TEACHERS REACT TO “I JUST SUED THE SCHOOL SYSTEM” By Prince EA

now Albert Einstein once said everybody's a genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live it's whole life believing that it is stupid ladies and gentlemen of the jury today on trial we have modern day schooling glad you could come not only does he make fish climb trees but also makes them climb down and do it 10-mile running tell me school are you proud of the things you've done turning millions of people into robots do you find that fun do you realize how many kids relate to that fish swimming upstream in class never finding their gifts thinking they are stupid believing they are useless well the time has come no more excuses I called school to the stand and accuse him of killing creativity individuality and being intellectually abusive he's an ancient institution that has outlived his usage so Your Honor this concludes my opening statement and if I may present the evidence of my case I will prove it proceed Exhibit A here's a modern day phone recognize it here's a fall from 150 years ago big difference right stay with me here's a car from today and here's a car from 150 years ago big difference right we'll get this here's a classroom of today and here's a class we use 150 years ago now ain't that a shame and literally more than a century nothing has changed yet you claim to prepare students for the future but with evidence like that I must ask do you prepare students for the future or the past I did a background check on you and let the record show that you were made to train people to work in factories which explains why you put students in straight roles nice and neat tell them sit still raise your hand if you want to give him a short break to eat it for eight hours a day and tell him what to think oh and make them compete to get an A a letter which determines product quality hence great a of meat I get it back then times were different we all have a past I myself am no Gandhi but today we don't need to make robots zombies the world has progressed and now we need people who think creatively innovatively critically independently with the ability to connect see every scientist will tell you that no two brains are the same and every parent with two or more children will confirm that claim so please explain why you treat students like cookie cutter frames or snapback hats given them this one-size-fits-all crap art your leg sorry your honor but if a doctor prescribed the exact same medicine to all of his patients the results will be tragic so many people would get sick yet when it comes to school this is exactly what happens this educational malpractice where one teacher stands in front of twenty kids each one having different strengths different needs different tips different dreams and you teach the same thing the same way that's horrific ladies and gentlemen the defendant should not be acquitted this may be one of the worst criminal offenses ever to be committed and let's mention the way you treat your employees objection overruled I want to do this it's a shame teachers have the most important job on the planet yet they're underpaid no wonder so many students are short-changed let's be honest teachers should earn just as much as doctors because a doctor can do heart surgery and save the life of a kid but a great teacher can reach the heart of that kid and allow him to truly live see teachers are heroes that often get blamed but they're not the problem they work in a system without many options or rights curriculums are created by policy makers most of which have never taught a day in their life just obsessed with standardized tests they think bubbling in a multiple-choice question will determine success that's outlandish in fact these tests are too crude to be used and should be abandoned but don't take my word for it take Frederick J Kelley the man who invented standardized testing who said and I hoped these tests are too cruel to be used and should be abandoned ladies and gentlemen of the jury if we continue down this road the results will be lethal I don't have much faith in school but I do have faith in people and if we can customize health care Facebook pages that it is our duty to do the same for education to upgrade and change and do away with school spirit cuz that's useless unless we're working to bring the spirit out of each and every student that should be our task no more common core instead let's reach the core of every heart in every class sure math is important but no more than art or dance let's give every gift an equal chance I know this sounds like a dream but countries like Finland are doing impressive things they have shorter school days teachers make a decent wage homework is non-existent and they focus on collaboration instead of competition but here's the kicker boys and girls their educational system outperforms every other country in the world other places like Cigna poor are succeeding rapidly schools like Montessori programs like Khan Academy there is no single solution but let's get moving because while students may be 20% of our population they are 100 percent of our future so let's attend to their dreams and there's no telling what we can achieve this is a world in which I believe a world where fish are no longer forced to climb trees I rest my case I really liked it at first I was like oh man it's just making pew you feel really bad as a teacher because I can't do any of these things so I appreciated that he explained also that you know it's more than just teachers these are decisions that are made by policy makers and by our government one thing that I really loved is how the video starts with a quote from Albert Einstein and it really brings out the philosophy of learning and teaching definitely not the first time I've heard it before and it's it's interesting you know I think one of the parts that stood out to me most was the pictures of you know how technology has changed from a hundred years ago to today okay at the classroom for one hundred years ago and today one other person that I've seen like Cemil argues has talked about how like we've changed from an analog age to a digital age and it's time for you know multiple parts of society to reflect that change from analog to digital hey I really I agree with his points our school system is failing a lot of kids it it criticizes the system as an impressive and in having one solution for every student and I do totally agree with that and as you can see in my classroom I believe in groups not in rows for the same reason because the rows are already an outdated approach to teaching and I want to encourage the collaboration and in the open mind and in the taking responsibility instead of just being looking at the teacher as the only source of information and thinking about from like a math perspective as a math teacher one of the things that I've heard and I was just reading the other days you know what if in math education you know so much of curriculum is built around especially in the early years you know teaching like computation with numbers and stuff like that well what if math education focused less on the stuff that calculators can do right every one of us is walking around today with a calculator in our pocket with like cell phones and stuff like that so what's the point of you know spending years and years teaching that what if our education focused on stuff that calculators can't do I feel like that would be a lot more useful in developing just like you know people that can think rather than just do calculations and stuff it depends the teachers also as being the ones that do this immense work of preparing the present generation of kids to be the next generation of leaders what's up y'all thank you for watching the video hold up nah way too formal okay guys enough with the cringy outros thank you guys so much for watching if you want to see the other teacher reacts video I made it's gonna be over here thank you guys so much for the support please leave a like and comment your thoughts I'm subscribed I mean you've already gone this far in the video so you might as well subscribe and check out my channel for epic content we post really good stuff and thank you guys so much for watching peace have a good day this signature move

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Length: 9min 11sec (551 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 24 2019