This "dear 'god'" thing seems to be a huge problem as well. From the outside it looks like religious indoctrination is a huge contributor to the problem.
@@homerj.simpson7562 I suppose you're right. But in this case, it was just a figure of speech. Feel free to insert your preferred, non-denominational alternative.
I quit my job as a professor because I could no longer stand the unrelenting pressure to pass nursing and pre-med students that could not write a complete sentence, of having to look the other way as students cheated and God forbid should a minority student say that I was unfair. It's pathetic. Today you can graduate with a science degree and literally be semi-illiterate. This country is screwed!
Agreed. After 20 years as an Air Force avionics technician I retired and finally got to "progress" to the "next plateau" by going to college full time for a BS in Information Technology. Talk about being relegated from the major leagues to nursery school, is what going from military to college was like. There were a few good classes and instructors but 90% of that program was just as you described; "Let's not educate and say we did." College is nothing but a federal funds money grab for the school. There are literally no Department of Education accrediting standards, that's all between the school and the private accrediting agency, so it's a bent system and accreditation has no real meaning. Therefore, I think the GI bill should be discontinued as it's a waste of taxpayer money and the veteran's time. Getting employment after a military career should be the top priority and college should only be pursued if it's a condition for promotion with your new employer. But after the college experience I chose to stay retired and will be leaving the US for a location where I can actually afford a decent standard of living with my pension. I mean seriously, I'm supposed to build a productive working relationship with the kinds of clowns colleges churn out? I don't think so. You blew it, America, but thanks for the pension I'll spend in a foreign economy and lifelong medical insurance!
I came here to say the same thing. I quit my job as an inner city elementary school behavioral therapist this year because, after five years of watching children not being required to do homework or class work, yet seeing those students being passed year after year after year without turning in a stitch of homework or anything - I realized it’s all a system. I had to get out. We had parents demanding that we don’t give their children homework. Coming to the campus and threatening teachers and administrative staff. Kids who can’t even read or write at a first grade level, being graduated out of fifth grade and sent off to middle school. Just unbelievable our education system today.
@@65neu52 I think there are more and more of us out there, many struggling to move on to new careers because the work of educators is not given any value. I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of liberals for what had happened to education. It may have started with Bush's No Child Left Behind but liberals and their social justice agenda killed off any vestige of accountability by students. What is worse is that it undermines the effort by good students and values of hard work. We're building a nation of ignorant lazy people. Good luck with your career change - I'm still looking
@@thor9838 yes, we should follow the science. Just because we are graduating morons, it does not mean we throw out science. Should we do the same with mathematics, and engineering? What to design your own airplane?
Never thought of it that way before but it scares me silly. I'm 80 and never felt that way before except in past elections I have wonder what are these people thinking. Now I know nothing.
Now the number of votes you receive depends on how much money people are willing to spend to get you elected, not on your skills or the policies you support.
No the funniest point in all of this is that your votes don’t count AT ALL.. 😂 funny he didn’t teach you THAT. Just decided to complain about a nonexistent problem.🤣 Btw before you get butthurt and start spouting off with ignorance…your ignorance of not saying “dad your vote doesn’t matter anyway” is where you failed and he failed to teach you this. Popularity votes mean less during an election than the bodies used to fight a war mean to the people who started it. I hope you mature one day and accept the intelligence you weren’t taught in school or by your father.
@@gailyou9005well if you’re 80 and still haven’t figured out that your vote is, by definition, USELESS, then you haven’t learned much in 80yrs… HAD TO BE EXHAUSTING BEING SO DUMB FOR SO LONG…😂 avoiding facts and knowledge… your vote doesn’t mean 💩. It’s a popularity vote. The ONLY votes that truly matter, regardless of how many civilians vote, is the electoral votes. Sorry you’re not one of them… 😂
Actually _THERE IS_ only one cure for stupid, but its not something that can be said aloud when the majority are unwilling to face the cold hard truth. They would rather stay detached & uninvolved in their own comfortable, artificial cyber-life... Yes, reality can become _THAT_ stark & that ugly, when you don't face the truth for what it is & take action It's utterly shocking to me that public education has taken such an enormous dive in the years since my children graduated. (Early 2000's) America truly has become a Socialist dictatorship wearing a "democratic" mask. And it began with a traitorous take-over of public education, the actions of which began in the late 60's & throughout the 70's when the voices of specific congressmen (& -women) were neither heard nor heeded Hosea 4:6 _My people are dying_ [literally] _for lack of knowledge_ Author Unknown _Tyranny exists right under the noses of human incredulousness of a majority who cannot believe it exists at all_ Noam Chomsky is an acknowledged anarchist. So I don't agree with his political philosophy. For all I know he's also an atheist. Whatever the case, he's got this one right 100%. This is a real eye-opener for that greater majority of high school & college graduates we call "the indoctrinated." It is well worth your 10 minutes. And for those of you who knew what a circus & a grand illusion (a giant pacifier) American politics has been through the decades, this video simply affirms suspicions you already had Manufactured Consent: _the 5 Filters of Mass Media,_ by Noam Chomsky; producers unknown; as presented by Al Jazeera English in 2018 m.ruclips.net/video/34LGPIXvU5M/видео.html
But stood is acceptable to me, but everyone is born with a high iq, that's just a fact. But the responsibility of those who have the brain power should help those who are weaker (that's certainly well associated with liberalism I thought). So ignorance, which is what was shown here by the lugs, is far more... Concerning/, because that should not be allowed, esp today when the knowledge is at your fingertips
Lol 😆 I DON'T know, local unmentionable ZOMBIES, have called me stupid. More like completely unaware at the time of how much are ZOMBIES. Wicked stubborn mules with blinders, no matter how many repeated life lashings from God. That I became aware of soon, and did call the local unmentionable "a mule with blinders." He's actually not so much of a snowflake himself about insults, takes them well from others, even bad jokes about him, but maybe married to an egomaniac narcissist, like I was. Not aware of that until no longer married. That's what happened to me. Usually men get that rap, but I wonder how many men married to egomaniac narcissistic women. This country breeds that alot, unlike Spain. The type of women who would marry without being in love. Marry for money and social status. That's not a Spaniard upper middle class families type of thing to do. My oldest daughter is not out to do anything like that either.(Low self esteem or none does that, but zombies instead). Spanish girls from good families seek love and compatibility. Basically my oldest daughter seeks a guy similar to her brother, intellectual, very well read, and he's definitely not a zombie person at all, but he's Germanic in how he is, so she's had to warm him up. He sounds warm when speaking Spanish,, but he's definitely the colder more reserved type, yet he's also a sweet guy. His family that took off to Latin America, has to have been Prussians, and they're not religious at all. That means if they get married, he's going to have to become a Spaniard Catholic man. He loves everything about space travel. My daughter says that he even gets emotional about seeing rockets take off. Another "alien", but with green eyes, so he's in the right family. Sarcasm.
If you're parent, one of the best things you can do for your child's education is to buy a globe and have it in the house. It doesn't have to be an expensive one, but having simple things like globes and atlases and dictionaries and things like that in the home really makes a positive difference when it comes to learning.
I don't have a globe, but I do have a map on the wall in plain sight. I wrote verb conjugations on the wall and times tables. It was "just there all the time".
Had an AIG teacher tell me 25 years ago to place a map in the wall in each child’s room to study and imagine what the places were like to give them that love of adventure and learning. It seemed to work!
Yes I grew up with a map on the wall in my house. Gave my grandchild an old world map for his bedroom. But also Geography was taught in school. The common knowledge that this generation is growing up without is mind blowing and sad.
I taped the Bill of Rights to the wall in my son's room, right by the light switch, when he was four years old. He's twenty now, and could out-debate almost anyone. Anyone but me.
Don't worry about it, she probably knows what each letter in the lgbtqia2s+ stands for and why they're oppressed. It's only the real alphabet she struggles with
Don't you know? Today's teachers tell the kids they get to choose their own gender. The new generation of teachers are fucked. Imagine how fucked their pupils will be.
I heard my 22 year old brother in law literally say once "Capitalism sucks." and "I wanna start my own business" in the same breath. The dumbing down of America is a very real thing.
@David Chavez Actually, by saying that, he understands nothing about economics and only hates capitalism as a consumer and worker and has no idea of the work it takes to own a business. He's basically showing his stupidity and ignorance. Capitalism is the only way TO be financially free.
@David Chavez abject poverty over the last 100 years is dramatically down, but okay. Definitely problems with it, but it's by far done a better job than anything, ever, in terms of feeding people, giving shelter, standard of living, etc.
It's not capitalism that sucks. It's that the wealthy and powerful have rigged the rules of capitalism in their favor. Rulings like Citizens United and continued deep tax cuts for the top 1% have turned us into an oligarchy.
@@hutch1197 exactly. people are lumping crony capitalism and capitalism together. The system we have right now is not capitalism. SOME regulation is necessary but not total government control of the economy. That DE incentivizes anyone to wanna start a small business.
As a teacher myself, I can tell you exactly why this is happening. The education system has completely failed them. Teachers are no longer allowed to teach. Kids can no longer be held accountable and are passed without getting them the help they need. Too much focus has been put on demographics and kids can no longer be disciplined. Kids are not being taught that actions have consequences and if kids aren't being taugh that lesson, then you're not teaching them anything. We have to accept that not all kids are the same and need to provide the appropriate learning environment for kids that have needs beyond what can be provided in the typical classroom.
"The education system has completely failed them." BS. If a child wants to learn they will. A parent is responsible for preparing their children for school. If you are a teacher, your job is to teach all of them. Maybe you are suffering from job burnout and forgot what your purpose is. As you know, people constantly change perceptions through experience. The kids today have more distractions than they have before. Adults need to step up and be responsible. How is that possible when the parents today willingly are destroying the foundation of our country by electing demagogues who support insurrection?
Pure George Carlin!!! I started teaching in 1969. My students were non-academic high school students. I retired as a college professor in 2018. With few exceptions, my 15- and 16-year-old high school students of1969 wrote and spoke more articulately than my 20- and 21-year-old college students of 2018. How do I know? Over the years I kept writing samples.
I used to work in a local grocery store. They had to put applications for employment on a computer screen because the handwriting was atrocious! couldn't spell either.
You know what? What you did, saving those writing samples is exactly the proof that we all need that exemplifies the steady decline of academia! So sad & so true. I've also paid attention to how people now "write" and find myself always wondering, how they passed English courses in high school. I'm referring to people who were born & raised in America! I'm not going to say when I graduated high school, but it was many years back. I distinctly remember being hammered over & over as to how important writing papers & just general writing skills, proper verb-subject agreement was so very important & crucial to my education. Will never forget that.
And when you value entertainment. For most people, the real world can't compete with commercial pleasures so of course they will cram their heads full of irrelevant things, rather than useful knowledge. Just like they'll overeat on fast food and get fat instead of having a healthy diet.
@@marty4278 with all due respect, anyone who has done even a modicum of research into the topic recognizes that it is the left of the political spectrum that has done all the horrendous damage to our educational system over the past few decades
Oh god, he may have been blunt, especially in private but he was never wrong in it. Passions in your beliefs are important, but sometimes facts need to massively outweigh all of this. Over in the US, this seems to have completely gone out of the window. Thank goodness I don’t live over there. I think one hour of their regular TV adverts would melt my brain.
@@danielwhyatt3278 Having spent plenty of time in countries around the world i can say without any reservation that there is plenty of stupid to go around. Believing that this is a reason not to live in the US is a good example. Besides, if you ever see these ads in eh US then you're either over 60 or watching sometime targeted at malleable morons.
@M. F. just a disclaimer, i am neither democrat nor republican, I am American. Period. Quick question for you M.F.. In observation of US economic condition, gas prices, vaccine mandates of a clearly defective and dangerous product, crime rates (keep it simple and just use gun violence and theft), immigration, foreign policies and affairs, etc. You STILL think that Biden has somehow been better than Trump? REALLY? Wow...
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." ~Hannah Arendt
> Repeats meme about communism being totalitarian. > Meanwhile US gov funding some child mercenaries in Africa. Opinion immediately disregarded. Edit: kids calling me dumb, but cant give me exeamples of communism being totalitarian. even NK has a better voting and democratic system than the US. (although 50% of the crowd in NK is religious and think of kim as some prophet, which I do not like, they do have a better voting system, so people get who they want. unlike in the US, where the christian cult get manipulated into voting for trump.) I can give you examples of laws in NK, which show how much freedom people there have(for exeample weed is legal, also the weed there is different from the addictive toxic stuff that people in the US call weed). Ignorants like to BELIEVE that everyone outside the US are just a "herd" while they themselves are the biggest "herds".
I graduated high school about 2 years ago with a slightly below-average GPA of 3.2/4.0. Now, out of the people that I know from my graduating class I was one of the only ones who could tell you the date that Pearl Harbor was attacked or in some cases even worse when 9/11 happened. Another example is working in the banking field now, I should not be instructing people who have a bachelor's degree how to write a professional email when I'm only a high school graduate. It feels like the education system attempted to lower the bar but ended up removing it entirely.
Once we decided that the only function of "education" was "jobs," the only thing that mattered was the rubber stamp at the end. _That_ is the real Republican long-game, and they won it (with Democrats' help of course).
A college education is not proof of how smart you are...only that you were stupid enough to pay a lot or go into debt for ... a bunch of useless knowledge that someone much smarter than you... convinced you that you needed it...😮😅😂
Like Carlin said, "The owners of the country do not want a population of critically thinking people." But after watching that clip, I' certain even Carlin would be stunned by it.
@@yahyarajaee5883 Also Carlin: "Think of how stupid the average American is and realize that half of them are stupider than that." ruclips.net/video/8rh6qqsmxNs/видео.html
I taught Kindergarten in the Seattle Tacoma area for 20 years. About 15 years ago we were told to “just pass them”. Even if the parents were BEGGING for their child to be held back, they wouldn’t do it. It was sickening. I resigned a few years ago because I just couldn’t be part of it any more. They are so worried about social justice and being innovative that they have lost what the basic fundamentals on why we teach in the first place.
Well, when you have politicans who are more concerned about where tansgender students use the bathroom then what the cognitive appitude and performance of the students is, then yeah, of course performance is going downhill. It's not woke social-justice warriors that are the problem with education like you are implying. The problem is conservatives who are more concerned about banning books than banning guns. Conservatives who are more focused on culture wars than the performance of students. Conservatives who are more concerned about teaching religiosity than teaching science, and these people influence cirriculum policy. That's the problem.
I have no idea how i passed JR high or high school i never did any homework, ever . The only class i received an A was the only class the teacher took the time to helped me. I think i was a d+ student, the classes bored me to death. I noticed teachers would help the smart kids and treat the others like garbage. I can not think of anything i learned in school that helped me in life. I learned a trade and made more than all my other friends.
@@TheKnives777 aware USA can give everyone medicare+lower inflation so wages regain value but need to punish all those whom want to stay in Syria like Schiff/pelosi? wesley clark foreshadow reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria ruclips.net/video/_mrJRHwbVG8/видео.html dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip, blm crash car in to wisconsin parade thanks to nbc follow jury bus smearing ritten house too ruclips.net/video/UxoL8tHSa7g/видео.html
@@VisaisforCucks aware USA can give everyone medicare+lower inflation so wages regain value but need to punish all those whom want to stay in Syria like Schiff/pelosi? wesley clark foreshadow reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria ruclips.net/video/_mrJRHwbVG8/видео.html dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip, blm crash car in to wisconsin parade thanks to nbc follow jury bus smearing ritten house too ruclips.net/video/UxoL8tHSa7g/видео.html
@@Michael-Archonaeus Bill is just fine, but it's his whooping studio audience whom I find most disagreeably dumb 🤡. 🇬🇧 Whooping: America's most irritating export. PS: I love rock 'n' roll, love Harley Davison Motorcycles (I ride one), I love Americans and America, but leave it out with the whooping already! 🤬
100% thank you. I remember vividly being in middle school and thinking the show Street Smarts was fake, I couldn’t imagine anyone actually being that dumb. I thought this is a child! I’m first generation went to public school so didn’t have any fancy education but I liked to learn and I didn’t realize how out of the ordinary that is until I joined the work force. So many people are really just sleep walking through life.
Ask 100 people the same question (pretty much any question), and you’re bound to find one confident idiot who doesn’t have the sense to say “I don’t know”
Perfectly put. People are only concerned about their own inane personal lives and have zero interest in the world around them. It's so challenging to have a deep, intellectual conversation.
The last decade has really helped in the dumbing down, by creating people who focus on which side of the political spectrum you believe in, rather than on the issue. You need to be able to think and to accept opposing views.
You don't need to accept opposing views (did you mean "receive" them?). One needs to listen and evaluate. Sometimes opposing views help sharpen your own or they at least help you learn to articulate them in a more effective way. And this last decade certainly sped up the dumbing down. In a post modern society this is inevitable. I also agree that people have sharpened their focus on a particular political spectrum rather than on real issues. Easy to do in an environment where journalists have disappeared and large media outlets are agenda driven.
As a Brit with long-standing ties to the USA, I keep a close eye on US life and politics. There should be no such thing as a 'Career Politician', anywhere. Three terms, then you're Out. Not long enough to make millions more than your salary? Tough. Though, I'm not sure its too much of an insult calling people 'You dumb fox.'
@@terencejay8845- Agree. Another big Problem, in my opinion, is they get a paycheck for life along with health ins, that we the tax payer pays! Very few have redeeming values. Two terms and then go back into society without the liberty to get paid as a lobbyist.
Thinking posts a part in that, which is a different teaching concept to knowledge. It is a part of it, but even if you aren't smart, if you're taught to be respectful, you can listen then understand that but everyone's like you & disagree with them rather than just shouting & mocking then
I appreciate that Bill has also pointed out the semi literate society we currently live in as well. People not only don't know shit, they can barely read and spell which only adds to the frustration when dealing with idiots and their lack of logic or reasoning.
True. "According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of U.S. adults 16-74 years old - about 130 million people - lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level." - That should be seen as a national emergency. If America diverted 5% of it's military budget towards education, the problem would be resolved.
when you put together emojis and shorten your words in text messaging, when you dont socialize anymore and stare at your phone, what else do you expect.
@@delphi-moochymaker62 Sorry, we need your boys and girls on our borders now that Russia decided to increase its sphere of influence. Best regards, Euro Scrubs. In all seriousness, this issue is not exclusive to USA. Pretty much across the globe, and mostly visible in developed countries. Polices have shifted from trying to get an educated society in order to allow people to get richer and thus expand the strength of their country on all possible planes, to just giving people the bare minimum so that they can fill in mundane and cheap jobs. Politicians don't even prenetd they care anymore, some years back they'd explain themselves for 2-3 years after election that things are tough and their hands are tied. Now it's 2-3 months, and that's it folks, back to business of screwing their voters even further. But the best part? We allow large corporations and openly hostile countries to map our societies and influence us on a massive scale, and our own governments do nothing under the pretense of "free markets" and "dialog", at the same time allowing "feelings" and minorities to dictate overall policies turning democracies into crippled satires of what they should be. Yes, as a whole we're getting dumber, and thus we elect even dumber representatives who will bend their knee to the highest campaign donor and pass legislation that is in open contradiction to the interests of the majority of people who elected them in the first place. This will end in one of two ways. People at some point will get cornered so badly, they will have to choose: submit or rebel. And neither option will be good for all of us, shame we're allowing things to get closer and closer to the tipping point.
The first step to improve is to recognize you are dumb. Mona Lisa was painted by an Italian, but it stays in Paris (France), not in Italy. Should we add this to the common knowledge questions?
I unironically believe Idiocracy is happening before our eyes. If not already, we will soon be seeing diminishing instead of increasing IQ in western countries.
Frightening...just frightening. As a teacher I'm trying VERY hard to fight back against the culture of social media...and to be honest...social media is DESTROYING our youth.
What about the " teachers" with blue pink purple hair, and Marxist communist political ideologies stapled all over the classroom, who spend quality time with the students, focusing on sex/ grooming gender bending, child porn in the libraries, white hate/ shame, anti American propaganda, transvestite appearances and after school Satan club?
I am against censorship but sometimes safety comes first and we banned our kid from Tik Tok. It is owned by the Chinese, I don't know how this isn't considered a threat. It should have the plug pulled, and I am an actual FOS advocate and harm to individuals doesn't trump free speech rights. And this has gone beyond harmful into the sadistic.
I hope you are teaching children you know, stuff. You should watch some of those "questions on the street" I remember one where people were very very upset when they were asked if they thought it was ok that the Trump kids were shooting Sabretooth tigers and Triceratops in Africa for sport. "They shouldn't kill those beautiful and endangered animals." I do not know if I could handle middle schoolers or higher as a teacher now days, grade school seems to be failing them before they even get to those grade levels.
My mother was talking to a grammar school teacher once, she told Mom she didn't understand why all the politicians had to travel north of Oregon to get to work in Washington DC. Scary stuff.
I never could understand how a generation with hand-held information devices that connect to the internet, giving them all the info in human history at the touch of a button can actually be dumber than generations without the internet.
If you play candy crush 24/7 it does not help, as much as an whole library does not make you smarter if you read only the pulp fiction section. What we as a whole socitie missed invoking is the hunger to find things out and the hunger to find solution and the firm belief that invention is good (and i am not talking about faster cars) In the 50s the city of the future was an shiny place with happy healthy people, today the city of the future is a war zone. It is not the schools fault, it is our all fault that optimism into the future has become an dirty word. Is there really anyone who studies history even on an casual level who claims EVERYTHING was better in the past? Or denies that not everything modern is good and that we have to fix what is wrong, but in general, progress is an good thing? Science fiction is an good indicator about how we as societie think about the future, and todays SF scares the hell out of me.
It's mental atrophy from a lack of brain exercise through wondering. If we question something, we just look it up now. Imagine if this is your entire life from birth. We don't wonder like we used to, so we don't exercise our brain like we used to. It's all of us.
@@barnabycollins7337 I do not know, for me the internet is someway the extension, I want to know things, I am not particular good at anything, as soon I know how it works and how to do it i move on, not much for becoming an master in anything. But what scares me is people who have no desire to know anything at all, or only in the narrow field of there job, but outside of that it is crickets. Theres an whole fuckin universe outside there and we are alive 80 years if lucky, I mean, there is no time to waste.
You're on FIRE lately Bill Maher! I always respected your ability to remove yourself from the polarization of politics and speak truth to the matters at hand! Thank you, please keep doing your thing.
The guy didn’t even know we had a stock market crash in 2020. He is an idiot who thinks he knows everything, when he doesn’t know anything. How can he tell us how to vote, when he doesn’t even know we already spent trillions propping up the stock market? He doesn’t come up with anything he says, his writers do. And they are clueless too.
My sister gets angry when I use words she doesn't know the meaning. I told her I'm trying to improve my vocabulary, not belittle her. Hence, this would be a good opportunity for her to learn. I think that because I earned an MA in history, some people get intimidated. I'm not that smart. I just worked hard to earn my degrees.
I got my degree In history. Basically it means I am a trained reader and writer. It has been helpful in my life. And normal people always tell me how smart I am. Im Not smart, the average is just abysmal.
@Matthew10950 I came across this quote & it resonated with me. Unfortunately, it applies to many people today who refuse to educate themselves. "If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but wise for the rest of your life." (Seneca the Younger)
@Missy-Missy1111 Curious minds are too few and far between now. Internet and smart phones killed the joy of figuring things out on your own. Today, that is seen as a burden. Oh well, we had a good run.
He can hit it out of the park when he returns to his logical origins. Somehow he freaked out during the Hillary years and hitched his wagon to that train wreck. I think he knows he needs a better..more educated, base to attract for his schtick.
why wouldn't you able to agree with him at least some of the time? To think that you couldn't agree with a reasonable person makes me think that you're ideologically stubborn
Very entertaining BUT he was dead wrong about woke being a better product than conservatism. Another major error is that he selectively shows idiotic examples of conservatives, but never identifies the idiotic youngsters as "liberals" which they are much closer to. Face it Bill, "liberals' lost the battle of the Left to the extremists and your approach is to bash idiots on the right, and say the evil idiots on the extreme left are not as bad. But they are worse. The average prewar German had a far better life under Hitler than the average prewar Soviet citizen had under Stalin. Ditto for the Chinese people under Mao, or the average Cambodian under Pol Pot, or the average North Korean under the Kims. It is very sad that the United States has declined precipitously in the short 20 months or so that the old-school liberals have been in charge, after allowing the corruption of its societal institutions from within by the psychotic Left. And the left never speaks about the rather profound principles of conservatism that seek at least preliminary evidence of improvement before making potentially significant changes to complex, interactive systems.
@@jaimhaas5170 Had more people voted for Hilary Clinton, we’d not be as fucked as we are now. SCOTUS would not be 2/3 Catholic and turning America into The Republic of Gilead. But, yeah, sure, it was so much better to have The Donald in office. 🙄 I don’t just love HC, but since Obama, she has been the lesser evil, so to speak. I wanted Bernie Sanders. I really did, but I knew it wasn’t likely to be. So, I’ve done what I always have: I’ve voted blue, across the board- BLUE. I would rather have a democratic-led country, warts and all, over the alternative.
When I was a high school reading teacher I had tenth grade reading classes, not remedial reading but court ordered reading which everyone was required to take, and there would be kids in the class with 3rd grade reading levels. So one might ask in all obliviousness, how is it that people with 3rd grade reading levels get promoted past the sixth grade into secondary schools? I gave up and became a deck hand in the merchant marine. At least you’ve got to pass a test given by the Coast Guard to become an able bodied seaman/lifeboatman. And no, they don’t socially promote people from ordinary seaman to able bodied seaman just like they don’t socially promote ABs to 3rd mate or mates to master, and so forth if everyone gets the concept. If the merchant marine were run like the schools the ships would all founder.
I've watched Bill Maher for years. This particular topic is his comic sweet spot and he should stay on it and stay on it. The dumbing down of our kids -- and the lack of critical thought in the US -- is right at the core of nearly all of our problems today. Most importantly, it cuts with extreme prejudice right through the center of nearly every issue of importance to us politically, whether you're right, left or center. An thats seying alot!!!
It's not just in the US. I live "next door" to you in Canada. My youngest is in a grade 2/3 split class where most students are 8-9 years old. I thought my child was being modest after getting 10/10 on a spelling quiz "It was easy!" Then I looked at the quiz. The hardest word was "That"
what?? it's not our dumb kids that are are the problem, it's our dumb ADULTS. Obviously. you know, the ones that HOLD ALL THE POWER? (have you noticed the people who now hold all the highest offices are in their 80's?) I've also enjoyed Bill since the 90', but now I can only stand to watch once in a while because of this incessant disturbing kid-hatred
It's SUBJECT MATTER they need. Critical thinking is an empty buzz world. Critical thinking is dependent on the subject! The skills for analyzing a poem (verbal) and doing a math problem (computational) and a history question (detailed historical knowledge) are NOT THE SAME.
It's called "No Child Left Behind", the standards were literally dumbed down to increase the rate of graduation. The one problem: those children would eventually grow up knowing nothing. Remember that when people bitch about Common Core making life miserable.
“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where through consumption and entertainment, the slave would love their servitude.” ~Aldous Huxley
This is what "No Child Left Behind' gets you. Entire generations of college grads who struggle with pre-algebra but feel entitled to every position of power and responsibility.
As a teacher in New York State I do know that diplomas are handed out to students that have not earned them. I believe this practice undermines the value of a diploma and gives it the same worth as a piece of toilet paper in some cases. I also know that the reason for this is because public schools are terrified of having low graduation rates and high drop out percentages which invite state scrutiny and threaten them with the loss of funding the situation turns into a nightmarish catch-22. You either stand up for the standard of your school's education and have students repeat grades (which can be refused by parents) or drop out while losing your funding or you pass students along through the industrialized education processing machine and know that the valedictorian and the 'Queen Elizabeth is from Brazil' graduates will be sporting the same diploma. It's tragic and, while a bit more complex than a quick comic quip, is leading to a slow undermining of the country which, at length, will make social control a highly successful enterprise.
It's right there-- parents can refuse to have their children be accountable. Oh and somewhere someone decided that all students need to be technology savvy. so they take digital literacy and keyboarding and coding every dang year even when they can't read to grade level or do basic math
When they dumbed down the New York Regents exams years ago I knew we were doomed. A Regents diploma used to mean excellence but not anymore. If it makes you feel better, undeserved diplomas are rampant across the country. The parents are also to blame because many only care about the grade and fight with the teacher if their kid didn’t do the work and didn’t get a good grade. If the teacher refuses to change the grade parents go to the principal and they override the teacher and change the grade. It’s politics. The principal wants to keep the parents happy.
No worries as long as the students are minorities they’ll be hired no matter how fucking stupid they are. Diversity in the workplace is such an amazing idea! Lowering the quality of work and standards by which people have to succeed but making sure we have a whole rainbow of fucking colors in that same place. As long as there’s lots of colors it doesn’t matter how shitty the outcome or how crappy the work ethic is.
I baffles me why a school district that has poor results should have its funding cut. It needs MORE funding to ensure better materials and instruction can be utilized. Cut it you just ensure more failure, not more success. But, one would have to be well educated to be able to point that out and our leaders are braindead stupid.
And yet as a society we now trust little kids to know what being misgendered means or being in the wrong body means, when there's grown ass adults who dont know the difference between a City, a country or a continent.
One of the problems in education (and this is almost the elephant in the room problem) is that people do things based on incentives. If I am a student in your class and I do poorly, what, and be honest, would be the consequence? I get a D in your class which means I pass and don't have to take it again? In contrast to this, if my employer wants me to learn something (say database management for example) and I don't learn it? Well, I get fired which could possibly cause me to not be able to make rent or buy food. Yet too many educators think that if we do away with public schools, children won't be educated (as if they are educated with public schools).
The first step to improve is to recognize you are dumb. Mona Lisa was painted by an Italian, but it stays in Paris (France), not in Italy. Should we add this to the common knowledge questions?
ON the other hand, I have seen many of these 'quick quizzes'...and marveled at how stupid they are...BUT...I've also seen the ones where some of those kids are brilliant, and marveled at how stupid I am. 🤣🤣
I want to highlight that as a teacher, one of the key problems we have is our professional standards for teachers suck. The video's "I should know this, I'm going to be a teacher." alludes to this issue. In college/university, professors are more concerned now making sure teachers in training are vessels of empathy and put more emphasis on socialization or kids emotions rather than making sure they actually know, or are passionate about what the f*ck they're teaching as a subject. All the while making sure kids know, and more importantly *can process*, knowledge. Edit: This isn't meant to lean politically. It's an observation that our society has maybe gone a little too far in the direction of feelings and emotional incontinence. Perhaps to the point it's detracting from everything else and even hindering kids becoming more resilient to adversity, which in the coming years- There will be plenty of.
Agreed. Having been a substitute teacher and having many family members who are teachers, I will say sadly that while there are some AMAZING teachers in the system, even before the system went woke there were some problems with many teachers. The reason the students don't know the answers to these questions is because the teachers who taught them don't know the answers. You can't teach what you don't know. I'm not trying to disparage teachers. It's an incredibly difficult job that I think most members of society wouldn't be able to make it through even one week doing it. Part of the problem is our school system wasn't set up to education our children. It was to babysit our children after child labor laws were put into place and mom & dad still had to both go to the factory. And the babysitting side will, imo, make it impossible for school to ever genuinely be a place of learning. In order for it to be a place of learning, attending school has to be optional and a priviledge. Students have to have the right not to go, and teachers have to have the right to kick students out of class any time they aren't valuing the priviledge of learning. And then our teachers have to also know enough to teach the subject. I had a Junior High School math teacher who couldn't remember what sine, cosine, and tangent were and told us to go home, read the textbook, and teach ourselves. My brother had a math teacher that graded the first test of the year out of 100 and every other test out of 10, and she entered the scores as point values, not percentages. My brother was sick and scored less than 50 on the first test. He scored 100% on every other test. The teacher instintively knew my brother shouldn't be failing, but she couldn't figure out why the computer said he was failing. As a substitute teacher who taught all around the District, at lunch I would get to meet the majority of the teachers in the school. And consistently there would be between one and three competent teachers that you could tell were quietly holding the whole school together in the background. I still think the other teachers are basically heros because they are doing an incredibly hard, emotionally draining job, and they were fulfilling the babysitting part of the job quite well. But based on the conversations it was usually pretty evident that the teachers were stunted emotionally and were not competent in the subjects they were teaching. I mean this in the kindest way. I have often speculated about this, and I have decided that either the job attracts people like this because it is a ridiculously hard job for relatively low pay considering the difficulty and the required skill set, so that is why most teachers are this way. Or the job drives sane, competent teachers crazy over time, which having done the job would make perfect sense. Or in the hiring process, the traits that administrators search for lead to this kind of a workforce. I am saying all of this with respect. Since I did the job, the odds are that all of these descriptors describe me as well. And I couldn't hack it. After a couple of years, I finally had to give up because it was way too hard and emotionally draining. But yes, if it was that bad 20 - 30 years ago, I can imagine how much worse these problems have become as too many schools are now actively prioritizing what I call woke ideology over real learning.
@@hollybigelow5337 I'd say lack of funding going to actually educating students and Ghouls like Betsy DeVos that want to end public schools in favor of turning education into a profit driven system is a much bigger problem that "woke ideology". I'd also say that part of the problem goes back to the second President Bush and the No Child Left Behind Act which put so much focus on standardized tests. So that instead if being taught to learn for them selves, to think and understand things students are taught to pass tests. Soon forgetting much of what they learned soon after the test is over. Most recently the push back against "CRT" and "woke ideology" (things that are hardly ever actually defined by their opponents) is leading to people insisting that students be taught that 'America is great the way it is' that 'We are number one'. That a teacher can't upset students by exposing them to the holocaust or the horrors of slavery or the ugliness that Civil Rights leaders like Martin Luthor King fought against (Florida passed a law that makes it a crime for a teacher to hurt the feeling of White Students).
Sweden's educational methods are worth a few minutes of time to listen to and makes me wonder why we struggle so much with our system. Maybe we're awash in our arrogance, refusing to admit other countries have a few lessons to give us along with a few pointers to better our method of teaching.
@@auturgicflosculator2183 No, I certainly wasn’t. And yes, I was aware even while typing that that it wasn’t grammatically correct. However, I certainly substituted English, which I think is even further evidence that teachers are regularly not qualified to teach the subjects that they teach.
@@Nathan-gd7xq even if you are correct, where would that place you? I could say the same thing, that's the comment stupid people say to make them feel smart. that's the comment [that's the comment] stupid people say [stupid people say] to make [to make] them feel [them feel] ESS-EMM-AYE-ARR-TEE [SMART]
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Remember what Hannah Arendt said about education: "The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any"
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tom I agree in part. A lot of people just don't care that deeply about issues that don't affect them directly. I really don't know if there is any other way to see things in the end either. It's hard enough to get through life. Having convictions would be a lot of extra work, take up a lot of free time from your main job. It would be like a hobby. Few people can pull it off. But more should.
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 If Bill has any influence at all he is part of the group persuading Dems to become GOP people. Bill needs to retire asap. I don't know who he speaks for other than himself, Mr. too cool for words. Watch his episode with Chris Cuomo, Bill was intimidated.
We have lots of education and learning standards, Bill, we're just not allowed to enforce them. If you read any state's standards you will be impressed with what they're expected to do! But when a student misses 20-30 days per nine weeks, turns in no work, fails exams and doesn't bother to even take a retest--not to mention discipline problems--that student is expected to pass anyway. I've literally been flatly told by an administrator, "if a student fails it is the teacher's fault." No teacher is ever praised for having high standards if that results in a failing grade.
Also, education is underfunded in the US and under attack in part by people who want for profit schools. Most teachers are not only under paid, but they are expected to buy stuff that they need for work and help their students learn. Furthermore, you have the "teach to the test" philosophy were instead teaching students to learn, think and understand things they are taught what they need to do well on a standardized test. Many are taught mediocrity and mediocrity is often rewarded because schools mostly don't have the ability to handle with students that are either very smart or troubled. Especially since school shooting started to be a thing. As so much of the discussion over school funding involves turning a school into a fortress or hiring armed security, a combination that makes schools seem more like prisons than centers of education.
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND. Everyone gets a trophy. And then when they become an adult, they can be on government assistance and keep the votes coming in. We are a bunch of spoiled dumbasses.
@@garys1216It really is. It’s great here. I don’t have to sell my house when I get sick. College doesn’t bankrupt me. I don’t have to fear being shot in school. The list goes on.
And this is why I'm a history teacher. To make the world a little less dumb. I'm hoping none of my students ever appear on any of those segments, otherwise I might quit.
The 13-minute, 42-second 1942 US Department of Agriculture video *Hemp for Victory* is the key to reducing unemployment, reducing poverty, reducing hunger, reducing homelessness, reducing health care costs, reducing crime, reducing police brutality, reducing government spending, reducing political corruption, reducing pollution, replacing fossil fuels, ending deforestation and stopping climate change, all at the same time. There is an official .gov link to the film from the US National Archives. It has been public since 1990. There was a bill in Congress titled HR 3652, the *Hemp for Victory Act of 2019.* Teach this because it hasn't been taught in 80 years.
Thank you for what you do for our children. People need to understand that teachers are continually blocked from properly teaching our students by parents and the government. Your job is so difficult, but so important!
But do you actually cause them to gain knowledge or do you just give them a bunch of work and assignments to do? I started kindergarten in the year 2000 for some perspective and for my generation, we were never measured on our intelligence only our workload. It seemed like the whole thing was designed to get us ready for office culture, not college.
This is quite terrifying. It's not only geography they don't understand, they don't know ANYTHING. A deli owner told me that a kid working for him had to use his phone to figure out how long half of a foot-long grinder would be, and when I told a kid selling flowers at the farmers market that I was buying flowers so I could paint them, he couldn't figure out for the life of him why I'd put paint on flowers since they were already colorful. I'm so thankful I'm old and nearly dead!
We had a 21-year-old come in to be an ironworker Apprentice that didn't know how to lace his own boots. He said when I go home I'll see if my Grandma knows how to do it. I didn't know what to say I drew a complete blank I was totally Blown Away that he didn't know how to do that.
To be fair, you've given some pretty bad examples where communication adds unnecessary confusion - "figure out how long half of a foot-long grinder would be" distracts you with wondering what a "grinder" is and would be helpful context. Could also just say 12-inch "grinder". And saying "I'm going to paint flowers" is on you because that can easily be misinterpreted - you should have said you're going to make a painting of the flowers and you're using them as a reference. You remind me of those people who think they're witty when they make wordplay "jokes" but they're actually just socially awkward and unable to read social cues.
Hi Bill Maher and team, a fan from India. Although I get see your New Rule segment later than the US audiences I never miss one. You and the show are truly are a lucid, unbiased & a clever window in to the American society for me and I hope you win an Emmy soon…although the you’ve already won the “Cojones” 😅. All the best !!
"lucid, unbiased & a clever window" Actually, he is very biased "left" but the modern left has moved so far more to the left that Bill Maher is now suddenly in the middle, maybe even slightly "right", without actually changing his beliefs (near as I can tell).
I remember watching "Are you smarter than a fifth grader" a few years back. One of the questions posed to an elementary school teacher was - "You are in America. You get in your car and drive as far north as you can until you hit the border of another nation. If you cross that border, what country would you find yourself in?" She was stymied. She had no idea. The fifth grader had to help her. "Pssst. Canada!" Ouch.
That's a garbage question though. If Canada is the supposed answer, here are a few problems: - It mistakes the United States of America for America. America includes Argentina and Cuba. - It fails to identify "mainland", so e.g. Alaska and Hawaii count. - Since it specifies 'driving as far as you can', there is no guarantee that you'd make it to any border. - Assuming we're sticking to roads, there may well be places with only a road into Mexico. You'd go through Mexico to go north, but since you already hit a border, the answer then is Mexico. - By the wording, presumably native American nations would count, in which case you're still in the USA.
@@sorsocksfake Any American would understand America as meaning the US. There's no American continent in US geography, just North America and South America, so they traditionally use America as short hand for United States of America. There is a problem with driving in Alaska or Hawaii, but I assume it would only confuse someone who'd be from one of those states. The question doesn't just say "drive as far north as you can" but "drive as far north as you can until you hit the border of another nation", so there is a guarantee that you'll make it to a border. Are there any places in the US with roads only going into Mexico? I remember there's one place in Alaska that only has a road to Canada, but that's a rare and perhaps unique occurrence. There could be a place where you can locally drive north from the US to get to Mexico - there are some bends in the Rio Grande and the Colorado where Mexico is north of the US, but I don't see any roads going through them.
Absolutely pathetic. The teacher was especially sad. My wife retired from teaching 28 years, she had enough. She used to complain how dumb the average teacher was, it was a job of last resort for many because the classes are so easy. Teaching now is more about indoctrination instead of transferring knowledge, sad but true.
Iamthemoss : In this fast-changing world, “transferring knowledge” is not enough : Our youth need Critical Thinking (and Media Literacy, and Coding) Skills, AT MINIMUM, to be able to continue to upgrade their skill-sets/employment opportunities in today’s “global” economy. Teaching has never been more demanding, or in need of 100% commitment, than it is now. Anything less is just failing our children and our collective future !
My wife is also a teacher. She often complains about teachers like your wife. Who go in with the same lesson plans every year, hand out work sheets and coast through the year. Yeah the job can definitely be easy if you don't give a shit!
There's a scene in The Incredibles that's absolutely brilliant, but played off as a joke. When Mr. Incredible doesn't want to go to his son's "graduation ceremony," his reasoning is "It's not a graduation. He is moving from the 4th grade to the 5th grade... It's psychotic. They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity. " I taught 8th grade. I watched parents cry at the 8th grade graduation, as if their kid accomplished something. You literally could not fail, could not be held back, could not NOT graduate. It was psychotic.
There’s also the scene where Syndrome says “And when everyone’s super, no one will be.” Lowering the bar for kids’ education while praising them for basic functions is proving that.
@@mightyluvthe boy wanted to used his powers to win the race at school and mom told him not to. Dash “Dad always said our powers were nothing to be ashamed of; our powers made us special. Mom: “Everyone is special, Dash” Dash: “Which is another way of saying no one is” I’m not big into animated movies but watched them as my kids grew. That line stuck with me. It’s a bit of a trope for a villain to give a message like that but it’s heartbreaking from a kid. Very damaging.
The scene that stuck with me from "Whiplash" was when the kid met with his very demanding instructor played by JK Simmons, who had just been fired for pushing his students too hard. Search "good job scene" on YT.
Your points are well taken. However, if one were to be charitable, one could interpret the parents’ tears as simply a bittersweet reaction to the passage of time rather than pride at their child’s “accomplishment”. Whether or not failure was ever a possibility, having your kids transition to high school is still a reminder that you and they are getting older. Soon they will leave home, with all the mixed emotions that this milestone entails. While I’m not a parent myself, I suspect that there’s more than one perspective here. Either way, I would agree that having a ceremony to mark this transition is unnecessary and can come across as self-indulgent.
It’s great to celebrate completing a year of school. The problem is miseducating the kids during the school year. Your reference misses the mark in my opinion
I'm a conservative and appreciate what you're doing. I loved the montage of Republicans shooting things they don't like. You have to be able to laugh at your stupid side for sure. I don't have to agree with you to appreciate your common sense point of view. Thanks.
I'm a liberal and I can't stand what the Democrat party has become. I log onto Daily Kos now just to laugh at the stupid on this side of the fence. People really are wacky.
Yeah, blowing up the car was funny. It also sends a message. I want someone crazy that is 60% consistent with my views to fight someone who is crazy with 15% of my values.
Idk I stopped watching after he lied about breath act. A law aimed to prevent police brutality through strangulation,... um ... Bill said the bill would enable pedophiles, and I'm like.... so bill wants more people suffocated on the asphalt.... and not one comment from anyone about it.. have fun getting your neck shoved into the asphalt. You can thank Bill. Read the bill. Just a paragraph even. Visit the organisation's website? Does that look like child pen to you?
I'm a gun person, and you can be pro 2A without having a gun yourself, but don't get on TV and shoot like cr*p trying to sell me the idea that you are. I don't want perfection, just don't look like you're completely new to shooting, or doing unsafe things, like shooting a rifle in the air.
During my last year of college as a student over the age of 40, I would tutor English and Writing subjects - I cannot tell you how many freshman college students cannot write a basic essay - we are talking a topic, three relevant paragraphs and a closing statement. They have no clue and it is a major hurdle for many of them to being able to get into the classes they need for their various degrees. We have underfunded schools, forced teachers not to give an education, but teach to test...and this is what we get. We have not been teaching critical thinking skills, period.
You hit the hail on the head! The country has underfunded or completely defunded education (to the point where elementary and high school teachers have to spend their own meager salaries to buy school supplies). The GOP especially hates education so much that they want to direct schools on which books they can read. We have created a society of completely non-thinking beings who are willfully ignorant, almost brag about not being an “elite” (I.e. valuing high education) & can be manipulated to believe the most outlandish conspiracy theories bc these people cannot think for themselves! It’s an incredibly scary development for a country our size .
You hit the nail on the head when you said “underfunding the schools”. This is what happens when assholes like Grover Norquist and Paul Ryan scream about taxes and Repub candidates campaign on lowering your taxes (translation: buy people’s votes): things like public education are starved of funds, teachers are poorly paid and in the end it’s the students who suffer. There was a parable that came out many years ago where a visitor from another planet came to earth to learn about mankind. One of their observations was that professional athletes are paid millions of dollars for playing a game while teachers, who are responsible for educating the future generations, are paid a relative pittance. The alien’s comment was, “don’t you have that reversed: teachers have such an important role because they teach your children while professional athletes are just exceptionally good at hitting a ball with a stick or throwing a ball through a net. I don’t understand the logic at work here.”
Our schools are NOT UNDERFUNDED. I am so enraged by that EXCUSE. Our teachers are uneducated and as ignorant as the students they are supposed to teach. Our curriculum are uninspired and not interesting, nor relevant. Start firing teachers who can’t pass the standardized tests the students fail.
As a Canadian working in the US in the 80ies, my American associates thought we hunted moose to feed ourselves and lived in igloos. I always agreed with them and laughed like crazy after I got home.
I'm conservative politically...should I even admit that after watching this video? What a fantastic, entertaining, and hard hitting monologue! He had me laughing and agreeing at the same time. It was an equal opportunity humorous barb at the excesses on both sides of the political spectrum. He also touched on the passive ignorance of the American public that makes these types of excessive approaches possible and even popular. I've seen quite a few of these monologues and discussions by Bill Maher. He's a national treasure and often on the mark. We could all benefit from paying more attention to his points.
I don't know which liberals he is talking about, those liberals who are against freedom of speech, who are for identity (collectivist) politics above individual, those who introduce compelled speech.If they are liberals then I am from Andromeda galaxy. Bill has imaginary liberals like children have an imaginary friend, it's time for him to grow up otherwise he will remain intellectually stunted
I'm a teacher and let me tell you: it might be counter-intuitive, but the problem in our schools is not a lack of standards--it's too many standards. That's why they are churning out so many standardized idiots. Top-down educational reforms will always make things worse.
come on man.. you say you are a teacher.. too many standards, too little standards? they are churning out standardized idiots? who is they? if it is not you? standards are great, if the standards are great. if the standards are garbage, then the standards are garbage. it's not about the abundance of standards, or lack of standards...it's about the QUALITY and INTELLIGENCE of the standards. Ask me..am I smart? maybe.. sort of..? "Top-down educational reforms will always make things worse." Education...to me.. doesn't use the word (always)..because, how can anyone learn anything, if 'always' is how it is? What would be the point of learning anything? if always is always always? what? right? exactly? Be a quality educator, (which is not an easy thing to be) and is made even harder, when making generalized statements. Hopefully, I didn't make too many of my own...?
@@kfhroe8262 You are falling into exactly the trap I was talking about. There is no one solution. The answers lie with individual teachers working with individual students.
@@kfhroe8262 I love clowns like you, this guy seems like a genuinely concerned teacher pointing out a obvious problem with our education system and derps like you chime in with your brilliant contribution like you actually did something.
@@danaaronmusic absolutely 💯 agree. I left teaching because I realized trying to pound biology 2 into the head of a child who couldn't read as a senior and already had a job lined up as a welder was pointless. He needed to be in some form of reading class every day all day untill graduation but all they care about is state test scores.
My 25 year old niece, who has been in college for 5 years now (without a degree yet), says she loves Socialism. When I asked her what she loves about it, she said "everything is free". I reminded her that someone has to pay for things, nothing is absolutely free. "She said, very proudly, "I know that, the money comes from the Government". So, I asked, where the Government gets the money, and she replied, "from the US Treasury". She truly believed that money is just printed by the Treasury and no one has to replace it. How did we end up with kids like this?
Sadly, that kid is right: Socialism for the rich and corporations works exactly as she said. The Fed prints infinite money and spends 800 billion in one year on military crap we don't need or use. It prints that infinite money and hands it to rich oil and gas corporations as unneeded subsidies. Tell the kid to go to work for Big Oil, the military industrial complex , or Big Pharma, and she really will get everything for free. Meanwhile, the rest of us will have nothing but piles of paper dollars that can't pay rent or buy food.
I’m sure from her perspective it’s true. That’s all she has seen in her life. Hasn’t paid taxes yet and to keep the economic boat from sinking had just seen the treasury print money. She has been taught this and observed this. It’s all freeeeeeee yay.🙄 don’t be a boomer yo. 😂 reality is going to hurt her badly some day.
The problem with having all that knowledge available at your fingertips is, that the good stuff is buried in a pile of dung and you have to know where to dig to find it. You need a guide of sorts. Someone who can TEACH you the difference between gold and fool's gold.
Happy to see a few folks in the comments noticing how comfortable the crowd is to laugh at what Maher is offering. Even some in the comments want to thank Maher for offering what they have observed for so long ... The reality needs to sink in that there is no distancing yourself from the idiocracy that has become our society. Maybe we're a slightly greyer shade of stupid, but the scoreboard doesn't lie, and you can't disconnect yourself from your fellow Americans. This is us, and we need to do better.
@@thetavibes9021 Ah, so we're all just victims, and it has nothing to do with our own responsibility. Uplifting. Fun how many cynics we have, as if it's distinct from our problems of education ...
To be fair, Maher's audience seems to always be filled with the same dudes laughing, woohoo-ing, and clapping way too quickly and loudly. As much as I like watching his show in RUclips clips every week, the audience is always obnoxious, and I'm pretty sure they pay the same people to sit there and cheer up a storm.
The Socialist Commie/Fascist left in America invented the Critical Theories in the 1960s specifically to replace critical thinking, lol. It simply didn't become obvious till the 90s, lol.
@@BluntforceJ Watch "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" episode with Bill. Notice how pale his skin is. It's absolutely insane. Makes you realize how much makeup they cake on him before every "Real Time" show just to make him not look like a cadaver.
@@drakelondon6849 There you go, did you realise you were one of the stupid so you just attacked him about something that He can't control? You must be a GQP supporter
Having worked with Europeans ,it is clear that they are better educated than we are especially Germans who speak English and have an excellent and affordable school system. Having an excellent educational system is vital for the advancement of a Nation and for the people of that Nation. A recent poll asking how many Americans can't read past the eighth grade level, it came up with 50%!! 50% of our citizens can't read past the ninth grade level here in the richest country in the world!!! The dumbing down of our population makes it easier for the richest corporations and individuals to exploit the majority for their benefit.
@@canadaclub8920 No, but the comment meant within the laws of our country not barbaric times hundreds of years ago.....Fucking liberal DAs are turning criminals loose
“The dumbing down (of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.” - Carl Sagan He had a foreboding of America of the future. While he was alive, he witnessed how manufacturing jobs were being shifted abroad, and everything became focussed on making as much profit for as few super-rich as possible, and as much for a few as possibly achievable without an outright revolution, while the endless talking and talking and talking carried on and on and on... In more detail: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
@Ralph Bernhard See how few thumbs-up you got? A handful. That's all. Shows you something. Thanks for the Carl Sagan quote. I read the whole thing. Amazingly it has come true.
I have observed the educational genocide in our country which started in the 80’s in our public schools. If you want a good old fashioned education for your kids you had to move to a high tax paying community in order to get the education we received for free in the inner cities. I am a physician who grew up in the South Bronx, received a public education from the 60s thru 70s. Attended Bowdoin College, Lehman and Harvard. Graduated Tufts Medical School and returned to the Bronx. Raised my daughters and son starting in Westchester and paid for them to get a public education in high tax school systems and realized they were getting the same education I received, my nephews in the Bronx were not. Today my oldest is an administrator of a health clinic, my daughter is a 4 th grade teacher and son a law school graduate pursuing an acting career . My nephews are police officers and salesman for a cable company. We pushed for all to get educations . I hope we return to quality education for all of our citizens, rich or poor, so that our country has a better future.
Dr Diaz, ask yourself “ could I teach?” I understand you likely wouldn’t want the pay cut, but would have lots of time to moonlight as a physician, but the bad news is unless you have a nearly worthless education degree, you won’t be hired in a public school. Therein lies the problem. Especially in STEM subjects, teachers can’t teach because they do not know the subject matter. Ask a high school bio teacher about Krebs cycle or math teacher about Bayesian statistics and see how far you get.
The Department of Education was created in 1980. This was the worse thing for our public schools. I never paid attention to things in Highschool because quite frankly I preferred getting high. I noticed a change in the Millennials in the 90's though. They were astoundingly stupid.
Steve I retired from medicine 4 years ago, do not moonlight, money is not my motivator. My daughter is a 4 th grade teacher going on her 20 years, loves what she does as I loved practicing medicine before they introduced electronic medical records and made medicine for about data collection and less about direct patient care( many patients now complain , rightly so, that the provider hardly makes eye contact or examines them. I actually stay in contact with many patients and provide advice at no charge.
Or you could do what I did, give up the new cars, bigger house, boats and summer homes...and send them to a private academy. I spent tens of thousands on my 2 kids education in the 90's and never regretted one cent of it. When they went to college, my costs were cut by two-thirds because they went to the state university. And unlike many of the kids who went through a public high school, my kids sailed through their freshman year and considered it redundant.
Back in 1973 I visited the US and was shocked to read that there were teachers who were functionally illiterate. Coming from the UK I was already aware that our A levels, (school leaving exams taken at 18) were the equivalent of US degrees. But that even some of your school teachers could barely read and write was a shock.
As a republican, I never thought I'd be hanging on every word out of Bill Maher's mouth. I feel the pendulum may soon swing back. God bless every citizen of this great country. Hopefully we will find out how to return to normalcy soon
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From my point of view as a foreigner from germany i think one of your greatest problem is that permanent 2 party system. Whenever i watch a discussion in your news , it doesnt matter who is right but who belongs to the right party. Democrats and Republicans see each other as enemies and block each other at all costs. And then you have also News channels which take one side all the time like FOX and MSNBC with very emotional , propagandistic behaviour. I think murica is screwed unless you find a radical and quick solution for this problem.
@@thesoundsmith I definitely feel more and more people are realizing they can't just pitch themselves to one side. That's the pendulum I hope I'm seeing
disagree. it's just theatre. the video was dubbed. the "teacher" on the beach - watch her lips. it's not what she says. Bill is too smart to think these videos are real, so it's a great disappointment that he chose to pretend otherwise.
"Idiocracy" wasn't meant to be a documentary. Yet here we are. Edit: LMFAO replies tell me all I need to know. It's always the other sides fault, never our own. We're fucked.
And it wasn't written to be partisan, although it's scary to see how the political party of the future shares far too many similarities as the MAGA GQP.
@@tiffbeevachou108 Huh? And the college aged kids featured and being discussed by Bill vote overwhelmingly Democrat? When will the desperate lies stop man? Ever? Lies are not the future. And everyone saw WHO the future is in the vid, those aren't "MAGA" thats stupidity went to college.
The last decade has really helped in the dumbing down, by creating people who focus on which side of the political spectrum you believe in, rather than on the issue.
I blame the influence of far right "news" shows, which are actually editorial, not factual. Fox for example. Their influence on politicians and regular Americans have completely divided us.
@sweet stuff I think it’s the public education. Next decade you will see more bisexual and transgenders!! I blame CNN and the leftists’ ideologies to dumb down every kid to be conformed…
@@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane Yes nothing like the far left news giving us "factual information" about Hunter's laptop being Russian disinformation. Both sides do the same thing.
@@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane Fox (Brietbart, etc) is certainly to blame, but the DNC aligned networks are scarsely better on actually informing their viewers.
I just said this at my Cognitive Tech company this week. When we started the company a decade ago the talk was always about keeping American Math Scores competitive with Asia, India & Eastern Europe. For the last 5 years I have not heard 1 discussion about academic standards. Instead, the Social Media Clans have turned children's education into a circus show for outrage.
Who's PACs did Zuckerberg donate hundreds of millions to? You think he donated to the party that's trying to stop him and turn things around or the guys who are helping him do it? You should be able to do the math on that one.
When the standards are "2+2=5 can be correct, as long as the student can show how they got to that answer. We can't let the child know or feel they are wrong or stupid, it could damage their self esteem." how can you expect to compete with anything but yourself?
I’ve seen posts indicating some school districts in CA were doing away with grades….because grades are r@cist. Also, some districts have decided math is r@cist (arguably the least subjective course there is) because minority students weren’t doing as well. Boston was ending a gifted program for middle school students because only 30% of the kids were minorities, 70% white or asian. So those 30% of kids also lost out on being in the gifted program. Who are we going to rely on to solve the hard problems, innovate, etc in the future? When I watch a movie like Apollo 13, I wonder, would we have the brains to get them back now? Giving everyone a participation trophy and this push for equity is so destructive. And really, it boils down to only straight white men can be accountable, because if you criticize anyone part of a marginalized group….well you’re just a bigot. If you say Kamala Harris is not doing well as VP, you’re just sexist and r@cist.
What makes me mad is that students are being taught but aren't be made to learn! Instead of punishing kids who don't turn in their homework or don't read the books they are told to read, the teachers are forced by school boards to just pass the dummies on and concentrate on the kids that actually try to learn. The result is a minority of good students soon become a minority of smart citizens. It's time to get politics out of our schools and let the teachers set the agenda and standards as they once did.
My neighbor is a teacher's aide in an elementary school. She says so many kids come from drug addict mothers, the kids are unable to learn anything. You teach 2+2=4 on Monday and have to do it all over again on Tuesday. Parents are at least partially to blame.
Hate to burst your bubble but in my school they absolutely did not "concentrate on the kids that actually try to learn." Nobody cared much about anything.
Honestly much of the ignorance comes from living in a vacuum, completely free from not bothering to watch the Discovery Channel to not travelling overseas. 2% of Americans have current passports and when you meet Americans in Europe there's definitely a sense of polite confusion or culture shock that sees them flocking to the nearest McDonalds. My mother placed a high value on international travel, saved hard for my first trip outside of Australia at 16 and we went to all the places I knew from history and English literature classes. School can provide knowledge however travel ignites a passion for learning that can't be taught.
So true. I was shocked by those responses!! If I had kids today, I would homeschool them. As far a the democrat party? They show themselves in the foot. They ruined their party with identity politics!!! One is a conservative, just by disagreeing with their woke nonsense!!! And trust me, there are many conservatives I can’t stand. But no way could I ever vote for a democrat again.
Bill nailed it. Politicians love uneducated people, just think about that. God I hope America gets back to being the best example of what, The "United" States means to the whole world FOR ALL ! Isn't that what's written?🤔
Bill would come alot closer to nailing it if he would quit treating the common sense anti-politicians that largely make up the MAGA crowd as the worst of the bunch. He just can't bring himself to say he was wrong yet even though almost everything he is coming around to is exactly what the MAGA crowd has been trying to expose at the same time they are being vilified by the Washington insider press, censored by the social media gods, and persecuted by the deep state agencies that now abuse their authority on a regular basis to go after political opponent who want to clean up the entrenched government corruption.
So true. The dumbification of our school system is by design. It's easier to control the under educated & the poor. Ask the church, they did it for centuries & if you questioned them or their doctrines you were killed or imprisoned.
Keep them poor, under nourished with no health care that way they can not achieve anything or believe in anything including themselves. It is much easier to control the weak and helpless.
@derrick Washington. Not really. He was very much on the left. He has centralized himself in the middle only lately which is truly what we need right now.
He’s always been willing to criticize anyone especially democrats, but I find him as being just as toxic as some of the people he claims to rail against on his takes on religion and people of color.
The most frightening answer came from the woman who said "I should know this, I'm going to be a teacher." Dear God, help us.
This "dear 'god'" thing seems to be a huge problem as well. From the outside it looks like religious indoctrination is a huge contributor to the problem.
@@homerj.simpson7562 I suppose you're right. But in this case, it was just a figure of speech. Feel free to insert your preferred, non-denominational alternative.
She was also the only one where the answer was literally part of the question:
"What country is Venice, ITALY located in?"
@Proper Do you think all those answers were cut and pasted? I wish you were right.
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I quit my job as a professor because I could no longer stand the unrelenting pressure to pass nursing and pre-med students that could not write a complete sentence, of having to look the other way as students cheated and God forbid should a minority student say that I was unfair. It's pathetic. Today you can graduate with a science degree and literally be semi-illiterate. This country is screwed!
Agreed. After 20 years as an Air Force avionics technician I retired and finally got to "progress" to the "next plateau" by going to college full time for a BS in Information Technology. Talk about being relegated from the major leagues to nursery school, is what going from military to college was like. There were a few good classes and instructors but 90% of that program was just as you described; "Let's not educate and say we did." College is nothing but a federal funds money grab for the school. There are literally no Department of Education accrediting standards, that's all between the school and the private accrediting agency, so it's a bent system and accreditation has no real meaning.
Therefore, I think the GI bill should be discontinued as it's a waste of taxpayer money and the veteran's time. Getting employment after a military career should be the top priority and college should only be pursued if it's a condition for promotion with your new employer.
But after the college experience I chose to stay retired and will be leaving the US for a location where I can actually afford a decent standard of living with my pension. I mean seriously, I'm supposed to build a productive working relationship with the kinds of clowns colleges churn out? I don't think so. You blew it, America, but thanks for the pension I'll spend in a foreign economy and lifelong medical insurance!
I came here to say the same thing. I quit my job as an inner city elementary school behavioral therapist this year because, after five years of watching children not being required to do homework or class work, yet seeing those students being passed year after year after year without turning in a stitch of homework or anything - I realized it’s all a system. I had to get out. We had parents demanding that we don’t give their children homework. Coming to the campus and threatening teachers and administrative staff. Kids who can’t even read or write at a first grade level, being graduated out of fifth grade and sent off to middle school. Just unbelievable our education system today.
@@65neu52 I think there are more and more of us out there, many struggling to move on to new careers because the work of educators is not given any value. I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of liberals for what had happened to education. It may have started with Bush's No Child Left Behind but liberals and their social justice agenda killed off any vestige of accountability by students. What is worse is that it undermines the effort by good students and values of hard work. We're building a nation of ignorant lazy people.
Good luck with your career change - I'm still looking
No. But Science ! You must follow the Science !
@@thor9838 yes, we should follow the science. Just because we are graduating morons, it does not mean we throw out science. Should we do the same with mathematics, and engineering? What to design your own airplane?
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
- George Carlin
That’s only true if the population intelligence distribution is symmetric. Now half of the people are dumber than the median by definition.
that's not how an average works...that's called them median.
@@cspan1993 hey, that was mean.
@@someguy7424 lol
@@cspan1993 but isn't iq normally distributed, unlike wealth?
I thjnk the value for both median and mean aren't that far off from each other.
As my Dad likes to say: "The scary thing is that their vote counts just as much as mine!"
Never thought of it that way before but it scares me silly. I'm 80 and never felt that way before except in past elections I have wonder what are these people thinking. Now I know nothing.
The humorous thing is that there are plenty of people who think the same about your father.
Now the number of votes you receive depends on how much money people are willing to spend to get you elected, not on your skills or the policies you support.
No the funniest point in all of this is that your votes don’t count AT ALL.. 😂 funny he didn’t teach you THAT. Just decided to complain about a nonexistent problem.🤣
Btw before you get butthurt and start spouting off with ignorance…your ignorance of not saying “dad your vote doesn’t matter anyway” is where you failed and he failed to teach you this. Popularity votes mean less during an election than the bodies used to fight a war mean to the people who started it. I hope you mature one day and accept the intelligence you weren’t taught in school or by your father.
@@gailyou9005well if you’re 80 and still haven’t figured out that your vote is, by definition, USELESS, then you haven’t learned much in 80yrs… HAD TO BE EXHAUSTING BEING SO DUMB FOR SO LONG…😂 avoiding facts and knowledge… your vote doesn’t mean 💩. It’s a popularity vote. The ONLY votes that truly matter, regardless of how many civilians vote, is the electoral votes. Sorry you’re not one of them… 😂
An old school quote: "Ignorance can be educated and crazy can be medicated but there's no cure for stupid".
Actually _THERE IS_ only one cure for stupid, but its not something that can be said aloud when the majority are unwilling to face the cold hard truth. They would rather stay detached & uninvolved in their own comfortable, artificial cyber-life... Yes, reality can become _THAT_ stark & that ugly, when you don't face the truth for what it is & take action
It's utterly shocking to me that public education has taken such an enormous dive in the years since my children graduated. (Early 2000's) America truly has become a Socialist dictatorship wearing a "democratic" mask. And it began with a traitorous take-over of public education, the actions of which began in the late 60's & throughout the 70's when the voices of specific congressmen (& -women) were neither heard nor heeded
Hosea 4:6
_My people are dying_ [literally] _for lack of knowledge_
Author Unknown
_Tyranny exists right under the noses of human incredulousness of a majority who cannot believe it exists at all_
Noam Chomsky is an acknowledged anarchist. So I don't agree with his political philosophy. For all I know he's also an atheist. Whatever the case, he's got this one right 100%. This is a real eye-opener for that greater majority of high school & college graduates we call "the indoctrinated." It is well worth your 10 minutes. And for those of you who knew what a circus & a grand illusion (a giant pacifier) American politics has been through the decades, this video simply affirms suspicions you already had
Manufactured Consent: _the 5 Filters of Mass Media,_ by Noam Chomsky; producers unknown; as presented by Al Jazeera English in 2018
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Like that the breath act isn't about pedophiles, a very easy Google search. Bill just lied.
T he br3atth a. C t is not about ped o Phil es
But stood is acceptable to me, but everyone is born with a high iq, that's just a fact. But the responsibility of those who have the brain power should help those who are weaker (that's certainly well associated with liberalism I thought). So ignorance, which is what was shown here by the lugs, is far more... Concerning/, because that should not be allowed, esp today when the knowledge is at your fingertips
Lol 😆 I DON'T know, local unmentionable ZOMBIES, have called me stupid. More like completely unaware at the time of how much are ZOMBIES. Wicked stubborn mules with blinders, no matter how many repeated life lashings from God. That I became aware of soon, and did call the local unmentionable "a mule with blinders." He's actually not so much of a snowflake himself about insults, takes them well from others, even bad jokes about him, but maybe married to an egomaniac narcissist, like I was. Not aware of that until no longer married. That's what happened to me. Usually men get that rap, but I wonder how many men married to egomaniac narcissistic women. This country breeds that alot, unlike Spain. The type of women who would marry without being in love. Marry for money and social status. That's not a Spaniard upper middle class families type of thing to do. My oldest daughter is not out to do anything like that either.(Low self esteem or none does that, but zombies instead). Spanish girls from good families seek love and compatibility. Basically my oldest daughter seeks a guy similar to her brother, intellectual, very well read, and he's definitely not a zombie person at all, but he's Germanic in how he is, so she's had to warm him up. He sounds warm when speaking Spanish,, but he's definitely the colder more reserved type, yet he's also a sweet guy. His family that took off to Latin America, has to have been Prussians, and they're not religious at all. That means if they get married, he's going to have to become a Spaniard Catholic man. He loves everything about space travel. My daughter says that he even gets emotional about seeing rockets take off. Another "alien", but with green eyes, so he's in the right family. Sarcasm.
If you're parent, one of the best things you can do for your child's education is to buy a globe and have it in the house. It doesn't have to be an expensive one, but having simple things like globes and atlases and dictionaries and things like that in the home really makes a positive difference when it comes to learning.
I don't have a globe, but I do have a map on the wall in plain sight. I wrote verb conjugations on the wall and times tables. It was "just there all the time".
Yes a Globe or a map. But also go back to a curriculum that actually teaches what we call common knowledge like GEOGRAPHY.
Had an AIG teacher tell me 25 years ago to place a map in the wall in each child’s room to study and imagine what the places were like to give them that love of adventure and learning. It seemed to work!
Yes I grew up with a map on the wall in my house. Gave my grandchild an old world map for his bedroom. But also Geography was taught in school. The common knowledge that this generation is growing up without is mind blowing and sad.
I taped the Bill of Rights to the wall in my son's room, right by the light switch, when he was four years old. He's twenty now, and could out-debate almost anyone. Anyone but me.
"I am going to be a teacher so I should know this." Now that's scary.
Don't worry about it, she probably knows what each letter in the lgbtqia2s+ stands for and why they're oppressed. It's only the real alphabet she struggles with
Most teachers are that dumb themselves.
Little racist here maybe ???
She actually said paris.
Don't you know? Today's teachers tell the kids they get to choose their own gender. The new generation of teachers are fucked. Imagine how fucked their pupils will be.
Watch what kids/teens are watching and I swear you will feel physical pain at the dumbness.
I heard my 22 year old brother in law literally say once "Capitalism sucks." and "I wanna start my own business" in the same breath. The dumbing down of America is a very real thing.
@David Chavez Actually, by saying that, he understands nothing about economics and only hates capitalism as a consumer and worker and has no idea of the work it takes to own a business. He's basically showing his stupidity and ignorance. Capitalism is the only way TO be financially free.
@David Chavez abject poverty over the last 100 years is dramatically down, but okay. Definitely problems with it, but it's by far done a better job than anything, ever, in terms of feeding people, giving shelter, standard of living, etc.
perhaps he will be starting a socialist collective where he fully recognises the rights of unions and will encourage worker participation.
It's not capitalism that sucks. It's that the wealthy and powerful have rigged the rules of capitalism in their favor. Rulings like Citizens United and continued deep tax cuts for the top 1% have turned us into an oligarchy.
@@hutch1197 exactly. people are lumping crony capitalism and capitalism together. The system we have right now is not capitalism. SOME regulation is necessary but not total government control of the economy. That DE incentivizes anyone to wanna start a small business.
As a teacher myself, I can tell you exactly why this is happening. The education system has completely failed them. Teachers are no longer allowed to teach. Kids can no longer be held accountable and are passed without getting them the help they need. Too much focus has been put on demographics and kids can no longer be disciplined. Kids are not being taught that actions have consequences and if kids aren't being taugh that lesson, then you're not teaching them anything. We have to accept that not all kids are the same and need to provide the appropriate learning environment for kids that have needs beyond what can be provided in the typical classroom.
What do you mean there is too much focus on demographics? I don't understand this.
"The education system has completely failed them."
BS.
If a child wants to learn they will.
A parent is responsible for preparing their children for school.
If you are a teacher, your job is to teach all of them.
Maybe you are suffering from job burnout and forgot what your purpose is.
As you know, people constantly change perceptions through experience.
The kids today have more distractions than they have before.
Adults need to step up and be responsible.
How is that possible when the parents today willingly are destroying the foundation of our country by electing demagogues who support insurrection?
Amen to all that.
@@seeyoucu I presume, she means that minorities and the perceived "underpriviledged" schoolchildren are being held to a different standard.
This comment is very insightful. You have really been able to summarise the problem. I agree 100%.
Pure George Carlin!!! I started teaching in 1969. My students were non-academic high school students. I retired as a college professor in 2018. With few exceptions, my 15- and 16-year-old high school students of1969 wrote and spoke more articulately than my 20- and 21-year-old college students of 2018. How do I know? Over the years I kept writing samples.
I used to work in a local grocery store. They had to put applications for employment on a computer screen because the handwriting was atrocious! couldn't spell either.
Please write a book document all the changes
You know what? What you did, saving those writing samples is exactly the proof that we all need that exemplifies the steady decline of academia! So sad & so true. I've also paid attention to how people now "write" and find myself always wondering, how they passed English courses in high school. I'm referring to people who were born & raised in America!
I'm not going to say when I graduated high school, but it was many years back. I distinctly remember being hammered over & over as to how important writing papers & just general writing skills, proper verb-subject agreement was so very important & crucial to my education. Will never forget that.
I believe it! 😂
To understand the world one must be well read; and such activity improves the mind of the speaker.
This is what happens when you don't value education.
This happen when education got substituted for indoctrination.
And when you value entertainment. For most people, the real world can't compete with commercial pleasures so of course they will cram their heads full of irrelevant things, rather than useful knowledge. Just like they'll overeat on fast food and get fat instead of having a healthy diet.
"This country simply has no education standards anymore." Never have truer words ever been spoken.
….and welcome to trumplandia!
@@marty4278 Do you honestly believe that Trump, as detestable as he is, is responsible for this?!?
@@adammwalch No. It’s his dumbed down supporters as a result of lousy education.
@@marty4278 with all due respect, anyone who has done even a modicum of research into the topic recognizes that it is the left of the political spectrum that has done all the horrendous damage to our educational system over the past few decades
@FISIX Cogent argument
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that there are limits to genius.” -Albert Einstein
100% Taylor, and as soon as you make something idiot proof, along come a completely different kind of idiot.
It's hard to be smart but it's easy to be stupid.
Stupidity has no boundaries, nor does it discriminate.
He really said that ?!
Nice.
Intelligence and knowleged is BANNED. Obedience is REWARDED. Fedual society impending.
I watched this and laughed. Then the reality of this hit me hard. We are so screwed.
Epochal Eclipse a CROSS America on April 8th 2024.
Don't stare at the sun. Matthew 16: 4 Jonah 3: 5 Jonah 4: 11
It means that there are more and more opportunities for educators... well, to get a tiny bit past square one, at least.
Lol! 😅
How could you laugh at something so horrifying?
@@sethreign8103 Black comedy, of course.
Have been laughing with and at Maher for more years than I can count. Thanks Bill!
Winston Churchill: "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter"
Oh god, he may have been blunt, especially in private but he was never wrong in it. Passions in your beliefs are important, but sometimes facts need to massively outweigh all of this. Over in the US, this seems to have completely gone out of the window. Thank goodness I don’t live over there. I think one hour of their regular TV adverts would melt my brain.
@@danielwhyatt3278 Having spent plenty of time in countries around the world i can say without any reservation that there is plenty of stupid to go around. Believing that this is a reason not to live in the US is a good example. Besides, if you ever see these ads in eh US then you're either over 60 or watching sometime targeted at malleable morons.
@M. F. just a disclaimer, i am neither democrat nor republican, I am American. Period.
Quick question for you M.F..
In observation of US economic condition, gas prices, vaccine mandates of a clearly defective and dangerous product, crime rates (keep it simple and just use gun violence and theft), immigration, foreign policies and affairs, etc. You STILL think that Biden has somehow been better than Trump? REALLY? Wow...
@M. F. Name me a single solitary policy that Trump had that was dictator type policies. I'll wait.
The average voter is a reflection of that nation’s leadership.
Being a German in America I literally was asked:
"So, you are from Germany! Have you ever been in Europe?"
What? Allow me to apologize for the dimwitted twits who make the rest of us educated Americans look bad.
🤭 sitting in America a lady asked where north America was located. 🙄🤷🏾♀️
I was asked by a teenager if I could take the train home to the Virgin Islands.
@@kimberlywoodbury1739 I believe you!! 😢😢😢
Run for president or Vice PRESIDENT
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."
~Hannah Arendt
Pro wrestling fans
> Repeats meme about communism being totalitarian.
> Meanwhile US gov funding some child mercenaries in Africa.
Opinion immediately disregarded.
Edit: kids calling me dumb, but cant give me exeamples of communism being totalitarian. even NK has a better voting and democratic system than the US. (although 50% of the crowd in NK is religious and think of kim as some prophet, which I do not like, they do have a better voting system, so people get who they want. unlike in the US, where the christian cult get manipulated into voting for trump.)
I can give you examples of laws in NK, which show how much freedom people there have(for exeample weed is legal, also the weed there is different from the addictive toxic stuff that people in the US call weed). Ignorants like to BELIEVE that everyone outside the US are just a "herd" while they themselves are the biggest "herds".
@@Raging.Geekazoid LMFAO! Fair point.
No wonder they love Trump.
@@godfather7339 WTF are you talking about? How did the quote imply your first claim, strawboy?
What better example could there be than those who believed the completely asinine Russia collusion hoax?
I graduated high school about 2 years ago with a slightly below-average GPA of 3.2/4.0. Now, out of the people that I know from my graduating class I was one of the only ones who could tell you the date that Pearl Harbor was attacked or in some cases even worse when 9/11 happened. Another example is working in the banking field now, I should not be instructing people who have a bachelor's degree how to write a professional email when I'm only a high school graduate. It feels like the education system attempted to lower the bar but ended up removing it entirely.
The BAR is still there but they go there to get drunk and laid.
@@jumperstartfulexcellent! 😂
Once we decided that the only function of "education" was "jobs," the only thing that mattered was the rubber stamp at the end.
_That_ is the real Republican long-game, and they won it (with Democrats' help of course).
A college education is not proof of how smart you are...only that you were stupid enough to pay a lot or go into debt for ... a bunch of useless knowledge that someone much smarter than you... convinced you that you needed it...😮😅😂
@@jesi3336you should petition for a refund from whomever it was who taught you how to use elipses
Like Carlin said, "The owners of the country do not want a population of critically thinking people." But after watching that clip, I' certain even Carlin would be stunned by it.
On the contrary he predicted it. No one with a brain cell is surprised. We've watched the decline in real time
They want obedient workers
@@yahyarajaee5883 Also Carlin: "Think of how stupid the average American is and realize that half of them are stupider than that."
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Carlin believes in God now, I assure you that 😬
He would not be stunned by it, no.
I taught Kindergarten in the Seattle Tacoma area for 20 years. About 15 years ago we were told to “just pass them”. Even if the parents were BEGGING for their child to be held back, they wouldn’t do it. It was sickening. I resigned a few years ago because I just couldn’t be part of it any more. They are so worried about social justice and being innovative that they have lost what the basic fundamentals on why we teach in the first place.
Yup, that's what happens when you get lost in movements and politics.
Well, when you have politicans who are more concerned about where tansgender students use the bathroom then what the cognitive appitude and performance of the students is, then yeah, of course performance is going downhill. It's not woke social-justice warriors that are the problem with education like you are implying. The problem is conservatives who are more concerned about banning books than banning guns. Conservatives who are more focused on culture wars than the performance of students. Conservatives who are more concerned about teaching religiosity than teaching science, and these people influence cirriculum policy. That's the problem.
How can you have social justice if your ignorant?
"They?"
I have no idea how i passed JR high or high school i never did any homework, ever . The only class i received an A was the only class the teacher took the time to helped me. I think i was a d+ student, the classes bored me to death. I noticed teachers would help the smart kids and treat the others like garbage. I can not think of anything i learned in school that helped me in life. I learned a trade and made more than all my other friends.
Idiocracy wasn't a comedy, It was a documentary.
Very prophetic movie.
No we are heading into a mixture Idiocracy and the version of Japan in Shimoneta
I really need to watch it
@@TheKnives777 aware USA can give everyone medicare+lower inflation so wages regain value but need to punish all those whom want to stay in Syria like Schiff/pelosi?
wesley clark foreshadow reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria
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dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip, blm crash car in to wisconsin parade thanks to nbc follow jury bus smearing ritten house
too
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@@VisaisforCucks aware USA can give everyone medicare+lower inflation so wages regain value but need to punish all those whom want to stay in Syria like Schiff/pelosi?
wesley clark foreshadow reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria
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dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip, blm crash car in to wisconsin parade thanks to nbc follow jury bus smearing ritten house
too
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Bill Maher tells the truth. Am very grateful.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
-George Carlin
This goes for Bill Maher's fans too.
@@Michael-Archonaeussure, you can have your own opinion.
@@G0OD1004 That is not my own opinion.
It is a fact that stupid people exist everywhere and in all political factions.
@@Michael-Archonaeus Bill is just fine, but it's his whooping studio audience whom I find most disagreeably dumb 🤡. 🇬🇧 Whooping: America's most irritating export. PS: I love rock 'n' roll, love Harley Davison Motorcycles (I ride one), I love Americans and America, but leave it out with the whooping already! 🤬
Black Sabbath wrote a song about that.
100% thank you. I remember vividly being in middle school and thinking the show Street Smarts was fake, I couldn’t imagine anyone actually being that dumb. I thought this is a child! I’m first generation went to public school so didn’t have any fancy education but I liked to learn and I didn’t realize how out of the ordinary that is until I joined the work force. So many people are really just sleep walking through life.
I think people are ‘street smart’ enough to know that a correct answer ends up on the cutting room floor
Ask 100 people the same question (pretty much any question), and you’re bound to find one confident idiot who doesn’t have the sense to say “I don’t know”
@@GLORYNEVADASMITH I
Perfectly put. People are only concerned about their own inane personal lives and have zero interest in the world around them. It's so challenging to have a deep, intellectual conversation.
Amen to that
Like bill says: "politicians can do anything, because the people don't know anything."
do anything, if there is a good reaction it's "i did it", if bad reaction it's "I didn't do it, not my fault".
Dumb people don't know anything.they are running the world.own nothing and be happy.lol
Bill also said; 'the government is full of shit because the people are full of shit'...
@@gpiano88 mabe he's full of shit,because our government don't speak for us anymore.because of the dumb 1's.
I think it’s even worse than that. It’s that they don’t care whether they know anything.
Why is anyone surprised? We live here, see it every day!
The last decade has really helped in the dumbing down, by creating people who focus on which side of the political spectrum you believe in, rather than on the issue. You need to be able to think and to accept opposing views.
You don't need to accept opposing views (did you mean "receive" them?). One needs to listen and evaluate. Sometimes opposing views help sharpen your own or they at least help you learn to articulate them in a more effective way. And this last decade certainly sped up the dumbing down. In a post modern society this is inevitable. I also agree that people have sharpened their focus on a particular political spectrum rather than on real issues. Easy to do in an environment where journalists have disappeared and large media outlets are agenda driven.
As a Brit with long-standing ties to the USA, I keep a close eye on US life and politics. There should be no such thing as a 'Career Politician', anywhere. Three terms, then you're Out. Not long enough to make millions more than your salary? Tough. Though, I'm not sure its too much of an insult calling people 'You dumb fox.'
@@terencejay8845- Agree. Another big Problem, in my opinion, is they get a paycheck for life along with health ins, that we the tax payer pays! Very few have redeeming values. Two terms and then go back into society without the liberty to get paid as a lobbyist.
Iaisosto: Exactly!!!, I noticed The Same Exact thing.
Thinking posts a part in that, which is a different teaching concept to knowledge. It is a part of it, but even if you aren't smart, if you're taught to be respectful, you can listen then understand that but everyone's like you & disagree with them rather than just shouting & mocking then
I appreciate that Bill has also pointed out the semi literate society we currently live in as well. People not only don't know shit, they can barely read and spell which only adds to the frustration when dealing with idiots and their lack of logic or reasoning.
True. "According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of U.S. adults 16-74 years old - about 130 million people - lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level." - That should be seen as a national emergency. If America diverted 5% of it's military budget towards education, the problem would be resolved.
when you put together emojis and shorten your words in text messaging, when you dont socialize anymore and stare at your phone, what else do you expect.
@@delphi-moochymaker62 Sorry, we need your boys and girls on our borders now that Russia decided to increase its sphere of influence. Best regards, Euro Scrubs.
In all seriousness, this issue is not exclusive to USA. Pretty much across the globe, and mostly visible in developed countries. Polices have shifted from trying to get an educated society in order to allow people to get richer and thus expand the strength of their country on all possible planes, to just giving people the bare minimum so that they can fill in mundane and cheap jobs. Politicians don't even prenetd they care anymore, some years back they'd explain themselves for 2-3 years after election that things are tough and their hands are tied. Now it's 2-3 months, and that's it folks, back to business of screwing their voters even further.
But the best part? We allow large corporations and openly hostile countries to map our societies and influence us on a massive scale, and our own governments do nothing under the pretense of "free markets" and "dialog", at the same time allowing "feelings" and minorities to dictate overall policies turning democracies into crippled satires of what they should be. Yes, as a whole we're getting dumber, and thus we elect even dumber representatives who will bend their knee to the highest campaign donor and pass legislation that is in open contradiction to the interests of the majority of people who elected them in the first place.
This will end in one of two ways. People at some point will get cornered so badly, they will have to choose: submit or rebel. And neither option will be good for all of us, shame we're allowing things to get closer and closer to the tipping point.
The first step to improve is to recognize you are dumb.
Mona Lisa was painted by an Italian, but it stays in Paris (France), not in Italy.
Should we add this to the common knowledge questions?
I unironically believe Idiocracy is happening before our eyes. If not already, we will soon be seeing diminishing instead of increasing IQ in western countries.
Frightening...just frightening. As a teacher I'm trying VERY hard to fight back against the culture of social media...and to be honest...social media is DESTROYING our youth.
What about the " teachers" with blue pink purple hair, and Marxist communist political ideologies stapled all over the classroom, who spend quality time with the students, focusing on sex/ grooming gender bending, child porn in the libraries, white hate/ shame, anti American propaganda, transvestite appearances and after school Satan club?
I am against censorship but sometimes safety comes first and we banned our kid from Tik Tok. It is owned by the Chinese, I don't know how this isn't considered a threat. It should have the plug pulled, and I am an actual FOS advocate and harm to individuals doesn't trump free speech rights. And this has gone beyond harmful into the sadistic.
I hope you are teaching children you know, stuff. You should watch some of those "questions on the street" I remember one where people were very very upset when they were asked if they thought it was ok that the Trump kids were shooting Sabretooth tigers and Triceratops in Africa for sport. "They shouldn't kill those beautiful and endangered animals." I do not know if I could handle middle schoolers or higher as a teacher now days, grade school seems to be failing them before they even get to those grade levels.
Watch the scene towards the beginning of True Lies when Tom Arnold explains to Arnold S why his daughter is stealing money out of his wallet.
You mean parents are exposing their children to destructive social media because they have no back bone to tell their kids “no”.
My mother was talking to a grammar school teacher once, she told Mom she didn't understand why all the politicians had to travel north of Oregon to get to work in Washington DC. Scary stuff.
Yeah, that never happened. You just made that up for the likes.
I never could understand how a generation with hand-held information devices that connect to the internet, giving them all the info in human history at the touch of a button can actually be dumber than generations without the internet.
It's down to common-sense and an education. i think the internet is a wonderful creation, but it's like owning a car and not knowing how to drive it.
It's amazing,I say the same thing. I guess it's because we had to learn it wasn't in our hands.
If you play candy crush 24/7 it does not help, as much as an whole library does not make you smarter if you read only the pulp fiction section.
What we as a whole socitie missed invoking is the hunger to find things out and the hunger to find solution and the firm belief that invention is good (and i am not talking about faster cars)
In the 50s the city of the future was an shiny place with happy healthy people, today the city of the future is a war zone.
It is not the schools fault, it is our all fault that optimism into the future has become an dirty word.
Is there really anyone who studies history even on an casual level who claims EVERYTHING was better in the past?
Or denies that not everything modern is good and that we have to fix what is wrong, but in general, progress is an good thing?
Science fiction is an good indicator about how we as societie think about the future, and todays SF scares the hell out of me.
It's mental atrophy from a lack of brain exercise through wondering. If we question something, we just look it up now. Imagine if this is your entire life from birth. We don't wonder like we used to, so we don't exercise our brain like we used to. It's all of us.
@@barnabycollins7337 I do not know, for me the internet is someway the extension, I want to know things, I am not particular good at anything, as soon I know how it works and how to do it i move on, not much for becoming an master in anything.
But what scares me is people who have no desire to know anything at all, or only in the narrow field of there job, but outside of that it is crickets.
Theres an whole fuckin universe outside there and we are alive 80 years if lucky, I mean, there is no time to waste.
Living in this country Is like watching the evolutionary chart going backwards.
@Christian Constitutionalist I was born here. Free country and speech right?
@@nursemedic17 2nd amendment.
@@slowfudgeballs9517 Yep. WTF
Half of Americans say there is no evolution so how can it be going backwards.
Go ask these questions in just about any country, and you'll get similar answers. Stupidity isn't exclusive to the U.S.
You're on FIRE lately Bill Maher! I always respected your ability to remove yourself from the polarization of politics and speak truth to the matters at hand! Thank you, please keep doing your thing.
The guy didn’t even know we had a stock market crash in 2020. He is an idiot who thinks he knows everything, when he doesn’t know anything. How can he tell us how to vote, when he doesn’t even know we already spent trillions propping up the stock market? He doesn’t come up with anything he says, his writers do. And they are clueless too.
My sister gets angry when I use words she doesn't know the meaning. I told her I'm trying to improve my vocabulary, not belittle her. Hence, this would be a good opportunity for her to learn. I think that because I earned an MA in history, some people get intimidated. I'm not that smart. I just worked hard to earn my degrees.
I got my degree In history. Basically it means I am a trained reader and writer. It has been helpful in my life. And normal people always tell me how smart I am. Im Not smart, the average is just abysmal.
@Matthew10950 I came across this quote & it resonated with me. Unfortunately, it applies to many people today who refuse to educate themselves. "If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but wise for the rest of your life." (Seneca the Younger)
@Missy-Missy1111 Curious minds are too few and far between now. Internet and smart phones killed the joy of figuring things out on your own. Today, that is seen as a burden.
Oh well, we had a good run.
@@Missy-Missy1111 ..or, as I often tell people, "the only stupid question is the one you should have asked but didn't".
I never thought I would agree with Bill Maher, but he has hit it right on the head
He can hit it out of the park when he returns to his logical origins. Somehow he freaked out during the Hillary years and hitched his wagon to that train wreck. I think he knows he needs a better..more educated, base to attract for his schtick.
why wouldn't you able to agree with him at least some of the time? To think that you couldn't agree with a reasonable person makes me think that you're ideologically stubborn
Very entertaining BUT he was dead wrong about woke being a better product than conservatism. Another major error is that he selectively shows idiotic examples of conservatives, but never identifies the idiotic youngsters as "liberals" which they are much closer to. Face it Bill, "liberals' lost the battle of the Left to the extremists and your approach is to bash idiots on the right, and say the evil idiots on the extreme left are not as bad. But they are worse. The average prewar German had a far better life under Hitler than the average prewar Soviet citizen had under Stalin. Ditto for the Chinese people under Mao, or the average Cambodian under Pol Pot, or the average North Korean under the Kims. It is very sad that the United States has declined precipitously in the short 20 months or so that the old-school liberals have been in charge, after allowing the corruption of its societal institutions from within by the psychotic Left. And the left never speaks about the rather profound principles of conservatism that seek at least preliminary evidence of improvement before making potentially significant changes to complex, interactive systems.
@@jaimhaas5170 Had more people voted for Hilary Clinton, we’d not be as fucked as we are now. SCOTUS would not be 2/3 Catholic and turning America into The Republic of Gilead. But, yeah, sure, it was so much better to have The Donald in office. 🙄
I don’t just love HC, but since Obama, she has been the lesser evil, so to speak. I wanted Bernie Sanders. I really did, but I knew it wasn’t likely to be. So, I’ve done what I always have: I’ve voted blue, across the board- BLUE. I would rather have a democratic-led country, warts and all, over the alternative.
@@iamcasihart the problem now with blue is all the woke crap they have promoted. I will never vote blue again. They goofed.
I worked in public schools for years and the amount of kids who were passed through and couldn't read or write was astonishing
When I was a high school reading teacher I had tenth grade reading classes, not remedial reading but court ordered reading which everyone was required to take, and there would be kids in the class with 3rd grade reading levels. So one might ask in all obliviousness, how is it that people with 3rd grade reading levels get promoted past the sixth grade into secondary schools? I gave up and became a deck hand in the merchant marine. At least you’ve got to pass a test given by the Coast Guard to become an able bodied seaman/lifeboatman. And no, they don’t socially promote people from ordinary seaman to able bodied seaman just like they don’t socially promote ABs to 3rd mate or mates to master, and so forth if everyone gets the concept. If the merchant marine were run like the schools the ships would all founder.
Same.
But you might hurt their feelings!!!
Thanks.
That's why so many college graduates are so bloody stupid.
I've watched Bill Maher for years. This particular topic is his comic sweet spot and he should stay on it and stay on it. The dumbing down of our kids -- and the lack of critical thought in the US -- is right at the core of nearly all of our problems today. Most importantly, it cuts with extreme prejudice right through the center of nearly every issue of importance to us politically, whether you're right, left or center. An thats seying alot!!!
*Ant
It's not just in the US. I live "next door" to you in Canada. My youngest is in a grade 2/3 split class where most students are 8-9 years old. I thought my child was being modest after getting 10/10 on a spelling quiz "It was easy!" Then I looked at the quiz. The hardest word was "That"
what?? it's not our dumb kids that are are the problem, it's our dumb ADULTS. Obviously. you know, the ones that HOLD ALL THE POWER? (have you noticed the people who now hold all the highest offices are in their 80's?)
I've also enjoyed Bill since the 90', but now I can only stand to watch once in a while because of this incessant disturbing kid-hatred
It's SUBJECT MATTER they need. Critical thinking is an empty buzz world. Critical thinking is dependent on the subject! The skills for analyzing a poem (verbal) and doing a math problem (computational) and a history question (detailed historical knowledge) are NOT THE SAME.
It's called "No Child Left Behind", the standards were literally dumbed down to increase the rate of graduation. The one problem: those children would eventually grow up knowing nothing. Remember that when people bitch about Common Core making life miserable.
And what's really bad is that these people vote.
“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where through consumption and entertainment, the slave would love their servitude.” ~Aldous Huxley
Can we at least get the orgies and drugs from BNW?
As I labour through watching TV, Huxley's observation is part of nearly all of us now.
Entrapment!
Isn't that the idea of the Panopticon?
Basically as soon as we can plug our minds directly into computers that will begin.
This is what "No Child Left Behind' gets you. Entire generations of college grads who struggle with pre-algebra but feel entitled to every position of power and responsibility.
At this point, it's more like "Every Child Left Behind"
This is why the DOE should never have been started...We've declined in our educational standing internationally since it's inception.
Add common core as well.
god so many memories of abuse
@@hippiepisces9745 how do you mean HP?
As a teacher in New York State I do know that diplomas are handed out to students that have not earned them. I believe this practice undermines the value of a diploma and gives it the same worth as a piece of toilet paper in some cases. I also know that the reason for this is because public schools are terrified of having low graduation rates and high drop out percentages which invite state scrutiny and threaten them with the loss of funding the situation turns into a nightmarish catch-22. You either stand up for the standard of your school's education and have students repeat grades (which can be refused by parents) or drop out while losing your funding or you pass students along through the industrialized education processing machine and know that the valedictorian and the 'Queen Elizabeth is from Brazil' graduates will be sporting the same diploma. It's tragic and, while a bit more complex than a quick comic quip, is leading to a slow undermining of the country which, at length, will make social control a highly successful enterprise.
It's right there-- parents can refuse to have their children be accountable. Oh and somewhere someone decided that all students need to be technology savvy. so they take digital literacy and keyboarding and coding every dang year even when they can't read to grade level or do basic math
Yes but the rich do not need smart people to do their slave jobs.
When they dumbed down the New York Regents exams years ago I knew we were doomed. A Regents diploma used to mean excellence but not anymore. If it makes you feel better, undeserved diplomas are rampant across the country. The parents are also to blame because many only care about the grade and fight with the teacher if their kid didn’t do the work and didn’t get a good grade. If the teacher refuses to change the grade parents go to the principal and they override the teacher and change the grade. It’s politics. The principal wants to keep the parents happy.
No worries as long as the students are minorities they’ll be hired no matter how fucking stupid they are. Diversity in the workplace is such an amazing idea! Lowering the quality of work and standards by which people have to succeed but making sure we have a whole rainbow of fucking colors in that same place. As long as there’s lots of colors it doesn’t matter how shitty the outcome or how crappy the work ethic is.
I baffles me why a school district that has poor results should have its funding cut. It needs MORE funding to ensure better materials and instruction can be utilized. Cut it you just ensure more failure, not more success. But, one would have to be well educated to be able to point that out and our leaders are braindead stupid.
I can't believe I've put off watching this. This was FIRE, Bill. Way to go!
Involved in Education for over 30 years and he’s 100% correct. I’ve been saying this for 2 decades.
lol
Funny, just when the internet hit its straps.
And yet as a society we now trust little kids to know what being misgendered means or being in the wrong body means, when there's grown ass adults who dont know the difference between a City, a country or a continent.
One of the problems in education (and this is almost the elephant in the room problem) is that people do things based on incentives. If I am a student in your class and I do poorly, what, and be honest, would be the consequence? I get a D in your class which means I pass and don't have to take it again? In contrast to this, if my employer wants me to learn something (say database management for example) and I don't learn it? Well, I get fired which could possibly cause me to not be able to make rent or buy food.
Yet too many educators think that if we do away with public schools, children won't be educated (as if they are educated with public schools).
The first step to improve is to recognize you are dumb.
Mona Lisa was painted by an Italian, but it stays in Paris (France), not in Italy.
Should we add this to the common knowledge questions?
Another great Bill Maher talk. I felt a pang of sadness and shook my head because it's all true!
Bill is totally back on top of his game: relentless reality
there is still hope for him
Yeah but would he support Trump if he ran for office again? He doesn't have any convictions
@@tinafrompasadena3192 . Maher has nothing BUT convictions!
As does Trump
too late, we will never forget his past actions
Here, here!
ON the other hand, I have seen many of these 'quick quizzes'...and marveled at how stupid they are...BUT...I've also seen the ones where some of those kids are brilliant, and marveled at how stupid I am. 🤣🤣
I want to highlight that as a teacher, one of the key problems we have is our professional standards for teachers suck. The video's "I should know this, I'm going to be a teacher." alludes to this issue. In college/university, professors are more concerned now making sure teachers in training are vessels of empathy and put more emphasis on socialization or kids emotions rather than making sure they actually know, or are passionate about what the f*ck they're teaching as a subject. All the while making sure kids know, and more importantly *can process*, knowledge.
Edit: This isn't meant to lean politically. It's an observation that our society has maybe gone a little too far in the direction of feelings and emotional incontinence. Perhaps to the point it's detracting from everything else and even hindering kids becoming more resilient to adversity, which in the coming years- There will be plenty of.
Agreed. Having been a substitute teacher and having many family members who are teachers, I will say sadly that while there are some AMAZING teachers in the system, even before the system went woke there were some problems with many teachers. The reason the students don't know the answers to these questions is because the teachers who taught them don't know the answers. You can't teach what you don't know. I'm not trying to disparage teachers. It's an incredibly difficult job that I think most members of society wouldn't be able to make it through even one week doing it. Part of the problem is our school system wasn't set up to education our children. It was to babysit our children after child labor laws were put into place and mom & dad still had to both go to the factory. And the babysitting side will, imo, make it impossible for school to ever genuinely be a place of learning. In order for it to be a place of learning, attending school has to be optional and a priviledge. Students have to have the right not to go, and teachers have to have the right to kick students out of class any time they aren't valuing the priviledge of learning. And then our teachers have to also know enough to teach the subject. I had a Junior High School math teacher who couldn't remember what sine, cosine, and tangent were and told us to go home, read the textbook, and teach ourselves. My brother had a math teacher that graded the first test of the year out of 100 and every other test out of 10, and she entered the scores as point values, not percentages. My brother was sick and scored less than 50 on the first test. He scored 100% on every other test. The teacher instintively knew my brother shouldn't be failing, but she couldn't figure out why the computer said he was failing. As a substitute teacher who taught all around the District, at lunch I would get to meet the majority of the teachers in the school. And consistently there would be between one and three competent teachers that you could tell were quietly holding the whole school together in the background. I still think the other teachers are basically heros because they are doing an incredibly hard, emotionally draining job, and they were fulfilling the babysitting part of the job quite well. But based on the conversations it was usually pretty evident that the teachers were stunted emotionally and were not competent in the subjects they were teaching. I mean this in the kindest way. I have often speculated about this, and I have decided that either the job attracts people like this because it is a ridiculously hard job for relatively low pay considering the difficulty and the required skill set, so that is why most teachers are this way. Or the job drives sane, competent teachers crazy over time, which having done the job would make perfect sense. Or in the hiring process, the traits that administrators search for lead to this kind of a workforce. I am saying all of this with respect. Since I did the job, the odds are that all of these descriptors describe me as well. And I couldn't hack it. After a couple of years, I finally had to give up because it was way too hard and emotionally draining. But yes, if it was that bad 20 - 30 years ago, I can imagine how much worse these problems have become as too many schools are now actively prioritizing what I call woke ideology over real learning.
@@hollybigelow5337 I'd say lack of funding going to actually educating students and Ghouls like Betsy DeVos that want to end public schools in favor of turning education into a profit driven system is a much bigger problem that "woke ideology".
I'd also say that part of the problem goes back to the second President Bush and the No Child Left Behind Act which put so much focus on standardized tests. So that instead if being taught to learn for them selves, to think and understand things students are taught to pass tests. Soon forgetting much of what they learned soon after the test is over.
Most recently the push back against "CRT" and "woke ideology" (things that are hardly ever actually defined by their opponents) is leading to people insisting that students be taught that 'America is great the way it is' that 'We are number one'. That a teacher can't upset students by exposing them to the holocaust or the horrors of slavery or the ugliness that Civil Rights leaders like Martin Luthor King fought against (Florida passed a law that makes it a crime for a teacher to hurt the feeling of White Students).
Sweden's educational methods are worth a few minutes of time to listen to and makes me wonder why we struggle so much with our system. Maybe we're awash in our arrogance, refusing to admit other countries have a few lessons to give us along with a few pointers to better our method of teaching.
@@hollybigelow5337 I hope that you weren't an English teacher. :P~
@@auturgicflosculator2183 No, I certainly wasn’t. And yes, I was aware even while typing that that it wasn’t grammatically correct. However, I certainly substituted English, which I think is even further evidence that teachers are regularly not qualified to teach the subjects that they teach.
"Idiocracy" is a documentary ahead of its time.
That's the comment stupid people say to make them feel smart.
@@Nathan-gd7xq even if you are correct, where would that place you? I could say the same thing, that's the comment stupid people say to make them feel smart.
that's the comment [that's the comment] stupid people say [stupid people say] to make [to make] them feel [them feel] ESS-EMM-AYE-ARR-TEE [SMART]
Nope, Idiocracy was a prophecy and it will become a documentary for the Chinese children in the future of why education is so important.
Stop
@@marsmancho looks like you're smarter than us both
“Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that”
George Carlin
For his sake, I'm glad George Carlin isn't around to see any of this lol
Only in America
How original 🙄
That’s not how averages work
That would be median, but point taken.
If I was American, I'd be wearing a paper bag over my head right now
😂
There’s something else that nearly all of these stupid people have in common. Can you guess what it is? Lol
We Americans are way too proud for that. The dumbest among the most proud.
It's just as bad and many times worse in other countries.
@@peac2916you must be one of those Muricans....LOL
Bill Maher gets right between the lines and shows how crazy both sides can be. Very impressive I must say.
Devon Zeller-
Because Bill can only criticize.
It's his Forte.
Bill will tear to pieces anyone or any idea, but as far as solutions, he has none.
Billdo supported and Voted for the RESIDENT in the wh and Voted for every demoncrat he
could vote for..
He's supported demoncrats his whole life look where that's Gotten US as a Country!
ENJOY BILLDO What You helped Create an America being Destroyed faster than Ever!
NOTICE Not one demoncrat EVER PUSHES BACK AGAINST THERE LEADERS NOT ONE!
Total PUPPETs the Hoke lot of them!
VOTING REPUBLICAN Is how AMERICANS FIX AMERICA!
November 8th 2022 2023 2024!
@@afellowamericanafellowamer5317 maybe because it's not his job to find solutions. It's politicians job.
Sides? Leftism/wokism is the worst problem. Any side that opposes that does well.
Devon Zeller-
Any jerk can point out whats wrong.
Its the people who show up and do something productive who make things better.
Remember what Hannah Arendt said about education: "The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any"
1 tom brunila Fuk what you saying it here 😠 ruclips.net/video/8zrfSK6pnpQ/видео.html
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 😠
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😠😠
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖
los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer
tom I agree in part. A lot of people just don't care that deeply about issues that don't affect them directly. I really don't know if there is any other way to see things in the end either. It's hard enough to get through life. Having convictions would be a lot of extra work, take up a lot of free time from your main job. It would be like a hobby. Few people can pull it off. But more should.
Oh they have convictions about what they think they know and will run to their safe space to protect their ignorance
Basically the GOP voterbase
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 If Bill has any influence at all he is part of the group persuading Dems to become GOP people. Bill needs to retire asap. I don't know who he speaks for other than himself, Mr. too cool for words. Watch his episode with Chris Cuomo, Bill was intimidated.
We have lots of education and learning standards, Bill, we're just not allowed to enforce them.
If you read any state's standards you will be impressed with what they're expected to do! But when a student misses 20-30 days per nine weeks, turns in no work, fails exams and doesn't bother to even take a retest--not to mention discipline problems--that student is expected to pass anyway. I've literally been flatly told by an administrator, "if a student fails it is the teacher's fault." No teacher is ever praised for having high standards if that results in a failing grade.
Of course it's the teacher's fault. Panellist Douglas Murray will tell you it's because the teachers are too busy grooming the kids.
Also, education is underfunded in the US and under attack in part by people who want for profit schools. Most teachers are not only under paid, but they are expected to buy stuff that they need for work and help their students learn.
Furthermore, you have the "teach to the test" philosophy were instead teaching students to learn, think and understand things they are taught what they need to do well on a standardized test. Many are taught mediocrity and mediocrity is often rewarded because schools mostly don't have the ability to handle with students that are either very smart or troubled.
Especially since school shooting started to be a thing. As so much of the discussion over school funding involves turning a school into a fortress or hiring armed security, a combination that makes schools seem more like prisons than centers of education.
If a student fails, it's on them AND the parents, not the teacher. If an idiot crashes a car, it's not the instructor's fault. Grow the fuck up, kids.
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND. Everyone gets a trophy. And then when they become an adult, they can be on government assistance and keep the votes coming in. We are a bunch of spoiled dumbasses.
@@MWhaleK under attack by private schools? You mean, private schools are out performing public schools?
"Stop The Madness, Stop Melanie Stansbury!"
Still gets me😂😂
This just goes to show what the rest of the world has been saying about America for years
The rest of the world has never understood America. My entire life I've watched them misunderstand America. They think it's one place.
It’s not any better in Europe either
@@garys1216 Where is it better
@@garys1216It really is. It’s great here. I don’t have to sell my house when I get sick. College doesn’t bankrupt me. I don’t have to fear being shot in school. The list goes on.
Amen!! It’s a third world country!
And this is why I'm a history teacher. To make the world a little less dumb. I'm hoping none of my students ever appear on any of those segments, otherwise I might quit.
Luck to you!
The 13-minute, 42-second 1942 US Department of Agriculture video *Hemp for Victory* is the key to reducing unemployment, reducing poverty, reducing hunger, reducing homelessness, reducing health care costs, reducing crime, reducing police brutality, reducing government spending, reducing political corruption, reducing pollution, replacing fossil fuels, ending deforestation and stopping climate change, all at the same time.
There is an official .gov link to the film from the US National Archives. It has been public since 1990.
There was a bill in Congress titled HR 3652, the *Hemp for Victory Act of 2019.*
Teach this because it hasn't been taught in 80 years.
I hope not. But I can't say for sure.
Thank you for what you do for our children. People need to understand that teachers are continually blocked from properly teaching our students by parents and the government. Your job is so difficult, but so important!
But do you actually cause them to gain knowledge or do you just give them a bunch of work and assignments to do? I started kindergarten in the year 2000 for some perspective and for my generation, we were never measured on our intelligence only our workload. It seemed like the whole thing was designed to get us ready for office culture, not college.
This is quite terrifying. It's not only geography they don't understand, they don't know ANYTHING. A deli owner told me that a kid working for him had to use his phone to figure out how long half of a foot-long grinder would be, and when I told a kid selling flowers at the farmers market that I was buying flowers so I could paint them, he couldn't figure out for the life of him why I'd put paint on flowers since they were already colorful. I'm so thankful I'm old and nearly dead!
K,kmm,
Chuckled out loud.
I can relate to old and nearly dead The tragedy is that we are leaving our children and grandchildren with an insane world.
We had a 21-year-old come in to be an ironworker Apprentice that didn't know how to lace his own boots. He said when I go home I'll see if my Grandma knows how to do it. I didn't know what to say I drew a complete blank I was totally Blown Away that he didn't know how to do that.
To be fair, you've given some pretty bad examples where communication adds unnecessary confusion - "figure out how long half of a foot-long grinder would be" distracts you with wondering what a "grinder" is and would be helpful context. Could also just say 12-inch "grinder". And saying "I'm going to paint flowers" is on you because that can easily be misinterpreted - you should have said you're going to make a painting of the flowers and you're using them as a reference.
You remind me of those people who think they're witty when they make wordplay "jokes" but they're actually just socially awkward and unable to read social cues.
Hi Bill Maher and team, a fan from India. Although I get see your New Rule segment later than the US audiences I never miss one. You and the show are truly are a lucid, unbiased & a clever window in to the American society for me and I hope you win an Emmy soon…although the you’ve already won the “Cojones” 😅. All the best !!
"lucid, unbiased & a clever window"
Actually, he is very biased "left" but the modern left has moved so far more to the left that Bill Maher is now suddenly in the middle, maybe even slightly "right", without actually changing his beliefs (near as I can tell).
First time I've done something I haven't done in years: laugh at a comedian so hard that I'm in tears.
Thanks Bill, I needed that! 😀😉👍
I remember watching "Are you smarter than a fifth grader" a few years back. One of the questions posed to an elementary school teacher was - "You are in America. You get in your car and drive as far north as you can until you hit the border of another nation. If you cross that border, what country would you find yourself in?" She was stymied. She had no idea. The fifth grader had to help her. "Pssst. Canada!" Ouch.
Trick question.
North or South America?
That's a garbage question though. If Canada is the supposed answer, here are a few problems:
- It mistakes the United States of America for America. America includes Argentina and Cuba.
- It fails to identify "mainland", so e.g. Alaska and Hawaii count.
- Since it specifies 'driving as far as you can', there is no guarantee that you'd make it to any border.
- Assuming we're sticking to roads, there may well be places with only a road into Mexico. You'd go through Mexico to go north, but since you already hit a border, the answer then is Mexico.
- By the wording, presumably native American nations would count, in which case you're still in the USA.
@@sorsocksfake You should be my lawyer.
@@elmarobberts5128 Oh, yes. Anyone would be an improvement over America's Mayor.
@@sorsocksfake Any American would understand America as meaning the US. There's no American continent in US geography, just North America and South America, so they traditionally use America as short hand for United States of America. There is a problem with driving in Alaska or Hawaii, but I assume it would only confuse someone who'd be from one of those states. The question doesn't just say "drive as far north as you can" but "drive as far north as you can until you hit the border of another nation", so there is a guarantee that you'll make it to a border. Are there any places in the US with roads only going into Mexico? I remember there's one place in Alaska that only has a road to Canada, but that's a rare and perhaps unique occurrence. There could be a place where you can locally drive north from the US to get to Mexico - there are some bends in the Rio Grande and the Colorado where Mexico is north of the US, but I don't see any roads going through them.
Absolutely pathetic. The teacher was especially sad. My wife retired from teaching 28 years, she had enough. She used to complain how dumb the average teacher was, it was a job of last resort for many because the classes are so easy. Teaching now is more about indoctrination instead of transferring knowledge, sad but true.
The fascists are winning.
Iamthemoss : In this fast-changing world, “transferring knowledge” is not enough : Our youth need Critical Thinking (and Media Literacy, and Coding) Skills, AT MINIMUM, to be able to continue to upgrade their skill-sets/employment opportunities in today’s “global” economy. Teaching has never been more demanding, or in need of 100% commitment, than it is now. Anything less is just failing our children and our collective future !
My wife is also a teacher. She often complains about teachers like your wife. Who go in with the same lesson plans every year, hand out work sheets and coast through the year. Yeah the job can definitely be easy if you don't give a shit!
Just proves the old adage, those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.
Knowledge comes from experience, so said Einstein.
Brilliant as always. And what a joy to see Douglas Murray!
There's a scene in The Incredibles that's absolutely brilliant, but played off as a joke. When Mr. Incredible doesn't want to go to his son's "graduation ceremony," his reasoning is "It's not a graduation. He is moving from the 4th grade to the 5th grade... It's psychotic. They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity. "
I taught 8th grade. I watched parents cry at the 8th grade graduation, as if their kid accomplished something. You literally could not fail, could not be held back, could not NOT graduate. It was psychotic.
There’s also the scene where Syndrome says “And when everyone’s super, no one will be.” Lowering the bar for kids’ education while praising them for basic functions is proving that.
@@mightyluvthe boy wanted to used his powers to win the race at school and mom told him not to.
Dash “Dad always said our powers were nothing to be ashamed of; our powers made us special.
Mom: “Everyone is special, Dash”
Dash: “Which is another way of saying no one is”
I’m not big into animated movies but watched them as my kids grew. That line stuck with me. It’s a bit of a trope for a villain to give a message like that but it’s heartbreaking from a kid. Very damaging.
The scene that stuck with me from "Whiplash" was when the kid met with his very demanding instructor played by JK Simmons, who had just been fired for pushing his students too hard. Search "good job scene" on YT.
Your points are well taken. However, if one were to be charitable, one could interpret the parents’ tears as simply a bittersweet reaction to the passage of time rather than pride at their child’s “accomplishment”. Whether or not failure was ever a possibility, having your kids transition to high school is still a reminder that you and they are getting older. Soon they will leave home, with all the mixed emotions that this milestone entails. While I’m not a parent myself, I suspect that there’s more than one perspective here. Either way, I would agree that having a ceremony to mark this transition is unnecessary and can come across as self-indulgent.
It’s great to celebrate completing a year of school. The problem is miseducating the kids during the school year. Your reference misses the mark in my opinion
I'm a conservative and appreciate what you're doing. I loved the montage of Republicans shooting things they don't like. You have to be able to laugh at your stupid side for sure. I don't have to agree with you to appreciate your common sense point of view. Thanks.
I'm a liberal and I can't stand what the Democrat party has become. I log onto Daily Kos now just to laugh at the stupid on this side of the fence. People really are wacky.
Yeah, blowing up the car was funny. It also sends a message. I want someone crazy that is 60% consistent with my views to fight someone who is crazy with 15% of my values.
@@carmine6871 So you want Crazy people to lead you against other crazy people? Are all US leaders nuts?
Idk I stopped watching after he lied about breath act. A law aimed to prevent police brutality through strangulation,... um ... Bill said the bill would enable pedophiles, and I'm like.... so bill wants more people suffocated on the asphalt.... and not one comment from anyone about it.. have fun getting your neck shoved into the asphalt. You can thank Bill.
Read the bill. Just a paragraph even.
Visit the organisation's website? Does that look like child pen to you?
I'm a gun person, and you can be pro 2A without having a gun yourself, but don't get on TV and shoot like cr*p trying to sell me the idea that you are. I don't want perfection, just don't look like you're completely new to shooting, or doing unsafe things, like shooting a rifle in the air.
During my last year of college as a student over the age of 40, I would tutor English and Writing subjects - I cannot tell you how many freshman college students cannot write a basic essay - we are talking a topic, three relevant paragraphs and a closing statement. They have no clue and it is a major hurdle for many of them to being able to get into the classes they need for their various degrees. We have underfunded schools, forced teachers not to give an education, but teach to test...and this is what we get. We have not been teaching critical thinking skills, period.
It's also primarily bcuz the internet has taken over.
You hit the hail on the head! The country has underfunded or completely defunded education (to the point where elementary and high school teachers have to spend their own meager salaries to buy school supplies). The GOP especially hates education so much that they want to direct schools on which books they can read. We have created a society of completely non-thinking beings who are willfully ignorant, almost brag about not being an “elite” (I.e. valuing high education) & can be manipulated to believe the most outlandish conspiracy theories bc these people cannot think for themselves! It’s an incredibly scary development for a country our size .
You hit the nail on the head when you said “underfunding the schools”.
This is what happens when assholes like Grover Norquist and Paul Ryan scream about taxes and Repub candidates campaign on lowering your taxes (translation: buy people’s votes): things like public education are starved of funds, teachers are poorly paid and in the end it’s the students who suffer.
There was a parable that came out many years ago where a visitor from another planet came to earth to learn about mankind. One of their observations was that professional athletes are paid millions of dollars for playing a game while teachers, who are responsible for educating the future generations, are paid a relative pittance. The alien’s comment was, “don’t you have that reversed: teachers have such an important role because they teach your children while professional athletes are just exceptionally good at hitting a ball with a stick or throwing a ball through a net. I don’t understand the logic at work here.”
Our schools are NOT UNDERFUNDED. I am so enraged by that EXCUSE. Our teachers are uneducated and as ignorant as the students they are supposed to teach. Our curriculum are uninspired and not interesting, nor relevant. Start firing teachers who can’t pass the standardized tests the students fail.
Stop blaming the internet. Our schools were shit long before the internet.
As a Canadian working in the US in the 80ies, my American associates thought we hunted moose to feed ourselves and lived in igloos. I always agreed with them and laughed like crazy after I got home.
I'm conservative politically...should I even admit that after watching this video? What a fantastic, entertaining, and hard hitting monologue! He had me laughing and agreeing at the same time. It was an equal opportunity humorous barb at the excesses on both sides of the political spectrum. He also touched on the passive ignorance of the American public that makes these types of excessive approaches possible and even popular. I've seen quite a few of these monologues and discussions by Bill Maher. He's a national treasure and often on the mark. We could all benefit from paying more attention to his points.
I’ve been a fan since I was 18!!!
This was the most "Carlin"-istic Bill Maher has ever been on this show! Love you Bill.
I agree. One of his best.
Bill, please retire. Your wattle is getting more noticeable and your "these young people" bits are getting more boring, predictable, and unfunny.
@@drakelondon6849 stay mad
@@mateo61323 Stay gold, Ponyboy
I don't know which liberals he is talking about, those liberals who are against freedom of speech, who are for identity (collectivist) politics above individual, those who introduce compelled speech.If they are liberals then I am from Andromeda galaxy.
Bill has imaginary liberals like children have an imaginary friend, it's time for him to grow up otherwise he will remain intellectually stunted
I'm a teacher and let me tell you: it might be counter-intuitive, but the problem in our schools is not a lack of standards--it's too many standards. That's why they are churning out so many standardized idiots. Top-down educational reforms will always make things worse.
So propose a solution.
come on man.. you say you are a teacher.. too many standards, too little standards? they are churning out standardized idiots? who is they? if it is not you? standards are great, if the standards are great. if the standards are garbage, then the standards are garbage. it's not about the abundance of standards, or lack of standards...it's about the QUALITY and INTELLIGENCE of the standards. Ask me..am I smart? maybe.. sort of..?
"Top-down educational reforms will always make things worse." Education...to me.. doesn't use the word (always)..because, how can anyone learn anything, if 'always' is how it is? What would be the point of learning anything? if always is always always? what? right? exactly? Be a quality educator, (which is not an easy thing to be) and is made even harder, when making generalized statements. Hopefully, I didn't make too many of my own...?
@@kfhroe8262 You are falling into exactly the trap I was talking about. There is no one solution. The answers lie with individual teachers working with individual students.
@@kfhroe8262 I love clowns like you, this guy seems like a genuinely concerned teacher pointing out a obvious problem with our education system and derps like you chime in with your brilliant contribution like you actually did something.
@@danaaronmusic absolutely 💯 agree. I left teaching because I realized trying to pound biology 2 into the head of a child who couldn't read as a senior and already had a job lined up as a welder was pointless. He needed to be in some form of reading class every day all day untill graduation but all they care about is state test scores.
Consummate! Thank you Mr. Maher.
My 25 year old niece, who has been in college for 5 years now (without a degree yet), says she loves Socialism. When I asked her what she loves about it, she said "everything is free". I reminded her that someone has to pay for things, nothing is absolutely free. "She said, very proudly, "I know that, the money comes from the Government". So, I asked, where the Government gets the money, and she replied, "from the US Treasury". She truly believed that money is just printed by the Treasury and no one has to replace it.
How did we end up with kids like this?
Sadly, that kid is right: Socialism for the rich and corporations works exactly as she said. The Fed prints infinite money and spends 800 billion in one year on military crap we don't need or use. It prints that infinite money and hands it to rich oil and gas corporations as unneeded subsidies. Tell the kid to go to work for Big Oil, the military industrial complex , or Big Pharma, and she really will get everything for free. Meanwhile, the rest of us will have nothing but piles of paper dollars that can't pay rent or buy food.
Her parents done fucked up somewhere
First you start by punishing these fools. It has to be appropriate. They must forever associate lies with pain.
By letting mouthbreathers have children...
I’m sure from her perspective it’s true. That’s all she has seen in her life. Hasn’t paid taxes yet and to keep the economic boat from sinking had just seen the treasury print money. She has been taught this and observed this. It’s all freeeeeeee yay.🙄 don’t be a boomer yo. 😂 reality is going to hurt her badly some day.
It's amazing that a generation that has at their literal fingertips more information than that of ALL their ancestors could actually know less
When all they watch are hootchie mama videos on TikTok what do we expect?
The problem with having all that knowledge available at your fingertips is, that the good stuff is buried in a pile of dung and you have to know where to dig to find it. You need a guide of sorts. Someone who can TEACH you the difference between gold and fool's gold.
My theory is that people were always this dumb, and social media is just making it significantly more obvious.
@@heatherrawlings8213 lmaooo what's hootchie mama?
@@tonytooshort TikTok hoes
Happy to see a few folks in the comments noticing how comfortable the crowd is to laugh at what Maher is offering. Even some in the comments want to thank Maher for offering what they have observed for so long ...
The reality needs to sink in that there is no distancing yourself from the idiocracy that has become our society. Maybe we're a slightly greyer shade of stupid, but the scoreboard doesn't lie, and you can't disconnect yourself from your fellow Americans. This is us, and we need to do better.
Idiocracy is a movie by Mike Judge, bud. It is not a form of government or anything like that.
Education is the way it is by design... Not an accident.
@@thetavibes9021 Ah, so we're all just victims, and it has nothing to do with our own responsibility.
Uplifting.
Fun how many cynics we have, as if it's distinct from our problems of education ...
To be fair, Maher's audience seems to always be filled with the same dudes laughing, woohoo-ing, and clapping way too quickly and loudly. As much as I like watching his show in RUclips clips every week, the audience is always obnoxious, and I'm pretty sure they pay the same people to sit there and cheer up a storm.
@@thetavibes9021 Public education in the U.S. is based on the Prussian system. They want to train robots to work in factories.
I'm amazed that giving change for dollar is so baffling to young people.
The education in this country used to teach critical thinking, now we teach to pass standardized tests. We are incentivizing short term memories.
we literally don't even don't that, now people want to ban standardized tests because they are "racist"
I had to read your comment twice to understand it 🤣 jk
The Socialist Commie/Fascist left in America invented the Critical Theories in the 1960s specifically to replace critical thinking, lol. It simply didn't become obvious till the 90s, lol.
Sadly, it's like that in Europe too.
Yes… critical thinking is gone in America! It is all about money, despicable behavior and power by the elite and privileged! A sick society!!
Lilly Tomlin said something like: "No matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up."
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Bill, please retire. Your wattle is getting more noticeable and your "these young people" bits are getting more boring, predictable, and unfunny.
@@drakelondon6849 That's your opinion. Thanks for sharing.
@@BluntforceJ Watch "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" episode with Bill. Notice how pale his skin is. It's absolutely insane. Makes you realize how much makeup they cake on him before every "Real Time" show just to make him not look like a cadaver.
@@drakelondon6849 There you go, did you realise you were one of the stupid so you just attacked him about something that He can't control? You must be a GQP supporter
It's time we allowed evolution to begin doing what it was designed for, instead of protecting stupidity at all costs.
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Having worked with Europeans ,it is clear that they are better educated than we are especially Germans who speak English and have an excellent and affordable school system. Having an excellent educational system is vital for the advancement of a Nation and for the people of that Nation. A recent poll asking how many Americans can't read past the eighth grade level, it came up with 50%!!
50% of our citizens can't read past the ninth grade level here in the richest country in the world!!! The dumbing down of our population makes it easier for the richest corporations and individuals to exploit the majority for their benefit.
evolution doesnt reward the most intelligent
@@canadaclub8920 No, but the comment meant within the laws of our country not barbaric times hundreds of years ago.....Fucking liberal DAs are turning criminals loose
If the education system actually taught anything the graduates wouldn't be voting for the same clowns Bill Maher donates to.
The lack of common knowledge among young people is astounding.
Incidentally Mr. Maher,
This episode of "RealTme"
Is so damn good. I'm relieved common sense is alive and portrayed in such a humorous way.
“The dumbing down (of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
- Carl Sagan
He had a foreboding of America of the future. While he was alive, he witnessed how manufacturing jobs were being shifted abroad, and everything became focussed on making as much profit for as few super-rich as possible, and as much for a few as possibly achievable without an outright revolution, while the endless talking and talking and talking carried on and on and on...
In more detail:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
@Ralph Bernhard See how few thumbs-up you got? A handful. That's all. Shows you something. Thanks for the Carl Sagan quote. I read the whole thing. Amazingly it has come true.
Seems here most don’t know who the great scientist Carl Sagan was…. But damn he hit the nail on the head with that quote.
Celebrating ignorance, can you say cardi b
Holy shit.
It would appear the Republican party is a celebration of ignorance.
I have observed the educational genocide in our country which started in the 80’s in our public schools. If you want a good old fashioned education for your kids you had to move to a high tax paying community in order to get the education we received for free in the inner cities. I am a physician who grew up in the South Bronx, received a public education from the 60s thru 70s. Attended Bowdoin College, Lehman and Harvard. Graduated Tufts Medical School and returned to the Bronx. Raised my daughters and son starting in Westchester and paid for them to get a public education in high tax school systems and realized they were getting the same education I received, my nephews in the Bronx were not. Today my oldest is an administrator of a health clinic, my daughter is a 4 th grade teacher and son a law school graduate pursuing an acting career . My nephews are police officers and salesman for a cable company. We pushed for all to get educations . I hope we return to quality education for all of our citizens, rich or poor, so that our country has a better future.
Dr Diaz, ask yourself “ could I teach?” I understand you likely wouldn’t want the pay cut, but would have lots of time to moonlight as a physician, but the bad news is unless you have a nearly worthless education degree, you won’t be hired in a public school. Therein lies the problem. Especially in STEM subjects, teachers can’t teach because they do not know the subject matter. Ask a high school bio teacher about Krebs cycle or math teacher about Bayesian statistics and see how far you get.
The Department of Education was created in 1980. This was the worse thing for our public schools. I never paid attention to things in Highschool because quite frankly I preferred getting high. I noticed a change in the Millennials in the 90's though. They were astoundingly stupid.
Steve I retired from medicine 4 years ago, do not moonlight, money is not my motivator. My daughter is a 4 th grade teacher going on her 20 years, loves what she does as I loved practicing medicine before they introduced electronic medical records and made medicine for about data collection and less about direct patient care( many patients now complain , rightly so, that the provider hardly makes eye contact or examines them. I actually stay in contact with many patients and provide advice at no charge.
As a teacher, I've observed the same
Or you could do what I did, give up the new cars, bigger house, boats and summer homes...and send them to a private academy. I spent tens of thousands on my 2 kids education in the 90's and never regretted one cent of it. When they went to college, my costs were cut by two-thirds because they went to the state university. And unlike many of the kids who went through a public high school, my kids sailed through their freshman year and considered it redundant.
Back in 1973 I visited the US and was shocked to read that there were teachers who were functionally illiterate. Coming from the UK I was already aware that our A levels, (school leaving exams taken at 18) were the equivalent of US degrees. But that even some of your school teachers could barely read and write was a shock.
Meanwhile Islam has taken over the UK!
The ebonics-speaking teachers are the ones I worry about the most, as their students will not know English well enough to function in business.
As a republican, I never thought I'd be hanging on every word out of Bill Maher's mouth. I feel the pendulum may soon swing back. God bless every citizen of this great country. Hopefully we will find out how to return to normalcy soon
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There are still enough reasonable people. I hope you're right. And I'm a liberal/progressive type. But no longer a Democrat.
From my point of view as a foreigner from germany i think one of your greatest problem is that permanent 2 party system. Whenever i watch a discussion in your news , it doesnt matter who is right but who belongs to the right party. Democrats and Republicans see each other as enemies and block each other at all costs. And then you have also News channels which take one side all the time like FOX and MSNBC with very emotional , propagandistic behaviour. I think murica is screwed unless you find a radical and quick solution for this problem.
You have WAY more hope than I. You don't have to be a politician to be a fascist, and America has a LOT of them now, in ALL walks of life.
@@thesoundsmith I definitely feel more and more people are realizing they can't just pitch themselves to one side. That's the pendulum I hope I'm seeing
Bill absolutely killed it with this New Rule. Probably his best.
disagree. it's just theatre. the video was dubbed. the "teacher" on the beach - watch her lips. it's not what she says. Bill is too smart to think these videos are real, so it's a great disappointment that he chose to pretend otherwise.
@David
Are you that dense?
Actually, it sucked.
agree
Somebody says that about every one of them.
"Idiocracy" wasn't meant to be a documentary. Yet here we are.
Edit: LMFAO replies tell me all I need to know. It's always the other sides fault, never our own. We're fucked.
And it wasn't written to be partisan, although it's scary to see how the political party of the future shares far too many similarities as the MAGA GQP.
It's not a documentary either, the Demo(n)crats are using it as an instruction manual.
@@tiffbeevachou108 Huh? And the college aged kids featured and being discussed by Bill vote overwhelmingly Democrat? When will the desperate lies stop man? Ever? Lies are not the future. And everyone saw WHO the future is in the vid, those aren't "MAGA" thats stupidity went to college.
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Bill Maher is telling it like it is!! Rock on, Bill!!!
The last decade has really helped in the dumbing down, by creating people who focus on which side of the political spectrum you believe in, rather than on the issue.
I blame the influence of far right "news" shows, which are actually editorial, not factual. Fox for example. Their influence on politicians and regular Americans have completely divided us.
@sweet stuff I think it’s the public education. Next decade you will see more bisexual and transgenders!! I blame CNN and the leftists’ ideologies to dumb down every kid to be conformed…
@@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane Yes nothing like the far left news giving us "factual information" about Hunter's laptop being Russian disinformation. Both sides do the same thing.
@@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane Fox (Brietbart, etc) is certainly to blame, but the DNC aligned networks are scarsely better on actually informing their viewers.
@@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane How do you feel about CNN? lol Are they the "good guys"?
I just said this at my Cognitive Tech company this week. When we started the company a decade ago the talk was always about keeping American Math Scores competitive with Asia, India & Eastern Europe. For the last 5 years I have not heard 1 discussion about academic standards. Instead, the Social Media Clans have turned children's education into a circus show for outrage.
Who's PACs did Zuckerberg donate hundreds of millions to?
You think he donated to the party that's trying to stop him and turn things around or the guys who are helping him do it?
You should be able to do the math on that one.
When the standards are "2+2=5 can be correct, as long as the student can show how they got to that answer. We can't let the child know or feel they are wrong or stupid, it could damage their self esteem." how can you expect to compete with anything but yourself?
I’ve seen posts indicating some school districts in CA were doing away with grades….because grades are r@cist. Also, some districts have decided math is r@cist (arguably the least subjective course there is) because minority students weren’t doing as well. Boston was ending a gifted program for middle school students because only 30% of the kids were minorities, 70% white or asian. So those 30% of kids also lost out on being in the gifted program. Who are we going to rely on to solve the hard problems, innovate, etc in the future? When I watch a movie like Apollo 13, I wonder, would we have the brains to get them back now? Giving everyone a participation trophy and this push for equity is so destructive. And really, it boils down to only straight white men can be accountable, because if you criticize anyone part of a marginalized group….well you’re just a bigot. If you say Kamala Harris is not doing well as VP, you’re just sexist and r@cist.
India is a part of Asia.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ kiddie fiddling cult.
Go root some children.
What makes me mad is that students are being taught but aren't be made to learn! Instead of punishing kids who don't turn in their homework or don't read the books they are told to read, the teachers are forced by school boards to just pass the dummies on and concentrate on the kids that actually try to learn. The result is a minority of good students soon become a minority of smart citizens. It's time to get politics out of our schools and let the teachers set the agenda and standards as they once did.
My neighbor is a teacher's aide in an elementary school. She says so many kids come from drug addict mothers, the kids are unable to learn anything. You teach 2+2=4 on Monday and have to do it all over again on Tuesday. Parents are at least partially to blame.
Hate to burst your bubble but in my school they absolutely did not "concentrate on the kids that actually try to learn." Nobody cared much about anything.
Honestly much of the ignorance comes from living in a vacuum, completely free from not bothering to watch the Discovery Channel to not travelling overseas. 2% of Americans have current passports and when you meet Americans in Europe there's definitely a sense of polite confusion or culture shock that sees them flocking to the nearest McDonalds. My mother placed a high value on international travel, saved hard for my first trip outside of Australia at 16 and we went to all the places I knew from history and English literature classes. School can provide knowledge however travel ignites a passion for learning that can't be taught.
@@ynemey1243 What a sad commentary on our school system.
So true. I was shocked by those responses!! If I had kids today, I would homeschool them. As far a the democrat party? They show themselves in the foot. They ruined their party with identity politics!!! One is a conservative, just by disagreeing with their woke nonsense!!! And trust me, there are many conservatives I can’t stand. But no way could I ever vote for a democrat again.
Absolutely accurate ! They can't even fix their passwords 😂
Bill nailed it. Politicians love uneducated people, just think about that. God I hope America gets back to being the best example of what, The "United" States means to the whole world FOR ALL ! Isn't that what's written?🤔
Americas done.
Y’all racist! Us Africans Americans are going to take over and be the kings we are supposed to be
And the CLOWNS target the WRONG people to suppress their VOTES!!!
Being educated doesn't mean that you're Intelligent. Just means that you passed a few tests and paid close to 100k for a piece of paper
Bill would come alot closer to nailing it if he would quit treating the common sense anti-politicians that largely make up the MAGA crowd as the worst of the bunch. He just can't bring himself to say he was wrong yet even though almost everything he is coming around to is exactly what the MAGA crowd has been trying to expose at the same time they are being vilified by the Washington insider press, censored by the social media gods, and persecuted by the deep state agencies that now abuse their authority on a regular basis to go after political opponent who want to clean up the entrenched government corruption.
My father was born in 1930, he kept his 3rd grade final exam.
It's an incredibly long and difficult test.
Our educational system has fallen so far.
Watch Lyell Asher's video series on Peter Boghossian's channel. It's not by accident.
I love this Bill, stay honest. We’re mostly in the middle. You’re speaking our language.
How to control a population: Lower the education standards. Keep them in debt. Keep them afraid.
You have just explained about 6,000 years of human history.
So true. The dumbification of our school system is by design. It's easier to control the under educated & the poor. Ask the church, they did it for centuries & if you questioned them or their doctrines you were killed or imprisoned.
Keep them poor, under nourished with no health care that way they can not achieve anything or believe in anything including themselves. It is much easier to control the weak and helpless.
Keep them obese. Keep them addicted. Keep them distracted.
Keep them stupid.
Bill, you did an exceptionally fine job with this monologue. Well done.
Bill has changed a lot in the last few years he's not afraid to give it to whoever needs it right or left which is nice to see .
Bill has been doing this for years
@derrick Washington. Not really. He was very much on the left. He has centralized himself in the middle only lately which is truly what we need right now.
He’s always been willing to criticize anyone especially democrats, but I find him as being just as toxic as some of the people he claims to rail against on his takes on religion and people of color.
Bill says he is the same, his party just went far left. Joe Rogan podcast a few months ago..
After he made buckets of cash
Mr. Maher I feel your pain.
I can feel George Carlin in the DNA of this monologue. And glad to hear it.