general) and an Elective class called Public Speaking. It was mainly about how to present yourself and be confident, especially in the context of presenting a Tedtalk or speech. The end of year project was basically whatever you wanted, so long as it was something you were passionate about. Usually stuff like that in other classes made me annoyed, because there was nothing in the realm of, say, US History that really got me fired up to do an independent project. But in PS, the relative degree of freedom we had been given on all our other projects, and seeing how every student sorta came into their own, allowed basically everybody to craft a thoughtful and well presented project that they cared about, myself included. Mine was sorta structured like a Jacob Geller video essay (though I imagine it was far less eloquent) in podium form. That was the one thing I created in HS (even though I'm an artist who took art classes every year I was there) that I was genuinely 100% proud of. W class. Ms Horne, if you're somehow in a Gerbert Johnson video's comment section, thank you so much for a fucking wonderful experience
I completely agree. Everything I learnt in highschool was pointless and I argue the same for colleague (which I did only because I needed the degree). It's all about obedience.
As a young adult doing his masters in E-Engineering, I can tell you school is a joke. The first semester is pretty much clogging up holes that are left from school. If I had children today I would send them into specialized private schools and teach them general life skills by ourselves.
I agree. 80% of the required courses for a CS degree at my local community college are either social science classes or classes like "life skills". It's a joke. I've started to learn how to code ny myself and I've honestly learned a lot more from self-teaching myself then when I did going to college. College should be getting you ready for a career but it doesn't. If it did then why for a lot of people is a college degree STILL not enough for an entry level job.
@@XoloYT My biggest problem is how wasteful everything is with time. If you are low IQ you don't bother with engi/science anyway that's why you should be able to do multiple higher level exams at once, during the pandemic most stuff was prerecorded anyway, might as well reward those who wish to study all day long and let them finish their bachelor/master in 1/3 of the time. It's so fucking retarded, let me speedrun uni and max our lab time instead of making me take higher maths over a 6 month period.
13:50 They called me problematic in primary and said i was aggressive, they didn't mind the other kids bullying me and breaking my glasses behind their backs, but when i hit them back and knocked out a teeth they sued my parents. But now its 6 years later, am about to finish a level of middle school only 5% of people go to while they all dropped out of the easiest one.
Finland used to be 9th grade then you are set free. They changed the law when i was in the 7th grade, and i have to go to school until i am 18 now. I think it still is better though, we can pick from different schools, some are like high school but you can also just start kindof a career training thing. I went to high school, though i plan to use my focus and energy on my own projects.
I agree with everything except for that there’s not a point to learning math or or science or something beyond high school. The one caviote I have is if Someone wants to be a doctor or lawyer because it is important that they learn it
My biggest mistake was taking advanced courses at school. What a waste of time. For subjects i never was interested in. And dual enrollment, credit for a degree im not interested in and classes that wont help me.
There's a great video by sorelle amore called 'how you are programmed to be poor' and it mainly talks about over school (as much as i remember)- but i've heard other people talk about it aswell.
I'm doing my senior year online, and it's honestly so much better. My friends are kind of pissed at me, but I'm so sick of the dogshit school I went to and this year is literally infinitely easier. It takes as much effort to finish my classes as it took me to get through fourth grade. I can actually learn shit at my own pace and I can get 7 hours of schoolwork in-person done in like 1-2 hours
Ah, youthful narcissism and hubris...so sweet, so pure. ("I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.") Look, when you already know everything, why go to schooI anyway? Well, maybe doing stuff you don't want to do develops a strength and a discipline that is necessary in life. Living an adult life is most curtainly not about doing only that which you enjoy and find pleasing. Besides, gathering facts (even the most boring ones) lays the foundation of knowledge. And knowledge is a pre-requisite for productive and informed debate/discourse. As an old man now, I listen with bewilderment to youngsters who seem to know almost nothing about a subject and yet engage in debate on it with a confidence that truly impresses - even though they are putting to sea in a sieve. (lgnorance doesn't know itself.) Who needs facts when you've got your own opinions anyway, your own truth? And we all know now that even the most vacuous opinion trumps facts and real knowledge. (I'm not so sure you're setting a particularly useful example here. Still, I'd agree with you that what you Americans call 'public school' doesn't seem to be so good. I think I'd be tempted to stay at home and educate myself - but then think better of it. Public school + your own most serious private endeavours seems to me like it might be the way to go.)
My man, I want to say you're getting really good at this shit. It's more and more interesting to listen to you, even when you're doing boring shit, like ranting about public school, which has become a broken record long ago. Keep it up, man! I'm also glad that you didn't get baited by perfectionism and decided to not waste your time re-recording this video because of lags. It's still good, it wouldn't have been worth it.
Gerbert I love you bro! (no homo) You're me on so many levels. Same age, body type, height and of course many of the experiences you've had have happened to me, so I can relate to you very well. You're content has literally made me better person. So thank you dude!
Most of this could be solved by a voucher system that would let parents and students choose the school and program that best suits their needs. Of course, it'll never happen in many jurisdictions, because the public school teachers' unions own the politicians.
For me the worst thing is that I was a good student and wanted to be home schooled because I realised we aren't getting a great education but I happen to live in Germany where it's illegal.
Idk if anyone will see this, but I got diagnosed with adhd and autism quite late, only about 2 years ago with adhd and 1 year ago with autism. Nobody knew I had these conditions and it made school hell for me. It was unbearable. Now I hate learning and I'm trying to get back into it but it brings all these horrible emotions that I haven't sorted out. I think it will take me at least a decade to start liking learning again.
Highschool was treacherous, if you enjoyed highschool then you probably peaked at 17 and everything since then has been reminiscing about that one touchdown you scored during homecoming. No one wants to be uncle Rico from Napoleon dynamite, but I have met a few of those since graduation.
I’d respectfully disagree about alot of the seemingly useless stuff like complex algebra serving no purpose in school. I think it teaches people problem solving skills that they can bring into other aspects of their life. It’s healthy for our brains and probably more enriching than jerking off, playing vidya, and eating Cheetos. I’m graduating in a year with a BA in microbiology and I’m probably never going to use anything I learned in calculus, but I’m glad I took it because knowing I persevered through something that was hard for me, makes the other stuff in my life not so hard.
especially ap bro. colleges kinda require it and the work load is draining and quite frankly bullcrap. a small part of me envies those who have a don't care attitude for school
Tbh I don't think the school system expects you to remember everything, I personally think they just get you prepared to take in info n shit. American school system still dog shit tho
US public schools are one hundred percent designed to pump out blue collar workers and criminals. A lot of my teachers didn't know the subjects they taught in the slightest and many of them didn't even like kids. Gym class was the worst for me, not because I was unfit, it was just so degrading being forced to run laps and getting yelled at by some overweight woman if I slowed down. Kids should be able to learn whatever they want to learn about in school. No more tests, no more grades, and they shouldn't have to go if they don't want to. If kids don't want to go to school, that should show that there is a problem with the school system, not the kids.
I remember enjoying freshman and sophomore year of high school but junior and senior year i was over it completely. i would just sit in class wishing i could be out doing something else like skateing or guitar playing or hanging with friends. its just a waste of time. now im old and everyone i knew has gone separate ways, so its too late to enjoy my time.
I'm tryna do computer science so math kinda useful but why the fuck so I need to examine symbolism and themes of literature like I fucking hate the class, hate the teacher, and am never gonna usethe content
Part 2: society ain’t it
deadass lowkey on god no cap
I am going to go off into the woods and never return
@@jooot_6850 Unabomber style
@@jooot_6850same
Part 3: earth ain’t it
School is just designed to prepare people for the workforce. That’s why it’s usually catered towards convergent (analytical) thinkers. Divergent (creative) thinking increases the potential of what you can be in life though. I think that convergent thinking determines your floor in life, while divergent thinking determines your ceiling if that makes sense.
You could maybe also say, convergent thinking determines your floor and ceiling while divergent thinking basically determines nothing besides maybe excluding mediocrity.
it can be doen more effeinctly without kicking out creativity or being so expensive in time money etc. i suppose most leanring shoudl be done when student is willin gwith purpse in life, and systems decentrlized from public school into household smaller schools and private schools, a god way for higher quality servce to be, and be done by women whod enjoy such job while being with their own kids , vs if she went out decreased profit poetnetial for others in otehr jobs
Yeah school is designed to put people into work. It should be that, because if everyone was the owner of a company who would work? Who would produce the money? But I think how school does it is a bit too little they could teach multiple things that has actually meaning, till doesn't change the fact the world needs workers.
@@kami7567 everyone can’t own or run a successful business nor do they want to. So that’s an invalid point
@@deesplash7087 The people who want to run a buisness lacks the knowledge to do so or lack the effort to do it. the people who don't want to no idea about them that their choice but I don't doubt if it was taught ALOT more people would want do be a owner of a business they people who don't want to I really think they aren't bothered to learn right now and have a decent job.
Gerbert the only person to talk about his Grandma’s fatty and lowering the age of consent in one breath
And nobody would bat an eye.
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@@fullmetaltheorist cuz it’s Gerbert
He's an equal opportunity degenerate.
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I'm a high school math teacher myself and I straight up tell my students you'll never use most of this outside this classroom. However, I also reinforce that math is not about learning math. The purpose of math class is just as he pointed out; it's an exercise for the brain to build problem solving skills, creative thinking, and logical reasoning. Honestly if more teachers would present their courses this way you'd have more student buy in and appreciation of the material.
I would of 100000% of done better if i had teachers tell me this.
What if you use nearly 100% of the math you learned in school in your career.
I had a teacher just like you, and he would always engage us in class, and would even talk to us about our personal problems. He cared for us, and just wanted to make sure that we developed and succeeded in life rather than in one insignificant highschool course.
But it does apply outside of school in many scenarios, especially if you go on to major in math or science in college
@@sprawlz6466 I get that. But even in STEM majors most of those calculations are done by computers, especially once you actually start working in your field.
For example, I was a pure math major and once I graduated college I can guarantee I'll never need any of those upper level maths again lol
Gerbert videos bring happiness my soul.
The results of going to public school:
Destroying your creativity
Wasting your time and losing your greatest age
Learning things that doesn't matter really
Probably get depressed because of how people treat you
Injuries most probably
A low percentage chancs of becoming a bomber.
A low percentage of becoming a bomber?!! Damn
@@dontworryitsjustvitinho Is there any home schooled or private school guy who is bomber? No. It's only the public schools.
. Taught to subconsciously always obey to an authority (having to ask to go to the toilet, having to walk on one side of the corridor, only having 45 min of free time just to eat food, not being allowed to talk to each other and discuss things unless an authority figure says so)
. Taught that you cannot learn things without an authority figure allowing you to, look at the amount of people who believe learning is strictly for school kids, university students and in jobs etc and that learning things in your "free" time is considered insane
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Schools are literally prisons just without the gates, you are told to sit in a classroom at a certain time, memorise certain facts just to get a credential (grade) over actual wisdom or understanding something, eat when you are told, talk when you are told, leave class/school when you are told. Yeah you get my point, but modern western schooling is evil.
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@@acrez3260 to break out of this conditioning I'm gonna have to catch some smoke from the feds and throw it back at them
Touching grass isn't enough either i want to fight god and his angels
As a teacher, yeah, I agree. Most things taught in school are complete bullshit. I teach English as a foreign language in the Netherlands, so at least that's useful for my students later. But I'd advise my students to take what's useful/necessary for later, and as for the rest, do the bare minimum to pass and move on
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Coming back to school I just can’t wait to constantly overthink of how I think everyone perceives me
Same bro. My solution is looksmaxxing hard as fuck and not being socially retarded (sitting in a corner instead of joking about agreeing with hitler)
How they perceive you only matters if you give importance to it.
fr. coming back to school and the self consciousness is hittin. i want to just be invisible and do my own thing without the stress of thinking im not as good as everyone else 💀💀💀
@@fredosama3466 how they perceive you impacts how they treat you, and how they treat you impacts your wellbeing
And then you’ll prolly be depressed that you didn’t do more in ur high-school years
I had to wake up at 5:20 am for school because the bus would come so early. It was so draining doing that. Pretty glad I’m graduated. There’s some stuff that I miss, but the only things I miss are seeing my friends everyday and the community aspect of it. Seeing people everyday and dealing with the same shit as each other really creates strong friendships, so that’s really the one thing I liked it for
5:20? Wow how early does your school start?
@@cremebrulee2484 it started at around 7:40 or 8:00 but I live 20 minutes away from the school and there were a lot of stops. I live kind of in the middle of nowhere so everyone around my area was on that bus. It was just a long bus ride
You had friends? Lucky.
@@JTread2003 Try getting a bike bro, to get in some of that cardio
i'm doing that right now
They are literal dream killers. I think its too late to be open ended until your 18. The people who excel at a craft have started at a younger age and had a mentor. Radical but at age 13 we should just have apprenticeships instead of waiting for college where you have to choose between 500 degrees with no direction at all.
Based but also what if you do a craft at 13 that you end up hating later in life? I think you are supposed to learn that kind of thing on the side while also going to school to get a broad education. I do think school day should build in hours for that though, cus people are just way too busy afterwards sometimes.
@@Sharpgamingvideos Yeah alot of people dont have time to develop a meaningful skill, Although some people can.
@@Sharpgamingvideos if you end up hating it then you still have way more time than if you started out as an adult and hated your job
It's ovER if you hit your thirties and still have no skill. OvER
@@Sharpgamingvideos broad education works until you're around 8th - 9th grade. my whole entire high school experience was a rerun of everything i learned in middle school (i learned a lot of physics, chem, biology, etc all in middle school). bit of a bummer that college is not much different for the first half of it.
Bro, I got labeled ADHD in 1st grade. Up until highschool, I was under the impression that I had it, then magically I didn’t anymore. I talked to much and made sure I had good grades in highschool, not because I had to, but because I enjoyed learning. The catch is, I went to private school. An entire different experience. I got in trouble so many times for speaking my mind and beating 2 other kids up for talking fat. Didn’t go on my record, but I got suspended for a couple days. The double standard that is portrayed in schools is insane. I feel ya man
I went to private school too up until 8th grade. And I'm slightly conflicted on what I should have my kids do
On my side, learning the differences of public school made me appreciate the education i got when i was younger. But I only really realized this because of COVID and quarantine as well, this giving me the opportunity to step away from the system for a second and think
Of course I want my kids to start off in private school, but if I keep them there, they might be subjected into living in a bubble.
If I put them in public school afterwards, they may lose the values that were instilled in them and not be able to see the differences.
Then again, I'm only 17 and have had a VERY unique, once in a century experience. Idk what to think
@@AFunkyFella Perhaps elementary Private school and then public high-school? Although teens are incredibly susceptible to outer influences...
its so true that school takes away the natural desire to learn and grow. I got kicked out of one of my old schools because you were forced to write 2 seperate essays of different perspectives of a book a week (on top of other homework) and I did not have the energy or even the motivation to do it. This made me hate reading, now that I'm really getting into self improvement I started slowly reading and cant believe how enjoyable and therapeutic it is. I now look back at my life and realize I kinda hated learning because of school. I would always try and escape by either playing games or by partying and drinking. Im living healthy now, reading, watching documentaries and working out and I am learning so much more than I was in school. Being 19 now, I've had the same life goals that I've had at 10. I just wish I was either in a better school, or not at all. I like this content so much because as you have said before, I cant really talk about any of this with the people in my life and seeing that there is people likeminded is really refreshing. keep making funny shit gerby, and keep the freestyles.
Man, that thing about teachers telling you to shut up all the time thing is kinda true. I went to a very uptight christian school and those mofos went hard on keeping the silence at all times. At the time my home life was kinda messed up and I'd come to school to talk and vent or some shit and I'll have these people shouting in my face to keep quiet. Now that I think about it, I think I'm the most reserved guy that I know of. I let very little of myself out. Its kinda fucked up what it does to your confidenve too. Fucking school dude.
ive always thought school was very pointless and I think its a system that exploits the student to eventually become a classic 9-5 worker
It trains you to blindly submit to bs authority and work for long hours so that when you graduate, you will accept the unethical nature of modern employment without question. they want numb n dumb minds that act like workerbees so the have absolute control over the general population
watch the documentary zeitgeist addendum. even just the first 30 minutes or so is all you need. its free on youtube
I think it can weed people out who are the workers. The problem is the environment which is what the video is talking about. It's a requirement and a reality for a lot of people because it's the only option available that will yield any kind of normal consistent life when you mature in our society. Most things require a degree or diploma to get your hand wet into systems that cater to scholarly/trade/business seekers. It is a net drain and serves to fulfill the lowest common denominator a lot of the times.
Why do you view being “a classic 9-5 worker” as such a bad thing? Is it because it’s the norm now? I guarantee if only the wealthy/elite of society had 9-5 jobs, you’d want one too
@@laptv2144 because humans aren't made to work 9-5 hours 5 days a week
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His granny got that fatty
bro i cheated through my freshman to senior year and passed everything lol, system is broken
What part of the system is broken? You only cheated yourself by wasting time on something you aren't interested in.
@@user-gw4jp3xg3n most of the work was from 3rd party companies that would provide textbooks and tests so you could easily find it online meaning I didn't need to study or put any effort but that varies from school to school
@@Chudrizz. Okay that just sounds like a dogshit school tbh
This one right here 👮
@@user-gw4jp3xg3n lmao bro you even know how tests are done in public scores? They don’t matter. They don’t care about any individual student. Raise the average and get that money lmfao bro those tests are bs. Tests themselves are bs ask any educators with higher than a undergrad
Psychology major here. It's true that boys get diagnosed with ADHD disproportionately higher than girls. ADHD is supposed to be a disturbance on brain maturity, purely biological. In that sense, ADHD shouldn't have such gender differences (at least not to that extent). The fact of the matter is, ADHD expression is more annoying in boys than girls, because we are already more impulsive and confrontational
Which makes me think that a lot of the people that are diagnosed with ADHD really dont have it or its just a made bullshit term. Just how I see it.
@@chefboiardeeznutz9881 exactly... Im pretty sure 50% of people on ADHD medication dont actually have ADHD.
isnt the way that ADHD has been taught to us completely wrong? ADHD itself is a coping mechanism is it not? as per Dr. Gabor Mate who has studied it, he described it as a state where you cant fight a situation or take flight from a situation, the result leads you to get distracted and fidgety, among other ADHD symptoms. Dr. Gabor Mate states: “Rather than an inherited disease, Attention Deficit Disorder is a reversible impairment and a developmental delay, with origins in infancy. It is rooted in multigenerational family stress and in disturbed social conditions in a stressed society.”
ADHD is environmental, don't believe that bullshit they feed you.
If by impulsive and confrontational you mean based? Then yes
10:50 This is the line I was looking for. Humans learn through experience, even in indirect relation to your experience .
In History class, you cant be engaged or relate to the struggles of an American in the 1700s without context of living an adult experience.
You dont care about English and Math until you realize your co-workers struggle to read and cant grasp basic geometry.
You're correct that our education system is largely formed of information dumps that are uncatered to the individual, but its also very important to be introduced to many concepts such as algrebra or most basic science at a young age.
You'll never personally put knowledge of photosynthesis or the tectonic plates into real world use, but its very important to understand the world and have a strong baseline with at least intermediate math.
I think if kids had more freedom in choosing what they learned after middle school, most of this would be solved.
very true
YES! THATS WHAT IM SAYIN!!
I think high school (in america at least) is 100% useless for people who want to get anywhere in life. It actively puts you down
And students should be able to choose and figure out what they wanna learn without the pressures of debt
Home school is such a blessing. I'm 17 and I get time to work a part time job, start a business, and socialize.
Lucky bastard. I've always wanted homeschooling.
how do you socialize with people your own age and with similar interests ?
@@ST-qg9uz I hang out with the people I met before I went to home school, and I met new people when I started going to church.
@@iceyhotfire Do you think being home schooled for your whole life is good?
I too am homeschooled and my only issue is lack of social interaction. I have “friends” from sports but we really just play video games together. It’s nice being able to work on your own schedule too. If you want to have a 10:00-5:00 school work time you can. Also, for me, the work especially at earlier grades took like 2-3 hours to actually do. There isn’t a mandatory wasted time waiting for the next class to start. You just go on to the next subject. One thing you need to do though is make sure the homeschool you go to is certified because if it’s not then a government worker has to come and verify everything is on the up and up every once in a while.
Could we just all appreciate the bars at the beginning of the video
Bro this video is like hearing my thoughts speak. I 100% agree with the statement that grades aren’t a measure of your intelligence, but of your obedience. In my case, I always scored extremely high on the standardized math and English test, even scoring the highest in my district on the latter, but my grades always were average because I just didn’t give a fuck. I wasn’t passionate about anything I was learning, and I knew this shit wasn’t applicable, so why the fuck would I put the effort and energy into being good at it? That energy could be spent better elsewhere on trying new things and finding my passions and what I’m talented at. But instead, you spend most of your day wasting your time, instead of spending it on finding your future purpose and figuring out who you are at the stage in life where it’s most important. The problem is being forced to learn this shit, instead of naturally coming across it and learning about it out of passion and interest. School is basically a one size all glove that fits no one. Shit needs to change.
>go to school
>forced to learn about stuff you don’t care about in ways that don’t make you learn material
what’s the point? what use was my last twelve fucking years of my life? Gone. Never getting them back. And for what?
I’ve gone back and forth between private school and public school. I can assure you what you’re saying applies to both kinds of schooling. On my last year and it’s so annoying I have to waste time and have my schedule taken up over some bs.
the bars 🥶🥶
Glad youre taking a gap year man, mine's ending soon after I took one after high school too and it made me feel a lot better about life
By senior year I realized school was providing me nothing, I had a lot of open periods in my daily schedule and I showed up so little to my classes my teachers were so happy to see me when I showed up and most of them were very chill. My public school gave every kid an ipad with all our assignments and there were no due dates so I waited until the last minute, although it was a little stressful I basically finessed the system by only doing the tests and stuff like that which was worth the most points. The school system was so broken from COVID so whether you did your work or not you got 50% of points on everything. I had decent grades by doing shit here and there at home on the iPad. But I went to school to hang out with my friends and go to my good classes like weight training, cooking and creative writing. I don’t believe my diploma will get me the these rubber bands I’m chasing but the weight training was worth it. Definitely not putting my kids in public school made me procrastinate and it’s a major waste of time.
I find it absolutely insane how one of the most successful civilized nations in history has a terrible public education system
"civilized"
Every country in the world is civilized, good dogwhistle though
@@salj.5459 Did you just make a heckin' dogwhistlerino, bud?!
We are overcivilized and oversocialized.
Not an accident. Industry is fueled by discontent and anxiety. In order to control, you must destroy. Those who are their own threaten central control.
"Nobody who works a 9-5 job is going to come home and start grinding" 😂😂😂 facts. Started full time college while working 40 a week and I save homework til the weekend or the day of
My last 2 years of high school were interrupted by the pandemic I learned more in that time than i did through the entirety of middle school and high school. I started taking learning guitar more seriously and had the energy to do so and read a few books. Not really a lot actually just more than I did at school.
I had a very similar experience to gerby in public school. In elementary I had the most referrals in my school. When ever I got home I just wanted to relax and watch youtube, a habit that started in middle school and never ended until I got out. In the past year I have actually started learning just by finding books on the internet about things I care about and half ass going through them.
I feel like the majority of stuff that is taught in school is useless and the things that are useful you aren't taught to apply. Math is an objectively useful skill that opens up a lot of things creatively but you aren't taught how to do anything with it. High school math classes don't make engineers and physicists they make monkeys who can solve math problems.
I’m an A student and miserable because of it. I hate how obedient I force myself to be, but I keep going because I’m afraid I’ll regret it later on if I don’t pass and give myself the best chance of success. I’m good at school and despise it. It’s almost over but still I still cant stand it
i relate with this a lot right now because i wake up at 6, go to school for 7 1/2 hours, go work out, come home, eat dinner, and then i have like 2 hours of doing homework and its straight to bed. the weekdays are so unbelievably draining and if i want good sleep, i have absolutely no free time. every time im at school i cant help but think how much of a waste of time it is and how i could be using my energy in so many better ways
It sucks, being a wagie is the same but at least you are being paid and no homework.
When I was a junior I took AP classes and I had even less free time than that and spent entire weekends doing homework sunrise to sunset. When senior year rolled around I checked out completely and just took lower level classes and electives, and would come home and watch anime until I fell asleep. In retrospect it was the start of my serious depression but the relation to the stress of taking AP classes can't be understated. Homework is literally psychological warfare and you can't convince me otherwise
@@OPTIMUSL1ME yeah homework is awful
im graduating early and im 12 days out from graduation. my motivation is at an all-time low when it comes to homework but i've learned to balance it a lot better and i've become a lot more relaxed since then.
@@stale9035 good on you live your life
school fucked me up too it was like hell, destroyed me.
the math you learn in school is basic, the actual useful stuff comes when you specialise. Although I agree that working on applicable skills right of the bat is way better than wasting years on crap
Nah, definetly most of the stuff you learn about in school is very useful for everyone. Everything up to 7th grade is basically just getting a feel for (big) numbers and learning the basic arithmetics (plus, minus, multiplication, division, fractures, exponential calculus) and after that its very applicable stuff too like trigonometric functions, basic geometry, rule of three, calculating interest etc.
The thing is: He is right anyways, even about math, because he said it: its not optimised at all for children to realize how often and when you can apply all of thet stuff. Its done in a very abstract way. I always was VERY good at maths in school and now in uni but in school even i didnt get what i will need the maths for although i was acing every test. The abstract approach should be started in late highschool to get people ready for college and give a hint what college maths will be like and then obviously in college for people who actually use higher maths.
@@TobiasRebentisch no most of it is not useful at all in adult life…
@@itsaireka451 You dont need to know high numbers, basic arithmetics and basic geometry, rule of three? I think you absolutely do
@@TobiasRebentisch so tell me in what scenario in real adult life have you had to use that knowledge?
@@itsaireka451 Estimate interest Rates/returns (exponential maths), planning what furniture fits a room (Geometry), knowing what price/size is the better deal (rule of three), calculating price shares when buying something as a group, maybe with varied shares (basic arithmatics), even understanding how much a certain amount is (Million vs billion)/ in what metrics a calculator can operate (knowing and understanding relations and big numbers). Also statistics: thats what you probably need the most in day to day life to estimate dangers (what is more likely: getting a desease or having Side effects from vaxxines). Thats just basic day to day life, and you could go on forever probably. Will you die if you wont know that stuff? No, but you wont either If you cant read. Youre just really helpless and easy to scam.
I would consider understanding results of scientific studies as day to day life of a normal adult as well, and that requires much more than understanding what different probabilities mean. Even derivatives and integrals are more useful than you probably think. Its just that seeing useful applications is harder than just learning how to solve them. And thats what my point was: Application doesnt get teached properly.
Also: i dont know what you consider day to day life, but in most jobs you will need way more maths: everything related to IT, everything related to electronics or mechanics, everything related to business. Thats also day to day life to me.
Facts. My mom tricked the system in Germany and I was home schooled and I was constantly researching stof, wen I got back to school I lost energy to research freely, I still feel it some times but less and less.
doesn't seem like you got any english tutoring while being homeschooled, though.
@@user-gw4jp3xg3n well he is German so I can't blame him
@@user-gw4jp3xg3n 😂😂
This hurts to listen to because of how true it is
Edp445 bars always hit different🔥
I'm gonna need all your freestyles on a compilation video. You know we like compilation videos
I remember in High School I was called into the guidance counselors office because my of grades and behavior and was made to take an IQ test. I scored slightly above 90th percentile and the lady giving me the test looked at me and said, “you scored much higher than I thought you would.” Still, for the rest of the year I was put into a mandatory remedial class, with a kid who scored 132 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dude i scored way above the 90th percentile and im still an idiot people call me stupid more than they ever need me or have called me by my real name
bro i was so bored of my iq test, that i started guessing the answers! my teachers prolly think im batshit retarded ever since they checked my score
Most of the straight A students I have talked to aren't even very smart, just good at memorizing.
Give anyone a photographic memory and they’d be A students pretty easily. I was (overall) a straight B student and I got by with logic and a pretty bad memory. Not because I learned the material. Just because I knew what multiple choice to pick..
Having a good memory makes you smart
they're smart at memorizing XD
I’m so happy i put most of my time and effort into video, music, art, and acting in highschool. Spend your time on the arts!
Been going through a terrible depression due to the loss of a close family member and fiancé, both in the same day. But your videos always manage to distract me from the hurt and make me laugh. Thanks man. Bless you
I hope you find closure man. Good luck buddy.
Life is horrible, life is beautiful. It’s okay to grieve, it’s okay to laugh. There is a time for everything.
Hey man, I hope you are doing well now
May you find success and peace
I was similar to you I did very well in school up until high school because I just stopped caring and started reading things for myself. I mean I got my act together because I had to face facts and realize that education was my only way out of my situation, but to what you said about truly discovering that's why I entered a master's degree program that's based around Socratic dialogue, where you have other people ideas bouncing off your own and you can truly try to discover like the ancients. There's a reason why we admire them so much.
Edit: It's called St. John's College if any of you are interested.
I always thought I was weird when I'd go to school at like 7 AM, and then coming home anywhere from like 3 to 9, and then just not doing anything else. Ever. Like I do not remember a single moment of my teenage years outside of something funny that happened in school. I just worked. And then it was over. Half my damn life, man.
Me too man. That stuff was so monotonous it all blended together. You tell me to pick out a specific memory from each school year and I’m not sure I could.
"my grandma got that fatty.." bro im cryin rn 😭😭😭
im tryna smaaaaaaaaaaaaaash
I pull up in the Bugatti
Just found your page not too long ago and your videos are a breath of fresh air. Feel like I’m just listening to a friend go a a deep philosophical rant. I love these topics and conversations. #TeamGerb
The amount of time I wasted preparing for exams I had at the end of the year is ridiculous, considering that by the time they came around I lost all interest in getting good grades. I realised a while ago how much I dislike the system and that I would never again enter education once I'd finished school. University is a huge scam. Don't go unless you need a ceratin degree. You can go party and meet friends without it.
The thing I hated about school was homework. I don’t mind sitting down and doing work in school where I’m supposed to learn. But why tf do I gotta dedicate so much time outside of school on homework. But I guess it just trains you for studying once you get to college.
You know what i like about this channel? I like that he is genuine about everything because sometimea he stutters,sometimes he needs a moment to think about what he wants to say. Its more human this way. Like he is not reading off a script.
Edit:Gerbert,if you read this,dont think about the fact that somebody already made a video about this topic.We want to hear your toughts about it.I really enjoy your content man. Keep it up!💪
I think school tries to push as much information in one time to grow your capacity to learn. Yes most of the information is bullshit, but it’s like training a muscle. You won’t know how to fight if you just have muscles but having that muscle helps you with fighting. It’s the same thing the capacity you get from school helps you learn complicated stuff in your life.
Also sadly this is only system that works it’s so hard to deal with millions of students who are different. And if you cancel school kids are going to be sitting at home scrolling through tiktok. This is the only system that can keep “most” kids from being complete losers. Btw I hate the schooling system and I’m blessed to be one of the kids who realized this and started working on shit outside school and not just rely on school, but if you think about it there’s no better system at least not within the realm of possibility and financially.
@@Engmelli Yeah I absolutely agree with what you said. Not everyone can afford to homeschool their children, that's why we should try our absolute hardest to achieve financial freedom to be able to do that and actually spend time with our children.
@@aryaa7069 YES exactly my point
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Plus no one ever brings up the fact that from a scientific angle, chronically sitting down as much as you do in public school is literally unhealthy and sets one up for future health complications. I taught about that shit a lot during high school (as I continually had lower back pain).
Bro everything hurts. I try and sit in the seat with good posture, it's uncomfortable as fuck, and my back hurts for no reason. You're not supposed to sit for 8 hours, it's crazy.
I personally always had bad posture so I'm not gonna completely blame school, but I'd be lying if I said school didnt contribute to my now diagnosed scoliosis...
12:00 this part hit my coochie so hard and fast
I used to be so amped up as a kid, but after getting in trouble a lot for talking I just naturally stopped being talkative as a result and it stuck with me all the way up to my ripe age of 22.
It sucks.
freestyle going hard
same
SO TRUE! As an 11 grader, I get 5 hours of sleep, I do approximately 10 hours of school work, but then I still have to work on my other things and to have that amount of work without breaks it's impossible.
in order to think outside the box there needs to be something inside the box first
6:30 - 7:20
Straight facts honestly.
School is good but it's not optimised for kids to grow themselves...
I remember when I was in highschool my math teacher taught my class about taxes, how to buy a car and a house. No one really paid attention anyways. I don't think that school teaches useless crap but that most people have a natural proclivity to not care about anything that doesn't benefits them then and there.
I have friends now that went to technical high schools and I feel like my fucking youth was robbed going to a public school. Dudes were lowering cars for homework... wtf
I got diagnosed with adhd in second grade, because I always used to look out of the window and kinda get lost in my thoughts, while other people were working on their papers. So my teacher told my parents to take me to a therapist who prescribed me dr&gs to focus. Luckily my parents were against it, but considering how many kids told me the same story with a different ending, that is seriously scary considering how I could have ended up as a addict just because some teacher or therapist thought being creative and just simply a kid is a disorder that has to be “treated” with dr&gs.
Textbook reading becomes interesting once you have a big enough amount of knowledge in your head to begin with. For example, the innovation from reading textbooks that I get comes from 1) connecting the ideas in the book to the ideas in my head, 2) trying to understand why the author is laying out the content they way they are, or 3) thinking about how I can apply this knowledge elsewhere
College was 100% better than all my other years in school. I found a college that was smaller and it was overall such a great experience. Do what’s best for you
Smaller Private colleges are less w0k3 and there's a more intimate feel with classes, especially when you get deep into your major. Even when doing balls-to-the-wall hard stuff for courses, it was still way more fun and fulfilling than high school, which was WAY easier for me. Plus you have more freedom woth scheduling classes.
Yeah, growing up in an asian household here in the US, there was no way I was gonna get home-schooled so that I would've been freed from the mental exhaustion of learning nothing useful, because my parents have an authority complex where "If the big main system says it to be, then it shall be just" mindset. I hated it.
I went to public school in elementary and middle then transferred to private in high school… The difference was immense. Small enough to know everyone, like a real community (rare nowadays). Teachers who were respected by kids so didn’t have a nightmare job and with small classes they could give individual attention in. They really expected you to try and would personally meet you halfway to help, and socially too - it took a year til I joined extra curriculars but everyone tried the whole time to get me to connect.
I had a huge amount of growth in that time… That was years ago and Im struggling now. But I always struggled socially and if I didn’t go to that school I’d be twice as fucked as I am right now. The money games behind education are massively ruining a huge number of children’s current and future lives
Wake up babe, papa posted a video
This definitely resonates with me, I was saying this back when I went to school, it's just so tragic that so many kids get their motivation beaten out of them and they are force fed a bunch of information that although useful in some cases, that's not what they wanted anyway.
Im 26 and i hated most of public highschool. I was depressed, Found an identity in music, drugs and girls.
I got good grades and was an athlete, Fast forward, i went to a top 20 engineering school (CA state school) and i was extremely grateful i put up with the crap in HS. Everyones journey is different, but i have a career, purpose, knowledge and professional creative outlets that pay the bills. education gave me that. From HS, to the shitty content i watch on YT. Also, school allowed me to meet toms females and guys that i relate too, and helped me find myself. I realize i am privileged and we cant all experience this path.
But We can't all be tiktokkers, youtubers and musicians. Plus, that lifestyle isn't as great as it seems. Life is hard work and painful no matter what.
Get what you can out of your situation and adapt. Use that extra boring time in school to write, draw, think, dream, plan. I promise you wont have that same time when you're older. We are all really slaves to our own society and universe, not just public school. Stay positive. Always learn. You are a valid human.
Dude when I finished school I had the same oponion but now im in uni and oh boi was I wrong
God when your parents tell you to learn at school and that education is important please listen to what they are saying because they went trough that shit and they know how hard the life can be for people when they have no diploma
You preaching fr. I hate school. The only good thing I get from being forced to go is selling there making money off a bunch of kids and I learn from it for real.
Dude was hitting those highnotes fr plus the switch up. Heat
Even college is the same man.
I am an architecture student college from 8 to 4. Where most time is just wasted.
Then a ton of homework that keeps me up at night.
All my homies waiting for Mike Scrotum's greatest hits to train at the gym like a real sigma.
Gerbet's videos bring happiness to my joy
Yeah honestly about 87% of the shit I learned in HS was completely useless, with the exception of two of my English classes (both classes' teachers were very engaging and made me like the act of analyzing rhetoric and reading in general) and an Elective class called Public Speaking. It was mainly about how to present yourself and be confident, especially in the context of presenting a Tedtalk or speech. The end of year project was basically whatever you wanted, so long as it was something you were passionate about. Usually stuff like that in other classes made me annoyed, because there was nothing in the realm of, say, US History that really got me fired up to do an independent project. But in PS, the relative degree of freedom we had been given on all our other projects, and seeing how every student sorta came into their own, allowed basically everybody to craft a thoughtful and well presented project that they cared about, myself included. Mine was sorta structured like a Jacob Geller video essay (though I imagine it was far less eloquent) in podium form. That was the one thing I created in HS (even though I'm an artist who took art classes every year I was there) that I was genuinely 100% proud of. W class. Ms Horne, if you're somehow in a Gerbert Johnson video's comment section, thank you so much for a fucking wonderful experience
I completely agree. Everything I learnt in highschool was pointless and I argue the same for colleague (which I did only because I needed the degree).
It's all about obedience.
You can't even spell college correctly.
As a young adult doing his masters in E-Engineering, I can tell you school is a joke.
The first semester is pretty much clogging up holes that are left from school.
If I had children today I would send them into specialized private schools and teach them general life skills by ourselves.
I agree. 80% of the required courses for a CS degree at my local community college are either social science classes or classes like "life skills". It's a joke. I've started to learn how to code ny myself and I've honestly learned a lot more from self-teaching myself then when I did going to college. College should be getting you ready for a career but it doesn't. If it did then why for a lot of people is a college degree STILL not enough for an entry level job.
@@XoloYT My biggest problem is how wasteful everything is with time.
If you are low IQ you don't bother with engi/science anyway that's why you should be able to do multiple higher level exams at once, during the pandemic most stuff was prerecorded anyway, might as well reward those who wish to study all day long and let them finish their bachelor/master in 1/3 of the time.
It's so fucking retarded, let me speedrun uni and max our lab time instead of making me take higher maths over a 6 month period.
@@XoloYT It's important to note there is a distinction between learning for the sake of future scholarly work and learning for the sake of earning.
13:50 They called me problematic in primary and said i was aggressive, they didn't mind the other kids bullying me and breaking my glasses behind their backs, but when i hit them back and knocked out a teeth they sued my parents. But now its 6 years later, am about to finish a level of middle school only 5% of people go to while they all dropped out of the easiest one.
Finland used to be 9th grade then you are set free. They changed the law when i was in the 7th grade, and i have to go to school until i am 18 now. I think it still is better though, we can pick from different schools, some are like high school but you can also just start kindof a career training thing. I went to high school, though i plan to use my focus and energy on my own projects.
I agree with everything except for that there’s not a point to learning math or or science or something beyond high school. The one caviote I have is if Someone wants to be a doctor or lawyer because it is important that they learn it
School made me hate authority and work/learning in general. My family doesn't understand why, like i just spent 18 years in a shitty institution
was just thinking about how shitty school is a minute before i saw this video.
My biggest mistake was taking advanced courses at school. What a waste of time.
For subjects i never was interested in.
And dual enrollment, credit for a degree im not interested in and classes that wont help me.
There's a great video by sorelle amore called 'how you are programmed to be poor' and it mainly talks about over school (as much as i remember)- but i've heard other people talk about it aswell.
ik whatchu mean bro they decide if you pass or not and train you to be timid
I'm doing my senior year online, and it's honestly so much better. My friends are kind of pissed at me, but I'm so sick of the dogshit school I went to and this year is literally infinitely easier. It takes as much effort to finish my classes as it took me to get through fourth grade. I can actually learn shit at my own pace and I can get 7 hours of schoolwork in-person done in like 1-2 hours
Ah, youthful narcissism and hubris...so sweet, so pure. ("I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.") Look, when you already know everything, why go to schooI anyway? Well, maybe doing stuff you don't want to do develops a strength and a discipline that is necessary in life. Living an adult life is most curtainly not about doing only that which you enjoy and find pleasing. Besides, gathering facts (even the most boring ones) lays the foundation of knowledge. And knowledge is a pre-requisite for productive and informed debate/discourse. As an old man now, I listen with bewilderment to youngsters who seem to know almost nothing about a subject and yet engage in debate on it with a confidence that truly impresses - even though they are putting to sea in a sieve. (lgnorance doesn't know itself.) Who needs facts when you've got your own opinions anyway, your own truth? And we all know now that even the most vacuous opinion trumps facts and real knowledge. (I'm not so sure you're setting a particularly useful example here. Still, I'd agree with you that what you Americans call 'public school' doesn't seem to be so good. I think I'd be tempted to stay at home and educate myself - but then think better of it. Public school + your own most serious private endeavours seems to me like it might be the way to go.)
"doing stuff u dont want to do develops discipline in life 🤓🤓"
last time i checked, coercion is a crime
My man, I want to say you're getting really good at this shit. It's more and more interesting to listen to you, even when you're doing boring shit, like ranting about public school, which has become a broken record long ago. Keep it up, man!
I'm also glad that you didn't get baited by perfectionism and decided to not waste your time re-recording this video because of lags. It's still good, it wouldn't have been worth it.
Gerbert I love you bro! (no homo) You're me on so many levels. Same age, body type, height and of course many of the experiences you've had have happened to me, so I can relate to you very well. You're content has literally made me better person. So thank you dude!
bro is Gerbert 2.0 😂
Most of this could be solved by a voucher system that would let parents and students choose the school and program that best suits their needs. Of course, it'll never happen in many jurisdictions, because the public school teachers' unions own the politicians.
I really like your authenticity, keep up the good work
For me the worst thing is that I was a good student and wanted to be home schooled because I realised we aren't getting a great education but I happen to live in Germany where it's illegal.
Idk if anyone will see this, but I got diagnosed with adhd and autism quite late, only about 2 years ago with adhd and 1 year ago with autism. Nobody knew I had these conditions and it made school hell for me. It was unbearable. Now I hate learning and I'm trying to get back into it but it brings all these horrible emotions that I haven't sorted out. I think it will take me at least a decade to start liking learning again.
Highschool was treacherous, if you enjoyed highschool then you probably peaked at 17 and everything since then has been reminiscing about that one touchdown you scored during homecoming. No one wants to be uncle Rico from Napoleon dynamite, but I have met a few of those since graduation.
Honestly is there a better feeling than waking up and seeing Gerby has uploaded?
I’d respectfully disagree about alot of the seemingly useless stuff like complex algebra serving no purpose in school. I think it teaches people problem solving skills that they can bring into other aspects of their life. It’s healthy for our brains and probably more enriching than jerking off, playing vidya, and eating Cheetos.
I’m graduating in a year with a BA in microbiology and I’m probably never going to use anything I learned in calculus, but I’m glad I took it because knowing I persevered through something that was hard for me, makes the other stuff in my life not so hard.
especially ap bro. colleges kinda require it and the work load is draining and quite frankly bullcrap. a small part of me envies those who have a don't care attitude for school
Tbh I don't think the school system expects you to remember everything, I personally think they just get you prepared to take in info n shit. American school system still dog shit tho
US public schools are one hundred percent designed to pump out blue collar workers and criminals. A lot of my teachers didn't know the subjects they taught in the slightest and many of them didn't even like kids. Gym class was the worst for me, not because I was unfit, it was just so degrading being forced to run laps and getting yelled at by some overweight woman if I slowed down. Kids should be able to learn whatever they want to learn about in school. No more tests, no more grades, and they shouldn't have to go if they don't want to. If kids don't want to go to school, that should show that there is a problem with the school system, not the kids.
10:50. 100% what I always thought too. True understanding comes from experience, not theory
Gerbert.... you my friend would fit right in with USMC Infantry
left school and came home early and watch this
I remember enjoying freshman and sophomore year of high school but junior and senior year i was over it completely. i would just sit in class wishing i could be out doing something else like skateing or guitar playing or hanging with friends. its just a waste of time. now im old and everyone i knew has gone separate ways, so its too late to enjoy my time.
I'm tryna do computer science so math kinda useful but why the fuck so I need to examine symbolism and themes of literature like I fucking hate the class, hate the teacher, and am never gonna usethe content