Born to Learn

[SmCTwelve]

I'm 16, though legally I can leave school, I can't because the world is so built around education that there's nothing to do if I wasn't there. The education system in the UK is ridiculous. It doesn't encourage any creativity or enthusiasm, it is forced learning, and it all comes down to the scoreboards and qualifications. How is that learning? Rejecting the current system and being different is what people need in order for things to change.

[danjoelabrenica]

i think if our government improve our school's system learning can be fun!

[g2laller]

im in 10 grade here in germany. I HAD a lot of passion of learning new things and there working methods at the age of 8-14. I saw always documentation rather than cartoons. I was happy about my knowledge and had pretended to be very smart "I was" but this didn't last along time. As the time got on i realised that the knowledge which i was learning had no value in the actual life for me it is now "the School" which is important for your whole life.

[daXroflXcopta]

I'm 15 what should I do ?

[addalilirishtourgame]

@daXroflXcopta ANYTHING!

[bodnotbod]

The video makes some good points; I continue to educate myself and prefer to teach myself rather than be in a classroom. However I'm not sure an institution should be encouraging kids to walk out of class age 15 and never look back.

[LeastOfAllSaints123]

lol they rebelled against their cave parents?

[tompson3]

So black people don't have adolescence because they haven't lived in the colder climate?

[TheMainarock]

........

[kotofu]

meh... good points in theory, just don't see how it could fall into practice with adolescents making regrettable decisions. Or maybe I'm the only one here who sometimes looks back saying "Oh my god why?"

[thesocialinception]

@kotofu if you didn't make those mistakes, you will eventually make them anyway, you only learn from mistakes, you don't learn from what other people tell you

[roryscanlon]

Fun video. Good points. But the first step towards creativity must be to cut short the delusion that we are formed by our brains and not by our wills!

Also, If keeping my pudding on the table is insanity, and throwing it to the ground insanity,--throw me in the ward!

[Th3NewArt5tudio]

Amazing!

[TheGeonex]

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[xprimale]

incredible....

[chillpill2197]

This is amazing

[Arghira]

Great video... but Einstein did come back 

[KoRnFaNaTiK]

@Arghira Jacque Fresco didn't, now he's got a golden mind.

[KoRnFaNaTiK]

@Arghira Not saying einstein didn't.. sorry, don't take my last comment wrong xD

[randlejulian]

Thanks for doing a great job of enlightening us all. We live in an eductating environment envisioned by 19th century ecyclopaedic thinkers.

Or as someone said. the proble of 21st century humanity is: Neandertal emotions, with Medieval institutions and God like techonology...

[roryscanlon]

@randlejulian or perhaps just technology.

[exiawave]

The reason teens have their creativity so restrained in grade school is because in today's modern, economically driven society, grade school is intended to create workers, not creative thinkers.Highschool creates working ape-slaves, college selectively chooses the smarter individuals and fosters their creative interests.

[stanzaman2]

Good stuff.

Is it narrated by Nick Clegg? Well, obviously not....

[JAXandDAX]

Maybe that's why feral children sometimes  never learn to talk?

[LaurieACouture]

Unschooling is nature's intent for children. All children need to play, including teens. The teenage rebellion stereotype is a myth of our culture. Teens in peaceful tribal cultures are not rebellious, they are interdependent with their families and tribes. Teens who live freely, unschooled teens especially, who have been attachment parented have nothing to rebel against. Mainstream teens rebel because they have no control of their lives except as consumers or to create disconnected peer groups.

[djlookwood]

Aboriginal children face a more more complex, if less complicated world than do Civilised children. Aboriginalchildren have to master a far wider range of skills to a much higher degree than the civilised, and learning is continious in the Aboriginal world because the stasis of any given habitat is a variable, and the ability to respond is key to all life - we call it 'adaptation' and it's not random, as many Empire Logic thinkers assume.

[djlookwood]

I don't agree with that 60,000 years ago 'theory' or the teenager rebellion 'theory' either - teen rebellion emerges due to the hypocrisy with which they have been treated and which they have observed since infancy....

[0BornofDesire0]

If it weren't for playing Gran Turismo as a little kid, I would not be an engineering student next year in college.

[suchaphool]

Have a play time, all the time, That's my motto Marty

[Lightrider4444]

This is perfectly inline with the assertions of the Venus Project and the Zeitgeist Movement. If you agree with this presentation, I urge you to look into a Resource Based Economy and the radical redesign of our society for the betterment of all people.

[sigatus]

@Lightrider4444 I invite you to listen to what Stefan Molyneux has to say about a resource based economy.

[mattraum]

@Lightrider4444 The Zeitgeist people have some great ideas about society but not much understanding of economics. I urge you, also, to listen to Stefan Molyneaux's debunking. Any economy lacking a price system always runs into the "calculation problem". Without prices, even the best, wisest, and most caring planners cannot accurately predict how much to produce of a given good or service.

[Lightrider4444]

@mattraum I recognize that the priesthood of economic theory would like us all to believe that their particular opinions are valuable and necessary. Efficiency and utility are not mysteries however, and they are determined through technical processes, not opinionated declarations based on the arbitrary and inefficient movement of currency.

[Vire70]

@mattraum

What you're saying is that without a price tag it is impossible to determine how much of a certain resource one needs? Where is the logic in that? Demand doesn't go away just because you remove prices - the only difference is that supply is free, and one could easily chart needed supply with a whole number of criteria, ie past statistical data (inflated for population growth), and things of that nature. I will go watch this Stefan guy though.

[Vire70]

@mattraum

Just watched Stefans video. I suggest you watch Peter Josephs rebuttal, in which he thoroughly schools him imo.

/watch?v=ozy52bZ6JTw

[mattraum]

@Vire70 Prices communicate information. Prices communicate scarcity and demand. Without prices we cannot know how much to produce because we cannot know how scarce the goods and labor needed to produce a good are. Any economy without a price system will have to deal with gluts and shortfalls because they do not know the demand for goods.

[Vire70]

@mattraum

But that is nonsense - if you'd bothered to watch Zeitgeist Addendum one of the first things they advocate is a complete systematic monitoring of resources. This system would constantly track demand and needs, it would tell us how much we have and how much we can make, etc. Our price systems of today are just a very primitive way of doing the same thing with no real regard for how much resources we ACTUALLY have, because scarcity is encouraged to produce profit.

[Vire70]

@mattraum

...and I should highlight that Peter Joseph already addresses this in his rebuttal that you either didn't watch or didn't listen to. Here's the link again;

/watch?v=ozy52bZ6JTw

[dindaminardi]

see... let's play even harder... :) I love damian lewis... :)