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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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. 💯

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

Who else watching this instead of doing homework?

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 ❤️

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

*Reads title* Say no more fam

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

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.

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

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

School doesn’t teach you the real world.

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.

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

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

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

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

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

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

“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

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

I learn more from KZfaq videos than I learn at school

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

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

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 😊

Someone show this to the government, now.

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

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.

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

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

I learn like 10 times more from KZfaq that in school

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I learned more from KZfaq than school

School teaches us what to think not how to think

my teacher says to send her ted talks. sounds good

"Children are the future of the world and should be taken care of."

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

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

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

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

this is all absolutely true, school limits us, but we the future generation must understand all this and act in the best way in the future.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” - Albert Einstein

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

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.

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

If we can't sleep in school Then home shouldn't be for school work

Kid spitting facts for 8 mins straight

"No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world told them to do" 🔥🔥🔥💪🏿💪🏿 Thank you! 01-11-22

Intelligence is mostly born. The made part is learning how to apply it.

School made me lose all of my passion for the things I love.

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

100%, everything in this video is true. I've already learned so much more outside of school than I'll ever learn in school. I used to have tons of creativity and innovative ideas when I was younger, but now my mind feels dryer than a desert. I'm a sophomore in HS, and I feel that school has already stifled my creativity beyond repair. Children are significantly more creative than adults, and that's because they haven't been stripped of all their good ideas by school yet. School would be so much better if only they would stop with all of the assignments that focus on copying and remembering information, but exploring things you enjoy and have a passion for. Forcing someone to learn something that they don't want to learn will never get them anywhere. Past middle school, I think that all academic subjects are completely obsolete. Once you learn the basics that everyone should know, during elementary and middle school, you should be free to explore your passions as much as you wish, without school restraining you from your true passions. I feel that after middle school, my creativity really plummeted. Now, it's a huge struggle to come up with my own ideas, now that school has conditioned my brain to be a sponge instead of a machine. Intake what you hear, spit it back out on paper, forget it in a week, then do it again. At the very least, schools should try harder to preserve students creativity. Creativity is what makes you successful, not retaining useless information and spitting it back out.

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

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

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!!

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

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

Creativity is God's gift to mankind! He allows us to sample His fun.

I lost interest in school at the age of 9. So much of what we learned was useless. After seeing how my own children fared in school, I firmly believe that home schooling and life have more to offer a developing mind than school. My self taught knowledge from years of reading history, philosophy and learning random arts and crafts has enabled me to become an oldie who can have an inspirational conversation with young people today. An oldie whose input on a wide variety of topics is sought each week, and I only went to school until year 10.

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)

I grow up in my country school with physical beating and memorising every lesson without learning.

This is really true. Like I love art and I’d like to say that I’m pretty good at it too but my teachers really kept on lowering my grades since I didn’t do as I was told. Now I draw much less often and don’t have the motivation to finish a lot of my pictures but I’m trying to get back up and draw more again.

"Take the school part out of learning, and you are left with education"

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

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

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

He really struck me when he says there are many ways or forms of intelligence. It's not just what we were "programmed" to think.

I'm not even excited for my graduation next year. We graduate just to go to another school.

Totally agree. All people need to realize that we are living in systems, systems about beauty, fortune, diplomas, certain skills etc. They build specific standards to satisfy themselves and quickly classify people, even in immoral and selfish ways. Our society is constructed by regulations. So, don't be afraid to jump out of the circle and hold on your faith, because those regulations were made by human ourselves. Why not you?

I firmly believe this guy can move mountains with words.

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

So far all that school has taught me is how to procrastinate and how to function on almost no sleep

Watching this in 2024 makes me feel like a baby