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Jeremy Harbour: The School System is Broken | The Authors Unite Podcast #12

Name: Jeremy Harbour: The School System is Broken | The Authors Unite Podcast #12
Uploaded: 2020-10-30T13:48:04+00:00
Duration: 1 min 4 s
Channel: Tyler Wagner
Description: Jeremy Harbour left school at 15, arguing that starting a business teaches more than years of formal education. He says schools stretch a year's material…

30 Oct 2020 · 1 min

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Jeremy Harbour left school at 15, arguing that starting a business teaches more than years of formal education. He says schools stretch a year's material across months inefficiently, and function mainly as childcare rather than genuine learning.

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I left school when I was 15 because I kind of didn't want to wait. I looked at the next bit of education as really just an entrance to college, not necessarily— it didn't serve any purpose in its own right. When you finish high school, there's like the extra bit of education you have to do before college and it's kind of like, well, it only serves the purpose of getting you into college and I couldn't really see why why do that extra 2 years? I figured, you know, if I started a business, even if it went wrong, which actually it did, even if it went wrong, I'd learn a load more. And sure enough, I'd been in business for like 10 years by the time my friends were finishing college. So yeah.
No, I can completely— that was something that like struck me when I was 2 years into college. I was just like, it seems to me that this whole grade system, it's just to get this diploma. And I was like, but then even after you get the diploma, you still have to put in work to get a job.
Yeah, all the way through my education, I used to think this is— excuse my French—
pointless.
This is really fucking pointless. We've just sat through a year's worth of shit they could have taught us in 2 months flat. If they'd just done it really intensively, we could have learned this in such a short time. I now have kids, and I get it. It's not education. It's childcare. It's how you get the kids out the house. Suddenly, It all falls into place now, makes sense, you know. I now understand why we have the education system we have. It's so you can actually get shit done in the day. Totally, yeah.
And I think it's more like social learning.