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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ Documents / Educational System / Work ]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.00,0:00:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After an Identity is assigned to you, without your knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.26,0:00:08.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will be sent to an organization called:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.02,0:00:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An Educational System
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.43,0:00:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It differs a little, from country to country
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.03,0:00:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,considering the culture, but more than that, a country's budget.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.77,0:00:23.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So i will refer to the educational system from the country where I was born.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.66,0:00:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The differences are, almost, less important, considering the similarities.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.80,0:00:40.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kinder-garden lasts about 3 or 4 years, but can vary.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.42,0:00:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In kinder-garden I learnt many stories, tales, things related to imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.92,0:00:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? I don’t know, nobody told me. I still have no idea why.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.00,0:01:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, You must understand that today, we expose children, to artificial values
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.34,0:01:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first: boo boo said the cow, baba said the sheep.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.28,0:01:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you bring up children with that kind of garbage,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.38,0:01:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can learn Geology, children can learn Engineering, Mathematics.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.50,0:01:19.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children are capable to learn the same thing adults are.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.24,0:01:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes just as much garbage, that you fill the kids head with.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.60,0:01:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you keep pumping information into their heads, that is unreal.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.74,0:01:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you expect them to be able to think later on
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.92,0:01:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children can learn and read at very early age, they can understand complex things.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.20,0:01:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like continental drift, they can understand volcanos, nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.50,0:01:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can understand the symbiotic process.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.49,0:01:50.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you have things like Mickie Mouse club. Imagine that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.82,0:01:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine all the ridiculous things that children are exposed to.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.31,0:01:58.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, here we damage them right away,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.77,0:02:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they think, so i guess that's the way children are.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.57,0:02:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No They Are Not.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.42,0:02:07.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to say this about my own little boy:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.47,0:02:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he was about 4 years old, he said:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.00,0:02:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daddy the wheel came off my toy car, would you fix it?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.50,0:02:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So i said: so it did, i'll get your baby toys where the wheels don't come off,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.60,0:02:21.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I threw the car on the garbage.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.50,0:02:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh, I watched him, and I noticed that lower lip come out.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.20,0:02:27.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said: you throwing it away.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.58,0:02:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him: Yes I did!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.74,0:02:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, he: Well, maybe i can fix it. then I took it out and I gave it to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.72,0:02:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he tried to put it together, and he did put it together within few minutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.50,0:02:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then i picked him up and said "That's Wonderful" how did you do that?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.90,0:02:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said: I'm not THAT little.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.10,0:02:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words if you give kids responsibility,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.51,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead let daddy solve this, let daddy do that for you, let mommy fix that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.15,0:02:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you produce a blob that doesn't think.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.80,0:03:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,School
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.16,0:03:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was often forced to wear the same outfit as others,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.68,0:03:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an outfit imposed by the educational system.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.08,0:03:19.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without an explanation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.42,0:03:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The School program is fixed.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.80,0:03:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you are bound to respect it, otherwise, it is likely to expel you,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.78,0:03:30.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resulting in a potential lack of job,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.95,0:03:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leading you to starvation, being unable to take possession of money.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.31,0:03:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Speaking of program, school started early in the morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.79,0:03:44.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of this i was forced to wake up around 7 AM.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.30,0:03:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This meant that bedtime was not dictated by the biological system,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.65,0:03:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, by the educational system,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.66,0:03:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leading to constant brain, and other organs, fatigue.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.100,0:04:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I often came to school very sleepy,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.66,0:04:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the school wants to be an institution in which you must retain information.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.80,0:04:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Classes were fixed, so were the breaks.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.80,0:04:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The program was about 6 - 7 hours a day, five days a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.00,0:04:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The educational program lasted about 12 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.62,0:04:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the break was about 2 - 3 months every year.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.00,0:04:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The educational system has created the first scale of values,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.08,0:04:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and labeled people as being stupid, or smart,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.15,0:04:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of some unknown rules, creating envy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.30,0:04:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you are born with a better brain than him,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.80,0:04:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say the tissues is better quality, the neurons processes are better built,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.60,0:04:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you live in nazi germany, you become a nazi faster.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.31,0:04:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if the brain is better,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.71,0:05:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the brain has no mechanism for knowing that which is relevant or less relevant.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.89,0:05:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That goes for intelligence.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.59,0:05:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if i've talked to you about,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.70,0:05:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an electrical engineer 75 years ago, an intelligent one
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.00,0:05:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couldn't get a job today
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.100,0:05:19.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so when you talk of intelligence, what are you talking about?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.24,0:05:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an ongoing process, there is no such a thing as an intelligent person,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.52,0:05:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are people that are fairly well informed in area A&B, not informed in area C
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.60,0:05:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also, schools promoted competition, that leads instinctively to dispute.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.49,0:05:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, do not forget that competition may have winners and losers.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.70,0:05:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mostly, the school in which I, along with millions of other children,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.30,0:05:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have taken part, created a false scale of values and promoted competition.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.82,0:06:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also, schools destroyed something very important: Curiosity,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.24,0:06:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since nobody gave you an explanation for the way you are forced to behave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.00,0:06:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just telling you to do things without asking.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.25,0:06:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You said you are worried about kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.64,0:06:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups, ok?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.62,0:06:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the ones who vote.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.80,0:06:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the ones who tell you 'the world is coming to an end in 2012,'
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.30,0:06:31.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kids don't say that, grown ups do.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.30,0:06:32.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm worried about grown ups who say:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.53,0:06:35.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"read my horoscope, tell me whether I'll find money tomorrow".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.79,0:06:39.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grown ups say this, not children, ok?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.90,0:06:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children do not read horoscopes, ok?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.20,0:06:49.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Childrens are perfectly happy counting through the number thirteen.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.50,0:06:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children are not afraid to walk under ladders,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.00,0:06:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they see a black cat cross their path they say "oh kitty kitty", they want to pet it,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.50,0:07:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not run in the other direction, children are not the problem here.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.85,0:07:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get me started...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.88,0:07:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because kids are born curious.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.50,0:07:14.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're always exploring.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.80,0:07:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.11,0:07:23.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the rest of their life, telling them to shut up and sit down.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.12,0:07:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To see what it is all about, and to summarize what I have learnt in school, let's recap:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.25,0:07:41.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember that I learnt a language. This language that you are hearing right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.65,0:07:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's focus a little bit on that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.92,0:07:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't know if you understand me,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.00,0:07:53.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't know, lot of people think somebody invented language.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.38,0:07:57.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they say to read and to write is to communicate, that's not true,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.22,0:08:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what happened, a guy banged his elbow, said "aam",
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.98,0:08:06.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then banged his knee said "uuh", then he eats something said "oo"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.24,0:08:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,language is an extrapolation of all those sounds over many years,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.16,0:08:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nobody ever sat down and invented language.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.93,0:08:21.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Language in this form is centuries old,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.80,0:08:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and although it represented the point of support
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.47,0:08:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the development of mankind, it is now outdated.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.30,0:08:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Often slow, sometimes too long for the sent message,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.16,0:08:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but more importantly it’s interpretable, which makes it useless.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.95,0:08:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that mathematics, chemistry and physics are not subject to interpretation.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.79,0:08:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are fixed languages.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.72,0:08:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well... the language that you are hearing right now, is interpretable.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.05,0:08:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can tell you now, that you and your boss are the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.00,0:09:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But... what did I actually mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.22,0:09:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are the same, but how? You look the same, behave similarly, or what?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.01,0:09:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Depends on what you understand, because this is interpretable.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.45,0:09:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, if I scientifically prove to you that both of you are composed of the same chemical elements,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.68,0:09:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then no one would have any doubt about what my message means.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.52,0:09:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consider now the people who build all kinds of buildings.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.51,0:09:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are constructing using all those fixed languages, so that everyone understands,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.85,0:09:43.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the building could fit in the environment. No opinion here.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.69,0:09:52.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in those 12, or for me 15 years, of school,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.30,0:09:56.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learnt an exceeded language, that adds to the confusion of the current world.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.50,0:10:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moreover, I learnt one language out of hundreds, which does not help me when I leave the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.72,0:10:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learnt an Interpretable language,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.72,0:10:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that helps me communicate with a few tens of millions of people on the planet, out of 7 billion.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.99,0:10:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That, in an era of the Internet, a place without fictitious boundaries.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.85,0:10:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why haven't I learnt a universal language?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.46,0:10:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One more compact and less interpretable.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.47,0:10:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or why didn't I learn the other fixed languages, better than this interpretable one?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.89,0:10:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have possible theories, but they don't matter, all that matters is that you ask yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.25,0:10:49.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Besides this language, I learnt mathematics,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.02,0:10:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even after I finished school,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.33,0:10:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought that mathematics is a bunch of letters and numbers, with certain rules,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.90,0:11:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that everything is a game for brain development.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.24,0:11:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My colleagues thought the same thing, perhaps some of them didn’t even ask.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.21,0:11:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I created this theory because nobody, ever, could give me a more detailed explanation,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.48,0:11:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other than: you need to know how to calculate.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.25,0:11:21.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Calculate Money? Or what?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.12,0:11:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder if my old colleagues even know what mathematics really means.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.62,0:11:33.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same happened with physics and chemistry.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.57,0:11:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blackboard, white chalk, and a professor with a fixed character,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.70,0:11:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together with fixed and obligatory school schedule,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.90,0:11:44.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pushed me away from reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.49,0:11:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all those fixed languages have become nonsense bonds.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.84,0:11:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why many students hate such classes, their value is never explained.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.00,0:12:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember that no such fixed language could help me in daily life of the monetary system,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.19,0:12:07.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the basic language used here is the one that you are witnessing right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.17,0:12:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a language old and subject to interpretation.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.43,0:12:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also learnt geography and history.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.10,0:12:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,History never interested me because I did not know if indeed such things happened,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.26,0:12:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were just writing for me, and the present is much more important anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.99,0:12:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Besides, I didn't agree with stories where armed criminals were seen as leading heroes.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.00,0:12:44.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Geography taught me names, that it said, were countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.89,0:12:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means... some portions of planet Earth, were 'conquered' by people,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.83,0:12:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as monkeys do, and named.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.29,0:12:59.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the concept of countries, and that is how countries evolved.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.90,0:13:02.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even today, boundaries separate areas,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.33,0:13:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are dividing the human species, leading to racism
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.67,0:13:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and instinctively slowing progression, due to separation.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.34,0:13:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Countries and cities have no importance,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.84,0:13:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the Earth itself is the common heritage of all humans.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.74,0:13:26.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can define a piece of Earth, name it, and say it is yours only by imagination;
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.68,0:13:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will be recognized by others, in its value, only if others accept that as being true...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.76,0:13:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also through imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.50,0:13:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what i retain from geography, names and imaginary demarcations.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.46,0:13:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learnt about God, and religion,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.12,0:13:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a theory that says the world was created by a divine creature, within 7 days.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.99,0:13:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basically, the theory was promoted and accepted by all,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.51,0:14:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially as it was taught in school as being true.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.41,0:14:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is in contradiction with other subjects in school,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.90,0:14:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as physics, chemistry or biology,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.48,0:14:13.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even with reason, and for me, it just created confusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.00,0:14:22.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My school didn’t focus on sport, music or drawing,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.62,0:14:26.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I can not remember anything from these areas.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.81,0:14:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The closer I got to the end of these 12 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.70,0:14:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the less rationality I found in what i learnt.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.88,0:14:42.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we learn in school does not have any tangent with reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.48,0:14:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only with further education through college.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.37,0:14:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the monetary system, college is the final step, of this human education,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.08,0:14:55.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and college will prepare you for a job.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.79,0:15:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That makes the educational system, a system of training workers.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.20,0:15:10.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 years, in which I learnt a language that confused me,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.58,0:15:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more than it helped me.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.56,0:15:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 years, in which I was confused by this different theories of my existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.21,0:15:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 years, in which I have been obligated to present myself at fixed hours,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.60,0:15:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to an institution, and to have a certain uniform.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.00,0:15:32.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 years, in an organization, that, pushed me away from mathematics,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.40,0:15:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,physics, biology or chemistry.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.73,0:15:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 years, in which, I did not receive any explanation for what I learnt,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.69,0:15:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or why I learnt it, or why I should respect the educational system’s rules.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.41,0:15:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 years that I personally consider being lost, and immoral.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.31,0:15:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 years, in which I could learn so much.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.05,0:16:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, another three years of college, which only prepared me for a job.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.95,0:16:06.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, where is the education?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.50,0:16:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe, the country where I was born, was to blame.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.76,0:16:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, you can think of the years you’ve spent at school,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.49,0:16:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the information learnt,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.58,0:16:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then correlate that with reality and draw your own conclusions.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.04,0:16:27.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After you draw your conclusions,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.61,0:16:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think about whether you accept taking part in such a program,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.10,0:16:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for 12 to 15 years, only to learn;
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.51,0:16:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without receiving any degree or any gratitude at the end.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.14,0:16:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven't heard school teachers say:
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.64,0:16:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Let us make education relevant to the needs of people"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.06,0:16:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never heard descriptive system from Universities
Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.06,0:16:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or any elaborate organization.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.71,0:17:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The democratic concept for example,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.35,0:17:03.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where everybody participates and contributes,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.98,0:17:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe they can only contribute
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.73,0:17:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to that which they've learned from the culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.67,0:17:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they can't be that different and be a member of a standard organization.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.83,0:17:20.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though the universities today, have the most sophisticated equipment,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.85,0:17:24.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the science labs, the architectural labs, all the labs
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.15,0:17:27.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the wars are getting worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.70,0:17:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The explosives are getting worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.14,0:17:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ Alternative Solutions ]
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.100,0:17:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, let's look at how children learn,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.47,0:17:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how schools might look in a system focused on progress
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.09,0:17:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and freedom of human beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.08,0:18:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The children enthusiastically got up to me, and said:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.07,0:18:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Now what do you want us to do?"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.25,0:18:06.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gave them 6 GCSE questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.76,0:18:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first group, the best one, solved everything in 20 min.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.41,0:18:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The worst, in 45.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.80,0:18:15.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They used everything that they knew:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.81,0:18:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,News groups, Google, Wikipedia, Ask Jeeves, etc...
Dialogue: 0,0:18:20.13,0:18:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But teachers said: "Is this deep learning?"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.03,0:18:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said: "well, let's try it!"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.86,0:18:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come back after 2 months,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.29,0:18:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will give them a paper test, no computers, no talking to each other etc..
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.81,0:18:35.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The average score when I done it with the computer and the groups was 76%
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.63,0:18:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I did the experiment, when I did the test after 2 months, the score was...
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.55,0:18:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,76%
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.34,0:18:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was photographic recall.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:46.73,0:18:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, if there is stuff on Google,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.90,0:18:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why would you need to stuff it into your head?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.54,0:18:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I basically embedded a computer
Dialogue: 0,0:18:56.27,0:18:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a wall of a slum in New Delhi.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.61,0:19:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The children barely went to school.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.56,0:19:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't know any English. They've never seen a computer before.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.64,0:19:07.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they didn't know what the Internet was.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.73,0:19:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I repeated this all over India
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.73,0:19:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then through a large part of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.41,0:19:18.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I noticed that children will learn to do
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.73,0:19:21.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they want to learn to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:21.73,0:19:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at the end of it, we concluded
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.73,0:19:26.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that groups of children
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.31,0:19:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can learn to use computers and the internet on their own,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.20,0:19:33.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,irrespective of who or where they were.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.23,0:19:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got an interesting phone call once from Colombo,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.53,0:19:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the late Arthur C. Clarke,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.53,0:19:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who said "I want to see what's going on".
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.73,0:19:42.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he couldn't travel so I went over there.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.31,0:19:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said two interesting things.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.96,0:19:47.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be".
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.18,0:19:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second thing that he said was that,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.61,0:19:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"if children have interest then education happens."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.78,0:20:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was doing that in the field, so everyday I would watch it, and think of him.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.99,0:20:07.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is possible and they can definitively help people.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.50,0:20:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because children very quickly learn to navigate the web and find things which interest them.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.81,0:20:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you got interest then you have education.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.22,0:20:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we've just stumbled across as self-organizing system.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:20.67,0:20:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A self-organizing system is one where a structure appears
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.34,0:20:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without explicit intervention from the outside.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:27.20,0:20:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Self organizing systems also always show emergence,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.87,0:20:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is that system starts to do things, which it was never designed for.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.12,0:20:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is why you react the way you do. Because it looks impossible.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.56,0:20:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I can make a guess now:
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.27,0:20:44.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Education is a self-organizing system
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.73,0:20:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where learning is an emergent phenomenon.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:49.76,0:20:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that we know that children learn,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.82,0:20:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and organize themselves better through curiosity,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.31,0:20:59.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you should only provide information and access to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.33,0:21:00.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.89,0:21:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi! My name is Sal Khan, the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy and
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.21,0:21:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are trying to educate the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:12.62,0:21:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to the presentation on "basic addition":
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.59,0:21:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In august of 1789 they've already done their version of the Declaration of Independence...
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.16,0:21:24.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the process is called photosynthesis...
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.17,0:21:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was tutoring my cousins, literally, and I had kind of figure out a way to scale myself up,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.19,0:21:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I started recording youtube videos and I started making little software modules for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.23,0:21:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I made them so anyone can use them and started to get a lot of attraction.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.46,0:21:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Sal Khan has done is amazing,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:44.85,0:21:50.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's taken all this material and broken them down into little 12 min lectures.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.87,0:21:55.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used it myself to remind myself of things, I've children who like it,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.34,0:22:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I was super happy, he came up and we got to talk about, "where does he go now ?"
Dialogue: 0,0:22:00.17,0:22:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"how can my foundation help him pursue this dream"
Dialogue: 0,0:22:03.73,0:22:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and connect it up with the other great things going on on the internet."
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.76,0:22:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want it to be a stand alone virtual school
Dialogue: 0,0:22:12.28,0:22:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where anyone in the world, who wants to learn anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.96,0:22:18.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can go there, start from the basics, progress as far as he needs to go,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.94,0:22:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get feedback, get assessment, get practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:22.67,0:22:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And eventually I want it to actually become the operating system
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.74,0:22:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for what goes on in the classroom
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.43,0:22:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where every student is allowed to work at their own pace,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.87,0:22:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the teacher actually becomes more of a mentor or
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.20,0:22:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a coach.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.53,0:22:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I see Sal Khan as a pioneer, in an overall movement
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.81,0:22:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to use technology to let more and more people learn things,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.20,0:22:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know where they stand
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.01,0:22:47.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the start of a revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:49.00,0:22:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A system like that will create curious, intelligent and inventive individuals.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:54.34,0:22:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something different from a worker.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.83,0:23:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such a system couldn't help you in the monetary system.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.59,0:23:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you have to ask yourself "Why is that?"
Dialogue: 0,0:23:05.40,0:23:08.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't want to teach my kid how to read
Dialogue: 0,0:23:08.79,0:23:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I used to read to him at night
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.73,0:23:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and close the book at the most interesting part
Dialogue: 0,0:23:14.22,0:23:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said "what happened then daddy?"
Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.87,0:23:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I said "Why don't you read? I'm too tired, I'll read it to you tomorrow".
Dialogue: 0,0:23:22.60,0:23:25.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had to need to want to learn to read.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.32,0:23:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't teach children how to read, don't teach them mathematics.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.87,0:23:31.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give them a reason to want it!
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.38,0:23:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does everybody know what that means?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.78,0:23:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In school they're working it backwards.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:37.90,0:23:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Alternative solutions] \N1) Provide information and access
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.87,0:24:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An individual of the human species,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.29,0:24:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dominant intelligent species on planet Earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.29,0:24:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should learn how he and the environment works,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.31,0:24:13.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try to understand what is happening around him
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.67,0:24:17.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the best and demonstrable information possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.12,0:24:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a mockery to use 12, 15, or even more years of a human being's life,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.37,0:24:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is around 70 to 80 years, to prepare him to be a worker,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.09,0:24:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to learn a language limited by your culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.51,0:24:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such an educational system is against evolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.40,0:24:44.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it makes the human species go forward... not in a straight line, but in ellipses.