School is living in other world, Students want better

 

Your son is a failure he's barely passing my class and with grades like this I'm just not sure what kind of future he's gonna have what do you have to say for yourself you're supposed to graduate this year listen to mr. Johnson what kind of future do you think you're gonna have with all due respect don't call me a failure failure is an event not a person in fact and you talked about the future mr. Johnson but you're not preparing us for that excuse me just listen to what I'm saying this should be good would you agree that in the future most careers will become automated yeah so so the people who succeed will have to be curious innovative with resilience to adapt to new changes what's your point my point is the focus in this school is not on that it is on regurgitating information and tests taken and that's just real but in today's world creativity is the most important leadership skill oh that's how you feel you don't have to believe me but maybe you will believe the 1,500 executives who recently said creativity is the most important leadership skill see pretty soon no one will be hired because of what they know because who cares what you know or if you've memorized the fact we've got Google and Siri for that in the future people will be hired because of what they can do with their knowledge can they creatively solve real-world problems not just follow instructions or directions and bubbly and multiple-choice questions so mom that's why I'm stressed cuz these robotic tasks we learn in school should stop because no one can do a robots job better can a robot billionaire founder of Alibaba Jack Ma said that we should not compete with artificial intelligence but instead focus on developing unique human intelligence mr. Johnson drills are for teeth not the human mind so these repetitive knowledge-based tasks we must leave behind or in the future you're gonna find a lot of people graduating out of your class right into the unemployment line see many top companies today don't look at grades Mon that old way is expiring Google has been quoted as saying GPAs are worthless criteria for hiring founder of Tesla Elon Musk agrees so I say this with unease and sorrow if you continue to teach today as you taught yesterday then you rob us students of tomorrow mr. Johnson I'm gonna keep it real with you sometimes sitting in your class is tough I'm constantly thinking that if I don't look up at the clock maybe it'll speed up so I listen to you do my work and pay attention feeling like an hour had to have gone by but it was only three minutes so if you wonder why we're bored in class look you want to get a kid to hate reading give them this a school textbook and some people think it's all falling and that hurts me they say you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink and to that I say no firstly you could put salt in that horse's hay and make them thirsty and if you bring joy in your classroom and you can make any bad student who nerdy as he or she discovers the beauty of truly learning mr. Johnson I mean no disrespect you have the most important job on this planet you build create and save lives but if you really care about my future like you say then you have to fully commit and ask yourself honestly how do I prepare a child for future that doesn't yet exist here's a hit the answer is not found in this it's using this and this see in the future we would need more passion and compassion people with inspired hearts and wisdom to uplift this planet and mom I love you but can I be real go ahead you want to know one of the biggest factors for childhood success it's not IQ its family meals and we haven't had one of those in a while see I know sometimes you don't feel proud cuz I may not be a straight-a student but I'm not stupid these tests maybe 70% of my grade but there's zero percent of my future but don't worry I'll pass this class and get through this but I need you to give me the space I need to be me and live true cuz the best feeling in the world is that your own parents get you there's a passage in a book called the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran and if you don't mind I'd love to share it with you go ahead so he says your children are not your children they are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself they come through you but not from you and though they are with you they do not belong to you you may give them your love but not your thoughts for they have their old thoughts you may house their bodies but not their souls for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow so mom I'd appreciate it if you give me the love that I need to pursue my dreams see if we are to succeed all three of us need behavior change on all fronts we talk about the future but the future is now and it is created now by all of us I've never heard you speak like that before yeah I didn't know but I'm gonna reach out to administration and try to change some things you have my word [Music] you [Music]