why did school make us dumb
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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?
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.
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?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why do many feel undereducated despite formal schooling?
0:00–3:07
2
How has the education system impacted our ability to remember?
3:07–3:57
3
What role do teachers play in the education system's failures?
3:57–7:10
4
How do distractions affect our motivation to learn?
7:10–13:20
5
Do older generations possess knowledge that younger ones lack?
13:20–18:28