Hi everyone, I'm waving at you from Montbazon's fortress and I use this opportunity to tell you
that this video is in 2 parts.
Here, you can watch the first part, and you'll be able to access the second part at the end of this video.
Hey ! I didn't come to watch a LinksTheSun video, okay ?!
First of all, I don't see the problem, LinksTheSun's videos are all good.
And it's alright, since I didn't come here to make a LinksTheSun video either.
However, I'm just borrowing his register,
by the way, thank him for giving me his permission for me to do it.
Not to talk about a Top 50 song, but to talk about a song
that is massively shared on social networks.
And there, you're going to tell me "Right, but, what has it to do with english phonetics ?"
To what I'll reply "Well...Nothing."
You can see, by the way, that this is not a PhoneTeacs video, and after all,
I give myself the right to talk about what I want in my own videos.
So, those of you that already know me know what I'm talking about : I mean Prince Ea's song,
"I sued the school system". So, before anything, the guy, when we ask him to choose a name,
he replies in a perfect modesty : "I'm going to be named Prince." I know, really modest of him.
There you go ! Yeah, honestly, who's named Prince ? Uh ? Really, who's named Prince ?
Ooooooh ! Right ! Right ! I understant better now, alright !
Anyway.
So, I prefer to be clear from the beginning, if I'm using the "Non mais t'as vu ce que t'écoute" format of
LinksTheSun, it is not to do exactly the same thing than what he does.
I'm letting other people, more talented than me in the field, doing it.
What interests me is not to look at the form of it, but at the content of it.
At what this song really says.
I also want to add that I do not think that there is any school system that is perfect.
I've got nothing against criticism, as far as it is well done. What is not the case here.
One must know that criticising is good, but criticising widly
serves nothing but disperse the efforts by fighting wind mills,
and try to solve problems that don't exist.
Also, I know that this video is a critique of the American scholar system
and not of the French scholar system.
However, it has frech subtitles, most of the time, and I saw it being shared
by French people on social networks.
So, I don't know why French people would criticise the American system
that they don't know at all. So I guess that if some people share it in France,
it is to criticise the French scholar system.
Anyway, let's start from the beginning.
Albert Einstein once said :
Weeeell...I feel it's going to go well, but it starts badly...
4 words, 2 bullshits...We don't even know what this video is going to talk about that we already get
bullshit in our face.
So, no ! Einstein never said that.
In fact, we find the first occurrence of this quotation by Matthew Kelly.
So, Matthew Kelly, if you don't know who he is, like me before I did this video,
know that he's a motivational speaker, founder of "Dynamic Catholic",
which is sort of a blog where they teach you how to be a good catholic, to let Jesus enter your heart,
well, to develop your self-confidence and stuff.
So, broadly speaking, his job is to say very beautiful, pretty sentences,
that everyone likes to hear, but that don't mean anything.
I don't say that that's what all motivational speakers do, but that's what he does.
Anyway, Prince Ea, why don't you say that it's Matthew Kelly that said this thing and not Einstein ?
Are you ashamed of Matthew Kelly ? What did this poor bloke do to you ?
I mean, he did shit, right ! But, at least, give him this credit !
Moreover, I don't see the point in making people believe that it was Einstein who said that !
Those who share this quotation don't want to link it to its real author ?
They prefer saying it was Einstein ? Lying on the occasion ?
Well, I mean, for a video that starts criticising by saying
"Yeah, school system is a scam, I'm here to tell you the truth",
it begins really badly !
And even if it was Albert Einstein who said that ? What would it change ?
Because Albert Eintein said it, so, it's forbidden to criticise because the great Pope said that ?
I'm not going to bother so much !
Everybody's a genius
Well, here, we pretty much stay at the same level : "Everybody's a genius",
Nope, sorry, doesn't work that way.
To explain it to you in details, I'm going to use the dictionary definition of the word "genius".
And don't tell me it's not the same in English because yes it is !
Definition of the word "genius".
"natural ability or skill of someone that makes him able to design and create things,
of an exceptional quality."
So, you'll understand that in this definition, we've got 2 essential things :
The fact is must be created or designed and the fact that it must be exceptional.
We above all have the idea of the exceptionality.
And if everyone can do it, it is no longer exceptional.
If everyone is a genius, being a genius is not exceptional, it's the norm.
So, after that, saying that everybody's intelligent, yeah, right, why not ? It defendable !
But saying that everyone's a genius : Well, no ! No ! No !
Because Einstein discovered the theory of relativity, that, indeed, is exceptional !
Not everybody did it, there's only one person in history that did it, and that's him !
Marie Curie dedicated her life on her researchs on radioactivity.
She even dedicated her death to it. That, indeed, is exceptional ! Not everyone did it !
A 13 year old girl from Togo went to the London olympics. That, indeed, is exceptional !
Not everybody goes to the Olympics at 13 ! Those who are 13 and participate in the Olympics
are very rare ! So, it is exceptional !
Louis Pasteur discovered the processes of pasterisation
and of vaccination that saved numerous lives.
Because yes, vaccination saves lives. And that, indeed, is exceptional !
Even Trump, that is the first President who got elected with an uber simplistic speech
that we would believe was written by an 8 year old child...is exceptional !
And believe me, it hurts me to say that. It even hurt me really bad ! But it's exceptional.
But young Jeremy that has bad grades in his english exams in the Cergy middle school,
I'm sorry, he has nothing of an exception ! I'm not saying he's dumb, he must know how to do plenty of things,
like for example motocross, and motocross is cool !
And I'm sure he's gifted for that. But still, others are doing it too,
and I would be surprised if he surpassed everyone in the field.
So, for me, saying "Everyone is a genius", makes me think of this mother of which the son
tells her "Mom, at school, nobody wants to be my friend, nobody wants to be my buddy,
they won't play with me !" And his mother replies : "But, don't worry, sweetie, it's normal,
they can't understand you, because you're so special !"
I'm dumb, but my mom says I'm "special".
Seriously, you don't have a better excuse ? Is it really your first resort to say that
if you can't manage to do something, it's the whole word that don't understand you
and not you who don't understand the whole world ?!
Has the whole world really the necessity to put up with you ?
Stop thinking that the world revolves around you !
I can understand that it is seducing to think that we're a misunderstood genius.
Even I, would like to think that, sometimes.
However, there's a moment where we need to land on earth and think that if nobody finds an interest
in what we can do, that is maybe because what we can do has no interest.
Or that if no one likes what we do, maybe it is because we do it wrong.
Little note : My words may be confusing...
There is only one case in which the world has to adapt to an individual. On and only case :
When this individual can't adapt to the world surrounding him.
Obviously, we won't ask to a guy in a wheelchair to climb stairs
by saying "Come on ! Make an effort for God's sake !"
But in the case of little Jeremy that wallows himself during his exams, nothing says that he has
a handicap that prevents him to produce good results.
Well, after that, we've got dyslexia's stories and stuff, that ARE handicaps, but we'll be back on this.
But if we judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
So, there, we have a good example of a metaphor that doesn't work.
Where did you see that school asks fishes to climb on trees ? Seriously ?
By definition, fishes are unable to climb on a tree, it's just not possible.
Where did you see that school is asking pupils to do impossible things ? Where ?
Take the example of reading, reading is not easy. And some do it better than others,
but, in the end, no pupil in unable to learn how to read.
It just takes more or less time from one pupil to another, but, in the end, everyone can do it.
Even dyslexics can read. Obviously, it's more difficult, and school isn't going to use
the same learning techniques for a dyslexic
child than for a non-dyslexic one.
We're going to give them strategies to get round it, but they will get it,
with more difficulties than others, it'll take more time, but they will manage reading.
And don't talk to me about blind people, because yes, a blind person can learn to read
thanks to a revolutionary thing that is called Braille.
So yes, a blind person can read Braille !
So, everyone can learn how to read, so school is not asking
fishes to climb trees.
So, we must stop trying to pull the wool over the eyes.
So, let's admit for one moment that this metaphor is exaggerating a tiny little bit
and that, in fact, it means that we must not evaluate a pupil in a field where he has difficulties,
as for example, reading. Let's just admit that.
We must know that evaluation is above all a mean to jauge the acquisition of a skill
after the learning of this skill. I prefer to remind that, because, too often, we think that an
evaluation is just a punishment for those who didn't learn the lesson.
But no, the evaluation is not necessarily a copy to hand out with a grade in the end.
When the teacher asks a pupil to read a text aloud, he evaluates his reading skills.
Sure, there's no copy to hand out, no grade, but the teacher still evaluates the pupil in this skill
and makes himself an idea of the reading skills of the pupil.
If we don't evaluate a pupil on his reading skills, that means we never ask him to do it !
Not a single time ! So, we don't teach him how to do it !
It comes back to saying "Well, he has difficulties, so it useless to teach him how to read,
he won't be able anyway."
Do you really think it's okay to do that ?
My teacher told me that I don't know how to read, but that doesn't prevent me from watching Hanouna !
Personally, I prefer to think that no pupil is intrisically bad.
All we ask them to do, they're able to do it if we teach them.
And I refuse to say that a pupil is too bad for me to teach him something.
Every year,
Every year, pupils are called dumb by their teachers.
Every year, pupils are called dumb by their teachers. Stop the massacre.
Every year, pupils are called dumb by their teachers. Stop the massacre. Stop sharing this video.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, today on trial, we have modern day schooling, glad you could come.
Weeeell, alright, seriously guys, you couldn't find a guy with an uglier mug than he has ?
How did you find this guy ? Did you make a casting ?
- What do you think of this guy ? - Oh ! Not bad !
- 60, grey hair, bitter, ugly mug, does the job ! - Oh yeah !
And, after all, he says "glad you could come"
But why is he so glad that he could come ? So that he could flame him livestream in front of everyone without
him saying anything ?
So, you'll have understood, this song is staging a trial.
A trial, in broad terms, is a place where a judge will decide of a situation
by listening what the two concerned parties have to say.
Here, we have only one party speaking, and the other is just there to be window dressing ! It's useless !
So, now, you have me ! So, then, take me, and put instead of this guy
that represents the American scholar system. I hope it will be more enjoyable.
Not only does he make fish climb trees, but also makes them climb down,
and do a 10-mile run.
Well, alright, let's just pass on the free and proofless accusation
that school makes pupils regress.
above all if the only proof given is that we ask them to run.
Like, as if they're going to be dumber if they run ? Are we sapping genius from them by means of laps ?
Yeah, I run fast, but I'm no bright.
Tell me school, are you proud of the things you've done ? Turning millions of people into robots
Alright ! Now we get in the thick of it ! School formating pupils and makes them get inside a mold
to transform them into robots that accept all we say to them.
In broad terms, it is the idea according to which school is ideologic and poses as a giver of truth
by asking pupils not to challenge what is said to them.
So, I can't speak for all teachers and I can admit that there must be some that are
a bit ideologic.
However, it's not the majority of them either ! And as far as I know, it's not forbidden for pupils
to ask questions.
It's true that we often have this image of school explaining to pupils that 2+2=4,
and don't ask, shut up, it's magic !
Shup up ! It's quantic !
But no ! It doesn't happen that way ! Generally, to teach that 2+2=4, what we're going to do is
that we're going to give 2 candies to the pupils, we're going to ask how many candies they have.
They're going to answer "Well, we have 2". And then, we give them 2 more candies,
and ask "How many candies do you have ?", then, they're going to reply "Well, we have 4."
And from that, they discover by themselves the principle of addition.
Which means that if we have 2 candies and we add 2 candies on that, well, it means we have 4 candies overall.
In english classes, for example, we're going to condition pupils, make them get reflexes
so that every question we ask them triggers an answer.
Notably based on Skinner's work. In broad terms, we use Pavlovian-typed reflexes,
which means associating an act to a stimuli so that every time we ask them a question,
they reply without wondering how they did that.
So, yes ! Yes ! It is conditioning, it is manipulation,
because we insert reflexes in pupils. However,
you do the same thing when your kids learn how to speak.
That means that when your kid makes "Blblblblblblblbl" to try to get the plastic
giraffe you're holding and that you don't give him because you don't understand
what he's asking, whereas when he says "giraffe !" you understand that he's asking for the giraffe
and you give it to him, he associates the word giraffe to the object you hold in your hand,
which is a giraffe.
And so, that's how he learns how to speak. So, here too, we've got Pavlonian reflexes.
So, I hope that any person that makes this critic to school doesn't reproduce these methods.
It would be really too bad !
- Ah pa pa pa pa ha - What ?!
- Here ! Do you want the gi...You want the giraffe ? Here you go ! GI-RAFFE ! Say it ! GI-RAFFE ! Come on ! Glug glug the Giraffe !
- Glug glug ! The big one is for daddy.
Well, after that, if you do that, of course, don't be surprised if gone 16 years old, your child
still can't speak...
On the other hand, in english classes, pupils usually know what they want or do not want to say.
So, the teacher won't manage to make them say what they don't want to say.
At least, not with these methods !
And in French classes, by the way, it is said in the curriculums that critical thinking and detachment from
a text is to favour. So, in French classes, we usually study
2 texts that have different points of view, and after that, it up to the pupil to make his own
mind according to the 2 points of view. Generally, the two points of view are radically different
and the pupils falls somewhere between the two.
So, I don't see how we can say that school is looking to formate pupils !
Do you find that fun ?
Well, the job of a teacher still being a profession, when asked if I find that fun,
I reply "Like a monday !"
Do you realise how many kids relate to that fish,
swimming upstream in class, never finding their gifts.
Thinking they are stupid, believing they are useless.
Well, let's clear up things a bit ! Everyone's different !
For example, in life, there are people that are tall, and people that are small.
And we're not going to cry foul because the small guy wanted to be tall
but he's not.
The human being is a social species, and we need to learn that, in life, there are people that are
more gifted than us in some fields without thinking that it means we're bad for everything.
And school tries to teach that to pupils, and it's really too bad that all that
some people remember is "I will never be as tall as Jim anyway,
so I'm a good for nothing."
Especially since unlike height, an individual's skills can directly change
accordingly to the efforts that we produce.
And where I agree with this video, it is that a teacher must not minimise a pupil
because he can't do something as easily than another pupil
But the time has come, no more excuses. I call school to the stand and accuse him of killing creativity, individuality,
and being intellectually abusive !
Reallyy ! Straight out ! Just that ! School kills creativity !
Well, it's true that school's priority doesn't seem to be to develop cretivity.
But from that to say that it kills creativity, there's a gap !
So, accusing, right away, like that, it's not really good !
But remember this argument, because it will be useful later in this video.
He's an ancient institution that has outlived its usage,
So, your honour, 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, recognise it ?
Here's a phone 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 ? Well, get this !
Here's a classroom of today, and here's a class from 150 years ago !
Now, ain't that a shame ? In 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 ?
Alright, let's rectify things a bit...Here's a classroom of today. Here's another classroom of today.
And as for that, it is also a classroom of today.
So, saying that school doesn't change by taking the example of one well selected picture, that's dirty !
You must not do that ! It's naughty ! So this argument is as easily discredited that, for one picture
shown by Prince Ea to demonstrate that school doesn't change,
I'm showing three that say otherwise. But no, no ! School changes and now disposes
diverse tools to teach. As for example, digital tools, inverted classes, U shaped classes,
islet shaped classes, or even the actional approach.
Especially since too often, when school changes, it gets criticised by a large portion of the population.
That being about grades removal, orthograph reform
or whatever else.
Just because it is changing ! And using the same logic, I could say that this
is an argument used against school today :
You were made to train people to work in factories.
Which explains why you put students in straight rows, nice and neat.
And that this is an argument used against school in the 50's : *In 1979, in fact, I knew that, but I thought of this better example on post-prod.
We don't need no education
All in all it's just another birck in the wall.
I have to add that it is not a critique of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall. If this argument may have been valid in the past with Pink Floyd, it is not necessarily valid today. All I want to say with this comparison is that we can't reproach school not changing whilst using a 50 years old argument.
You can go and see the second part of this video by clicking here.
Thanks again to the Montbazon Fortress for having let us use their majestic setting.
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