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@The.Dark1365
January 11, 2026 at 11:01 am
Schools need to start teaching civics in elementary.
@nikokatos
January 11, 2026 at 2:34 pm
Schools need to teaching foundational knowledge in order to do that. I wonder how much this guy’s school prioritizes social studies education. The STEAM movement is focused always on the classic English, Math and Science focus hence in the name itself. They don’t include any aspects of social studies in the title. You can be an engineer or do all the hands on work you want in school but if you lack basic knowledge in civics, geography and history your nation will fall.
@lifeunderlockdown5581
January 11, 2026 at 11:12 am
I wish I’d studied at a similar school. Anyways. I wish we can introduce similar ideas of engaging kids here in our schools in Pakistan.
We’re literally wasting our kids with outdated education systems.
@MrShmellit
January 11, 2026 at 11:19 am
School is no longer interesting because the adults have made it about themselves.
@jamescastro2037
January 11, 2026 at 11:25 am
When did kids love school? The system has had to pill them for compliance. They should have changed the system long before they drugged your kids to stay in the broken system they made. The system teaches dependency not independent thoughts. You learn from them, not they learn from you. The proof is your drugged kids and yourself.
@geokhongtan988
January 11, 2026 at 11:30 am
Dude that’s deep
@ExistentialWolf
January 11, 2026 at 12:05 pm
@geokhongtan988 Read between the lines (in your grade 😉 ) there’s kids _(NOT!)_ watching.
@dooshmasta
January 11, 2026 at 11:25 am
When did they start?
@HoneyPiss
January 11, 2026 at 11:38 am
Maybe they don’t like being shot at
@theloveiswhere
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 am
Do you believe kids can’t see the indoctrination and manipulation happening? If so, think again and you have the answer to your question
@brickspace9
January 11, 2026 at 12:19 pm
Bullies, both peers and adults, suck the joy of learning out of you
@ERKINMIRZO-n9m
January 11, 2026 at 12:20 pm
It is nice🎉
@ExistentialWolf
January 11, 2026 at 12:24 pm
What’s an “Engineering” studio?? We all know growing pains come from the pantry – so. The AI bit is a little embarrassing for kids, with one’s ESP for fridge magnets the top priority for “adults” since the iPhone replaced the transistor radio (I’ll spare you the Don McLean dream sequence). Before you start paying for school, it’s the teacher’s responsibility to fight for the classroom and the kids come out polite reciprocal to the effort. The bother of planned obsolescence isn’t just the kids struggle remember, even though they do the bulk of the tech savvy in any home. If you want kids to participate in post secondary education try figuring out where you went wrong putting “studios” together with your dreams to be an art-ist. ☀🔋🕶 🪙:D
@samkf250
January 11, 2026 at 12:34 pm
So, basically a bunch of time, energy, and money was spent to rediscover what the FFA does for students. Good job, here’s your apple.
@Xelastic
January 11, 2026 at 12:38 pm
The idea of centralized location where students are to congregate and spend time together to learn is a vestigial and somewhat archaic in the current digital world, the only benefit of which is the social interaction as I believe the learning part can be achieved way more efficiently while being comfortable somewhere else like at home, using AI technology to design assist and evaluate progress is made learning like never before easy, engaging and memorable where you can branch off and discuss topic that interest you in the moment, thereby keeping the curriculum semi rigid, but at the same time making it memorable
@GrimFowler
January 11, 2026 at 12:57 pm
Simply put, kids and parents need more control over their education. School is a lie, it doesn’t educate you as is, as much as make you memorize facts and sit still.
Almost nothing i have learned in school outside of elective classes has ever been remotely useful
Learning should be fun, and one shouldn’t hate their job or career. That all starts in school, on purpose.
Do some studying into how the current educational system came to be. Its actually pretty messed up and this guy glosses over all of these aspects.
I do not trust this guy. They are wanting to fully shape the kids minds, minimizing the roles of parents, and he is saying that with more friendly words.
@markgibsons_SWpottery
January 11, 2026 at 1:11 pm
Schools need real life criteria. Such as building houses and growing food. In the field education that produces the motivational energy of real life. Building houses will teach every kind of math, and growing livestock and plants will give all other educational needs. Does it occur to anyone that our prisoners have it better than our school students… Educate the kids on Capitolizing and production at the same time… Do real things for a real education! The education system now is just daycare for single mothers… It needs to be flipped inside out instead of changed slightly! “How do we make something arbitrary seam like it means something” should have been the title to this video… How do we fool the kids into thinking school is fun! Let’s hide behind a huge smile and passively skim through the cattle of students trying to make them feel obligated and committed to a failure of the system… “Why education?” Not “how education?” We already know how to educate but it has been forgotten the reason to educate! To make school more interesting you must do real life activities! Otherwise the student will fall in love with the simulated version taught in school. Then feel lost in the real world! Educate people for the real world with the real world or education is a waste of everyone’s time… Has been so far! Paw paw education system! 😂🎉
@sapnadakle5513
January 11, 2026 at 1:30 pm
In school students has not respect,some teacher has very big ego,and don’t even care of students mental health they keep discouraging students,there are not bad students there bad teachers, they also not have sence that how to behave and have to talk,in front of parents they talk good. That’s all very Disappointed 😞😞😞😞😞😞😢😢😢
@gbob9971
January 11, 2026 at 1:33 pm
Schools stole my childhood and tried to turn me into an idiotic slave.
@gregevigan
January 11, 2026 at 2:15 pm
Start by banning guns nationwide
@Jasonxbr
January 11, 2026 at 3:20 pm
School system in general needs a overhaul. Like every other department, agencies, institutions, focus at home before meddling in other countries geopolitical affairs. 😢😢😢😢😢
@wespks
January 11, 2026 at 3:21 pm
Not a single word about bullying… The main reason many hated school.
@johnmcfarland5837
January 11, 2026 at 3:33 pm
It’s easy to blame “schools” as if they operate independently, but they don’t. Politicians and district leadership set the rules, standards, and funding priorities that shape classrooms. If we’re unhappy with how students are being taught, that’s where the responsibility really lives.
@delusionaldude_107
January 13, 2026 at 4:49 am
Absolutely true. Educational systems do not at all exist in isolation and there are tons of variables and social, economical and political factors which affect them. I think it’s extremely important to understand all the nuances of this topic so we can begin trying to diagnose and cure the problems surrounding education. It’s easy to say “xyz is bad” but coming up with solutions is what will actually change things for the better. And to do that reliably and sustainably, we need to know and do better. I’m from India and I’m deeply upset with the education system here (as I am with most things here in fact) and I have zero hope that fixing things will ever be a point of interest for those who can actually try and do so.
@DJ5thousand
January 13, 2026 at 6:27 pm
@delusionaldude_107. Eliminate the problem identified
@delusionaldude_107
January 14, 2026 at 1:56 am
@DJ5thousand And how am I supposed to do that? One man’s complaints don’t bring about a revolution.
@DJ5thousand
January 14, 2026 at 5:21 pm
@delusionaldude_107 change what you can where you’re at
@caramoonlynn
January 11, 2026 at 5:48 pm
I’m a first year teacher at 48 years old. This is how I’m designing my classes!
@ABC72-u4u
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 pm
What do you teach
@Voiceguitar
January 11, 2026 at 6:12 pm
Nothing about this says “How”. Ted talks lost its’ “How” a long time ago.
@theoprodromitis
January 11, 2026 at 7:43 pm
Because teachers shame and berate them
@kristiang1870
January 11, 2026 at 7:59 pm
How many teachers were involved in this? Genuine question for someone who might know. I’d love to discuss what the teacher’s input was. Because yes, teaching to a test is broken for students, but the system is broken for teachers too.
@agnesapr
January 13, 2026 at 8:34 pm
indeed, i am on this situation
@ronyislam4345
January 11, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Contemporary learn how to build a school
@MTWIGuyFieriGameBouncerBem
January 11, 2026 at 10:00 pm
More money doesn’t change jack. Unless you’re a teacher
@urbanstrencan
January 12, 2026 at 1:38 am
Great talk, school programs definitely need to change for the better more practical learning
@Jooonathan
January 12, 2026 at 3:26 am
You’re letting children practice mindfulness? ._.
@amandashamanda9479
January 12, 2026 at 4:57 am
Letting? What is the problem with mindfulness
@Jooonathan
January 12, 2026 at 7:07 am
@amandashamanda9479 Quoting from a reply on a video about mindfulness by Universiteit van Nederland. (Translated with AI and proofread)
A downside can be that you start noticing aspects of the ego, such as unnecessary thinking and reasoning (inner dialogue and “circling thoughts”), attachment to possessions or power, strong identifications with, for example, your profession or role. That can be confronting. It’s precisely why it’s often not pleasant or relaxing right away. Someone who truly wants to find calm by facing all of this and accepting that it’s merely a record of this moment [is who this is for]. [Inner exploration] proceeds gradually, step by step. Only when the mentioned tendencies are recognized can they slowly dissolve. The test: step by step, a person becomes gentler in their judgment and behavior, making it easier to achieve calm. [-> Someone reaches acceptance]
@amandashamanda9479
January 12, 2026 at 11:55 am
@Jooonathan interesting. Is it possibly you’re approaching the term mindfulness with how it’s used and experienced for adults instead of realizing how aspects of mindful practices can be used in age appropriate ways so that children are able to recognize their emotions, recognize the emotions of others, and be able to self regulate and feel those emotions in a healthy way instead of us stuffing them down and pretending it’s not happening? From what was described as mindfulness in this clip, to me it sounded like aspects are being used in an age appropriate way. I didn’t get the impression the kids were being made to sit and meditate do long periods of time where yeah, all that thinking and inner dialogue happens. Seems a lot more like recognizing a tough emotion, acknowledging that it’s happening, and using your breathing to be able to regulate yourself and move on. I am not seeing the negative in that. Breathing exercises and recognizing emotions are reasonable things to teach kids.
@Jooonathan
January 12, 2026 at 11:59 am
@amandashamanda9479 But do you need mindfulness to achieve that? Do you have to go deep into the ego to prevent or to resolve your sins? I think it should be left as a last resort to find acceptance
@amandashamanda9479
January 13, 2026 at 3:25 am
@Jooonathan do you have to insist that is either mindfulness or not mindfulness or do you have to subscribe to rigid fulfillment to the point the word mindfulness cannot be used to describe a few simple exercises instead of the entire ethos as you seem to want to enforce?
@907kat
January 12, 2026 at 4:09 am
Disappointing talk; nothing new here. STEM teachers have been saying this for decades. Takes local political will and funding to make it happen.
@でほはい
January 12, 2026 at 4:52 am
I realized that the function of school you mentioned is totally different from those in Japan.
informative video,ty.
@xIyse
January 12, 2026 at 6:40 am
Am I the only one getting AI vibes from here or is it just me? idk.
0:10 rule of 3
0:14 not just x, its y
1:32 rule of 3, buzzwordy
1:35 not about x, but y
3:44 isnt x, but y
5:15 rule of 3
5:56 rule of 3
with that said, i do agree that the hands on approach to learning would be the best learning method for students, i still think the problem lies in the systems… which can be solved by the nations leaders alone. It fully depends on the governments to put in place rules, standards, funding, subsidies, and system development for the the crux of the problem to be solved.
For example, the city my school resides in has the best leaders to date, they respond to calamities instantaneously and effectively, employing outsourced personel to clean up the streets while the rest of the country was still shuffling with who to blame for the damages of the typhoon. infrastructure that has even the tiniest cracks get rebuilt, they do not let politicians break roads for the next election week, they employed fire fighters, medics, first responders, businessmen, to give talks to schools who are about to be asked to choose a career thats going to dictate every decision the make for college, etc. All of their work trickles down to my school aswell, its amazing how much the outside resembled the schools on them.
Not only that but my school also addressed Bullying in Imo the most effective way possible, even without so much as mentioning bullying once, no talks, no rules, no seminars, none of that. yet bullying is no where to be seen on campus, all because of multiple systems in place; one is they took easily manipulate-able children and turned them into war machines to work for the school’s peace keeping, if another student even so much as to show signs of bullying you bet these kids will use this as an opportunity to be a hero, after all they know when it reaches the admins they will get to the bottom of it and place a very justifiable judgement, they are so f king good at it, both the kids and the school. the second is that the teachers actually care about it, in all instances where the students’ affairs got to the teacher, they stopped that they were doing and called them in the faculty to get to the bottom of it, they are more functional than the US justice system, not once did they punish the victim for fighting back, they give them praise for it. third is that it happens so rarely that other regular students speak out when it does happen, they are quick to call it out and they never have to fear of being alone to call it out nor having to be involved with the case.
Even when i graduated, i didnt look back at the memories ive made with friends, i looked back at how good the school’s systems was at making me feel like I’ve learned so much even when i was at the bottom of the class.
TLDR; politicians and systems solve the problem, the learning method goes second.
@bizgenAUS
January 12, 2026 at 7:32 am
It’s the guns stupid.
@E9Project
January 12, 2026 at 1:47 pm
Busy work is not learning it’s corporate training, the whole system is !@#$ed up from the floor up.
@TheMrPits
January 12, 2026 at 3:09 pm
Perhaps admin should start looking for candidates who are truly up for universal design for learning, and game based learning, and the teachers students find engaging…. Their record at that right now is crap. They hire the boring teachers who barely hit the main points on a check list and bury the students in mediocrity. Does not help that the school districts’ hr departments also can’t filter their candidates appropriately with the crap software they try to use. Why do our schools suck? Because they don’t hire the right people anymore, they can’t even read through the candidates with any accuracy.
@carmennlii
January 12, 2026 at 3:14 pm
His script sounds like it was written by ChatGPT. This is a great topic but it’s difficult to feel engaged and pay attention when it sounds robotic
@ABC72-u4u
January 13, 2026 at 6:50 pm
This a thousand times!!!
@zxqwerxz
January 13, 2026 at 7:12 pm
Because learning can be fun, but it isn’t the goal. Although it could be more engaging, the truth of the matter is you aren’t going to be building balsa wood bridges most of the time as an engineer. You won’t be blowing up balloons of hydrogen as a chemist.
You’ll be playing with spreadsheets and grant writing which isn’t glamorous, but thats the stuff that gets things built.
@atenas80525
January 13, 2026 at 11:46 pm
You just described most homeschools. You are sooooo far behind, my friend. Gave you a minute, won’t waste any more of my time
@natalieeuley1734
January 14, 2026 at 9:15 am
Unfortunately, too often, administrator whims win out over true learning. A community service project can’t be graded, and while it can teach a lot, if you don’t have a graded assignment per day, your administration will have a problem with it.