Bad grades — Transcript

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1. 0:00Do bad grades [music] mean you are dumb?
2. 0:01Most believe the answer is yes, but the
3. 0:03terrifying reality is the exact [music]
4. 0:05opposite. Grades were never designed to
5. 0:07measure how smart you are. They only
6. 0:08test how well you memorize information
7. 0:10and blindly follow instructions. [music]
8. 0:12A student who studies all night will
9. 0:13pass the exact test that a genius fails,
10. 0:16simply because the genius refused to
11. 0:17conform. That is absolutely not
12. 0:19intelligence. [music] That is pure blind
13. 0:21obedience. That is exactly what the
14. 0:23modern school system was violently built
15. 0:25for during the Industrial Revolution.
16. 0:26Schools were not trying to produce
17. 0:28independent thinkers. They were mass
18. 0:29producing [music] compliant factory
19. 0:31workers to show up on time and never
20. 0:32question authority. The system only
21. 0:34rewards sitting still and repeating what
22. 0:36you hear, not solving real problems.
23. 0:38This is why the [music] smartest humans
24. 0:39in history were terrible students.
25. 0:41Thomas Edison was kicked out at 12
26. 0:42because teachers [music] claimed he was
27. 0:44too stupid to learn. Albert Einstein was
28. 0:46labeled as mentally slow. Steve Jobs
29. 0:48dropped out. Bill Gates never finished
30. 0:50Harvard. None of them had good grades,
31. 0:52but all of them entirely changed the
32. 0:53world.