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... whiteboard” "Now look at Mark Rober’s videos. You can learn complex topics in 20 minutes in a way that’s engaging, fun and you retain it. Just because our parents were taught one way doesn’t mean we need to keep teaching that same way. It makes no sense to me, I think education should be reformed dramatically” “Students spend so much time in school. If we had real courses made through videos, made learning more hands on and optimised everything with modern technology, kids could probably learn more in 5 hours than they currently do in 8 hours"show more

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

People learn from people

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This thing was wheeled in and you barely learned

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

Absolutely laughable ignorance

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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