How Capitalism Ruined American Education
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- Опубликовано: 14 дек 2023
- We're all familiar with PragerU. The billionaire-funded conservative media outlet has become a household name with their easily digestible 5-minute propaganda videos. But now they've got their sights set on American schools. Come learn about how PragerU weasels its way into your child's classroom, and what the future of American education could look like.
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Wow amazing video, I really like your videos and videos on right wing content in schools.
Glory to you sir.
Just finished today’s Deprogram episode with GDF and now a Second Thought video to top it all off! It’s been a radical morning
I'm glad you're no longer on Nebula. I'm about to stop using it I was already constantly annoyed because of its lack of a comment section, but because I had paid for a year subscription I keep feeling obligated to check it for early or exclusive content. Absolutely maddening to watch a video and then have nowhere to provide feedback to the creator. Now that I've heard that they are being wishy washy on Palestine ( Not surprising considering how bland and liberal most of the content there is ) That's gonna give me the impetus to simply pull the cord and stop logging in.
You missed the video of denis saying AI CP (child pron) was ok… yea very right wing of him and definitely not what hitler warned everyone about
“Gutted public education” and “teachers are the scapegoats” are exactly why I left that profession even though I loved being a teacher.
It's so true. It's so hard to sustain yourself in public education in most places. Even the mere fact that public school funding is tied to local tax money is designed hegemony.
I’m sorry. That sucks.
Well, I understand why you left. A lot of teachers are doing that as well and that only strengthens their side.
❤
Exactly. I just quit recently because of all the laws passing that are making teaching harder and harder every day. It's pretty bleak
“when education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to be the oppressor.”
paulo freire
Wow! That is heavy. I also think thete is truth there. Also add in economic and dignity and bam! We've got fascism
As demonstrated by the average person's dream to become a millionaire or billionaire.
@@GTAVictor9128I guarantee you, the 99%ers of the world don’t dream of this. We dream of being able to have a stable life. Being able to pay for shelter, food, healthcare, etc. and still have some leftover and not worry about being able to pay our bills from month to month. The average person absolutely doesn’t dream of the 1% type of wealth.
Paulo Freire ❤
@@jenniferhiemstra5228 it’s a nice sentiment, but you and I are in the minority. Money is freeing to many people. As Americans, we’re in the top 1% of the world. We have privilege others can’t imagine. The 99% absolutely desire to live like us at a minimum, and some surely desire more than the American average.
I like when you say PragerU has "Charismatic hosts," and then it cuts to Jordan Peterson looking somewhere between hungover and zombified
I put 'animated corpse' in my comment.
I mean Jordan Peterson went through a lot of medical issues around the time he was with Prager u, so good job on making fun of sick people. 👏👏
@@tianamarie989Except you forgot to mention the 'medical issues' he went through were addiction, something you'd think a clinical psychologist would strenuously avoid. Or at least, for the sake of others' mental health, would finally admit he doesn't know everything and quit coming off like he does.
@@tianamarie989 I was presented with a choice between comedic observation and nuance, and chose the former.
It's very strange of you to pretend that's a moral failing by any reasonable metric.
@tianamarie989 Peterson's conduct has been highly unprofessional, yet his entire self-help system revolves around personal responsibility.
The man has earned our mockery
It's insane that blaming teachers is a tactic. It's even worse that it's effective.
It is deliberate it is to make the profession of educator unappealing soon there will be no educators eventually the youth will get their education directly from corporations Google, apple, Exxon Mobil, Koch industries, can you imagine that the Koch brothers educating your children
It is done with the same blueprint as blaming immigrants for depressed worker conditions and increased crime rates. Blame an outgroup who happen to be victims of the same crimes that most people have been victimized from and use some made up information to link their actions with the increases in the bad thing and conservatives and political laypeople will buy it hook line and sinker.
What??? Dude, I had some SHITTY teachers.
I’m sure you’d agree very quickly that inner city schools tend to fail their students because they have low funding, don’t pay their teachers enough resulting in low quality teachers.
Teachers matter, a lot.
I have seen some teachers who are definitely deserving of blame, but generally it's the system in place that's bad
Part of why it works is because of how many abusive teachers there are
When the rich get to choose how to fund schools(instead of paying taxes like us common poors). This propaganda is what the kids will get.
Real
How are you saying that the poor are paying the taxes on the rich are not?
@@charlessands6933 cause that's how Muricas school funding structure works. It was done out of racism to beat brown vs board. But in reality it means your local rich don't pay taxes for all the schools across town.
@@charlessands6933that's the reality of the situation
@@charlessands6933Because they do in fact pay less. It costs a lot to be poor
Because if school was good and interesting, people would grow up to have critical thinking skills, aspirations and self worth.
*GASP!* You dassn't say the C-T-S words out loud! They are forbidden!
Inconceivable!!!1!!1!
The first "woke mind virus" came to be called literacy.
And actually learn stuff.
If teachers only were given the states funding, rather then the latter.
It’s hard to believe that people actually believe Prager’s content. It’s incredibly depressing and really speaks volumes about the trajectory of our country.
I don't find it hard. I've lived in Texas all my life. We're preconditioned to the aforementioned status quo PragerU doesn't rattle. Plus, to pull from Innuendo Studios, there's a floor on how simple the truth can be before you strip away what makes it true. There's no bottom on how simple a lie can be.
The other way around, we do have legendary quotes like this?
“This video made me an atheist. Thanks, PragerU!” - On “If There is No God”
As history can tell us, fascists don’t like being made fun of…
I'm arab lebanese and prager is mostly very logical , yes they have biases like climate change in order to get funding but overall it's not bad and can increase american moral.
@@classicist369barely understand what you are saying. Dumb take as well. Congrats.
Logical in what way? I’m genuinely curious
They abandoned the social contract by claiming that there never was a social contract.
I'd also point out that the people who financed our devolution had already squeezed funding out of education at the federal level for a couple of decades before pushing reagan's agenda through in the '80s, by using the same methods we see today. Racism, mythology, and ignorance, in addition to downplaying the value of education in general.
Every problem we face today is the direct and deliberate result of the push back against post-war social activism that demanded we finally live up to our rhetoric as The Nation where consent of the governed is the source of power.
True
Well said. I'd like to see an episode on how post new deal, the ruling class launched a massive propaganda campaign to confuse, cripple and divide the working class, buying up politicians, publishing companies, and movie studios to secretly direct the narrative in capital's favor
"Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not by force."
As an educator and a union member fighting for a fair contract, for disclosure of the school budget and accountability from the board on how funds are allocated, I am grateful for your coverage of this topic.
As a human being, (not even one with kids, just one who has to live in a society with other people) I am also grateful for JT's efforts here, and yours as well.
The school board has a lot of undeserved power
@@initiateitwhy do you think we, the teachers in the Union want to know where the money is going? Has anyone, ever become an educator because the pay was good? Seriously, we want accountability on the school budget and full disclosure so that we, the teachers, are able to force the board to spend the funding on the students. A fair contract would be nice as I qualify for social services with 5 college degrees and 10 years in my field, why? because educators make less than most people with only a high school diploma.
@initiateit you trying to blow a stink about how disdained you are about teachers is more indicative of your own personal failures than any teacher that you falsely believe is "lazy". Nobody believes your garbage anti worker language you don't know anything about what the average worker puts out
@@initiateit You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I challenge you to work as a teacher for a week and see if you still think teachers work far less than other professions. Excessive workload aside, the responsibility teachers have to ensure pupils learn the set curriculum warrants a sizeable pay increase. You only think it's easy because passing on your knowledge wouldn't take more than a few hours. I can assure you, teachers work harder than most other professions but get paid a fraction of what those other professions receive.
As a teacher, I can add that the common idea that education should be meritocratic (i.e., that those who succeed should be afforded more resources while struggling students are abandoned and shamed) is a huge problem that has always existed in worldwide education.
Maybe it should be partially meritocratic, instead of abandoning failing students offer them alternate pathways. Trades etc.
I never understood that. Shouldn’t the more intelligent and creative kids be able to make do with less? As a poor nerd, I spent a lot of time at the library checking out various biology, physics, and history books. The teachers gave me space to learn on my own, since I didn’t pay much attention in the classroom (ADHD). The average and less intelligent kids should have more time and resources dedicated to them in order to raise the floor.
@@zealousepileptic2690 "We don't feel like helping you learn math. Have you considered jackhammers?"
@@toppersundquist oh you're lazy and bad at math, well we now interest you in a fast food
@@mightyx5441 Mmmm. Borger King...
We use Prager U videos in my ethnic studies classroom all the time. They are great tools to have students point out logical fallacies and inaccurately portraying history.
Nice work. That's the only thing they're good for!
I mean, unless any of us were alive for any of the history that's taught, we wouldn't 100% know that what has been taught is accurate. Sure there's book records but even still that can still be skewed and we all know when there's a tiny bit of a story that's skewed it just gets bigger. Personally I don't think history should really be taught anymore. We just repeat it no matter how much we learn about it.
@@tianamarie989 You’re right that all history -even history from our own lifetimes such as this video-are constructions. Scholars and teachers choose how to frame discussions and what is worth including/excluding. But just because they are constructions, that doesn’t mean they are equal or that some have more supportive evidence than others.
For instance, saying that “the civil war was about state rights” or “the civil war was about preserving slavery” are both constructions and interpretations, but the evidence isn’t equal.
@@tianamarie989 History needs to be taught more than ever, but it needs to be taught with the geopolitics and social studies that intersect with it all the time. We need to learn to understand there WILL be bias and propaganda and motivations, not just a trite "history repeats itself" and "history is written by the victors".
I only started to get history when I started examining Christian theology from its political, social and historical lenses, and began seeing the web it spins. I'm nowhere NEAR able to fully explain all the interactions between all those spheres, but now I understand how history gets shaped, and it's not by individuals shaking the world so much as a bunch of people, driven by various social, geographical, theological, philosophical and ethical motivations.
You literally have to be multidisciplinary to understand what history says, and constantly keep in mind that historians have biases and assess the reliability of the historian (and their sources) yourself.
@ProductionsFromBeyon That's why it is important to build your own thoughts with all the available evidence. Critical thinking is important. When you do that, you find that history, like the Civil War, was over multiple issues, such as the economy and slavery. It wasn't just one cause. It was multiple.
The American school system is designed to teach you what to think, not how to think!
Too true
literally EVERY school system does that
@@jeniffer7799 Then it seems we have even more work ahead of ourselves? The issues covered in this video apply to any nation whose primary interest is that profits. That's not every, but most education systems.
Funnily enough, conservatives agree with that statement.
@@bladeofphoenixyea except they strawman and invent what the “whats” are.
In my eyes, Reagan is clearly in the highest echelon of "worst presidents this country has seen," but I don't think Milton Friedman gets enough flak in public discourse for the role in ~economic~ theorycrafting he played behind the scenes. I feel like a video on him is needful
Ah, but my manners - meant to include "good video, JT" at the beginning. 😁
A more perfect union has a good video on him. What a bad guy.
He made America feel good again.
George W. Bush?
Every republican since Reagan has been worse and worse.
Late stage capitalism needs to be explored more.
It has spread to the brain it’s too late
Cyberpunk with none of the fun parts
From a cultural lens, "capitalist realism" by mark fisher is a good place to start. It speaks to the malaise in our society and to the production and reproduction of late stage capitalist culture and ideology
There is no late stage capitalism , only a temporary recession , instead of being so ignorant maybe u should follow other channels that teaches u a bit about the economy and watch takes from different political spectrums instead of a fear mongering socialist one such as 2nd thought with tons of misinformation such as the last part
We're long past late-stage capitalism. Depending on which economist is defining it, 'late capitalism' ended in the 70s. We're somewhere far worse now, the result of four decades of neoliberalism infecting institutions and people so deeply they can't even see it anymore. There's not a good phrase to replace it that I've seen (apart from just 'neoliberalism'), but "terminal capitalism" might be a bit more accurate.
I had 3 different teachers show PragerU videos in high school… I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this was the gateway to radicalization for several of my classmates. Myself included, in many ways. It took some amazing professors, a lot of patience, and self reflection to finally realize how duped I’d been. I also lost some “friends” in the process
oh god.... what has this world become that that is allowed to happen to people, im so sorry...
@@jasonschuele115 it’s more common than you’d think and I’ve seen first hand how this sent my classmates and former friends down the prager u, Steven crowder, and then Ben Shapiro/Jordan Peterson pipeline. It’s sad
@@Goodoldpal_what you’re describing is exactly what I was worried about with these guys, and how focused they were with targeting young people and young men specifically with their rhetoric. Keep your head up kid 👊
What's wrong with Jordan Peterson? I found him through the carnivore diet pathway while healing my leaky guts and uterine fibroids, thank goodness. He seems smart and I look at some of his "short" videos. What bad things does he do?
@@devorahrose782 He made a career of deliberately misleading people about trans-inclusive policies, and when called out, he peddled conspiracy theories.
my teacher in my world history class used PragerU as a resource for a video about Christopher Columbus and i was so taken aback that i emailed my teacher AND the principal about it. no one did anything.
Another person mentioned their history teacher using a Prager video. Apparently rewriting history is one of their highest priorities. The intellectual dishonesty of these people is staggering.
How exactly do you two know that both sides aren't trying to rewrite history?
@@tianamarie989because we have documented evidence of history being at least roughly correct and when compared with the right's version it isnt even close.
@tianamarie989 In most cases, both sides aren't really rewriting history. History is fairly well documented and it is difficult to change it. It depends on the government though as they might hide it, yet America isn't really one of those governments. Yes, naturally both sides might twist the past to fit their narrative, but in the end it is your choice to figure out the truth between those biases. (I lack sleep, so what I am saying might not make sense.)
@@tianamarie989 Its not re-writing. The other side is just (finally) getting to tell their side. God forbid you get a more comprehensive and complete history.
When you realize your government has investment in your failure and not your success
I’ m a native Oklahoman and I still live here. I am watching my friends who are educators die inside. It hurts and it makes me very angry.
When I was a junior, my US history teacher showed us a PragerU video about the Vietnam War. I promptly informed my class that PragerU is very propagandistic.
I feel like all media has some type of propaganda at this point
@@Cryptzit always has
and then everyone cheered and clapped
@@lbgamer6166Except Prager is pure garbage that doesn't belong within 100 miles of any actual school. They do the opposite of educate anyone dumb enough to listen.
All media intended to "convince" is propaganda, fyi.
Another thing to add about the lack of interest in highly specialized domestic labor is the fact that the U.S. benefits from the brain drain it produces in other countries. By constantly destabilizing other economies it can offer highly educated people from around the world (who were most likely educated through public funding in their home countries) a "better life" in the U.S.
Effectively outsourcing education.
Very well said. Its irritating hearing the same side that constantly complains that kids are being indoctrinated, are themselves indoctrinating kids with their own beliefs, so they are verry hypocritical.
As a Bulgarian who moved to Denmark when i was but a little boy, i am very grateful that i started and finished school here.
The education system has its flaws here and there, but i am etremely grateful that i dont have to worry about paying huge amounts of fees before and after my education, and that both teachers and the system treat us like actual people and not slaves in training.
Every accusation made by a Conservative is an admission.
@@tracyleighbasham Looking at US and Canada I can tell the exact same about the progresivists. S*xual education, teaching about how whites are more provoleged and leading to white kids being bullied and so on. Now the right wing is trying to prevent it from happening here by being the first to propagate conservativism in schools. What a surprise!
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Well it is their place to do so, it is not the place of government or it's employees.
Projection is the standard of the right. If they are accusing the left of doing something, they are definitely doing it.
Damm for some time I really had the impression that PraguerU no longer existed.
What a wonderful dream. You woke up eventually, which is unfortunate. Wish I could have a dream like that. Lol
They're going to be leading the Dept. Of Education when Trump wins again.
Unless there's a massive scandal (especially if it involves millions upon millions of dollars being stolen from the government),then this organization is still going to keep going.
What I wouldn't give to see this organization be financially devastated.
What world are you living in and how do I get there?
@@iExploder No, we need to stay awake or they will continue to creep in the dark.
Of course it ties back to Raegan 😂 every shitty thing that this country goes through seems to tie back to him
Intro for neolib ideology. Not a suprise
Modern shitty things...
Yeah...I'm sure all the other liars and theives with R and D after their name are completely innocent. And I love how you bash capitalism as you sit there and rake in the change, pal. Hypocrite.
He was the result of "New Deal" backlash that had been building since the end of WWII in spite of the success of the white middle class. After all, those damn unions got too big for their britches....that's the shit I was fed growing up in the 70s and 80s.
The irony: the unions that helped train up workers through trade apprenticeship were killed off and these fuckers now have the nerve to ask where the trade schools went. What happened to getting a HS education and going into a job and training?
Reagan....ffs. Bush and Clinton are on the hook here as well.
No. I'm not bitter at all. lol
😂
What is also noteworthy is the fact that the US expanded education accessibility in the 1960's in direct response to the so-called "Sputnik Crisis", where the Soviet launch of the Sputnik caught the West by surprise and made some feel that it was technologically falling behind the USSR. Then the US tried launching its own satellite that resulted in humiliating failure.
It was that moment in history that made US politicians realise that in order to technologically compete with the Soviets, expanding education accessibility was necessary because having it accessible to only a privileged minority would lead to stagnation.
As it turns out, it's not capitalism that breeds innovation but funding of public education and public programs.
👍👍👍
I'm middle aged, and the schools I went to in the 80's and 90's were already shit. I flunked math in 8th grade and they just sent me to high school anyway. I never caught up. We gave up on education a long time ago.
Despite all the hardships you are well informed though! Happy to have your insight
As a teacher myself I can confirm that every piece of our educational institution is designed to stratify, not educate, students.
The mere idea that permeates even well meaning teachers that education should be a meritocracy is deeply flawed. It should be a reverse of meritocracy - more resources should be invested in those that struggle, not the ones who didn't need help.
Well, to be fair, most math is useless for like 95% of people anyway lol
@@monsieurdorgat6864 EXACTLY. It's just common sense.
@@poopoo-dk4hu Aww, thanks buddy. That was sweet and brightened my day just a lil.
I'm from iowa, seeing how the kim reaper has been handling public education recently scares me very badly. She's into the whole private voucher thing, which is obviously absolute bullshit.
She's been cutting funding everywhere. A decade ago Iowa was one of the best in terms of public education. But its been going down hill fast. At my university tuition goes up dramatically evey year, more and more majors and masters/doctorate programs get cut, its scary. Add to it the removal of child labor laws, and moderately wealthy kids being the only ones who usually get the private vouchers, we're heading toward a crisis. We'll have two distinct classes of kids. Those who worked their whole childhood, and those who had terrible quality private education.
Iowa already suffers from severe brain drain. My university alone graduates thousands of engineers every year, and most of them leave cause there's nothing here for them. Iowa was such a nice place but its rapidly going to shit.
we've been in crisis for half a century and it is only our overwhelming love of entertainment above everything else that has allowed them ruin the American Ideal.
Iowa sister here, and yeah its really concerning. Over 70% of my graduating class (2022) were saying that they planned to leave iowa after graduating. our schools are going down the drain at every level, there are never enough teachers, certain schools in the city get all the wealth, and its just an exhausting environment. i went to a top high school and i could tell the education system was stressed. and us tax payers paying for private school vouchers? absolutely not. Kim’s policies are elitist and just aren’t efficient, short term and long term.
I live in Minnesota 30 miles from the border and have family in Iowa. It's bad. Who is voting for this evil crap?
Great video, but I definitely laughed out loud at the line about PragerU having charismatic hosts while showing Jordan Peterson. He simply doesn't look the part.
David Pakman recently interviewed Dennis Prager. You should check it out
Another day, another reason to despise Florida in particular.
Immigrant cubans are literally more Pro Trump than any single other ethnicity combined. Have not met one cuban living in the States that is not far right and has near-dementia fear of “communism” (i.e giving any money at all to Big Gov)
America's dingleberry
UW-Madison is now going to offer a class on “conservative thought” that’s funded by the right wing.
An oxymoron if I've ever heard one
It's only a matter of time before the liberals completely bend to allowing classes on why fascism isn't the worst idea.
Good
@@FormulaZyn "Good" - Famous Future DeSantis SS Officer @FormulaZyn
@@tofu1608 The only thing liberals enjoy more than blaming the left, is appeasing the right
I remember reading "A Nation at Risk" as a high school sophomore in literally 1984 and being terrified.
Literally 1984
What a lot of conservatives fail to understand is that liberals are also right-wing. The only thing is that they're more left on social issues but even then, they stumble on that as well. So the college campuses have been safe spaces for the right for quite some time now.
Hey JB! Cool as hell seeing you here! To share an anecdote, I was pretty indoctrinated during college ~08 while thinking of myself as “very liberal”. Looking back at the nonsense I shared and who’d accept it that should know better really gets under my skin today on many levels.
US liberals are more right wing than most conservatives in the rest of the world.
Yes, as a native Texan they most definitely taught us the native Americans. Willingly shared their crops and gave up their lands. I had to learn about the trail of tears in high school and it was such a short lesson. I had to finish the lesson from like the early days of Wikipedia being like this informational resource and other websites before people started, you know putting BS on them the age of the internet had just boomed. So much about our history I had to learn from online sources because what we were taught in school was definitely an altered version of history or the harsh topics they would only cover very briefly. We would have chapters about Christopher Columbus but maybe a single page or two about slavery.
To be fair, it wasn't all love or war with the Indians. The first to arrive would likely have all died if not for trading and hospitality of the locals.
@@Excalibur2you know nothing of our history
@@Excalibur2and we are not indians. we are americans.
@@mallarieluvsgirls don't say stupid things, being American doesn't bleach your skin. You could move to Russia, you'd still be Indian.
@@mallarieluvsgirls I know enough to not believe fairy tails of hippies who respected the land and just wanted peace. Like all things, the truth is some balance between peace and savagery.
As a resident of a poor Balkan country, I was profoundly shocked when I saw how American schools are in even worse conditions than ours.
I love how in the “totally unedited video” of Prager, the original video is still horrifying.
I hadn't heard the Native American lie. How ridiculous can these folks get?
@@AtemerusRhayliWhat?
@@AtemerusRhayli I have no idea what you are trying to say.
@@projectpitchfork860 He was commenting upon a statement made in the video. It's close to the beginning.
I wish people would realize what the right is doing to the education system when is talking about what happened in the past considered WOKE 😩😩😩
"Make America Great Again!"
"OK, in which time period was it great?"
*waves hands vaguely* "Oh, you know... back then... somewhere..."
..... no ... that's a stupid thing to say.@@toppersundquist
@@toppersundquistfrom the 50s to the 70s when the top tax Rate was 90 percent.
It became woke when America's past is wretched and goes against the wishes of the rich who just want unquestioning worker bees.
It’s really NOT the damn money… it’s that the kid’s behavior is fucking out of control.
I can't imagine how more fucked up the world would have been today if Regan managed to privatise education, big conflict of intersest when companies are the one educating their futur workers
Now imagine how wonderful our nation and the world would be today if our federal government had conceded to our demands in the '50s - '70s, or the '30s, or the 1890s - 1920s. 😀
@@rickb3650 wich demand?
@@bruhyou4305 There are many (thus the plural), but they are generally the egalitarian goals set forth in the founding of the US.
Remember that we were the first colonial asset to successfully break away from the empire that created it, and a century later, achieved the means to make those goals reality.
@@rickb3650 oh yeah ok I get it now haha, I thought you were speaking about one specific demand my bad
@@rickb3650 (Black military Veteran here) Who's demands are you talking about? In nearly every decade you listed, millions of American's didn't even have a voice the government would even acknowledge, let alone listen to.
It's always Regan.
That's a different guy. REAGAN
The 1981 omnibus reconciliation act did a number on mental health care in America. Blaming Reagan is correct, but the lions share of blame should be placed on the shoulders of the heritage foundation.
I read a book shortly after exiting high-school called, "Compulsory schooling: Dumbing us down" by a teacher that worked in the education sector for 30 years. It's a pretty good read.
That sounds like the book by John Taylor Gatto. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. Reading him and John Holt (several books about how children learn) were part of my decision to homeschool my kids all the way through.
@michelekendzie yeah it has been so long I guess I forgot the exact name lol
"School was designed to create drones" "The Right is trying to gut schooling" are facts so at odds with each other that we probably should explore it. I personally cannot uncritically defend the institution from which I had to unlearn so much garbage: and not just the curricula, but the self esteem stuff, the rote stuff, the meritocratic myths, and my revulsion for learning. "Protecting schools" means protecting all that. How about "rebuild" or "reinvent" school?
I teach kids how to do computer programming through game development and I just... I really hope I can help these kids be logical, critical-thinking, creative people. It sometimes seems like there's things going against that and I want to fight back against it where I can.
Thank you for what you do. Keep going!
That's a great idea
I know this is a popular talking points but I've also found it to be quite controversial: we need to monitor what is ending up on RUclips as "kids" content. The RUclips Kids app, which is supposedly filtering most content down to just goofy stuff for kids, will have Prager and Christian nationalist videos pop up just on their own. I was shocked when my 5-year-old was done with her dance video and the next thing that came up was a Prager kids video, and when I checked to see what was coming next it was a Christian Sunday school type thing trying to teach her about Jesus. Obviously she did not watch those videos, but it surprised me how many people I talk to about it don't seem phased -- some even laughed at me. I don't see how it's not a more obvious problem that the RUclips algorithm for kids will just start playing conservative and Christian leaning content unprovoked.
And I think the more horrifying piece is when you understand that a very large percentage of kids in America, especially under the age of 7, just get parked in front of RUclips by their parents or caregiver for many hours a day with nobody checking the rotation of videos on display
If I ever have kids, the only "Christian" related stuff I'm letting them watch are Veggietales and Prince of Egypt.
What's ironic is RUclips is a left leaning company. What's funnier is realizing that RUclips is a company that will take money from whoever pays. I've seen both Christian content and LGBTQ content pop up on kids' feeds. In all honesty, none of that should he on the kids' page. It should just be education and exploring. We don't need hard-pressed social issues for kids.
Kids don't even know who they are yet. Especially not until their early twenties. That's why the biggest social development marker, Identity vs Role Confusion, is what has ruined kids. Because we throw all this crap at them instead of letting them decide.
@@erycktackitt6771 youtube is ABSOLUTELY NOT a left-leaning company, never has been and certainly isn't right now when their ceo has literally personally paid lobbyists to enact anti-abortion laws. youtube puts out pride messaging and "support black creators" bullshit every year as a marketing gimmick, none of their shareholders or board members are even remotely left-leaning and their internal policies consistently are shown to abuse minorities and women....
I wonder if RUclips could implement a feature that allows parents easily filter what type of content appears in their child's feed. I am sure such a feature would be appreciated by both left leaning and right leaning parents.
@@erycktackitt6771"RUclips is a company that takes money from whoever pays"
Including hentai
Gutting out every institution to increase profits in the US is just normal practice.
Yes but eventually the gutting will be so bad America will collapse in on itself
Just like men start wars because of their ego. And greedy for profits sounds pretty much the same Ego of the most profits to shareholders.
I used to be a die hard Republican/Conservative and over the years i started realizing the very thing the right accuses the left they are doing😅 Also the right only started positively speaking about trades in order to seem like they care about the working man but are anti union😅
Pretty much. They call us really heinous shit, and then one of them shows up on the news for diddling kids or something. They say they value economic strength, then push against the workers who produce value for wanting better conditions, hours, and pay.
That’s just both sides in general. Pointing the finger at each other and doing jack shit for the American people all while getting richer and richer.
@@Jaq506the "both sides" rhetoric is disingenuous.
@@quantumwitcher9376because it's proven the left is loosing its stranglehold on higher education?
@@Jaq506in regards to optics? Kind of. In regards to policy? Absolutely not.
I literally was nearly done suggesting Zoe Bee's video on Prager U right here in the comments when JT all of a sudden spits out her name 😂 She's an amazing RUclipsr, teacher, video essayist, and all around savant on all things education. Her specialty is Language Arts but when it comes to commentary on education, she's unmatched. She's got commentary on today's grading system, parents rights, the damaging obsession with efficiency, and much more. Check her out! She's the best at what she does. America's students would be saved if she were secretary of education. One can dream.
Agreed! Zoe Bee's essay on PragerU and PragerU Kids is really well-researched and presented. I love the segment of that video where she goes through the "educational modules" and "lesson plans" provided by PragerU to be "taught" in school. She critically analyzed multiple lesson plans and the modules as an educator, setting aside the politics of it. Really good video!
I haven't been able to bring myself to watch her most recent video. Does it toe the line of "schools were designed from the ground up to create mindless drones, we have to protect them and give them more funding"? Because I can't get behind that argument for some reason.
@@ElvenTinuviel Zoe's video about Prager U is more from an educator's POV. Her video critically analyzes the materials provided by Prager U to be taught in schools, by looking at the lesson plans objectively. That video of her's is not about social commentary, rather why it is a bad idea to adopt their modules and lesson plans in schools because of how poorly designed and terrible the materials are.
@@ElvenTinuviel No, it doesn't.
I appreciate the straightforwardness in explaining the nebula situation. Honestly, Nebula kicking people of the platform for being pro Palestinian is a terrible look.
I know I'm unsubscribing from them, and I imagine a lot of other people will too (or probably just not bother to migrate their subscription over from Curiosity Stream).
Ultimately, this type of both-sides-ism is just going to lead to Nebula becoming an echo chamber for centrists that slowly funnels people towards Prager U-inspired reactionary world views.
One aspect that is always left out when people talk about Cuba's history, is that since the Revolution and up to this very day, Cuba has been a leader on Medicine and education.
100% behind everything you've said, as a teacher in her 15th year. I'm too busy to make my students "woke"...I do teach my students how to research and nurture their own viewpoints, so that's probably "woke" to conservatives.
And yes the Zoe video is totally great too!
getting a pro-israel ad break from prager u watching this is wiiiiiiiiiiiild
This approach to education can backfire soo badly
I'm in Australia, so the social context is very different and I may not understand it properly. Having said that, it absolutely blows my mind how aggressively right wing, religious and anti anything even vaguely progressive. Then they're just so blatant and unapologetic about it. Something like that could never exist here so as I said, I don't know how crazy they are in the American context. Fucking blows my mind though.
Edit: holy fucking shit. It's in schools?!?!?!? Jesus christ. Migrate here guys. You can be forgiven for giving up and running. Lol
A Nation at Risk was a key text we studied in my Masters in Teaching program. You did a great job explaining the after-effects and how conservatives manipulated the "data" to pursue their agenda
Never expected to see a ytp on this channel, that's wild. If you want to see the whole thing, it's a classic called Good Old P.U. by The Citizen Brain.
Very Tall Bert.
@@HSamee No they didn't I checked!
ruclips.net/video/rG_Ue3t17l0/видео.htmlsi=90dKx-hE3xCnriDy
That ytp is called "Good Old P.U."
@@iscander_s channel name is The Citizen Brain
It's always made me laugh whenever I hear anyone on the right saying they "free speech". Litterally a liberal value.
Not true. Conservatives absolutely want to be free to say whatever they want, while making sure they don't hear anything they don't want to hear.
Yes, that was sarcasm.
Historically liberalism was in the center (even skewed a bit to the right). The fact that nowadays liberalism is considered a left-wing ideology shows just how much the Overton window has shifted to the right.
i'm so confused... Isn't it liberals who are trying to tell people they can't say words?
@@olgamclaughlin9478When people say liberal, they usually just mean left wing. Most people on the center right definitely fall under classical liberal, free markets and speech and all that good stuff.
@toppersundquist7119 then you don't know much about conservative values do you. Conserving or policing thought and words that can harm the strength of the states power is LITTERALLY what conservatism is all about.
it may seem as though florida is finally “adding” it to education, but i distinctly remember classes where there would be lessons created with pragerU videos at their core for most of my high school career
Love to see that you applied your common sense approach to Palestine and refused to give in to the easy "it's complicated" nonsense, even if it may have been to your own detriment. A real mark of integrity, cheers.
Thanks for sticking to your principles and continuing to support what’s right. No matter what company is by your side even if you are all alone.
What does he support I didn't understand that
@@aymanbenfehri817 The people of Palestine who the Israeli regime is trying to exterminate. He refuses to say "both sides are bad" because one side is a settler colonialist, racist, ethno-supremacist regime, and the other side is fighting to survive
I don't know how "our beautiful baby boy, JT" finds the time to keep up with his multiple projects, raise a little one, and still looks like he showers. Nuff respect 👏👏
Maybe an education system funded by local property taxes isn't the best method for creating and maintaining those kind of institutions?
Always block Prager u from kids. Save their intelligence.
Richard Hofstadter's "Anti-intellectualism in American Life," among other studies, illustrates how low is our collective esteem for the well-educated and how easy it is for the ruling class to manipulate it.
I'm gonna need that universal healthcare to go get medical attention for all the muscles I pulled laughing my ass off at that PragerU gag at the front.
So glad i was homeschooled and didnt have to deal with this mess.
Seeing the state of everything education related, I'm having an internal debate between sending my future child to a montessori school, and homeschooling.
Any tips from the perspective of a homeschooled student?
@@j.c.2240 My parents kept me on a set curriculum the entire time i was homeschooled (4th - 12). just do a ton of research on one you think would suit your kid(s) best and check pricing, cuz its still expensive up front to get the books and teaching guides. But i still thank my parents for doing it, I realize that im much better off for their sacrifice. not to say every day was sunshine and rainbows, there were days we wanted to kill each other. But it was worth it.
@@j.c.2240 some advice when considering for homeschooling, get resources from real teachers and not churches, i've seen many a church attempt to create "curriculum" and sell it off as if it is academically valid, just for that stuff to then be shown to be pure propaganda, in my home state, that was a huge issue for a long time, especailly in wealth-stratified areas, was any kid that was home schooled was basically raised as a cult member under their parents noses, sometimes even without the parents knowing, because they'd pay for private tutors from the same programs, i actually grew up around one of those kids, and let me tell you-the things he believed and thought were actual facts was so insane, the dude legit scared me a lot of the time, but because he was relatively isolated due to being homeschooled and the oldest child, we would consistently take pity on him and try to basically "socialize" him from scratch.
I laughed out loud when you said ‘charismatic hosts’ and Jordan Peterson showed on the screen…
"... with charismatic hosts"
*shows carnivore Kermit on Benzos
Most frogs are carnivores so JP is really almost exactly like Kermit on benzos.
Kermit the fraud
@@skyekeating349 In Muppets Go to New York it was revealed that Kermit is actually a vegan becuz Ms. Piggy was self-conscious about being a food animal and she said he's not allowed to eat meat. Especially not pork.
Jesus Christ, I'm sure glad I had finished my coffee when I read your comment. It would have come out my nose I laughed so hard.
@@skyekeating349 how dare you question my poetry.
I was imagining a frog eating a whole cow by the way, with blood dripping froom it's mouth, all while incohearantly babbling about trans lobsters or something like that
I think you might have to recheck China. They are having the same problems as us with a bunch of college educated students who cannot find work in their fields. A lot of them still live with their parents and are unable to buy their own homes and start their own families. I have some Chinese friends who cannot afford a single apartment without having 2 or 3 roommates.
Well if we use the PISA program results then it’s true China scores higher than the US
Other than that, you are right, Chinese people, even college educated students aren’t doing very well right now
I am very curious about what china will do in response to this.
I didn't realize until after i graduated why the high school i attended at the end of the 90s was rated 14th in the nation years prior. They taught me about company towns and the tyranny of monopolies like the railroads and Standard Oil. Read Upton Sinclairs The Jungle and how our food used to be trash until the public demanded change. Its socialists and Unions that made this country great. Period. full stop. 1920's and the crash, the recovery this nation undertook to eventually pull itself out of the great depression and the dust bowl. (All centrally planned by the government because shocker some problems requires someone who sees the big picture.) I was taught to think critically about the cause and effects of everything. Like how public education stated to be dismantled once Johnson signed the civil rights bill, and the Judge Lewis Powell memo that laid out the plan to dismantle everything that 'made this country great.' Critical thought is the antithesis of what modern media and entertainment does on the behalf of shareholders. Morons make obedient customers and consumers. That's what modern business wants and frankly its insulting.
It's amazing how both sides are simultaneously concerned about the other sides infiltration of the education system.
I can tell you that the right complains more, and now even more with its darling Jordan Peterson.
I think there's a bit of a difference between "slavery in the US wasn't actually that bad and black people need to get over it" and "institutionalised racism still exists"
@@sigilpop Oh, undeniably, it's just ironic that they both claim the same institution is being controlled by the other.
it’s the right side constantly complaining
@@ethanstyant9704 generally, the conservatives never said slavery wasn't bad, they're saying that we are living in today's day and age, not one from 200 or so years ago
"charismatic hosts" as Bordon P. Jeterson stares into the camera with his dead eyes...
SO GOOD!
It saddens me that you got out of Nebula. I hope that in the future the structure changes so to accommodate healthy differences
He said he thinks the Israel-Palestine conflict is 'black and white'. Hmm, I think there is a bit more nuance than that
@@Fastturtle97He is however still entitled to think it is black and white.
I am an education major and about to graduate. I made a grave mistake lol
Depends on how you look at it, sure the education system is broken in the U.S. but we need educators who can combat that like you and Zoe Bee
no, you haven't. please, for the love of god, look at the bigger picture, there are no good teachers left, imagine the good just one good teacher could do for this country, please push through, everyone in every industry is struggling, we need teachers now more than ever.
I grew up in a country where as recently as 10 years ago a students experience could be perfectly summed up by Pink Floyd's "happiest days of our lives". My teachers were like drill Sargents drunk on their power and only validated you if you were a hard working and obedient student that lapped up everything they said. I'm glad the school system there is changing now.
Money. That's how.
That's it. You can push a lot of BS on public schooling if you front the money for it.
But doing that with taxes on the rich is communism. It's capitalist efficiency for the rich to pay for whatever propaganda pet projects they want to put in schools.
Cope
@@FormulaZyn 🙋🏾♂️
@@FormulaZyn Found the boomer.
@@VoiceOfTheEmperorChuds gonna chud, regardless of age.
If my neice becomes brainwashed by PragerU's propaganda, I'll raise cain.
You won't be able. 😂
Floridian here - I just graduated from UF and feel terrible for the kids in the school system right now. I just can't see why they're so blatantly getting away with fascism, it's insane
The same thing happened in Mexico during de late 90 until some years. All the public school system was trying to be destroyed. 😢
It's time to centralize the education system, so that schools will have an equal footing when it comes to school funding that they won't rely anymore on property taxes, but have standalone federal appropriation budget for education, just like the military. Centralizing the education system will make primary and secondary school curricula more uniform that implementing compulsory Spanish subject in both primary and secondary levels in all schools in the US will become possible. It will make rolling out uniform science, mathematics, and social studies curricula for all schools possible.
I’m a student teacher for a public middle school (7th and 8th grade). We had a parent email us to pull her kid out of class because we were teaching “transgenderism, homosexuality, and gender ideology.” It was a civil rights unit and we had ONE DAY on LGBTQ. We showed a video for medical practitioners on how to address patients respectfully (so that it wasn’t biased) and an article on stonewall. The kids are suffering because of their parents, and because of this artificial moral panic-caused partly by organizations like PragerU.
Weasel is the correct word for what PragerU is doing. FACTS.
Its funny: here in Germany, it's not well received when you have been to a private school / university. To us, it means that you were not smart enough to go to a public school / university - so your parents had to buy your diploma.😅
its sad to see schools turn into alt right training camps, anything keeping schools fun is being taken. Zoe Bee made a really good video called ”The Right-Wing War on Education” that goes more into depth about how this is happening
What you describe with Nebula is still a perfectly fair reason to criticize them as a company
Love your videos! As someone stuck in Texas who works in a school, I am even sadder about this kind of bs being ok’d to show kids… so hard to be hopeful of future :/
IM shocked at the Nebula reveal. Given the preponderance of lefties on the platform I am shocked they wanted a both-sides-y statement of contrition. I would definitely be interested in learning more. i joined nebula because I believed it was the best way for me to support a youtube alternative for creators that was also more equitable and more aligned with my values. Could you perhaps provide a bit more context around the departure?
He said that" Isreali occupiers aren't civilians" on a podcast and some creators got real bent out of shape about it.
It's less surprising when you recognise even pretty decent seeming folks can have blind spots, even people that recognise some of the flaws of their country's behaviour will often still feel patriotic to a degree, that "we're the good guys", which extends to our allies and yeah it's a big problem. It frustrates me to no end because it's frequently used to excuse so many horrible abuses but when there's a reaction to those abuses people are quite literally ready to drop nukes per comments around the net and MSM.
@@CaptainKyleVHThat statement’s a little vague. Who was he referring to here? The IDF? West Bank settlers? Regular Israeli citizens?
@@CaptainKyleVHhe's right
That’s it, I’m moving to Finland. See you guys on the better side with better life.
yeah im sure theyre gonna like your capitalist opinions on immigration.
@@comlain2513 nahh fuck capitalism, it just isn’t. How come America can spend 800 billion/year on military but we don’t have free healthcare?
George Carlin said years ago - and I'm paraphrazing; They want you just smart enough to operate the machines and count the cash at the close of business, but they don't want you and I getting into the club.
You’re videos have been great for providing other perspectives on things that I’ve really been sure of my whole life, and in turn changing my views to an extent. This video went above and beyond to capture all the angles of this issue, and I wish that everyone I know could see it and digest it! Thank you so much for creating this content!
My teacher, who taught my 50 year old dad and is still teaching today, is one of the most well-liked teachers in my school, and it’s very puzzling that he was a teacher and also campaigned for Reagan back in the 80s. The propaganda was that convincing that you can see abnormalities like this in his generation and gen X.
I know that you read those comments JT. Just wanted to say it's always very endearing seeing you rip someone a new one for spouting bs in your comments.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:30 🏫 *American Education Challenges*
- Issues in American schooling: stress, boredom, underfunding due to extreme capitalism.
01:30 📚 *PragerU's Influence*
- PragerU's impact, criticisms, and expansion into educational content, including PragerU Kids.
03:10 🎓 *PragerU in Schools*
- Controversies around PragerU's acceptance in states, conflicts over content, and teacher resistance.
05:56 📺 *PragerU's Impact & Context*
- Concerns about PragerU's educational value, Reagan's impact on education, and the shift to test-focused learning.
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- Capitalism's influence: education geared towards creating exploitable workers, sacrificing quality for profit.
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To add something I doubt will be included is the fact that we've known for sixty years that the class size most effective to allow all students to learn is twelve to fourteen for elementary and twenty to twenty-four for high school. The decline was small for each step of increasing class size but it does add up.
This is something I’ve thought of for quite a few years. It isn’t just states that have conservative agendas in their schooling- it’s public schools too.
When you compare the European school systems to American ones, there’s a HUGE difference. Europeans are usually more educated than their American counterparts, and at-least in the Nordics, they are MUCH happier in school.
Take a look at the way countries like Norway and Sweden conduct school and you’ll be surprised.
I seriously hope in the future we, as a country get smarter and reform the school system to adapt a more modern, European system of schooling.
I also think we shouldn’t allow private or public schools to conduct religion within their school curriculum or at-least force students to essentially play into it, because I can assure you in some states, students can be forced within private schools to practice religious biblical memorization and tests, no matter if they are Christian or not. (Cough.. Abeka)
Homeschooling rights within conservative states has also created a dangerous ability for parents to control fully what a child learns- no matter if it’s good for the student or not. Some reporting within homeschooling can be so unregulated you can essentially make a child do chores for “school” and maybe a subject or two and call it a day.
Our education system is really broken- and I feel it won’t change, but I am hopeful in the far future we can find ways to change it. I’m just not sure when that day will come.
I love how you and our changing climate always release videos on the same day and as I watch one I can see the other in the “up next” queue ❤ that’s true comradery
Thank you for not being "both sidesy"! Your videos have really helped me in clarifying what I think about our country. Every video I watch gives me a, "It all comes together/It all leads to that," kind of feeling. I'm not the most eloquent person so when I try to explain why so many things are wrong, I get tongue tied and my brain fog takes over, but I'm happy to know that there's someone who can give every detail on why we can't and shouldn't conform.
Had to watch this because they literally showed a freaking PragerU video in these freaking "wellness" classes my school does. Urghhhhhhhhh
That being said bad teachers do exist, and I know that because I’ve seen a lot of them in Ohio. Funding is a big issue but I have yet to see why these teachers can’t come up with a decent lesson plan with well thought out talking points. Despite them being underpaid they still went to college and got a teaching degree, so they should still know what they’re doing. I found several teachers that were so lazy all they would do was make us copy from the book. Day in day out that’s all we did in the dark with a projector, and they even graded us on how much we could copy. The actual idea of me taking my own notes based off of what I thought was interesting was a foreign concept to me when I got to college. To the point studying my notes was impossible just from the sheer size of how much information in one class I would have to write down.
I always cringe a bit at the idolization of teachers. Yes, there are teachers out there who absolutely could and should be called heroes, and many more who are doing their best in a thankless job, with good days and bad like anyone else. But in the end, a teacher is a position of authority in the classroom and I have seen and heard of too many times where teachers have abused that power to feel comfortable painting the role as a whole as a heroic one. I mean, do you really think there aren't going to be teachers who will be happy to show those PragerU videos to their students? Personally I think the whole idea of the role of teacher as someone who is in control of a group of people and tells them what to do, when to talk, when to shut up, whether or not they can go to the bathroom, what and how to learn in lock-step with everyone else with the fear of shame if they can't keep up, for hour upon hour, day after day, is not a situation that creates heroes. Some people can come into that setup and be a saint who uses their power for good, but most don't. Even those who come in with the best intentions often get constrained by the system.
The original YTP used in the intro is called "[YTP] Good Old P.U." by The Citizen Brain
Btw, great vid, thanks for another banger JT
I'm a retired teacher, having taught in Ontario, Canada for 30 yrs. Although not nearly as tragic as Americans describe their system, l see the same cracks showing in this country. Fortunately, teachers here have very strong associations which fight hard for the benefit of both our students and teachers. We are paid well, commensurate with our responsibilities, particularly in comparison to the US. Those duties are becoming greater by the day. The new political correctness has made any kind of real teaching a dangerous effort. True discussion and any attempt at critical thinking is impossible. Parents seem to prefer to have their child indoctrinated rather than encouraged to think for themselves (i.e. critically looking at an issue and coming to their own conclusions.) I'm so happy to have retired when l did! I have endless respect for teachers in today's political climate!