Ted Dintersmith

I don't work with you.

But that ripples through my view about education.

Adults should figure out what that kid really feels they're put on this planet to do, which won't happen at age five, may not happen at age 10.

But if we work with those kids, by the time they leave school, they ought to have a clear sense of what problems they want to solve, what's important to them, what drives them.

And then I think just support the heck out of them on that mission.

And don't sweat.

if they want to be an electrician versus being, you know, whatever it is, an Ivy league college.

I mean, like help them find out their dreams and purpose and support them.

That's what I would say to parents because kids don't want to leave, live the life you tell them to live.

They want to live the life they want to create.

And I think our role as adults, whether we're parents or teachers or friends or relatives is to just help those kids blossom.

I'm,

I think that's fair to say.

I mean, my film, Most Likely to Succeed, it came out in 2015.

And

A group in Palo Alto just was on me like a dog on a pork chop to do a community screening, Gunn High School, because that year they had five student suicides.

And these were normal kids, right?

But these were kids that were told that, of course, you've got to get into Stanford, and I'd be crushed if you go there.

Oh, this was in the Bay Area.

Yeah, I remember reading about this.