Michio Kaku: The Greatest Destroyer of Scientists is Junior High School | AI Podcast Clips

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Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, futurist, and professor at the City College of New York. He is the author of many fascinating books on the nature of our reality and the future of our civilization.

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[CoreyChambersLA]

Shout out to Stanford Jr High 1979 science teacher Mr. Schmidt. Awesome, inspiring teacher to taught us much, including to reach for the stars!

[Suav]

Indeed. No scientist at all, but when I was 10, I had a tantrum at the blackboard. The teacher gave us a proof of squrt(2) being irrational. I still remember, that I understood the proof. (If, by any chance, you are very young and you don't know it, find it and read it - it's easy). I cried at the blackboard, because my whole world collapsed. How is it, that one can not divide everything into rational parts? In a couple of days a colleague (year younger) gave me a book: "In the footsteps of Pythagoras". "It's from my father" - he said. His father was a teacher of mathematics too.
This moments at the blackboard gave me an insight for all my life about how little we understand and how much we have to learn. It prompted me to take upon a great adventure, adventure of learning.

[sanesanyo]

Couldnt agree with him more. Beautifully put. High school has been traditionally so much focused on making young kids memorizing things that it just ends up killing their cognitive development as your life just rotates around memorizing stuff & getting good grades. Time to change this stupid education system.

[heisenberg]

He put really complex thoughts into simple words and in the best way.He's Great

[kennelson]

Mr. Brune taught me and my kids in JH. He was awesome then and my kids thought the same. Thank you Mr. Brune !

[Morgow]

I am horrible at learning names, but have no difficulties understanding scientific phenomenons. I tend to do poorly in school because of this as I find it difficult to explain why something is how it is to others. The biggest killer of scientists is not only bullies that make science look boring and unattractive but life and its difficulties in general.

[cjfitness]

This is great content! Keep it up man ;)

[AriaHarmony]

I first encountered the universe at around age 7, watching a documentary about astronomy, zooming out of the solar system, which I already knew of from the kids books mom bought me, and out to this swirling thing they called a galaxy which I never convinced of in my 7 years old life, I couldn't find the sun amidst all those other tiny dots, this thing is ginormous! I still remember my thoughts clearly in that moment "I didn't ever think such a thing existed, or that I live inside it, what else is out there that I can't even conceive of yet?". In that moment a skeptic was born, everything was under question, because if I can't even find a question, how can I ever find such wild answers? It was obvious to me then, I must keep looking, keep asking questions, never know what I might find, so I can never stop pursuing.

Of course, school then happened. Memorization everywhere. No time for science, no time for questions. Science and math were too difficult for me under the rule of rote memorization, but I had no other interests that I truly wanted to pursue, so I felt empty inside. School was more concerned with making me memorize 5 different textbooks about religion, which I learned early on that I must not question too much, but nothing mattered to me more than questions, thus making it all automatically uninteresting and suspicious to me. There was only 1 textbook of science, barely any mention of astronomy which I loved, didn't even know astrophysics existed growing up. Not being from the US or an English speaking country, I had no access to science communicators like Bill Nye, discovered many of them myself in my 20s, long after I dropped out of high school because I couldn't bare with it anymore.

I was obsessed with grades, always top of class, but at what cost? I had no time to deeply study math and science the way I wanted to, I was convinced that if I focus on those 2 difficult textbooks and study them for myself, I wouldn't be able to get good enough grades in the other 14 subjects, and I couldn't possibly let myself fail school like that. Yet eventually I gave up on it all. What a colossal waste of precious time. Either way, at age 23 I picked up where my 7 years old left off, there's still much I don't know, and the internet is full of knowledge to explore, many great teachers out there now that I understand English. Once you see the universe, you can never turn back. Also, I LOVE math now 😂. Sincerely, fuck school for wasting years of my life, almost squandering my potential, derailing me from my interests, and polluting my young aspiring mind with memorizing useless trivia.

[huszartony]

Thank you for this video and channel. I think I started thinking about death when I was 7. I started becoming sad. Or rather, what I believe I am became sad. But the physical body will go away one day, it is what it is. Let's go now.

[truespirit]

I was fully aware of death by age 10. Put me in a deep depression for many many years.
Edit:. I wrote this before he started talking about age 10. Lol.

[TheEvvanw]

I watched Dexter's lab growing up. That's why I wanted to be a scientist...I also went to Lowell observatory when I was 9. That shit was hard too

[hlen]

To me primary school was what stopped my interest in maths, though I am a scientist now I still dislike maths...
As I did my older brothers homework (he is 3 years older than me) and was told I couldn't get more difficult maths because my writing was too poor...
So I didn't read for a math test between 4th and 10th grade, and even then I barely read

[garygough]

Got a low mark because the physics teacher couldn't understand a working electronic light beam communicator. Basically needed to explain electronics to a teacher who couldn't wire batteries in series ( thought it was a closed circle ). To be fair, I had been building since I was 6, so had a decade of reading and practice. University turned out to be a dead end too, so walked away.

[warsin]

We might live forever David Sinclare is a crazy bastard

[haniamritdas]

Pretty funny that even scientists do the misattribution trick; it was David Hilbert who said that if you can't explain to the average person the meaning of your mathematical theorem, then you do not understand it yourself. Or maybe it was Lincoln or MLK or Ghandi. Buddha?

But that doesn't mean Einstein didn't say it too. Lots of people say it after they hear it. Did Kaku say it though?

That's how language and culture work I guess. But really, it's an appeal to authority or popularity instead of to principle, in order to illustrate a principle. The principle of personality cults I guess.

[aug_st]

Glad I was homeschooled for junior high 😅

Taught myself C++ and game dev in that time

[SATİVA]

The greatest fear is the fear of death, the mother of all fears.
but when you realize that you are eternal....you realize that you can't die even if you wanted to
you start to live in unıvers which is inside there is no dualistic conceps which creates our illusions about good-bad, rich-poor, strong-weak, happy-sad
when you are aware of your infinity
It enables you to make your compelled and never-ending journey through timeless and spaceless within the universe of pure love, free from the fears of dualism.

[toddboothbee]

Oh, sure. But try teaching junior high school. Then keep teaching well into and a little beyond middle age. Now you're talking about suffering and utter dread.

[UncleJoeyPodcast]

Encouraging children is the root language of Faith. Oss 🥋🥋🥋