Chapter 1: Why do many feel undereducated despite formal schooling?
I feel immensely undereducated on so many different topics. I grew up in the United States. I went to school in the U S public school system. And although we went through history, I can't tell you the dates, the mo most important dates of the U S constitution, let alone like the bill of rights, all of these things. I just, They were on the test and then I forgot it.
I can't tell you what a rock is made of, like what kind of materials build up a mountain, even though it was on the test. I just I don't remember anymore because I had to memorize it and it was gone.
Learning has been corrupted and it is such a sad thing that now it's on you as an adult to figure out literally everything about the world because it was not taught to you in a way for you to remember it. Now you can point your finger at the teachers and be like, it's their fault, but high key, the teachers are just doing their job and the teachers already don't get paid anything
for having to A, teach people, teach the kids, and B, discipline the kids. I think that this is a big problem. And I think it's leading to a lot of bad decision making, not amongst just young people, but just people who have gone through the same system over and over and over again. And no matter who I talk to, It just, the incentive to learn is gone. The incentive to learn is gone.
There's no incentive because you have all the distractions available to you for anything, and you have all the information available to you for anything, which is a blessing, don't get me wrong, but it's also a curse. I want to be able to tell you how many miles the Concorde flies. I want to be able to tell you, like, I don't know, the year that Poland was founded.
I want to be able to remember these things, but my memory was used to up the scores of a school so that they would receive more funding and more people would bring their tax dollars and put it into the school so they could pay their teachers a livable salary. I wish I could tell you what I learned in college, but I literally can't. Most of my learning had to come from outside the classroom.
I can tell you vividly in detail all the tutorials I watched for the things that I was interested in and all the video essays that I, you know, consumed for stuff that interests me. But everything else, like this baseline feeling of knowledge in my brain is gone. It's gone. I don't have it. Do people who are older than us have this?
It's something that I've wrestled with my entire life because I can talk to my grandparents about literally everything and they know about literally everything. But that's not all older folks are created equal. I'm sure you know plenty of people that are like, not in my backyard. I ain't learning about that. I know how to drive my truck and my tractor. And that's, you know what?
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Chapter 2: How has the education system impacted our ability to remember?
They've lived their life and they're doing good, but they could probably tell you everything there is to, you know, about farming. If there's something that they need to grow, oh my goodness, that's your guy. Got soft hands, brother. I've got soft hands, okay? I've got soft hands. And I've also got a soft brain. I have a smooth brain and I want it to like, I don't know. I want to learn more.
I want to have this craving for knowledge. And I've been saying that. But there's another thing that's very dangerous when you become an adult. It's your work-life balance. There isn't much time to learn except for the things that pertain to your job, which for most of us is a joke anyways. It's a joke. It's adult daycare.
Chapter 3: What role do teachers play in the education system's failures?
Yeah.
And it kind of it's funny that I can reference like a bunch of different memes like I know about my name Jeff and I know about Dax Flame and I know about like you know I can go through brain rot and six seven but it kind of is criminal that I cannot even think about simple historical facts about the country that I grew up in about my lineage about like. Why the sky is blue?
I don't know off the top of my head. Yeah, I mean, there's a search engine that knows, but why do I not know that? Or am I crazy? Do you feel this way? Or is it just me that is like, I want to know more about whatever. I feel like I don't have a base level of operative knowledge for a human being. But then again, I'm knowledgeable in other things.
I know lore about musicians and about eras of music. You know, I can talk your ear off about Daft Punk. And maybe there's a reality where these things don't really matter that much because we don't interact with them on a day-to-day basis. But what if there is a situation where you need this knowledge? Think about a situation where you do not have a connection.
If you don't know how to read a map, you're screwed. You're royally screwed. And that kind of scares me a little bit of how reliant we've become on just like, you just look it up, bro. There's a way to just look it up. I don't know. Like maybe. And also the fact that it's so easy to just like see something that you, you know, consume and just be like, that's fact without checking it.
There's there's not an incentive to actually double check these things because it's like it just takes too much work. And that is kind of a scary thing, too. It makes me wonder, was it done by design? You know? I can sing Among Us. I can't sing you Mozart. And maybe there's, you know, does it matter really? I don't know. I mean, maybe. But like, I think it does. I think it does matter.
Because we have history. For a reason. And it's supposed to teach us lessons, but if nobody learns history and nobody cares, we will repeat the same mistakes we made in the past and we will continue to do it. We're already doing it. Bruh. So... Read. Talk to old people. If your dad was a carpenter, still is, go into his shop and ask how he makes stuff.
If your dad cooks wazanki, a Polish specialty dish with bacon and macaroni, shadow him and ask how he makes his stuff and asks how he boils his cabbage. Curiosity needs to transcend finding the origin of a sample for a type beat that you like. It needs to be more human, maybe.
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Chapter 4: How do distractions affect our motivation to learn?
We need to take it upon ourselves to become more knowledgeable about things. And to learn from each other... And I think it comes from realizing first that you want to learn. That learning isn't a bad thing. That it doesn't mean that you have to sit down and do homework to learn. Actually, homework is like the most... Oh my goodness. It's just like, why? Why? To memorize. Okay, that's great.
But like, you're going to need to memorize things when you're actively working on something or a project. Times are changing. And I just like... I just want you to know that you are not dumb because you feel like you don't have knowledge. You're actually very, very smart and intelligent that you're recognizing that you're like, dude, I don't know anything. That is a good sign.
And your willingness to be like, okay, I wanna figure things out. I wanna learn about stuff is a great thing. And you need to follow that. You need to follow that passion and that burning desire
to get into like a studio and and and start recording people for free you need to follow that desire to like learn about obscure history about the you know a couple days ago i was talking with a with a homie and um we were talking about the hussarians with the wings the polish hussarians do you guys know what i'm talking about hussarians i hope i'm pronouncing it correctly like learn about these things
It has become cool to be dumb. Or maybe it always was. What? Maybe it always was. Like, maybe smart people were not the people with aura. And in today's day and age, that's kind of what matters, no? Like, if you have aura, like, dang, you got, oh, man, bro, I'm trying to be like you. I don't think that's the answer. I don't know. It just scares me is what it does.
It scares me that people are incompetent and it's not on a level of like... Have you ever talked to like a really... A really... What is the word? Condescending like film bro or music bro. They're always film or music. I can't believe that people listen to something other than DeJana McGee like...
do you have more than one brain cell I mean have you have you even like have you watched all of the Tarantino films I don't think you have like dude relax bro as much as I love Tarantino films I love like watching Matilda all right or like bro like relax oh my goodness and the same thing with like Dijon man and McGee I love Dijon I went to a Dijon concert but the amount of people that were just there to like look at the stage and be like yeah yeah that's very that's uh that's yeah the way that he's doing it so deconstructed in the sound is like enjoy the concert
Yeah, you know what? I just got, I got some experiences of people like talking to me like I'm an idiot and that I don't know about Two Star and the Dream Police. I'm like, bro, I've listened to that album 50 times, but I don't go around telling everyone how amazing it is, especially after I say, yeah, I've listened to it. It's great, man. Yeah, it's just amazing. Like, no, relax.
Like, come on. Do not nerd out. No, no nerding out. We're done.
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Chapter 5: Do older generations possess knowledge that younger ones lack?
What I'm trying to say is, how do we just feel intelligent? And feel good about knowing things. That's what I'm trying to say. It's not about everyone needs to be smarter. It's more about how do you feel like you're humble enough to recognize that you don't know anything. And you are curious and driven enough to learn and seek out knowledge as an adult.
Because this is something that we've got to change for like Gen Alpha. Because giving them all iPads is not the meta, dude. I mean, Cocomelon is great. But these are people you're going to be hiring in the future or working alongside.
you really do you want them to just be like like cocoa melon on one screen and a grind on the other I mean maybe you know I respect you know I don't know I don't know you know I'm just sick of being complacent with not knowing or it's not even about knowing because I will never know everything about the world it's probably for the better
But man, I just want to be able to tell my kid the history of a place. Hey, this is like I grew up in this city in Chicago and this is what, you know, redlining is and the reason why neighborhoods are split in these, you know, very segregated ways. And this is where this food comes from. And this is where, you know, Polish people immigrated to.
This is where, you know, the Chicago fire went, you know, oh, in 45 games. You know, I just want to have more lore.
Yeah.
I want to have more life lore. I want to actually feel like, man, I know about the world and I know simple things. Because right now, I don't know. And I've stopped trying to act like I know and I just say, I don't know. And if somebody knows more than I do, I shut my mouth and I listen. And maybe that's the meta. We just got to listen more. We got to read more.
We got to hold each other accountable of like getting people interested into things and sharing knowledge. I'll leave you guys off on this foot here. I was at a burger place the other day with my parents and there was this group of like I think college kids that were sitting down and they were talking about skiing and hanging out. And one of them was mentioning like something about them.
I think it was either the Missouri or Mississippi River about a bunch of law like like a huge logging. There was there was back in a long time ago.
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