I remember beating the math teacher at times tables in grade 3, i was that good at a lot of math because i loved it as a kid. When i got to about 15, everything went down hill and all the robots and kids who remembered everything 24/7 were considered clever. All education is is remembering shit
Our education format is blatantly backward. I'm a current college student and the memorization bits, I could really care less about. Every now and then I get a professor that inspires thoughts and questions and wonder, but that's the exception. The rules need to be changed, all of them! Even in the finance sector, we're going straight into debt after high school because tuition is now the new bubble.
It's true, I wanted to be a Biologist when I was little, but all the technical jargon I had to memorize made me feel like it was'nt worth it anymore. Biology used to be my best subject, in Highschool I flunked it 3 out of 4 times.
@jeffiek it's not about how rich the school is jeffiek. ALL schools are like that now. American education is based on this, it's a ubiquitous system. of course there are a select few schools that have innovate, but they are so far and few between, and Michio probably doesn't want to send his child away to a better school while he has the full capacity to help her himself. And what parent would want to send their child away while they are still in grade school?
@jeffiek The problem is pretty much all schools around the world are the same, no matter how expensive. Teachers get some text, then they read it to students, and then students have to memorize it for the exam. Rinse and repeat.
Repeat it enough times and your creativity is as good as dead. And that's not even counting indoctrination.
Check out this video, it's one of my favorites on the subject: /watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
School teaches a load of crap you don't need in your adult life. They should just keep it to the things you WANT to learn. If you want to become an artist, only teach practical stuff about it. you don't need the math, etc... you just need to know what you want to know.
+ society wants you to make the choices that will last your entire life in the period you don't think about the future, because the prefrontal cortex isn't fully developped. Good thinking, Society...
Duh. I agree with you Michio. We have the best search engines available at our finger tips... for free. Why would I hard code data in my mind that can be easily searched with modern technology?
Its crazy because I was sitting looking at my 9 month old and thinking the same thing. Trying to think of creative ways that she could express herself. Realizing that in fact raising a child is as much raising them to be the best that they can be as it is preventing them from becoming damaged. So it became so apparent to me that it is important to raise a confident child that knows the boundaries of ignorance. What a job this going to be. In this world.
@1980viracochas Best of luck to you! It seems like you're on the right track already. As long as you allow your little girl to keep that wonderful inquisitive mind open to the world around her, you will have done a fantastic job as a parent!
@dubified89 I think you're not giving government enough credit. Governments, be they a monarchy, a dictatorship, or a democracy, are just another form of leadership. And one thing that can be seen throughout human history is that people, as social animals, want to be lead. Governments don't force things upon people through violence, but through threat of chaos. It is both the fault of the people and the leaders if the definition of law and chaos are respectfully confused.
Simple respect and decency does wonders for life everywhere, and towards the commenter below me, capitalism can be fair and decent, at this point in time America is using a crony-capitalistic society but it can be fixed and it can be fair. I hope that it is very soon.
It's because we're in that final social phase of the era of slavery as the foundation of economy; capitalism. The secret of capitalism is turning the plenty of machinofacture into manufactured scarcity. Capitalists must include in that anti-effort manufactured ignorance, particularly regarding critical thinking... Lest the jig is up.
@Commiton Bullshit. The education system is not a capitalist industry it's a government program. Capitalism is all about creativity. Entrepreneurs make their wealth by trying to guess how to serve the wants and needs of people in society. Government and collectivism on the other hand is all about a small group of rulers planning what's best for everyone else and forcing it upon them through threat of violence.
About 80% of stuff you "learn" change that with "memorize" in school is either going to be forgotten or useless to you in life. So basically all you need is Basic math, fluent reading and grammar, and 1 subject of what you like most, 3 lessons in total, Discard all else and you can reduce 12 year torture into 3-4 years of actual learning and you save about 8 years of your life. Think of schools as some form of population control, people in power obviously don't want the general pop going all...
@tulp35000 reason why you need to do so many different subjects is that person at such age (7-18) is not capable of choosing his life path/profession. Even most students (uni students i mean) are still not sure do they want to work in the same field as their degree is - there is no way you can put this pressure on teenager.
The school and university settup is to create tax slaves and pick out the intelligent ones to serve as an industry new world order mongol. Live life, don't worry. The planet grows food and building materials. Ggives life and free recreational drugs and medicine. As evrything is in our reach. It is freedom to information and community without the university elite funding neo con space prison crap of metal and afterburners programming. Law under love, FUCK Crowley and this mindset of indulgence
I wish i could meet this guy and talk about interesting scientific subjects. I know i will learn more by him, than what i've learned in all subjects at school except math and p.e. Since school now a days, is all about memorization for tests, not about learning. Maybe it's just my school, but many teachers just gives us a sheet, and a long talk about whats on it. While only a few teachers actually makes us learn it, an example is the teacher in "The dead poets society"
Sooo...kids are no longer interested in science because it is being spoon fed to them and by doing it kills curiosity. Curiosity of which is the basic drive for science to thrive. I would agree with that but science is a growing collective knowledge of the world and must be passed on to the new ones for them to catch up and be curious into more complicated science.
And I agree the best way to gain knowledge is not by memorizing but by understanding the concepts and facts.
To simply teach memorization is ridiculous in this era. With the internet and smart phones/tablets virtually all human knowledge can be rapidly accessed. Rather than fill unwilling brains with useless data people need to learn to THINK, to manipulate data, to solve problems... Critical thinking, logic, problem solving: These are the things that need to be taught. The raw data doesn't need to be memorized, with modern technology at our disposal we can carry all of recorded history on a tablet.
@texasatan AMEN I'm in medical school and so much information is told to us and expected to be memorized w/o actually understanding. Definitely trouble for some of our future doctors who experience an event not covered in a text book
@texasatan i used to think just like that, but then i understood that you actually have to memorize stuff to be able to manipulate it. Yes it is accessible but it takes more than just reading it to be able to manipulate/solve related issues. thing is that memorizing allows you to actually work with two "sources" of information at the same time: one you know(memorized) and one you just have been introduced with(reading eg). In this way it is much more easier to actually manipulate knowledge :)
@4EvveR 500 characters isn't enough to really make a good point... I guess what I'm thinking is that a lot of our education system still comes from a time when people didn't have the ability to carry an entire library with them at all times. Memorization was the only way to access all the data. This isn't true today and emphasis should be shifting away from pure memorization. Not everyone learns/thinks the same, not every profession is the same. Many professions will always require memorization.
@texasatan i agree that some changes should be made as level of knowledge and its accessibility has changed.. I also agree that many teachers some reason use memorization as ONLY method of teaching which is definitely wrong way to go. However, it is very hard to find new way of teaching. Manipulation isn't easy either and needs interest from a person, which many students lack. I believe problem is in using education mass product - it should be individualized (which comes with its own problems)
@texasatan Don't call it memorization. What is required of a field or profession is knowledge. You either know it or you don't. Take it from an actor, the best way to know your lines it to learn them, not memorization. Cause with memorization you can improv you own Ideas into what you memorizied. Or you begin to mix or skip lines.
People need to believe in system in other for system to function. Information is useless without a goal, and goals are determined by our values, beliefs. Politics and economy can't be subject to science. The justification for the state and capitalism comes from myths about human nature.
its the government they dumb every1 down when there babies., they wouldnt let children become super geniuses bcoz they know the discoveries that some of them would make would be unreal an to hard for the world to take on which could create mayhem. like this fossil fuel shit. i can guarantee scientists can make efficient unlimited fuel out of water,hydrogen. but they wont simply because they wont be able to make money off it. think of the stuff we would know if they didnt brainwash us since birth
Same with math. They teach you abstract math for years with barely a nod as to application. They could teach history, math, and science as an integrated whole: how people asked and answered questions over the centuries. It would be a narrative and people are excellent at understanding narratives. They crave it, which is why moronic fictional stories are popular. But instead subjects are taught as a jumble of disconnected factoids and no one cares anymore.
In social sciences it's even worse (political science, history, psychology, ethnology, etc), the dominant universalist ideology (liberal, leftist) makes it almost impossible to think "outside the box".
@imagomagus Absolutely. I think the sort of depletion of vitality- so to speak- comes from maybe one general principle that continues into our adulthood: All our prevalent questions become 'answered'. We're TOLD why things are; why the sky is blue; but we don't truly UNDERSTAND for ourselves. What we're inevitably taught is that to get what we want is to fit into society, to conform, to make and use money, to work tirelessly, to match expectations, not to offend, not to question, to be "normal".
@imagomagus Precisely! Not to say that there aren't very talented young people in the realms of art and creative expression (I've known several). Simply put, our culture squashes the desire many would have in these areas. I really hope humanity has a new renaissance!
I think education would be far more effective if kids were shown the big picture first, and the basic lynch pins which comprise the big picture, THEN they might hunger to learn all about the smaller compenents of the big picture. Plus, there is a huge anti intellectual culture at work. The only intellectual who get any respect are the ones who get paid. If you don't get paid to be smart, then it doesn't pay to appear smart.
this brings me back to my homeschooled days where i would conduct my own experiments and try to invent things. good times. i have enjoyed highschool sciences to some extent but it was never as fun as the days when i made up my own experiments
math was fun.. science was my favorite subject. it just OUGHT to be! experimenting..!? who could love anything more than actual learning~ games that matter!
People in my class are like "quickly do the questions and then .. DONE, NO MORE WORK !" without understanding or knowing the questions they just answered ..
It's obviously why the flowers of curiosity are crushed by society and the school system in particular. Just think about how society would be if all of it's members were people who questioned all the time. Questions lead to more questions as much as they lead to answers and that's dangerous for the authorities who want to maintain control. A questioning mind is not what authorities want, they want people who can memorize dry facts, not question how things work and why things are the way they are
and the problem in school they dont do it in an exciting way they always say this to this and that is that more no less sometimes the almost all the teachers always think they are the gods and if you want to pass study this by the book then when the students go to the outside world they are boom coz of the theory is far of form the jobs
@thedearpsychonaut Well, he said "we are born scientists" NOT "geniuses", there is a world of difference, they are two TOTALLY different things, and you can easily be one without being the other! So, I imagine that the people who disliked it listened to the video and disliked the false Video Title quote used here.
That's probably why I decided not to do physics or biology, or chemistry. Because it's all, 'Memorize this, it's on the test. Memorize that, it's on the test.'
Well then how do you define knowledge? Is it what we know to be true? Is it what we predict to be true? Is it our knowledge of the probability of the thing happening? So is knowledge where I know with good probability that the sun will rise tomorrow. But I cant know that can I? I only know what has come before is likely to come again. Many believe there is no such thing as knowledge, only those things we expect will happen.
i quit school just because of that and omg everyone told me im wrong and i must study like a robot bla bla finaly someone that thinks like me and is a great scientist i liked fizics and maths but then exactly what he said happend too much to memoriz it became unbearable i wish the world was diferent but eh someone should do something almost every teenager hates school nowdays ;/
@SGellerstedt If Man was to be measured: Whether judged upon the alters of Intelligence, Creativity, or Passion; we would find Man to be based on the Infinite and Eternal and not the definite and temporal. Do not be mislead, leave Judgement to God.
@SGellerstedt Not nessesary misleading title. Genious is that you are able to look at something in a way that nobody looks at it - and inturn you discovers something. Potential for genious is always there,because everyone thinks diffrently. Society /challenges - stops the person of becomeing the genious because the artistic creativity that comes from the minds fantasy is limbing out and faceing barriers it cant overcome. = killing the idea = no results =no noone to tag you as genious.
Well, we're all pseudo-educated to become producers and consumers, nothing else. We're told only what can make you fit in the market system, and we're not told the rest. That's what money and the market system does to all of us. Dumb us down because of the stupid money system.
@kmann100500 Maybe you'd like to watch zeitgeist addendum or zeitgeist moving forward, it talks about it. It posts the venus project as an alternative. I think is worth the time, even if you agree or disagree.
I hated science and math in K-12. However, once I entered college, I quickly changed my mind. At this point, I am training to work as a medical technologist at a local hospital. Quite the change from hating every second of biology to essentially being in a branch of biology as a career. I think I hated science back then because the teachers didn't get the point across very well and the courses were not challenging enough. It also didn't help my teachers were creationists.
its funny how the people at you tube deliberately put Beyonce in a swimsuit after the video was done to try to distract us from the truth!!........IT WAS TEMPING....BUT I RESISTED!!!!!!!!!!
This kind of education he wants does exist though! I've had a Geology professor that always emphasized things such as Plate Tectonics being the unifying theory of Geology over classification of rocks and minerals.
The classification of rocks and minerals, though important, may only aid in explaining continental drift; it's not the end-all-be-all of geology.
However, and IMO, the biggest reason for people to lose interest and curiosity in many fields of academia is that it's become a process where you learn a lesson and earn a grade rather than explore the interest with the heart as well as the mind.
All logic, no compassion. No wonder it's soul-crushing.
I love science and math as the topics they are themselves and really enjoy watching videos on Youtube to learn more about them. I don't feel like in school it is really a focus on learning as in an education anymore about said topics though, its preparing you for the examinations so you can get a higher grade. High school has become entirely focused on grades rather than the actual learning of topics that interest you and that is the real problem.
@EnoshShachar I think your teachers are the ones to blame for that, not the school system itself. When you watch a video on Youtube that you find interesting, chances are that the person you're watching is an incredibly good teacher and communicator (for lack of a better word) that knows their subject intimitly. Teaching is more than just presenting students with facts that they should remember, unfortunately that is what most teachers do today.
@SGellerstedt Well I must both agree and disagree with you. It is both the system and the teachers. But yeah the teachers do play the biggest role here, because they get "closest" to the students. When I watch this guy, science sounds to be a lot of fun, but it is because the guy, not only knows enough about the topic, but he looks fresh, and he is damn smiling. And another thing, karma! You can feel it when a teacher just want to get over with it.
@EnoshShachar Exactly. I'ma junior myself. High school student's just care about there GPA or college credits. It's crazy to think that someone could take a physics class for an entire school year and NOT be inspired. When you get passed all the memorization bullshit you will actually be amazed at how interesting everything really isAnd all I remember doing in Biology is taking a shitload of notes, and then i realized that u cant learn unless u are truly inspired, but notes aren't inspiring.
@EnoshShachar Cant' agree enough. The kids with the 95 averages just got their asses handed to them by this 70+ average in our engineering design class in 2nd year uni. We had to build a wind turbine, and highest electrical output won, they couldn't take their heads out of their asses long enough to understand that half their designs actually didn't spin.
@EnoshShachar I honestly don't understand why people get so worked up about grades. To me, it doesn't matter. All I care about, is learning. All I want, is knowledge. All school does, is take dreams away from kids by telling them they will get no where in life with poor grades. This truly makes me sad. I'm just glad you actually care about the real facts.
I think if schools tried to apply science and mathematics to the world around us then kids would be more interested in these topics. I hated math and science during high school but once I entered college, I realize that math and science is all around us. It is everywhere, your phone, computer and probably even the chair your sitting on.
I believe almost everything can be explained just by using numbers.
@TranceBeforeWeDie lol you do realise you just recited the most boxed and use phrase that basically screams office work and cubicles and crushing of curiousity ever invented?
Those who agree with this man must look up Democratic education. Its not perfect but it understands these issues and its the best hope children have right now. It was the only reason my imagination and curiousity survived to A level and I basically owe my life to it.
Michio is exactly right. I'm a senior in high school, & I'm one of the few from my group of friends that doesn't despise math & science because of the way it was taught to us, & honestly, that's because I took it upon myself to learn more outside the classroom. If it weren't for that, I definitely wouldn't want to become a physicist today.
I agree wholly, I am just now finishing my beating in high school and may be going on to college for more. A few years back I was curious about everything, now I just want most things to leave me alone. I despise our education system.
he isnt smart he is just a simple person, he speaks the "normal" language not fancy names, etc just to show he is smart.. even when he dont actually need to show it, you can see by yourself that! but damn the books broke the kids dreams :D
Agreed
SpicyHam 1 hour ago
I alwaze new i wuz a genus.
xYueShuYa 1 hour ago
society crushed me
GoToBed22 4 hours ago
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529Jiub 5 hours ago
society likes to dumb you down.. if you want to fit in you have to dumb yourself down to be socially accepted
stocktontorque 7 hours ago
intelligence and knowledge are 2 completely different things that only a handful of people differentiate from each other
123456789imthatguy 7 hours ago
NICK DIAZ!!
BigBubbaah 7 hours ago 10
Thanks for bringing me here Nick Diaz!
Dmoretti02 8 hours ago 9
duh!
vivalaT911 9 hours ago
nick diaz all day!!!
nastyjuanita 9 hours ago 2
Where you at Science?Where you at motherfucker!
sorrybadbeat 9 hours ago 19
I remember beating the math teacher at times tables in grade 3, i was that good at a lot of math because i loved it as a kid. When i got to about 15, everything went down hill and all the robots and kids who remembered everything 24/7 were considered clever. All education is is remembering shit
MrTwat144 9 hours ago
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education system is actual;y making people dumb
dumb people are easier to control
TheSUBGAMER 9 hours ago
inb4 100 Nick Diaz comments
KoolGNasBlackThought 9 hours ago 4
209 baby
01Eskiya 9 hours ago 4
after going through the public school system i couldn't agree more with this
spectowin 12 hours ago
Our education format is blatantly backward. I'm a current college student and the memorization bits, I could really care less about. Every now and then I get a professor that inspires thoughts and questions and wonder, but that's the exception. The rules need to be changed, all of them! Even in the finance sector, we're going straight into debt after high school because tuition is now the new bubble.
wojovox 13 hours ago
"DUHHH!" LOL xD
the1andonlyvogan 22 hours ago
such is the folley of man
iAmThePhatMan 23 hours ago
6 people wrote boring textbooks.
Pertrosfoliea 1 day ago 3
It's true, I wanted to be a Biologist when I was little, but all the technical jargon I had to memorize made me feel like it was'nt worth it anymore. Biology used to be my best subject, in Highschool I flunked it 3 out of 4 times.
012689 1 day ago
He's far from broke. What the hell is his kid doing in such a school?
jeffiek 1 day ago
@jeffiek it's not about how rich the school is jeffiek. ALL schools are like that now. American education is based on this, it's a ubiquitous system. of course there are a select few schools that have innovate, but they are so far and few between, and Michio probably doesn't want to send his child away to a better school while he has the full capacity to help her himself. And what parent would want to send their child away while they are still in grade school?
themanflesh 1 day ago
@jeffiek The problem is pretty much all schools around the world are the same, no matter how expensive. Teachers get some text, then they read it to students, and then students have to memorize it for the exam. Rinse and repeat.
Repeat it enough times and your creativity is as good as dead. And that's not even counting indoctrination.
Check out this video, it's one of my favorites on the subject: /watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
Raydeus 1 day ago
The system is learning us to be dumb - :( sad but truth
RavAnomaly 1 day ago
School teaches a load of crap you don't need in your adult life. They should just keep it to the things you WANT to learn. If you want to become an artist, only teach practical stuff about it. you don't need the math, etc... you just need to know what you want to know.
+ society wants you to make the choices that will last your entire life in the period you don't think about the future, because the prefrontal cortex isn't fully developped. Good thinking, Society...
odalvervloesem 1 day ago
Golden age of logic, philosophy, and reason! It will happen whether society wants to crush it or not!!!
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Duh. I agree with you Michio. We have the best search engines available at our finger tips... for free. Why would I hard code data in my mind that can be easily searched with modern technology?
gasto5 2 days ago
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gasto5 2 days ago
Grava
tnannfrombristol 2 days ago
best DUUHHH ever !
MrMaffen 2 days ago 25
Its crazy because I was sitting looking at my 9 month old and thinking the same thing. Trying to think of creative ways that she could express herself. Realizing that in fact raising a child is as much raising them to be the best that they can be as it is preventing them from becoming damaged. So it became so apparent to me that it is important to raise a confident child that knows the boundaries of ignorance. What a job this going to be. In this world.
1980viracochas 2 days ago
@1980viracochas Best of luck to you! It seems like you're on the right track already. As long as you allow your little girl to keep that wonderful inquisitive mind open to the world around her, you will have done a fantastic job as a parent!
acs197 1 day ago
DUUHH!
lowmax64 2 days ago
@dubified89 I think you're not giving government enough credit. Governments, be they a monarchy, a dictatorship, or a democracy, are just another form of leadership. And one thing that can be seen throughout human history is that people, as social animals, want to be lead. Governments don't force things upon people through violence, but through threat of chaos. It is both the fault of the people and the leaders if the definition of law and chaos are respectfully confused.
Dartyus 2 days ago
what if ur downie?
haloandre 3 days ago
Simple respect and decency does wonders for life everywhere, and towards the commenter below me, capitalism can be fair and decent, at this point in time America is using a crony-capitalistic society but it can be fixed and it can be fair. I hope that it is very soon.
Dekationz 3 days ago
It's because we're in that final social phase of the era of slavery as the foundation of economy; capitalism. The secret of capitalism is turning the plenty of machinofacture into manufactured scarcity. Capitalists must include in that anti-effort manufactured ignorance, particularly regarding critical thinking... Lest the jig is up.
Commiton 3 days ago
@Commiton Bullshit. The education system is not a capitalist industry it's a government program. Capitalism is all about creativity. Entrepreneurs make their wealth by trying to guess how to serve the wants and needs of people in society. Government and collectivism on the other hand is all about a small group of rulers planning what's best for everyone else and forcing it upon them through threat of violence.
dubified89 2 days ago
@dubified89 There's nothing creative about capitalism. At most, it is a person being creative in a deplorable unfair game of trade.
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How come more people aren't interested in science? DUH!
TheSuperduck23 3 days ago
fantástico!
SexyKillua 3 days ago
English is much harder than science, but they sell it.
returnoftheramble 3 days ago
I love science, and I'm retarded. They need to make it easier for lay people.
returnoftheramble 3 days ago
Why doesn't he just home-school?
AdamOuissellat 3 days ago 3
About 80% of stuff you "learn" change that with "memorize" in school is either going to be forgotten or useless to you in life. So basically all you need is Basic math, fluent reading and grammar, and 1 subject of what you like most, 3 lessons in total, Discard all else and you can reduce 12 year torture into 3-4 years of actual learning and you save about 8 years of your life. Think of schools as some form of population control, people in power obviously don't want the general pop going all...
tulp35000 3 days ago
@tulp35000 Genius and overthrowing the government, cause we really don't need some corrupt schmucks to represent us. World need change, Now.
tulp35000 3 days ago
@tulp35000 reason why you need to do so many different subjects is that person at such age (7-18) is not capable of choosing his life path/profession. Even most students (uni students i mean) are still not sure do they want to work in the same field as their degree is - there is no way you can put this pressure on teenager.
4EvveR 3 days ago
everyone is born a genius? wasn't that the storyline for "baby geniuses", the worst movie ever made?
BrainChild42 4 days ago
This is worthy of a favorite. >.<;
Luminahawke 4 days ago
The school and university settup is to create tax slaves and pick out the intelligent ones to serve as an industry new world order mongol. Live life, don't worry. The planet grows food and building materials. Ggives life and free recreational drugs and medicine. As evrything is in our reach. It is freedom to information and community without the university elite funding neo con space prison crap of metal and afterburners programming. Law under love, FUCK Crowley and this mindset of indulgence
dronea 4 days ago
Michio Kaku saying "DUUUUUH!" - priceless.
Yndin 4 days ago
I wish i could meet this guy and talk about interesting scientific subjects. I know i will learn more by him, than what i've learned in all subjects at school except math and p.e. Since school now a days, is all about memorization for tests, not about learning. Maybe it's just my school, but many teachers just gives us a sheet, and a long talk about whats on it. While only a few teachers actually makes us learn it, an example is the teacher in "The dead poets society"
watsucht 4 days ago
@sgellerstedt maybe both
XxMastKiller14xX 4 days ago
Sooo...kids are no longer interested in science because it is being spoon fed to them and by doing it kills curiosity. Curiosity of which is the basic drive for science to thrive. I would agree with that but science is a growing collective knowledge of the world and must be passed on to the new ones for them to catch up and be curious into more complicated science.
And I agree the best way to gain knowledge is not by memorizing but by understanding the concepts and facts.
CrimelabS 4 days ago
Oh look I discovered that I could memorize 9 terms about nothing!
SpicyHam 4 days ago
Memorization is not exploration
DoctorStalker1 4 days ago
dddddddddddddddddd
ValeV008 5 days ago
I was practicing AI when i was 4 years old.
sathasiva1885 5 days ago
To simply teach memorization is ridiculous in this era. With the internet and smart phones/tablets virtually all human knowledge can be rapidly accessed. Rather than fill unwilling brains with useless data people need to learn to THINK, to manipulate data, to solve problems... Critical thinking, logic, problem solving: These are the things that need to be taught. The raw data doesn't need to be memorized, with modern technology at our disposal we can carry all of recorded history on a tablet.
texasatan 5 days ago 123
@texasatan AMEN I'm in medical school and so much information is told to us and expected to be memorized w/o actually understanding. Definitely trouble for some of our future doctors who experience an event not covered in a text book
SinisterC6 4 days ago
@texasatan i used to think just like that, but then i understood that you actually have to memorize stuff to be able to manipulate it. Yes it is accessible but it takes more than just reading it to be able to manipulate/solve related issues. thing is that memorizing allows you to actually work with two "sources" of information at the same time: one you know(memorized) and one you just have been introduced with(reading eg). In this way it is much more easier to actually manipulate knowledge :)
4EvveR 4 days ago
@4EvveR 500 characters isn't enough to really make a good point... I guess what I'm thinking is that a lot of our education system still comes from a time when people didn't have the ability to carry an entire library with them at all times. Memorization was the only way to access all the data. This isn't true today and emphasis should be shifting away from pure memorization. Not everyone learns/thinks the same, not every profession is the same. Many professions will always require memorization.
texasatan 3 days ago
@texasatan i agree that some changes should be made as level of knowledge and its accessibility has changed.. I also agree that many teachers some reason use memorization as ONLY method of teaching which is definitely wrong way to go. However, it is very hard to find new way of teaching. Manipulation isn't easy either and needs interest from a person, which many students lack. I believe problem is in using education mass product - it should be individualized (which comes with its own problems)
4EvveR 3 days ago
@texasatan Don't call it memorization. What is required of a field or profession is knowledge. You either know it or you don't. Take it from an actor, the best way to know your lines it to learn them, not memorization. Cause with memorization you can improv you own Ideas into what you memorizied. Or you begin to mix or skip lines.
UnBoundBeatz 3 days ago
@texasatan IKR!!!! I find these memorization tests so stupid. With google at my side I don't need to remember every damn detail!
me2goodfoyou 3 days ago
@texasatan
People need to believe in system in other for system to function. Information is useless without a goal, and goals are determined by our values, beliefs. Politics and economy can't be subject to science. The justification for the state and capitalism comes from myths about human nature.
organdva 3 days ago
@texasatan right on my friend :)
Anduy 2 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
@texasatan it is foolish to memorize something easily accessible.
123456789imthatguy 7 hours ago
its the government they dumb every1 down when there babies., they wouldnt let children become super geniuses bcoz they know the discoveries that some of them would make would be unreal an to hard for the world to take on which could create mayhem. like this fossil fuel shit. i can guarantee scientists can make efficient unlimited fuel out of water,hydrogen. but they wont simply because they wont be able to make money off it. think of the stuff we would know if they didnt brainwash us since birth
JAYW0151 1 hour ago
where did you learn to do what you do?---no one told me i couldn't.-
opnwndo 5 days ago
BEAST
barkape 5 days ago
HA! Society can kiss my ass I was born with O.D.D. bitch, and I fucking love science! XD
commetsmasher 5 days ago
Yup..
PULULOLE 5 days ago
very true im in 11th grade and i have come to really hate education
duhhxxxiloveyou 6 days ago
i love him!;-)
belladonna666999 6 days ago
Same with math. They teach you abstract math for years with barely a nod as to application. They could teach history, math, and science as an integrated whole: how people asked and answered questions over the centuries. It would be a narrative and people are excellent at understanding narratives. They crave it, which is why moronic fictional stories are popular. But instead subjects are taught as a jumble of disconnected factoids and no one cares anymore.
aluisious 6 days ago 3
I want to start a school based on this man's words in this video.
projectbaum 6 days ago
In social sciences it's even worse (political science, history, psychology, ethnology, etc), the dominant universalist ideology (liberal, leftist) makes it almost impossible to think "outside the box".
fdesouchecom 6 days ago
@fdesouchecom You should try writing comments without resorting to a bunch of horseshit whiner jargon.
aluisious 6 days ago
@aluisious Jargon? Have you finished high school yet? Stop pulling society down with your low-IQ.
fdesouchecom 6 days ago
@fdesouchecom Hey what a surprise, a right wing douchebag. You never see one of those on the internet.
aluisious 5 days ago
America's favorite professor. :))
It's not just the scientific curiosity that gets crushed, artistic and creative expression also.
imagomagus 6 days ago 123
@imagomagus Absolutely. I think the sort of depletion of vitality- so to speak- comes from maybe one general principle that continues into our adulthood: All our prevalent questions become 'answered'. We're TOLD why things are; why the sky is blue; but we don't truly UNDERSTAND for ourselves. What we're inevitably taught is that to get what we want is to fit into society, to conform, to make and use money, to work tirelessly, to match expectations, not to offend, not to question, to be "normal".
SilvrDragon52 5 days ago
@imagomagus
He has a lot of competition, even more so when we don't limit it to nationality ;)
TheArcticSage 3 days ago
@imagomagus Precisely! Not to say that there aren't very talented young people in the realms of art and creative expression (I've known several). Simply put, our culture squashes the desire many would have in these areas. I really hope humanity has a new renaissance!
acs197 1 day ago
im 16 and this guys words on science is like crack
nightfire789 6 days ago
@nightfire789 check out Dr. Neil De Grasse Tyson
physicswizrd86 6 days ago
This dude.. When he talks.. IT MAKES FUCKING SENSE! My mind.. Blown! :o
UncleP4pr1k4 1 week ago 2
I think education would be far more effective if kids were shown the big picture first, and the basic lynch pins which comprise the big picture, THEN they might hunger to learn all about the smaller compenents of the big picture. Plus, there is a huge anti intellectual culture at work. The only intellectual who get any respect are the ones who get paid. If you don't get paid to be smart, then it doesn't pay to appear smart.
lessermystery 1 week ago
@lessermystery
Wise words my friend!
eskabarz90 6 days ago
this brings me back to my homeschooled days where i would conduct my own experiments and try to invent things. good times. i have enjoyed highschool sciences to some extent but it was never as fun as the days when i made up my own experiments
aRAUSEr7 1 week ago
Is Kaku a Thomas Hobbes?
Da1RiSiN1sMoKe 1 week ago
Lol this guy rocks
buddy1holly 1 week ago
math was fun.. science was my favorite subject. it just OUGHT to be! experimenting..!? who could love anything more than actual learning~ games that matter!
alwaysyouramanda 1 week ago
I agree lol.
People in my class are like "quickly do the questions and then .. DONE, NO MORE WORK !" without understanding or knowing the questions they just answered ..
lyue1996 1 week ago
dr. Kaku is genius
aFemale1 1 week ago
It's obviously why the flowers of curiosity are crushed by society and the school system in particular. Just think about how society would be if all of it's members were people who questioned all the time. Questions lead to more questions as much as they lead to answers and that's dangerous for the authorities who want to maintain control. A questioning mind is not what authorities want, they want people who can memorize dry facts, not question how things work and why things are the way they are
TPQ1980 1 week ago
@TPQ1980 Yeah and they would consider us autistic if we question
tailandfox 1 week ago
and the problem in school they dont do it in an exciting way they always say this to this and that is that more no less sometimes the almost all the teachers always think they are the gods and if you want to pass study this by the book then when the students go to the outside world they are boom coz of the theory is far of form the jobs
xianthugz1 1 week ago
who the fuck disliked this? i really want to know, honestly.
thedearpsychonaut 1 week ago
@thedearpsychonaut Well, he said "we are born scientists" NOT "geniuses", there is a world of difference, they are two TOTALLY different things, and you can easily be one without being the other! So, I imagine that the people who disliked it listened to the video and disliked the false Video Title quote used here.
CountYulith 1 week ago
very very true
rishabhbt 1 week ago
tesla,edison,einstien,hawking.....kaku?
js1990wtf 1 week ago
I know his secret to EVERYTHING ! son of a bitch , He took the Limitless Pill .
FilmExclusive 1 week ago
@FilmExclusive where can I get one?
jmarmario1 1 week ago
@jmarmario1 Only He knows , Only...He...knows !
FilmExclusive 1 week ago
Michio,I love you!
dragmio 1 week ago
Beautiful words.
questionsleadtotruth 1 week ago
That's probably why I decided not to do physics or biology, or chemistry. Because it's all, 'Memorize this, it's on the test. Memorize that, it's on the test.'
Tridecalogism 1 week ago
this guy is my hero
petelebu 1 week ago
I was going to say something but EnoshShachar said it perfectly.
doggod106 1 week ago
Michio Kaku is the man.
raishisou 1 week ago
where can I find the whole interview?
JeremiahLawrenceTV 1 week ago
@TranceBeforeWeDie A level in philosophy actually, and Biology
Well then how do you define knowledge? Is it what we know to be true? Is it what we predict to be true? Is it our knowledge of the probability of the thing happening? So is knowledge where I know with good probability that the sun will rise tomorrow. But I cant know that can I? I only know what has come before is likely to come again. Many believe there is no such thing as knowledge, only those things we expect will happen.
Kurotsukine 1 week ago
i quit school just because of that and omg everyone told me im wrong and i must study like a robot bla bla finaly someone that thinks like me and is a great scientist i liked fizics and maths but then exactly what he said happend too much to memoriz it became unbearable i wish the world was diferent but eh someone should do something almost every teenager hates school nowdays ;/
stigyo92 1 week ago
The school system teaches you how to memorize, not how to think and analyze stuff for your self.. it basically makes you a dependable sheeple.
Markitos203 1 week ago
Misleading title. All kids are born SCIENTISTS, not geniuses. Big difference.
SGellerstedt 1 week ago 28
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FelexBoB 5 days ago
@SGellerstedt If Man was to be measured: Whether judged upon the alters of Intelligence, Creativity, or Passion; we would find Man to be based on the Infinite and Eternal and not the definite and temporal. Do not be mislead, leave Judgement to God.
jacklancaster11 5 days ago
@jacklancaster11 leave the judgment of god for the love of god i dont want to continue to speak but your correct
xianthugz1 4 days ago
@SGellerstedt Not nessesary misleading title. Genious is that you are able to look at something in a way that nobody looks at it - and inturn you discovers something. Potential for genious is always there,because everyone thinks diffrently. Society /challenges - stops the person of becomeing the genious because the artistic creativity that comes from the minds fantasy is limbing out and faceing barriers it cant overcome. = killing the idea = no results =no noone to tag you as genious.
WerewolfSlayer91 4 days ago
Exactly!!
MrWarlock616 1 week ago
michio kaku for president!!
He would be a president who thinks about things the way they are.
venomstrikez 1 week ago
That was the most epic "DUH" I've ever heard...
Kram1032 1 week ago
All kids are born geniuses? Michio Kaku built an atom smasher in his parent's garage for his high school science project.
I can't do that, and I'm considered extremely smart. . .
nullrox 1 week ago
Well, we're all pseudo-educated to become producers and consumers, nothing else. We're told only what can make you fit in the market system, and we're not told the rest. That's what money and the market system does to all of us. Dumb us down because of the stupid money system.
ThatIsWhatYouGet 1 week ago
@ThatIsWhatYouGet It's well and good saying how bad money is but has anyone really got a better alternative.
kmann100500 1 week ago
@kmann100500 Maybe you'd like to watch zeitgeist addendum or zeitgeist moving forward, it talks about it. It posts the venus project as an alternative. I think is worth the time, even if you agree or disagree.
ThatIsWhatYouGet 1 week ago
im glad that im as curious as i am.
haters gona hate.
TheLawnWanderer 1 week ago
WOW. I TELL MY STUDENTS THE SAME THINGS!!! CURIOSITY DOES NOT KILL THE CAT. CURIOSITY IS THE FOUNTAIN OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM!
DimitrisMPapadakis 1 week ago
I hated science and math in K-12. However, once I entered college, I quickly changed my mind. At this point, I am training to work as a medical technologist at a local hospital. Quite the change from hating every second of biology to essentially being in a branch of biology as a career. I think I hated science back then because the teachers didn't get the point across very well and the courses were not challenging enough. It also didn't help my teachers were creationists.
Arcane5871 1 week ago
its funny how the people at you tube deliberately put Beyonce in a swimsuit after the video was done to try to distract us from the truth!!........IT WAS TEMPING....BUT I RESISTED!!!!!!!!!!
HarryPNus 1 week ago
Yes, master Yoda, yes.
SpicyHam 1 week ago 69
@SpicyHam hahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHA
androcci 1 week ago
DUH!!!
WGLTubaman 1 week ago 4
This has been flagged as spam show
i love math thanks to 1 person in my life who inspired me
but unfortunately i hate almost everything else taught in school
funny though i bet it would change things if they made science illegal
in ancients times many parts of the world outlawed religion and look how it flourished
Arkimedes999 1 week ago
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Arkimedes999 1 week ago
I'm not into science today because one of my teachers blinded me with science!
WebVManReturns 1 week ago 5
This kind of education he wants does exist though! I've had a Geology professor that always emphasized things such as Plate Tectonics being the unifying theory of Geology over classification of rocks and minerals.
DrAugustusValdes 1 week ago 3
@DrAugustusValdes
Of course.
The classification of rocks and minerals, though important, may only aid in explaining continental drift; it's not the end-all-be-all of geology.
However, and IMO, the biggest reason for people to lose interest and curiosity in many fields of academia is that it's become a process where you learn a lesson and earn a grade rather than explore the interest with the heart as well as the mind.
All logic, no compassion. No wonder it's soul-crushing.
Watcher3223 1 week ago
@DrAugustusValdes
Typo.
All logic, no passion.
Watcher3223 1 week ago
I love science and math as the topics they are themselves and really enjoy watching videos on Youtube to learn more about them. I don't feel like in school it is really a focus on learning as in an education anymore about said topics though, its preparing you for the examinations so you can get a higher grade. High school has become entirely focused on grades rather than the actual learning of topics that interest you and that is the real problem.
This is coming from a Sophmore in high school.
EnoshShachar 1 week ago 70
@EnoshShachar I think your teachers are the ones to blame for that, not the school system itself. When you watch a video on Youtube that you find interesting, chances are that the person you're watching is an incredibly good teacher and communicator (for lack of a better word) that knows their subject intimitly. Teaching is more than just presenting students with facts that they should remember, unfortunately that is what most teachers do today.
SGellerstedt 1 week ago
@SGellerstedt Well I must both agree and disagree with you. It is both the system and the teachers. But yeah the teachers do play the biggest role here, because they get "closest" to the students. When I watch this guy, science sounds to be a lot of fun, but it is because the guy, not only knows enough about the topic, but he looks fresh, and he is damn smiling. And another thing, karma! You can feel it when a teacher just want to get over with it.
42548 1 week ago
@EnoshShachar Exactly. I'ma junior myself. High school student's just care about there GPA or college credits. It's crazy to think that someone could take a physics class for an entire school year and NOT be inspired. When you get passed all the memorization bullshit you will actually be amazed at how interesting everything really isAnd all I remember doing in Biology is taking a shitload of notes, and then i realized that u cant learn unless u are truly inspired, but notes aren't inspiring.
123BenThere 1 week ago
@EnoshShachar the same from a freshman
TheZarkoc 1 week ago
@EnoshShachar Cant' agree enough. The kids with the 95 averages just got their asses handed to them by this 70+ average in our engineering design class in 2nd year uni. We had to build a wind turbine, and highest electrical output won, they couldn't take their heads out of their asses long enough to understand that half their designs actually didn't spin.
Antend0 1 week ago
@EnoshShachar I honestly don't understand why people get so worked up about grades. To me, it doesn't matter. All I care about, is learning. All I want, is knowledge. All school does, is take dreams away from kids by telling them they will get no where in life with poor grades. This truly makes me sad. I'm just glad you actually care about the real facts.
schnizle101 1 week ago
@EnoshShachar YOU ARE SO RIGHT.
Dotheshiz 1 week ago
@EnoshShachar TRUE DAT.
kaotic070 1 week ago
@EnoshShachar *sophomore
freznedz2 6 days ago
we should crush exams by failing all of them and let curiosity and creativity flow
FishingSoul 1 week ago 3
I think if schools tried to apply science and mathematics to the world around us then kids would be more interested in these topics. I hated math and science during high school but once I entered college, I realize that math and science is all around us. It is everywhere, your phone, computer and probably even the chair your sitting on.
I believe almost everything can be explained just by using numbers.
HowToDoCalculus 1 week ago
To FomulaForex: if you are trying to quote him in the titile, you are conflating scientist with genius. Misquote.
GOAT2PAC 1 week ago
what an amazing man
rollipolioli 2 weeks ago
Agree with this completely.
We're educated to think within the box, not outside of it.
TranceBeforeWeDie 2 weeks ago
@TranceBeforeWeDie lol you do realise you just recited the most boxed and use phrase that basically screams office work and cubicles and crushing of curiousity ever invented?
Those who agree with this man must look up Democratic education. Its not perfect but it understands these issues and its the best hope children have right now. It was the only reason my imagination and curiousity survived to A level and I basically owe my life to it.
Kurotsukine 2 weeks ago
@Kurotsukine An A-Level in what? In knowledge?
What is knowledge when we aren't willing to explore beyond the things that we think we have all figured out?
TranceBeforeWeDie 1 week ago
Michio is exactly right. I'm a senior in high school, & I'm one of the few from my group of friends that doesn't despise math & science because of the way it was taught to us, & honestly, that's because I took it upon myself to learn more outside the classroom. If it weren't for that, I definitely wouldn't want to become a physicist today.
ScienceofWinning 2 weeks ago
I agree wholly, I am just now finishing my beating in high school and may be going on to college for more. A few years back I was curious about everything, now I just want most things to leave me alone. I despise our education system.
playmaka2007 2 weeks ago
I want to kick junior high school in the balls.
Evenflowist314 2 weeks ago
1:38
StevenKim83 2 weeks ago
America needs to figure out what learning actually means.
Alangdubs 2 weeks ago
" [...] DUH!"
I crack every time he says that XD
dzntms144 2 weeks ago
That's nothing new to me, I know this ever since i went to school for the first time (the worth day of my life).
Another Thing
Is there a relation between Dr. Michio Kaku and the Venus Project?
JSimpsonBart 2 weeks ago
i thought it was david suzuki...
ibanezxiphos700 2 weeks ago
he isnt smart he is just a simple person, he speaks the "normal" language not fancy names, etc just to show he is smart.. even when he dont actually need to show it, you can see by yourself that! but damn the books broke the kids dreams :D
JKR699 2 weeks ago