How School Makes Kids Less Intelligent | Eddy Zhong | TEDxYouth@BeaconStreet

Eddy Zhong, successful technology entrepreneur, dives into the truth behind our K-12 education system. Eddy strongly believes that the education system diminishes creativity and confines children to a certain path towards success. He contends that kids are taught to believe college is a necessary step in life and that it is mandatory to achieve one's goals. His talk challenges the commonly held beliefs of our entire education structure. Eddy is the founder of Leangap, a summer program that helps high school students start their own companies

Eddy is an aspiring technology entrepreneur and the founder of Blanc, a smart-watch company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His ideas have been featured in numerous publications and he is passionate about empowering youth to think differently. Eddy is the founder of Leangap, a summer program that helps high school students start their own companies

[roma_prokopov]

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

[nightninja]

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

[f.b.i.]

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

[hugode]

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

[ragingbear]

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

[The.Reilly]

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

[MT-hvzr]

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

[jjjohnson]

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!

[dashamm]

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

[ellecat]

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

[RandomGuys_]

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” - Albert Einstein

[itsnlee]

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.

[evanhuntley]

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

[ichbineinbewerter]

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

[e.gundogan]

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

[brandyellenwrites]

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. 💯

[witcherfan]

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

[itsmelancevee]

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

[thatsdaniellelol]

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.

[fatcoochie]

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