Look, quite frankly, it's never been less valuable to be information-smart than today. The current state of education in the U.S. is a thing of the past and it's a MASSIVE problem. The way we're educating our children right now is so broken, so much so that I think it provides ZERO value to our students and society as a whole. More children today are learning much more on their own than they are in the classroom because they have all the information they need at their fingertips.
Today's professors are simply irrelevant to their students because they're teaching with outdated methods. We're teaching our children to MEMORIZE sh*t and then regurgitate it, which is just wrong. It makes no sense considering the way our culture has changed provided what the Internet has done for our society. I'm just disgusted by what's going on in today's classrooms. We're being romantic about ways of the past and the notion behind how we think things should be, versus what the reality actually is. Students are going into massive amounts of debt to be taught ideas and methods that have no practice in today's world. It's not right and it needs to change. Now.
Gary Vaynerchuk is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best-Selling author, self-taught wine expert, and innovative entrepreneur. Find more at http://garyvaynerchuk.com
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Today's professors are simply irrelevant to their students because they're teaching with outdated methods. We're teaching our children to MEMORIZE sh*t and then regurgitate it, which is just wrong. It makes no sense considering the way our culture has changed provided what the Internet has done for our society. I'm just disgusted by what's going on in today's classrooms. We're being romantic about ways of the past and the notion behind how we think things should be, versus what the reality actually is. Students are going into massive amounts of debt to be taught ideas and methods that have no practice in today's world. It's not right and it needs to change. Now.
Gary Vaynerchuk is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best-Selling author, self-taught wine expert, and innovative entrepreneur. Find more at http://garyvaynerchuk.com
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook is now available on Amazon! http://bit.ly/jjjrhamazon
I have to disagree here on the premise that being ‘information smart is less valuable today’ I would argue the other way around. In the knowledge work economy, especially tech, information is huge and social media is distracting as ever.
Information is even more important if your doing state of the art cutting edge research in science or tech.
For the argument of building brand awareness, social media isn’t always required, Tesla spends $0 on marketing a year.
The 5 people that disliked r prob college teachers that agree with Gary, but need a paycheck. Lol
Let´s reinvent the Education System!
His kids are so LUCKY 🍀
Did anybody notice the guy walking backwards at the end of the video? Like if u saw it
I completely agree I just uploaded a video titled the problem of education where I talk about the same thing
Americans don't know shits about the world
Math and English are the only subjects that matter. Science is a close third. History, however, has almost totally lost its value. The world has changed so much that I doubt studying ancient Greece has any practical applications.
You are right, nothing will change until K-12 schools become more capitalistic.
I'm honestly an academic at heart. I studied philosophy and relish in discovering the obscure and interesting bits of the world. Even though I'm no longer in school, I take lots of time out to continue learning about these things (which the internet has made fabulously cheap and effective)
But I never once confused my liberal arts degree with a VOCATIONAL school. If that's how you judge university it will always fall short, because that's never what it was meant to be.
While I was in school I also worked in digital marketing for a large brand and that was my on the job training. I could've never possibly learnt about marketing in school because by the time the curriculum got approved it would've been dated.
However, I never once felt that my study of philosophy, history, literature, music, economics, etc… was a waste of time. It opened my eyes to the world and made me a more well-rounded individual. I also vicariously learned (via drab assignments on Plato and Hegel) real-world skills, like how to put my thoughts down into a cogent, well argued piece.
TL;DR A university degree was never meant to be super-practical, it was meant to broaden your intellectual horizon and give you some basic tools to help you understand the world. Stop expecting it to be a vocational school.
I spent 8 1/2 years working my up through the higher education system in the early to mid 90's and even then I felt that university professors were way out of touch. Universities used to be institutions of "thinking" and intellectual exercise. Through the 20th century they gradually turned into (or at least were touted to be) the place you go to get started on your career. But the institutions themselves did not change to meet the new demand.
Disenchanted, I finally turned my back on a "promising" academic career because I wanted to DO something with my knowledge, not just go through intellectual exercises with other professors. Now I use only a fraction of what I learned and mainly draw on personal experience and the things I taught myself. My degree is just a very expensive foot in the door or reason to ask for a higher salary, not a reflection of how valuable I am to an employer.
The way I see it, the problem isn't so much the universities and that professors don't teach what people need to know to get out in the work force. The problem is that we have tried to turn universities into something they were never meant to be. Universities are very helpful in paving the way for the knowledge and understanding of the future – they focus on research and thought about the things we do not yet have a practical use for but probably will some day. We, as a culture, need to stop treating them like they are a place to get the education we need to find a job.
Community colleges and training institutions have begun to fill in the much needed area of education on practical subjects that prepare people for the work place. Unfortunately, there is still a deep seeded mentality in most people and especially big companies that values a bachelor's, master's or PhD and looks down on these "lower" education degrees. I have a master's degree and I can say that the only thing it has given me is a bigger pay check for not damn reason. It definitely did NOT give me any knowledge or skills to do better at my job. And THE best employees I have had have all been self taught professionals with no formal degree. Any more, when I see someone with a higher education degree I wonder "What the hell do you know? You've been living in a theoretical world the last X years and have no idea what this job really entails."
Personally I think that if we really want to change things for the better, we need to start by changing the way we view higher education in this world. Ask the question "Why?" before you dive into a particular education program and make sure that program will fulfill your needs. Don't just dumbly follow like sheep because everyone says that's the way you do it. This is your education, it is your future. Put some real effort into deciding where to go to better yourself and make sure where you go is equipped to fulfill your needs, not just give you an almost worthless piece of paper and massive debt. (Yes, I know, with a bachelor's, master's or PhD you get more pay but you may also be deemed "too expensive considering you don't have any practical experience" which is what happened to me – I couldn't get a job in the fields where I was trained in the university and had to train myself in a different, high demand field to get a job.)
As people change where they go, the institutions will change. They will have to or they will start loosing students – their real bread and butter.
He spoke the truth!
***** right on. My kids have told me time and time again that they learned more at home about history,politics and many other topics than they learned in school. How? We talk. I share things even at an early age to open their minds and let them see that we are connected and that they are not just a student but a member of a universal community. What we are teaching in schools is not what will help them in the real world, it really isn't. Of course we need math and English basics, but the history that we teach is atrocious and much of it is not true, The science needs to be modernized and don't even get me started on the subject of technology.
In a perfect world I would love to see an educational system centered around creativeness and technology, Sigh.
And Gary, boy did you nail it when said that professors are saying that social media has no ROI. We need to start teaching kids how to use social media and how it can apply to business after graduating. We are missing a critical element of educating by not doing so.
Keep up the good fight!
You just put in words what runs through my mind, & is the reason im dropping out
Literally had to replay this as soon as I watched it because it's exactly everything I've been thinking lately. Couldn't agree more.
Anyone disagreeing is sevrely out of touch and can't understand the culture changes that are happening right now, and will be left behind while the world moves on.
Same in Germany.