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Coaches kept telling Maxwell Pearce to stick to the fundamentals. Good thing he didn’t listen. A Harlem Globetrotter and artist, he went on to build a global reputation for gravity-defying dunks and a theory that the same playful rule-breaking is what powers progress in every field. In this joyful talk, he makes the case that…
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@chonwell
January 27, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Waldorf and Montessori education systems were created about 100 years ago. They do that. Check out what Google’s creators and Jeff Bezos education was.
@ethanboos515
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 pm
Because everyone is waiting to hear what I have to say 😂:
As an educator for over a decade, I think this guy is probably right, but I’m just so skeptical of phrases like “community design” & “lived wisdom”. I’d love more “first principles” & “personal responsibility”.
@josephcoon5809
January 27, 2026 at 5:40 pm
First principles are literally play.
There’s a reason why all young mammals play. Dopamine encourages synaptogenesis. Cortisol undermines it.
@TesserId
January 27, 2026 at 4:34 pm
When I was… I found myself saying I didn’t want to be a tape recorder. Imagine how long ago that might have been.
@mamacass8970
January 27, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Literally should make schools more social for kids less strict lessons more on hands learning and interacting with peers in normal non classroom situations. I look back at school and just see that the actual school lessons were pretty useless in the long run. Needs to teach common sense and problem solving.
@abcrx32j
January 27, 2026 at 5:51 pm
I think everyone just misunderstand the point of school, from teachers, to students and parents. this is just another version of that. School isn’t for preparing kids for a job, that’s just the obsession of parents and the expectation society decided to put on schools.
Schools isn’t about just the content itself, that’s at best, half of it. The other half is the process of learning. Problem solving is something you can add on top of it, but doesn’t mean much without the process of learning different forms of information.
@thejoyofhomeed
January 27, 2026 at 6:03 pm
I concur wholeheartedly! I create educational content that has an emphasis on real-life, engaging and immersive content, aimed at making learning fun, and relevant. It encourages creativity and application to challenges students will encounter in real life from financial literacy, to real estate, and cost of living to exploring global cuisine.
As a home educator I love the flexibility it brings in being able to teach and learn together with my son and community, making field trips relevant and immersive hands on learning experiences, using the wisdom of research and experience to engage him and make learning fun 🤩.
This was a great talk, which I’ll be sure to share 🤓
@tanfeexulhaqq4616
January 27, 2026 at 9:54 pm
And how did this AI age come to be? What system nurtured people to create cutting edge tech like that?
Nonsense. The job of schools is to provide education. It has been doing that job way earlier than the industrial revolution. Ever since the invention of writing, maybe even before that.
Schools are doing what they are supposed to do. Educate people. Not train them for doing some specific job. Gaining a general education and awareness of the world is far more important than being ready for the job market.
@foot-san
January 28, 2026 at 12:30 am
But u do know that, this general education (while I do agree on it being important). Has proved NOT, to being the defining factors in a lot of “successful” peoples life, he’s saying, the schools are doing their job( the job of the industrial period), we’re in a different period now
@tanfeexulhaqq4616
January 28, 2026 at 12:36 am
@foot-sanThere are always statistical outliers. They do not alter the general rule however.
@foot-san
January 28, 2026 at 12:44 am
@tanfeexulhaqq4616yh I get u, I’m actually doing a speech on education soon so I’ve been at this convo for a while. I think it’s overdue for the general to shift but you’re right, most of these situations are outliers
@AliMarzian
January 28, 2026 at 12:43 am
The best idea
@jemthomas7915
January 28, 2026 at 6:33 am
HOW ARE THE CHILDREN? echo this message around the world.
@HerraMadr-k8v
January 28, 2026 at 6:51 am
I disagree. Children yearn for the mines ⛏
@theoryoreltibitayy
January 28, 2026 at 8:16 am
Bro literally… i wish we had this revelation BEFORE I graduated..
@eatsomedust1
January 28, 2026 at 8:31 am
even worse in australia most schools are focussed only on getting a good “NAPLAN” score while more often then not completely ignoring the wellbeing of the students and the teachers
I know this because my mum is a teacher at a primary school and has complained about the system when asked about it
@YouTubeH8sMe
January 28, 2026 at 3:35 pm
100% The system works to produce, productive little robots, not free thinking inteligent entitys.
@VusumuziMakhubo-m4f
January 28, 2026 at 11:44 pm
True 🎉
@omniaquaeriteacdubitate3898
January 30, 2026 at 7:06 am
Kittly litter boxes in the dunny are not a solution.