RE: An Open Letter to Educators

pogobat aka 'Dan Brown' is one of those yammer at the camera type guys... very entertaining I'm sure, but when he blows smoke trying to justify why him dropping out of school was 'a good thing as it was interfering with his education', and that really it wasn't his fault, it was that the university lecturers didn't know his name (lmao), and didn't organize his social calendar for him, and they expected him to learn stuff EVEN THOUGH THE INTERNETS EXISTS.... its time to call bullshit on the bullshit artist. Especially seeing as his 'dropping out is good AND NOT MY FAULT' message seems to have resonated with his seemingly young and impressionable audience.
-This video was put together in haste as a form of reducing the damage caused by pogobat.

Yeah I know the guy is vain (the guy really included the key word 'handsome' in his description of his video about education!), egotistical, subscriber whore/BS artist, and I have little doubt that part of what was going through his mind while doing this was to create some drama by bad mouthing education and showing what a rebel he is by proudly dropping out.

Great for him I'm sure.... but shite for society... and the future of society.

I only addressed the core of his arguments here (mostly the strawman about university education ONLY being about learning facts), a lot of the rest of what he says is bs too (google being a wonderful company...lol tell china that!), and how the value of information is going down. Education is more important now than ever, and to operate in a technologically advanced civilization you need to know somewhat of how it functions. The guy with the 'right information' and right ability to implement that information is more valuable than ever.

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[sooperfukker]

This video almost makes me puke. Something is deeply wrong with that guy's attitude.

[Jiminallofhisglory]

"Looked to the college dropout for visionary insight" LOL hahahahahahaha.

[RzaChess]

thunderfoot for the win

[Thesweetscience47]

bollocks dan..lmao!!

[emmzy888]

This would have been a convincing argument minus the annoying and rude text at the bottom.

[Xinfinitude]

I don't live in America, but I'm doing a computer science degree. I've had at least a couple of classes where most of the time the lecturer would just tell us facts that had no reasoning about how they were related to other things. The facts may as well just been random lines from a trivia book, as I didn't know how they fit in with everything else.

If that is what the Dan guy is talking about specifically, then I can agree with him on that at least.

[halflifeproductionz]

you have computer and tutorial labs.

[rodrommel]

@ShinobuHarvester Have you ever seen the really bad movie Battlefield Earth? This kind of reminds me of this. John Travolta, who is a technologically advanced alien, takes the lowly human to the ruins of a human library, and tells him that he can look and read whatever he likes, because there is nothing that will help him. That's how college exams were for me. Unless I understood the concepts taught in class, there was no amount of google that would help me pass that test