I learned English fluently watching cartoon network rather than learning in school

“No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do.”

"No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do." - Eddy Zhong

This is extremely true. One example: My brother is amazing at art. He's super talented, but he keeps getting Cs and Ds in art because he doesn't do what hes told. He challenges the teachers. There are people in his class who jave absolutely no skill, but get higher grades because the do exactly what they are told and don't think outside the box. The teachers are literally trying in limit children creativity *in an art room*

The one Ted Talk they won't show in class.

After he said "I think I'm the only Asian kid who can't do math," that guy was not amused

“Don't make school your life. Find that thing you're passionate about. Don't rely on school or teachers.”

Instead of teaching us, supporting us and cheering us on. We're mocked. "Why aren't you understanding this?" "This is so easy" "You should know this by now" Kids like me, think a F, C or D difines them. School is so messed up-

Teachers: School is your second home Also teachers: Don't act like this, you're not in your home

He was 16 when he made this speech. Now I'm 16 thinking... How did I end up losing interests in so many dreams? Why did I stop reading the books that I wanted to? When did I think learning is boring? It's all school; Takes away our time from creativity, makes us care more about our marks in a paper, makes us chase government jobs when there are other jobs we can do. Thank You Eddy Zhong for this speech!

My teacher literally destroyed my dream to be an artist. She basically said you can never be an artist because you don’t paint/draw using basic rules. And she was right, I never became an artist, because she killed it in me.

This is why public schoolers laugh at homeschoolers for being dumb and yet those homeschoolers probably are more happy and successful now.

What your parents teach you: “Time is money” What schools teaches you: “Sit down for 8 hours and don’t talk and listen”

My teacher once said " You are put here in school to follow instructions and *That only* " my smile dropped... 😢

This is a great conversation to have. I, as a parent, witnessed the creativity being taken from 1 of my kids. A straight A student who lost points on something for "being too creative". I saw the light in their eyes start to dim that day and it broke my heart. That was the day that started me down a path of homeschooling not 1 but 3 creative children. 💯

"We go to school just to get good grades, and then forget everything " -me 2019

"I thought I was the only Asian kid who can't understand math" Crowd : *laughs* Man : 🗿

This is why I’m so grateful that my parents let me do what I loved. People say there is no money in art, but I’m 19 years old, I’m going to a community college for a certificate. I’m in a payed internship and I’m also doing freelance too on the side. You don’t have get a degree to be successful or even go to a big fancy college, just do what you love ❤️

Things schools should teach: Emotional intelligence Critical thinking Problem solving Understanding and Filing Taxes and why they exist Finding your passions and using them the ways that you want to use them, the ways that work for you Figuring out and truly tapping into your potential and using all of it in the ways you actually want to, the ways you feel comfortable with. I know there’s more.

School makes you scared of failing when failing is the only way to truly learn.

"No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do." - Edward Zhong

Once in primary school, we were taught a certain method to divide sums. I got told off for doing it a faster way even though the answers were correct, and I had to solve the problems their way. Not only schools kill creativity, but it kills confidence and breeds mental health struggle too.

As a school hater,I cam comfirm that school is killing student's creativity and forcing to learn useless information

Education is when you learn from your mistakes School is where you get mocked for your mistakes

School taught me how to be bullied and I never recovered from it. Thanks School you're cool.

Started with "I'm going to make my cool ideas come to life!" and a really healthy mind as a kid, ended up in therapy and anxiety pills in the first semester of high school

My dad once explained to me that if I got good grades all the time, and if I already knew everything, I'd feel like there'd be no more room to grow or improve myself, so he taught me to always use a bad grade or report as a learning experience. That's very true and insightful, but why does my C in algebra and chemistry make me feel and look like a failure if all I need to do is "do better?" I can't even really find what it is I'm doing wrong with my work, and I'm constantly trying to play catch up so that I can at least understand what the rest of the kids in my class are talking about, and I find myself sacrificing my time to do what I really love and want to pursue, like drawing and music, because I feel a constant desire to not "fail" all my classes. Maybe it's my time management or my mental state, but school really feels like it screws kids over a lot of the time. The American education system needs to change to accompany kids' abilities to be creative, critical, and collaborative, instead of drilling into our brains that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

In school, it's more about copying skills than actually learning them.

Teachers: Everybody is special, kids! Then why are 30 kids all taught in the same way, by the same teacher, in one classroom?

“No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world tells them to do” am absolutely excellent quote. Fellow teens like this are so inspirational

My teacher instead of teaching like the class next door, she tells us to show it and express it through our imaginary mind and art. I love her so much because she made everyone feel special in their own way 😊

Listen: *T is silent* Queue: *ueue is silent* Know: *k is silent* Kid getting bullied: *school is silent*

Good grades don’t measure your intelligence, it just measures how often you turn in your homework.

THIS THIS IS WHY I'M SO HAPPY TO BE HOMESCHOOLED I GET TO EXPLORE THINGS I LOVE AND FOLLOW MY PASSIONS WITHOUT BEING CRITICIZED AND PUT DOWN AND IT'S AWESOME

Thank you Mr Zhong I'm currently 10 years old (I'M NOT JOKING) Your words are inspiring to do something GREAT with my life because i DON'T want to be a mindless teenager who only thinks inside the box one of these days my product will be on bill boards and on every tv in the WORLD

What I learned at school: 0% What I learned on KZfaq: 100,000,000%

To all asian kids that cant do math... read this message. *we are unique*

Watching this in 2024 makes me feel like a baby

Eddy Zhong is so smart he was 16 when he did this talk.

I've learned more about Science by my own curiosity and the internet than all 13 years of school

Seriously, I felt smarter when I was in the elementary school than now.

I’m 15 and I hate school. During my freshman year, my schedule was 8:30AM-6:00PM with sports. I can agree with literally everything he said. I’ve found my meaning and I’ve been following it for over a year now. I’ve learned much more browsing the internet than at school. And I don’t know if it’s just me, but i am learning literally like 10x faster myself than at school. And I'm learning things that can actually change and impact the world supposed to learning about how the ancient Romans harvested food for over 3.5 hours a week.

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence-that’s why the performing arts are so important.

"No-one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do." Powerful words, I live by that.

"I think I'm the only Asian kid who doesn't understand math" Trust me, you ain't alone

Thank you school for giving me -Anxiety -Constant Pressure -Endless Homeworks -Lack of Motivation -Lengthy Essays ughh

I think one problem with school is that they expect us to fit their molds, and for us to do what they think is right, instead of helping us find our mission, not theirs.

Who else watching this instead of doing homework?

Asian parents: I'm going to pretend I didn't see that

Our own curiosity has taught us more than school ever has, yet the world refuses to accepted it.

I can frankly say that school has just made me a machine of getting A's but in this process i lost my true self. I'm in 10th grade and when I hear the name school my social anxiety triggers i feel suffocated in school i feel like everyone is judging me and my anxiety gets worse when the teacher calls me or ask's a question Edit : this is all what school taught me

Anyone who speaks english as a 2nd language learned it from video games and movies. None from school

"No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world told them to do" awesome love this

Thank you school for: - Stress - Low grades - Depression - Anxiety - Trauma - Low self-esteem - Homework - Teaching us calculus and algebra that we don't use in real life - Wasted money - Making we work with people who don't even want to work and gives me to do everything and then they get high scores too

When I was in high school, I was always disappointed, not in myself, but the school system, how narrowminded everybody was, how lacking in creativity, and how everybody would do almost the exact same thing every day and act like each day was different

School children are taught what to think and not how to think

Dislikes are from highschool - Teachers - Principals - Moms Edit: I'll remove the "Students with high grades", in the replies they are proud to show their straight A Grades

Now at my school, I find 70-80 per cent of the teachers to think out of the box and explore the field you want to take.I think most of the schools now encourage innovation and pursue their own interests. Being doctors and engineer isn't the only thing there to choose

*"No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world told them to do".* Perfectly said!

I learn more from KZfaq videos than I learn at school

"To this day I think I am the only Asian kid who doesn’t understand math” Everyone: *laughs* That one dude: 🗿

I personally feel we grow more when we get freedom .like honestly in school I always felt prisoned in one corner like literally if you are not a topper or the so called cool talented kid ,you are never considered. Teachers most of the time used to give more importance to the toppers or the losers but the average kid were always ignored. But when we come to college is that we learn our value and understand we are more capable than what we think about us. This is the sad reality of schools

Eddy's words have actually been proven right: A new survey says the average American uses just 37 percent of the information they learn in school.

Who else is just obsessed with watching these videos telling us America’s education system sucks

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” - Albert Einstein

I actually just read a story of a little boy who kept on getting in trouble for doodling in class. He would later be hired to cover the walls of a restaurant with his doodles. It's amazing how people's creativity can get them places at a young age, but also how school squashes that creativity and makes it so people are less successful.

As a Asian, i get bullied alot in my High school [ America California ] and I have to cry myself to sleep every night. All I ever get from school is anxiety and depression making me feel I am not enough.

English is my second language and I can tell you that 85% of the words or phrases I learnt are from youtube and random books in my home instead of books from the school. (Including the word phrase)

Eddy Zhong:School makes kids less intelegen- Every kid: *Y* *E* *S*

Go Eddy! So glad you found your path. I agree with you wholeheartedly - and I'm a teacher! I see kids come to school so wide-eyed and excited to learn, and all too often school just kills that in kids. We need to encourage kids to think outside the box. We need to LISTEN to kids. And we need to tap into their natural passion and curiosity. We will never have happy, satisfied, motivated and innovative people if we don't change our approach. I've been fighting the system from within for almost 40 years now. Creativity needs to be valued and encouraged. I hope I get a chance to do a TED talk about why creativity matters.

Wow, what a speech. I'm 16 years old and I still haven't found my passion yet, but I think maybe there's still hope for me to discover something I love.

Someone show this to the government, now.

Nothing is more important than imagination not even education he is a legendary person

Totally agreed. In highschool and college I became really good at math. I was acing all my tests and exams and I felt good about myself. It wasn't until I was in the real world I realized how little of it I could actually apply. I spent all this time learning how to manipulate and work with equations and problems that were neatly organized and tied in a bow for me to unravel. With zero training how to model these equations from real world data, how to figure out what relevant information you need to solve the problem and how to acquire it. It felt like my whole life education was holding a nail for me and only training me how to swing a hammer to drive in the nail in straight. Then I got into the real world and realized I have no idea where to get the nail from, where to place it, how to hold it for myself and how to incorporate it into the problem that is a house I'm trying to build. Then you go into the world and you're asked "well what do you know how to build ?" and you realize all you know how to do is swing a hammer and you're severely underprepared.

School doesn’t teach you the real world.

1.Wake up *EARLY* 2.Get prepared for school 3. Go to school for 8 hours and hear adults talk all day *"teaching us"* 4. Go home 5. Eat dinner 7. Go to bed early 8. Repeat

I'm homeschooling my kids, with an unschooling slant. I get asked all the time about "socialization" yet I remember being told MANY times by teachers that I was not there to socialize!!

creativity is what makes progress in the world. The Airplane, electricity, everything that we have as technology, was originally nothing more than an idea, a CREATION

*Reads title* Say no more fam

I learn like 10 times more from KZfaq that in school

"no one has ever changed the world, by doing what the world told them to do" i wrote this on my class board as "THOUGHT OF THE CENTURY".

Great Words:"No-one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do."

I've learned more things watching tv then I do in school

School teaches us what to think not how to think

Watched this 5 yrs ago and I'm here watching it again because now I think I will learn more deeply.

I can create my own path. When I was child, I used to believe what my parent's chose would be the best for me, and school will help me success, but now I learn more on internet and try to try not to put myself in cages

My teacher always shows Ted talks during class but she never showed this one....

I can say: when I get to learn something on my own, it's SO much easier to be fascinated by it and research further, than when I have to learn something through a classroom environment, where everything (at least from my perspective) moves at a snail's pace

I find this very true and it's a sad fact how creativity is crushed in our current school systems. I know many people who took art GCSE and from most of them I have heard how much they hate it, and people who used to draw all the time don't even want to be creative after they have finished their GCSEs because of how much time stress there was for the art course. It's terrible.

SCHOOL IS ALL ABOUT HOW STRONG YOUR MEMORY IS NOT HOW INTELLIGENT YOU ARE. EXAMS TESTS MEMORY NOT INTELLIGENCE.

School: *im gonna pretend I didn’t see that.*

As an educator, I tell you that kids are questioning what are they gonna use all they learn in school for. So, we have to adapt the things we teach to real world situations, and also open our minds and ask them what they want to learn so they feel free and exited about future life.

The world is changing, people who are creative are bound to be successful. But school hasn't changed and creativity is shunned

School: Creativity is useless. LET'S MAKE OUR KIDS MEMORIZE RANDOM THINGS!

Kid spitting facts for 8 mins straight

Back then I saw myself as super creative with so many Ideas in my head I wanted to express in so many forms. I wanted to become an author because I loved writing stories so much. Now I just feel burnt out with no energy left to think of something new

"the education system stopped up from thinking outside of the box"Im having goosebumps.

Elementary school: think outside the box with creativity. Middle school: think on the edge of the box with a bit of creativity. High school: think inside the box with no creativity. Out of school: think outside the box with creativity. Hmm... that doesn't seem right. Where did the government go wrong with its education system

my teacher says to send her ted talks. sounds good

Just like Albert Einstein once said, "creativity is intelligence having fun".