 Hi, this is the fourth in a series of talks about trust is cheaper than control I recommend you watch the first three before this, but they're not totally dependent Let's take a look at the education system and find out how it in how it implements control And what the contrast is if you actually trust with kids So if we take education only certified teachers with PhDs and education usually can teach and here I'm taking a stereotypical public school nothing experimental I'll talk about that in a second, but this is where we've taken the bulk of our schools So only certified teachers teach in accredited schools You teach you learn with kids your own age The first thing we do is separate you into cohorts depending only on your age and you learn with them all the time You learn during class hours plus of course we give you homework lots of homework You have to learn math during math class and English during English class if you apply math to English that's that's weird Etc. And then you have to learn from approved textbooks is actually an entire controversy around which textbooks you get to use Just Google the Texas school board And you'll discover that they control what schools choose for about half the school boards in the country It's pretty astonishing and the conservative end of our government has figured this out So of the 15 members the Texas school board 10 are very conservative. That's why you get crap textbooks Now that might be controversial, but we're not allowed to teach controversy in education That has been whitewashed out of the classroom pretty much and what you do in class has no real-world consequences You're busy being surveilled by helicopter parents. You're being surveilled by the school You're being measured by approved tests so that we can move you back up onto the fish ladder for your next stage of approval and One of the many poster child companies in this business is Macmillan publishers Which whose textbooks have been getting more and more expensive over time? It's the whole education system is really ace Despite fantastic dedicated humans in it the system the structures of it are Torturous and terrible and really bad for humanity So there are many alternatives things as simple as self-directed learning project-based learnings Open classrooms the Waldorf Montessori and Reggio Emilia systems for educating a whole bunch of things called Democratic or just free schools Which are arising the important thing here for me is Becoming aware of what's called the hidden curriculum of school and here school with a capital S So to give you an idea of the hidden curriculum of school Here's a glimpse into my brain which you can see online at jerrysbrain.com This is a thought called the hidden curriculum of school where it says look only I determine what curriculum you will study That would be the teacher stay in class where you belong you need a hall pass to go out or a note from your mother You can never be trusted alone. That's the message We won't actually give you enough time to dive deep into anything We're gonna ring a bell every now and then as a metronome to move around we're going to watch you in all different kinds of ways There's all sorts of things to my mind If learners can become aware of the hidden curriculum of school They might be able to re-enter the very same school and be very different behave very differently Even resist the the sort of tractor beam of normalization That the school system really was designed to to create if you'd like to learn more about this I recommend these other these two talks. I've done one of them is a TEDx talk from TEDx Copenhagen in 2012 The other one I did I designed to follow on to that first talk I did it for the Catalyst week as part of the Las Vegas downtown project Which is associated with Zappos and then down below is a snapshot of my brain I'll put links to all these when I learn how to put links onto videos in YouTube This has been the next chapter in trust is cheaper than control With implications that are deeply societal not just about cheaper as in costs like you saved money Talking about education our next step. We'll be talking about the sharing economy all of this is part of a larger work on trust and All of which is inside of the relationship economy. I'm Jerry McCalsky today deeper Please go to Jerry McCalsky comm or subscribe to this channel and if the thing you can do that will pay off in your life Thanks for watching