Teachers React!|Prince EA

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 run 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 all the proof in procede Exhibit A here's a modern-day form recognize it here's a fall from a hundred or fifty years ago big difference right stay with me here's a car from today and here's a car from 150 years ago the 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 speak give him a short break to eat and eight hours a day tell them what to think oh and make them compete to get an A a letter which determines product quality hits great a of meat I get it back then times were different we all have a past I myself in know Gandhi but today we don't need to make the robot zombies the world has progressed and now we need people who fit 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 or chiller 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 strains different needs different gifts 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 hear this it's a shame teachers have the most important job on the planet death 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 on 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 cruel to be used and should be abandoned but don't take my word for it take friends RJ Kelly the man who invented standardized testing who said and I quote 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 cars and Facebook pages then our duty to do the same for education to upgrade a 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 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% 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 you so in your own words can you describe what you just watched I'd say that I just watched my own v1 on what we should do sort of with the educational system I think that really what it was about is making education work for the individual as opposed to trying to teach to the collective if you teach to the individual it strengthens the collective and I think that's really what the the message was hey just watched a spoken word by Prince EA on I sue the school system so he was talking about a famous quote I believe it's actually by Albert Einstein but it says if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it's clearly gonna think it's a failure that's paraphrased not exact so he was talking about flaws that he sees in our school system and ways that it can be discouraging to kids that maybe aren't now now do you know who made this video I'm not familiar it's EA something but I'm not not familiar with his work at all now his name is Prince EA and he makes videos covering topics that other people are too afraid to talk about or cover why do you think he decided to make a video about this subject probably because he recognized flaws that are real unfortunately the way the school system is set up we aren't reaching every cut and we aren't setting every kid up for success and here was pointing that out it's not an easy thing to change it would take a lot of people to change it but it is a real flaw and lastly do you have any other comments that you want to make about the video or about him in general I think this was well done I'll definitely have to give some of the other stuff that he does a look because I think that was very very well thought out I'm very intentional and I think at the very least it's good to discuss a lot of these things and hopefully I've gotten that point across to my students that at the very least the last thing we can do with uncomfortable topics is not talk about them I think we should start there and the rest will kind of take care of themselves so I thought that was rather impressive

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Length: 7min 58sec (478 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 18 2016