QI Untransmitted 1

Mr.Fry's opinion of those who do not indulge in learning for the sake of learning.

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Comedy

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• QI
• Stephen
• Fry
• Alan
• Davies
• BBC

[ginnyisdacoolest]

The irony is that I'm watching this while I'm supposed to be revising...

[VamLoveAndKisses]

'Stephen, Stephen, Stephen...Stephen!' XD

[Goodfellow7]

I'm so said this is untransmitted.

[KapStuf]

@superhamzah85 I never learned anything at school till I realised it had a library. And I skipped lessons to read it in.

Does that make me a nerd or just a bit strange?

[somberlight]

@Mackster44 school is for everyone, but one should take great care in choosing what you're being taught. i myself was a typical idiot-student back in the days. slept through classes and all that, so it was quite obvious i would've not survived a single day with "academic" studies. i chose the vocational route, and have worked as a specialist welder / metalworker for a decade, making fairly decent living. all thanks to someone understanding the nature of my problems in schools

[nickrutter]

Press 3 or 7 repeatedly ... Genius

[superhamzah85]

I love geography, the problem however is geography teachers.

If one associates a subject with the teacher, then it has a huge effect on young people. I would say it's like your dad listening to your own band.

Solution: Teaching kids that alcohol and underage pregnancy and the latest bands are the best things in the world.

Probably not. If that was the case, the world will be full of atheists.

[tomburley]

A good school teacher would put the reason for learning ito perspective so that the kids become engaged in the process. Having real world examples of where one might need to make use of facts or formulii will always help "understand the point of wht it's useful". Someone with Stephens intellect should realize that.

[Mackster44]

@joelomax School isn't for everyone indeed, but learning sure is.

[StunnedByStupidity]

Its usually a person who does a great deal of TV watching that, ironically, asks such stupid questions... What's the point of following football, watching the X-factor, playing video games, eating more than your nutritional needs in food, drinking alcohol, taking a holiday, I mean is any of this useful in your future life? Stephen Fry's response reminds me of this:

'Dawkins vs. Tyson ' on youtube

GURANTEED YOU'LL SMILE :)...

[KryzMasta]

@joelomax Maybe school isn't for everyone, but how do you find out who it's for if you don't give everyone the opportunity to learn, and make it mandatory to prevent sheer laziness from being the main influence on someone's life? Aside from that, it's clear that an educated society does better economically than an uneducated one,so mandatory education is a prerequisite if you want a successful society.

[joelomax]

@realskpetic Yes, maybe Pythagorean geometry was a bad example, but I still think that there's nothing wrong with wanting to know why one should learn something, why invest time and effort in a subject that's not going to be useful to you? I happen to be one of those people who enjoys learning for learnings' sake but some people are perfectly entitled not to have that mentality. School isn't for everyone