Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Why School Is Designed To Crush Your Imagination On Purpose

6 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube transcript excerpt in which the speaker argues that imagination is extremely powerful—citing a study where imagined behavior influenced real actions—and claims formal schooling suppresses imagination to produce obedient workers. The speaker also warns that media and programming shape consciousness and urges people to choose media deliberately to protect imaginative freedom.

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And I recently just read a great study where he basically had a group of students, and he said this week, set the mental intention to not climb any ladders. Like, don't climb any ladders. But each night, imagine that you climb ladders. And the majority of the students, coincidentally that week, had to climb a ladder. Right? And so it's such a great example of how our imagination actually is more powerful than our conscious desires. Which is why school and schooling is designed to crush imagination out of children's minds. Because it's designed to enslave humanity, to be obedient factory workers, not creative reality changing enlightened beings. If there's one thing they can take away is imagination. This is one of our most powerful gifts. We don't imagine sentences, we imagine pictures in scenes, which is our subconscious, which can process between 200 million to 400 billion bits per second. And the people that are programming us know this. Right, which is why you want to be really choosy as to what movies you're watching, shows you're watching, what are you reading when that program goes into you, they're using your consciousness to manifest a certain reality. We all have the infinite capabilities to choose whatever reality we want to live in.