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The school you attend wants you to fail

Name: The school you attend wants you to fail
Uploaded: 2022-12-06T15:49:45+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Tyler Wagner
Description: In this video, Tyler Wagner argues that K‑12 schools systematically steer students toward the subjects they struggle with while neglecting the areas…

6 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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In this video, Tyler Wagner argues that K‑12 schools systematically steer students toward the subjects they struggle with while neglecting the areas where they excel. He explains that teachers reward competence with an A and minimal attention, but they push students to spend more time on weak subjects to bring them up to a passing level. Wagner contends this approach misdirects students’ future career paths, as talents like public speaking are ignored once a student is deemed proficient, while weaknesses such as math are amplified, ultimately shaping a career trajectory that may not align with the student’s natural strengths.

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What actually happens in school, especially when they're younger, right, is the things that you excel at, you get an A, and then the teacher's like, cool, that's cool, good job. The things that you do not excel at is what they want you to do more of, right? Because they want you to get up to the level that you can pass. So what's actually insane is that they actually put a kid's focus on the shit that they're not good at. They're like, you're bad at math. So you should do more of it. Whereas, but you're really good at what? You're really good at public speaking. So don't do that anymore because you're already good at it. But that's actually the career path for that person.