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MrBeast explains why the education system is completely broken “Why are students today being taught the same way their parents were? Look at how much everything else has advanced. When I was in school the teacher would just stand there, read out of a book and write on a...

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McClintock7 months ago

He's wrong. The technology is part of the problem. He's describing people that have already learned how to learn. That's why mature people can learn complex topics digitally. Kids are still learning how to learn, therefore they need more tactile methods and sarcoplasmic brain exercise for retention and thought. They need things to touch and see and experience. The gadgets and digital presentations short circuit all of this and puts their mind in smartphone mode. They need to be hand writing, they need to be flipping pages, they need to be writing on the board, they need to be typing - all of these combined tactile methods help lock it in. The digital method in nothing more than the cheapest way to get them to the next grade and they have nothing to take with them.

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Aught7 months ago

Unpopular opinion: Flashy YouTube videos don't teach you anything. Give someone a test a day after they watched a mark rober video, they won't remember a thing. People use pop science to make themselves feel smart without actually doing the difficult work of learning something.

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RJ Palmer 🔜 RCCC F047 months ago

I feel more and more vindicated every day to have been an early hater of this piece of shit.

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La Madriina7 months ago

why am i listening to a walking talking paid ad speak on education ???

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Daniel Brown7 months ago

And how many of you remember the specifics of a YouTube video a week later? Mark Robert, Veritasium and others are great for science themed entertainment but terrible for retention.

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ponderer7 months ago

Mark Rober is an ex nasa scientist The next Mark Rober ™️ is gonna learn from textbooks and professors just like mark rober You’re not gonna become a nasa scientist from watching mark rober videos

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GGG7 months ago

It's because school is just conditioning to make good little wage slaves.

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KrushMcNasty7 months ago

Tell me you don’t know what’s happening in schools without telling me you don’t know what’s happening in schools lmao. These people should actually look into shit before they form such dumb ass opinions.

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Hannah Ward 👩🏻‍🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer7 months ago

Ed-tech slop for the illusion of learning to pacify low-income families. Rich kids will never be given this. They will be given old school learning. Kids need, paper, pencils, books, and people.

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🇺🇸 🦅 8BitClosedFist7 months ago

"Watch more videos" - the guy who makes a living making videos

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Jamie Duff7 months ago

They aren’t being taught the same way their parents were. And a study across 80 different developed countries show that GenZ’s cognitive abilities, reading comprehension, basic logic and mathematic skills are a standard deviation lower than millennials.

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SK Media7 months ago

This is a horrible idea when you see how much misinformation is in many supposedly educational YouTube videos.

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Mr. Beat7 months ago

People learn from people

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a🪽7 months ago

I hate that everyone thinks they can and should have opinions about things they know nothing about

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☙ tenitoka ❧(privacy szn)7 months ago

The issue isn’t format, it’s incentives. School optimizes for standards, YouTube optimizes for attention.

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Ronrosco7 months ago

Learning about the existence of complex topics is not the same as learning complex topics

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PlayTronics7 months ago

Bullshit. Kids can't fckn read these days. Why? Because they decided the old way needed changing

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Mmck7 months ago

Only thing that’s never evolved is school. It’s basically only there so parents can go and work and get taxed

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The Audacity of Society7 months ago

This dude rubs me the wrong way every time he pops on my feed. Giving future Elon vibes.

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Krimson KB 👊 🔥7 months ago

This entitled rich boy to try actually teaching a classroom full of children and then he gets an opinion on the matter.

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Brennus.7 months ago

This thing was wheeled in and you barely learned

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Yellow Parenti7 months ago

Stfu this is exactly what schools have been doing for the last 5+ years and kids are learning dramatically less

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Tom Sherrington7 months ago

Absolutely laughable ignorance

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RC_BST Sports Cards7 months ago

Yeah, just sit your kid in front of Mr. Beast's learning hour. Everything will be just fine, lol.

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Tampa Bay Living7 months ago

We have increased technology in the classrooms, spent billions on it. And guess what happened, standardized test scores have gone down. Don’t listen to a YouTuber for policy, that’s what’s easy to learn

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Andrew McDiarmid7 months ago

That's an expected take from a guy who makes a boatload of money keeping people glued to his videos. The reality is: video is a very passive way to learn, and it doesn't engage the brain the same as reading, writing, or hands-on activities. @MrBeast doesn't seem to get this.

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Ronrosco7 months ago

There's a reason teachers all have some form of degree. Creating videos for clicks without having to do any work to help the audience initially understand is far different than dealing with the day to day struggles of dozens of kids and making sure they are prepared.

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Wouter Duyck7 months ago

Simple: because (the neural mechanisms of learning in) our brains haven’t changed

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What's Buzzn Nigeria7 months ago

Yhey’re not teaching kids, they’re just lecturing them. Real learning happens when students are engaged, not just sitting quietly. School should be about learning skills, not passing tests. The world has changed, but the classroom hasn’t.

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Nuclear Caudillo🇺🇸🇩🇴7 months ago

Why aren't kids watching my videos instead reading The Great Gatsby?

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Beth Hawks7 months ago

I taught for 25 years. Things changed a lot. Students are absolutely NOT taught exactly the same way their parents were. Things would be better if we were using more of those time tested techniques. This line gets applause from people who haven't been in a classroom recently.

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷7 months ago

normalise people who have no idea about expert subjects having a platform to just randomly say shit about it I know what I don't know - which is a lot! - and I don't posit weirdo uneducated suggestions about them

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DonutATX7 months ago

Public education has three goals: - Be daycare so Mom can work and earn taxes - Employee the bottom quartile of college grads - Harvest union votes Any education is purely coincidental.

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Pie Corbett7 months ago

You are talking nonsense - about something that you know next to nothing about. You are part of the problem...

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