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The most frightening answer came from the woman who said "I should know this, I'm going to be a teacher." Dear God, help us.
This "dear 'god'" thing seems to be a huge problem as well. From the outside it looks like religious indoctrination is a huge contributor to the problem.
@@homerj.simpson7562 I suppose you're right. But in this case, it was just a figure of speech. Feel free to insert your preferred, non-denominational alternative.
She was also the only one where the answer was literally part of the question: "What country is Venice, ITALY located in?"
@Proper Do you think all those answers were cut and pasted? I wish you were right.
THIS IS Not a problemA. WHEn we admit thAT we have a problema, we are at least smarter than those, that think they have no pro-blame-lame-asss'
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” - George Carlin
That’s only true if the population intelligence distribution is symmetric. Now half of the people are dumber than the median by definition.
that's not how an average works...that's called them median.
@@cspan1993 hey, that was mean.
@@someguy7424 lol
@@cspan1993 but isn't iq normally distributed, unlike wealth? I thjnk the value for both median and mean aren't that far off from each other.
As my Dad likes to say: "The scary thing is that their vote counts just as much as mine!"
Never thought of it that way before but it scares me silly. I'm 80 and never felt that way before except in past elections I have wonder what are these people thinking. Now I know nothing.
The humorous thing is that there are plenty of people who think the same about your father.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." -George Carlin
This goes for Bill Maher's fans too.
@@Michael-Archonaeussure, you can have your own opinion.
@@G0OD1004 That is not my own opinion. It is a fact that stupid people exist everywhere and in all political factions.
@@Michael-Archonaeus Bill is just fine, but it's his whooping studio audience whom I find most disagreeably dumb 🤡. 🇬🇧 Whooping: America's most irritating export. PS: I love rock 'n' roll, love Harley Davison Motorcycles (I ride one), I love Americans and America, but leave it out with the whooping already! 🤬
Black Sabbath wrote a song about that.
Idiocracy wasn't a comedy, It was a documentary.
Very prophetic movie.
No we are heading into a mixture Idiocracy and the version of Japan in Shimoneta
I really need to watch it
@@TheKnives777 aware USA can give everyone medicare+lower inflation so wages regain value but need to punish all those whom want to stay in Syria like Schiff/pelosi? wesley clark foreshadow reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria kzhead.info/sun/ktGreraArpSMenA/bejne.html dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip, blm crash car in to wisconsin parade thanks to nbc follow jury bus smearing ritten house too kzhead.info/sun/iNyofJysf4WXap8/bejne.html
@@JusticeAlitodacuck aware USA can give everyone medicare+lower inflation so wages regain value but need to punish all those whom want to stay in Syria like Schiff/pelosi? wesley clark foreshadow reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria kzhead.info/sun/ktGreraArpSMenA/bejne.html dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip, blm crash car in to wisconsin parade thanks to nbc follow jury bus smearing ritten house too kzhead.info/sun/iNyofJysf4WXap8/bejne.html
I quit my job as a professor because I could no longer stand the unrelenting pressure to pass nursing and pre-med students that could not write a complete sentence, of having to look the other way as students cheated and God forbid should a minority student say that I was unfair. It's pathetic. Today you can graduate with a science degree and literally be semi-illiterate. This country is screwed!
Agreed. After 20 years as an Air Force avionics technician I retired and finally got to "progress" to the "next plateau" by going to college full time for a BS in Information Technology. Talk about being relegated from the major leagues to nursery school, is what going from military to college was like. There were a few good classes and instructors but 90% of that program was just as you described; "Let's not educate and say we did." College is nothing but a federal funds money grab for the school. There are literally no Department of Education accrediting standards, that's all between the school and the private accrediting agency, so it's a bent system and accreditation has no real meaning. Therefore, I think the GI bill should be discontinued as it's a waste of taxpayer money and the veteran's time. Getting employment after a military career should be the top priority and college should only be pursued if it's a condition for promotion with your new employer. But after the college experience I chose to stay retired and will be leaving the US for a location where I can actually afford a decent standard of living with my pension. I mean seriously, I'm supposed to build a productive working relationship with the kinds of clowns colleges churn out? I don't think so. You blew it, America, but thanks for the pension I'll spend in a foreign economy and lifelong medical insurance!
I came here to say the same thing. I quit my job as an inner city elementary school behavioral therapist this year because, after five years of watching children not being required to do homework or class work, yet seeing those students being passed year after year after year without turning in a stitch of homework or anything - I realized it’s all a system. I had to get out. We had parents demanding that we don’t give their children homework. Coming to the campus and threatening teachers and administrative staff. Kids who can’t even read or write at a first grade level, being graduated out of fifth grade and sent off to middle school. Just unbelievable our education system today.
@@65neu52 I think there are more and more of us out there, many struggling to move on to new careers because the work of educators is not given any value. I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of liberals for what had happened to education. It may have started with Bush's No Child Left Behind but liberals and their social justice agenda killed off any vestige of accountability by students. What is worse is that it undermines the effort by good students and values of hard work. We're building a nation of ignorant lazy people. Good luck with your career change - I'm still looking
No. But Science ! You must follow the Science !
@@thor9838 yes, we should follow the science. Just because we are graduating morons, it does not mean we throw out science. Should we do the same with mathematics, and engineering? What to design your own airplane?
Having worked at a public school during the pandemic, I can tell you one sad fact: parents don’t want teachers to actually teach, they want tax-funded babysitters. They wanted their kids back in the buildings asap so that they could get back to work, because kids at home caused too much disruption to parent’s’ schedules. I’m not blaming these parents, it’s just a sad indication of the world we live in
I graduated high school about 2 years ago with a slightly below-average GPA of 3.2/4.0. Now, out of the people that I know from my graduating class I was one of the only ones who could tell you the date that Pearl Harbor was attacked or in some cases even worse when 9/11 happened. Another example is working in the banking field now, I should not be instructing people who have a bachelor's degree how to write a professional email when I'm only a high school graduate. It feels like the education system attempted to lower the bar but ended up removing it entirely.
The BAR is still there but they go there to get drunk and laid.
@@jumperstartfulexcellent! 😂
Once we decided that the only function of "education" was "jobs," the only thing that mattered was the rubber stamp at the end. _That_ is the real Republican long-game, and they won it (with Democrats' help of course).
A college education is not proof of how smart you are...only that you were stupid enough to pay a lot or go into debt for ... a bunch of useless knowledge that someone much smarter than you... convinced you that you needed it...😮😅😂
@@jesi3336you should petition for a refund from whomever it was who taught you how to use elipses
Winston Churchill: "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter"
Oh god, he may have been blunt, especially in private but he was never wrong in it. Passions in your beliefs are important, but sometimes facts need to massively outweigh all of this. Over in the US, this seems to have completely gone out of the window. Thank goodness I don’t live over there. I think one hour of their regular TV adverts would melt my brain.
@@danielwhyatt3278 Having spent plenty of time in countries around the world i can say without any reservation that there is plenty of stupid to go around. Believing that this is a reason not to live in the US is a good example. Besides, if you ever see these ads in eh US then you're either over 60 or watching sometime targeted at malleable morons.
I wish someone would ask Bill Maher about his membership in Tony Podesta’s “Red Shoe Club”. It’s a known club for pedophiles. Many photos of Maher in those red shoes. Is he being a hypocrite or woke?
@M. F. just a disclaimer, i am neither democrat nor republican, I am American. Period. Quick question for you M.F.. In observation of US economic condition, gas prices, vaccine mandates of a clearly defective and dangerous product, crime rates (keep it simple and just use gun violence and theft), immigration, foreign policies and affairs, etc. You STILL think that Biden has somehow been better than Trump? REALLY? Wow...
@M. F. Name me a single solitary policy that Trump had that was dictator type policies. I'll wait.
I am a teacher and I concur with this message. Teachers are expected to “entertain” students versus teach them. The kids are awful, exceptionally disrespectful, disinterested in learning, and addicted to their phones. It’s sad. Most of the issues extend to the home where parents are not being parents. They are busy “living their best life”. Our education system is in serious trouble if we don’t get back to holding students accountable versus worrying about a kids feelings.
This is why I am going to learn Mandarin.
In Mexico teachers would spank you (with a belt) in elementary and when you complained to your parents it was round two 😂😂happened to me once and never again. The state of our education system is resumed by this: I once caught a kid on social media that googled a false claim by another kid because he also had no idea then went to the comment by the fist kid to call him an “i@$iot” while stating all the facts in a copy-paste format as he was a scientist or something. So one ignorant kid telling another ignorant kid “you are ignorant” while both are uneducated. There you have it. This happens a lot on YT
This is what happens when you toss out God and discipline.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” You know who said this? Sokrates. This is a very old complaint all teachers make.... I am a little undecided wether this is a complaint that is justified, because if it is, we must have become more and more stupid ever since. Now the question is: Have we?
For Asian kids, just talk to their Asian parents. That will get them. Trust me, I’m an Asian parent that used to be an Asian student. We joke about getting an A stands for “Average”.
Bill Maher show never disappoints we love them
In my 20 years of education the issue has rarely been the students but parents and the broken system in which we are asked to work. It’s disheartening
Parents don’t exist. Adults of both genders are either at work or out getting drinks with their friends. The children are raised by each other, the internet, and the woke teachers at school. They’re just one notch above feral in civility and one notch below feral in critical thinking.
When kids were actually being educated up through the 80's parents were never asked to do anything. It was expected that parents went to work and therefore pay taxes that ultimately pays teachers. You are paid more than ever with approx. 5 months of PTO while you are continually putting out dumber kids...and now it is because of the parents.? I would say that YOU are disheartening.
@@scottsouder6450 while you are entitled to your opinion on any issue these claims you make are entirely wrong. I’m actually an excellent teacher with high outcomes and I don’t produce “dumber students”. I don’t get 5 months of PTO at all…I get 10 sick days a year all other time is unpaid. I also don’t make tons of money because I live in a state that pays very poorly. The challenges we face in education are mostly due to a broken system and yes parents because parents are part of the system. If a student is violent at school and beating up staff for taking their cell phone that is for sure not the teachers’ fault but the students fault and ultimately their parents if they are under 18. Please do more research and spend time with more educational professionals to understand what it really looks like. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
@@lexirowe3151 You are spot on and I don’t see the possibility of change. Thinking is obsolete, definitely no critical thinking. These are the kids that believe a boy can make himself a girl and if you want to be a different race than you were born, just say so.
You really want to sort through all of the complete bullshit, put teacher pay and benefits to a general election. You sure as hell don't want to do that do you? That would be the pure truth of the matter, and you are NOT interested in that.@@lexirowe3151
If you're parent, one of the best things you can do for your child's education is to buy a globe and have it in the house. It doesn't have to be an expensive one, but having simple things like globes and atlases and dictionaries and things like that in the home really makes a positive difference when it comes to learning.
I don't have a globe, but I do have a map on the wall in plain sight. I wrote verb conjugations on the wall and times tables. It was "just there all the time".
Yes a Globe or a map. But also go back to a curriculum that actually teaches what we call common knowledge like GEOGRAPHY.
Had an AIG teacher tell me 25 years ago to place a map in the wall in each child’s room to study and imagine what the places were like to give them that love of adventure and learning. It seemed to work!
Yes I grew up with a map on the wall in my house. Gave my grandchild an old world map for his bedroom. But also Geography was taught in school. The common knowledge that this generation is growing up without is mind blowing and sad.
I taped the Bill of Rights to the wall in my son's room, right by the light switch, when he was four years old. He's twenty now, and could out-debate almost anyone. Anyone but me.
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that there are limits to genius.” -Albert Einstein
100% Taylor, and as soon as you make something idiot proof, along come a completely different kind of idiot.
It's hard to be smart but it's easy to be stupid.
Stupidity has no boundaries, nor does it discriminate.
He really said that ?! Nice.
Intelligence and knowleged is BANNED. Obedience is REWARDED. Fedual society impending.
A great man once said "Of the people, by the people, for the people" but what if the people are a bunch of idiots?
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Bill Maher is telling it like it is!! Rock on, Bill!!!
An old school quote: "Ignorance can be educated and crazy can be medicated but there's no cure for stupid".
Actually _THERE IS_ only one cure for stupid, but its not something that can be said aloud when the majority are unwilling to face the cold hard truth. They would rather stay detached & uninvolved in their own comfortable, artificial cyber-life... Yes, reality can become _THAT_ stark & that ugly, when you don't face the truth for what it is & take action It's utterly shocking to me that public education has taken such an enormous dive in the years since my children graduated. (Early 2000's) America truly has become a Socialist dictatorship wearing a "democratic" mask. And it began with a traitorous take-over of public education, the actions of which began in the late 60's & throughout the 70's when the voices of specific congressmen (& -women) were neither heard nor heeded Hosea 4:6 _My people are dying_ [literally] _for lack of knowledge_ Author Unknown _Tyranny exists right under the noses of human incredulousness of a majority who cannot believe it exists at all_ Noam Chomsky is an acknowledged anarchist. So I don't agree with his political philosophy. For all I know he's also an atheist. Whatever the case, he's got this one right 100%. This is a real eye-opener for that greater majority of high school & college graduates we call "the indoctrinated." It is well worth your 10 minutes. And for those of you who knew what a circus & a grand illusion (a giant pacifier) American politics has been through the decades, this video simply affirms suspicions you already had Manufactured Consent: _the 5 Filters of Mass Media,_ by Noam Chomsky; producers unknown; as presented by Al Jazeera English in 2018 m.kzhead.info/sun/ZpiFd7SBj6iLaIU/bejne.html
Like that the breath act isn't about pedophiles, a very easy Google search. Bill just lied.
T he br3atth a. C t is not about ped o Phil es
But stood is acceptable to me, but everyone is born with a high iq, that's just a fact. But the responsibility of those who have the brain power should help those who are weaker (that's certainly well associated with liberalism I thought). So ignorance, which is what was shown here by the lugs, is far more... Concerning/, because that should not be allowed, esp today when the knowledge is at your fingertips
Lol 😆 I DON'T know, local unmentionable ZOMBIES, have called me stupid. More like completely unaware at the time of how much are ZOMBIES. Wicked stubborn mules with blinders, no matter how many repeated life lashings from God. That I became aware of soon, and did call the local unmentionable "a mule with blinders." He's actually not so much of a snowflake himself about insults, takes them well from others, even bad jokes about him, but maybe married to an egomaniac narcissist, like I was. Not aware of that until no longer married. That's what happened to me. Usually men get that rap, but I wonder how many men married to egomaniac narcissistic women. This country breeds that alot, unlike Spain. The type of women who would marry without being in love. Marry for money and social status. That's not a Spaniard upper middle class families type of thing to do. My oldest daughter is not out to do anything like that either.(Low self esteem or none does that, but zombies instead). Spanish girls from good families seek love and compatibility. Basically my oldest daughter seeks a guy similar to her brother, intellectual, very well read, and he's definitely not a zombie person at all, but he's Germanic in how he is, so she's had to warm him up. He sounds warm when speaking Spanish,, but he's definitely the colder more reserved type, yet he's also a sweet guy. His family that took off to Latin America, has to have been Prussians, and they're not religious at all. That means if they get married, he's going to have to become a Spaniard Catholic man. He loves everything about space travel. My daughter says that he even gets emotional about seeing rockets take off. Another "alien", but with green eyes, so he's in the right family. Sarcasm.
I heard my 22 year old brother in law literally say once "Capitalism sucks." and "I wanna start my own business" in the same breath. The dumbing down of America is a very real thing.
@David Chavez Actually, by saying that, he understands nothing about economics and only hates capitalism as a consumer and worker and has no idea of the work it takes to own a business. He's basically showing his stupidity and ignorance. Capitalism is the only way TO be financially free.
@David Chavez abject poverty over the last 100 years is dramatically down, but okay. Definitely problems with it, but it's by far done a better job than anything, ever, in terms of feeding people, giving shelter, standard of living, etc.
perhaps he will be starting a socialist collective where he fully recognises the rights of unions and will encourage worker participation.
It's not capitalism that sucks. It's that the wealthy and powerful have rigged the rules of capitalism in their favor. Rulings like Citizens United and continued deep tax cuts for the top 1% have turned us into an oligarchy.
@@hutch1197 exactly. people are lumping crony capitalism and capitalism together. The system we have right now is not capitalism. SOME regulation is necessary but not total government control of the economy. That DE incentivizes anyone to wanna start a small business.
Looking to be saved by politicians is like depending on the stars for the lucky Powerball numbers
3:57 That's actually very interesting. In my country, whenever there's a crime story in the media, I've noticed reporters very strictly refer to the victims by their first names, to the suspects by their last names, and to any other person of interest by their profession. So you'd have something like "The Gardener claimed to have last seen Betty leaving with Wozniak that afternoon"
Being a German in America I literally was asked: "So, you are from Germany! Have you ever been in Europe?"
What? Allow me to apologize for the dimwitted twits who make the rest of us educated Americans look bad.
🤭 sitting in America a lady asked where north America was located. 🙄🤷🏾♀️
I was asked by a teenager if I could take the train home to the Virgin Islands.
@@kimberlywoodbury1739 I believe you!! 😢😢😢
Run for president or Vice PRESIDENT
"I am going to be a teacher so I should know this." Now that's scary.
Don't worry about it, she probably knows what each letter in the lgbtqia2s+ stands for and why they're oppressed. It's only the real alphabet she struggles with
Most teachers are that dumb themselves.
Little racist here maybe ???
She actually said paris.
Don't you know? Today's teachers tell the kids they get to choose their own gender. The new generation of teachers are fucked. Imagine how fucked their pupils will be.
my hope is that 99% of the people being asked those basic questions got it right but weren't included for obvious reasons.
One could hope. But, we are in contact with people just like this... every day.
As usual Bill is right on most accounts and threads the needle between both sides of idiocy.
As a teacher myself, I can tell you exactly why this is happening. The education system has completely failed them. Teachers are no longer allowed to teach. Kids can no longer be held accountable and are passed without getting them the help they need. Too much focus has been put on demographics and kids can no longer be disciplined. Kids are not being taught that actions have consequences and if kids aren't being taugh that lesson, then you're not teaching them anything. We have to accept that not all kids are the same and need to provide the appropriate learning environment for kids that have needs beyond what can be provided in the typical classroom.
What do you mean there is too much focus on demographics? I don't understand this.
"The education system has completely failed them." BS. If a child wants to learn they will. A parent is responsible for preparing their children for school. If you are a teacher, your job is to teach all of them. Maybe you are suffering from job burnout and forgot what your purpose is. As you know, people constantly change perceptions through experience. The kids today have more distractions than they have before. Adults need to step up and be responsible. How is that possible when the parents today willingly are destroying the foundation of our country by electing demagogues who support insurrection?
Amen to all that.
@@seeyoucu I presume, she means that minorities and the perceived "underpriviledged" schoolchildren are being held to a different standard.
This comment is very insightful. You have really been able to summarise the problem. I agree 100%.
I watched this and laughed. Then the reality of this hit me hard. We are so screwed.
Epochal Eclipse a CROSS America on April 8th 2024. Don't stare at the sun. Matthew 16: 4 Jonah 3: 5 Jonah 4: 11
It means that there are more and more opportunities for educators... well, to get a tiny bit past square one, at least.
Lol! 😅
How could you laugh at something so horrifying?
@@sethreign8103 Black comedy, of course.
And what's really bad is that these people vote.
Bill Maher tells the truth. Am very grateful.
Living in this country Is like watching the evolutionary chart going backwards.
@Christian Constitutionalist I was born here. Free country and speech right?
@@nursemedic17 2nd amendment.
@@slowfudgeballs9517 Yep. WTF
Half of Americans say there is no evolution so how can it be going backwards.
Go ask these questions in just about any country, and you'll get similar answers. Stupidity isn't exclusive to the U.S.
"Stop The Madness, Stop Melanie Stansbury!" Still gets me😂😂
Brilliant as always. And what a joy to see Douglas Murray!
Pure George Carlin!!! I started teaching in 1969. My students were non-academic high school students. I retired as a college professor in 2018. With few exceptions, my 15- and 16-year-old high school students of1969 wrote and spoke more articulately than my 20- and 21-year-old college students of 2018. How do I know? Over the years I kept writing samples.
I used to work in a local grocery store. They had to put applications for employment on a computer screen because the handwriting was atrocious! couldn't spell either.
Please write a book document all the changes
You know what? What you did, saving those writing samples is exactly the proof that we all need that exemplifies the steady decline of academia! So sad & so true. I've also paid attention to how people now "write" and find myself always wondering, how they passed English courses in high school. I'm referring to people who were born & raised in America! I'm not going to say when I graduated high school, but it was many years back. I distinctly remember being hammered over & over as to how important writing papers & just general writing skills, proper verb-subject agreement was so very important & crucial to my education. Will never forget that.
I believe it! 😂
To understand the world one must be well read; and such activity improves the mind of the speaker.
"This country simply has no education standards anymore." Never have truer words ever been spoken.
….and welcome to trumplandia!
@@marty4278 Do you honestly believe that Trump, as detestable as he is, is responsible for this?!?
@@adammwalch No. It’s his dumbed down supporters as a result of lousy education.
@@marty4278 with all due respect, anyone who has done even a modicum of research into the topic recognizes that it is the left of the political spectrum that has done all the horrendous damage to our educational system over the past few decades
@FISIX Cogent argument
Have been laughing with and at Maher for more years than I can count. Thanks Bill!
Hi Bill Maher and team, a fan from India. Although I get see your New Rule segment later than the US audiences I never miss one. You and the show are truly are a lucid, unbiased & a clever window in to the American society for me and I hope you win an Emmy soon…although the you’ve already won the “Cojones” 😅. All the best !!
Like bill says: "politicians can do anything, because the people don't know anything."
do anything, if there is a good reaction it's "i did it", if bad reaction it's "I didn't do it, not my fault".
Dumb people don't know anything.they are running the world.own nothing and be happy.lol
Bill also said; 'the government is full of shit because the people are full of shit'...
@@gpiano88 mabe he's full of shit,because our government don't speak for us anymore.because of the dumb 1's.
I think it’s even worse than that. It’s that they don’t care whether they know anything.
Like Carlin said, "The owners of the country do not want a population of critically thinking people." But after watching that clip, I' certain even Carlin would be stunned by it.
On the contrary he predicted it. No one with a brain cell is surprised. We've watched the decline in real time
They want obedient workers
@@yahyarajaee5883 Also Carlin: "Think of how stupid the average American is and realize that half of them are stupider than that." kzhead.info/sun/a9ahZtWpqp-ugas/bejne.html
Carlin believes in God now, I assure you that 😬
He would not be stunned by it, no.
Before I even went to school my brother, who later for a time decades later was a grade school teacher, taught me how to count, colors, we did memory games with magnets on the fridge. I remember my brother chastising me on my coloring exercise that Incolored out of the lines and went all over the place. i remember asking why does it matter! He showed me. It made sense. Dad would take my brother and I when were in grade school during the week to the library. This was in the 60’s. We learned to use the card catalogue to look up books. I’d remember in second grade I took out a book on Archeology. Never learned it in school but it was interesting. And he book was. Dad said you don’t understand that book! It’s too hard for you! a high school level! I said Insure do understand! So dad, who was a Harvard grad, found a passage in the book, read it, and then ordered me to read it. Math was my downfall but I was darn good with reading. So I read the passage and summarized the paragraph. Me! Only in 2nd grade at the time. He was amazed! My parents thought it odd that I loved reading our encyclopedias often. It had black and white pictures and also some colored pictures especially with Indians. It only went up to 1968. So one day I came upon a picture of a horseshoe crab and read it. A couple years later when we went to Cape Cod there were lots of dead horseshoe crabs that I’d never seen in person dead, but remembered what they looked like from the encyclopedia, told dad and said I don’t believe you! We got home, showed him a picture and he never questioned me again. I chose to learn things on my own. I learned things from when dad would take my brother and ai to the library and I was good enough at reading so I understood and was able to summarize what I read and I was never taught how to summarize! I figured it out on my own! Dad took me to the planetarium. He slept I listened to the program. He took me to the health museum. He slept I paid attention. Ironically dad went into the medical supply business later and I used to read his Lancet and JAMA magazines asking questions. Dad then bought a game for me where it was a human body and I was to put the plastic organs where they should be. I did it because I wanted to learn not because I had to. I never had an anatomy class until high school. Dad would take me to the Art Museum. The pictures were fair. But my favorite room was very bright and had a giant horse in armor along with his knight rider. I loved that room. He took me to the Natural History Museum. It was the first time I’d seen diorama displays. And my hobby art work are diorama displays. Are people a little dim nowadays? Yes! But then you have to ask yourself why. Dependent too much on teachers or not bothering to look up things and learn new things on their own! Nowadays you have the internet to learn. There was no internet when I was a kid. In 1966 when I was 7 family went to Washington D.C. I had a little flashbulb camera and took my first pictures out of the window in the Washington Monument. I begged for a camera! I have a Polaroid now that I just keep around but played around with that. No one taught me about photography I learned on my own and watched my brother develop pictures the old fashioned way with a darkroom. Note to self. Open the door of a darkroom you get hit. But ai learned the concept that a dark room is dark for a reason not just a word. We went to a Japanese restaurant and sat on the floor with those little tables. The staff were all Japanese and the waitress wore the first kimono ai’d ever seen. I asked a bunch of questions. Mom expected me to be ignorant. Chastised me for asking so many questions, but the waitress was intrigued by my insatiable curiosity. She loved my questions. I have three beautiful Japanese dolls in kimono and I think of that waitress. Was taken so much by her culture I have Japanese dolls and after having a Chinese e-mail friend who was going to school here and doing genetics, she sent me her artwork in cut outs. I opened myself up to new cultures and on my own! Are people nowadays dimmer? Yes! Now we can blame the education system all we want, but let’s also blame the people themselves for not trying to learn things on their own. Not listening carefully to questions to test knowledge. We yell at the school system. Yell at those schools who ban books with teachers and librarians complying by covering or removing books because their job is more important than kids learning! What are you doing parents to enrich your kids and teach! YOU teach them not to bully! That’s not the job of teachers! YOU get your snoots out of your smart phones and take your kids to libraries, museums! Mom once took me to an art store. I didn’t get clay it was this sawdust stuff. Mom said are you sure? I said yes. Well couldn’t shape it like clay so made a plaque with it. I taught myself! Mom once asked do you want to learn how to bake. I said sure! So we would bake chocolate chip cookies. Mom got the supplies, and under her watchful eye I learned measurements, how to use a mixer. Back then it was the kind with two spinning thingies. I learned about how to turn on the oven, how to set it, how to time it. I never forgot it. I took cooking classes. Only thing I remember was making sugar cookies. The point is I wanted to learn! We had school field trips to symphonies. Everyone else was bored. I loved it! I begged mom and dad to sign the permission slip. Yell at stupid people? Where are parents teaching their kids! Why do teachers have to be forced to be policemen, disciplinarians! Parents should be doing that! My father said the most interesting thing when I wanted to drop out of the 10th grade. He said what will you do for a job? I said work for you. He said I don’t care if you go to college but you WILL have a high school diploma! No such thing as a G.E.D. that ai ever heard of. I had tutors to help me with math. Everything else ai was good in. And I graduated! High school class of 1978. Today no one values a high school diploma. Now my parents were Harvard and Penn State. My brother several colleges. Me nope. But I wanted to learn so I got to sign up for sign language classes, Spanish Classes, had a French tutor. I wanted to learn! I learn Spanish off KZhead. The point is we can laugh all we want about how dim these people are who can’t answer questions. But the real question should be, why did they not want to learn! Why did they not pay attention! Why do they not try to learn new things. And why do parents not encourage it! Once I proved to my parents that I’m not stupid, they decided you want to learn we’ll help you. Books, games, museums, you have a hobby go all the way with it! I cringe listening to these people. They like being OK I’ll say it, stupid. Laugh all you want about it, but ask yourself, are you any better? I look things up all the time. I need to learn something! I do my hobby art figuring out things, testing paints, fabrics. Why I made myself a stem for a paint brush. No one taught me. I figured it out for myself. I did it with incense sticks. I had to cut them to the right length. I had to look closely to see which sticks were the thinnest. I had to figure out mathematically how to arrange them so they’d fit the brush tip. Doesn’t sound like much. But I didn’t need to depend on a school to do it. I figured it out myself. People nowadays don’t want to figure out things for themselves. Not exactly being an Einstein to make your own paint brush handle? You try it! I never did it before and was successful. Learning has to come within. You want to learn you’ll go to any length. And you never stop learning! If it’s not taught in school you look it up since everything is online. You complain something is banned from learning in school you find that banned book online and read it. You want to about other cultures you find that online and learn it. The day one stops learning is the day they’re passed on. My paternal grandfather never finished he fifth grade forced to drop out and work to support the family. No child labor laws back then. He could read and write and his cursive writing was magnificent. He listened to news, absorbed newspapers. Read books. He was the most self taught educated fifth grade drop out I’d ever seen. I remember in nursery school we planted radishes. We did art. And I wasn’t allowed to do the simple stuff. In 4th grade we learned how to make clay with flour water and other things I can’t remember. It was in regular class not art class. We were supposed to make hanging Christmas ornaments. I wanted to make a simple bird. Oh no my teacher said.you can do better. You make it detailed. So I did. I fell in love with art after that and got good grades in it. The point is I was encouraged, the second point is I chose to continue learning and improving. Lots of my teachers had no expectations of me. Three decided I needed to live up to expectations. You make the best art you can. Figure it out! You can write script better than that, do it and I did. Never stop learning! The education system may be awful nowadays but it’s up to you not say fine and not try to learn on your own if parents don’t want to spend the time to help.
You wrote a whole novella! I agree with you, that learning and the curiosity to know more, continues throughout life. And we, as parents, can influence our children greatly in our attitude towards learning. I am a fifty plus, Swedish grandmother, nearly bed bound by illness. I study and learn new things via the internet all the time. Lately, I've been learning Hebrew, just by listening to it in different ways. I also enjoy watching documentaries from different parts of the World. My faith in Christ also has me very hungry to learn more about the Bible, so I study this also, as much as I can. We have been given an intellect, and at least some ability to be creative - and I agree with you that we should continue to expand our knowledge and skills throughout our lifetime.
@@ingela_injeela I wrote what I think. I don’t write in three word grunts which most prefer since they have little attention span. Glad you do what you do to learn. And it doesn’t matter the length in how you tell it.
@@lisanidog8178 You're right, three word grunts can be quite eloquent for some individuals. ☺️
@@ingela_injeela 🤣
Very generous and very inspiring! What a privilege you had ❤🎉
Beautiful. Bill Maher has become the George Carlin of our generation. I've been watching his Club Random podcast to hold me over for the long wait till Real Time returns. Thankfully Bill will be back, strike or not.
Bill let's be clear. That guy who landed on the sun? He went there at night, so he was fine. (sarcasm)
He also used sunscreen with SPF 10,000 to protect his skin.
Duh, lance did it on his bike so his feet never touched the gaseous inferno 😭
Some dumb random 20-something year old: "Ohh I think i herd that b4 from skool 👍🏼🤔🤔❤❤💜💞🤘🙀"
An old Polish joke from the 60s. Thanks.
The first step to improve is to recognize you are dumb. Mona Lisa was painted by an Italian, but it stays in Paris (France), not in Italy. Should we add this to the common knowledge questions?
I taught Kindergarten in the Seattle Tacoma area for 20 years. About 15 years ago we were told to “just pass them”. Even if the parents were BEGGING for their child to be held back, they wouldn’t do it. It was sickening. I resigned a few years ago because I just couldn’t be part of it any more. They are so worried about social justice and being innovative that they have lost what the basic fundamentals on why we teach in the first place.
Yup, that's what happens when you get lost in movements and politics.
Well, when you have politicans who are more concerned about where tansgender students use the bathroom then what the cognitive appitude and performance of the students is, then yeah, of course performance is going downhill. It's not woke social-justice warriors that are the problem with education like you are implying. The problem is conservatives who are more concerned about banning books than banning guns. Conservatives who are more focused on culture wars than the performance of students. Conservatives who are more concerned about teaching religiosity than teaching science, and these people influence cirriculum policy. That's the problem.
How can you have social justice if your ignorant?
"They?"
I have no idea how i passed JR high or high school i never did any homework, ever . The only class i received an A was the only class the teacher took the time to helped me. I think i was a d+ student, the classes bored me to death. I noticed teachers would help the smart kids and treat the others like garbage. I can not think of anything i learned in school that helped me in life. I learned a trade and made more than all my other friends.
I once had the surprisingly difficult job of trying to answer the following question: "How can you drive 55 miles per hour if you drive less than one hour"?
"Truck, gun. Me like these things you like. Vote me!" the delivery was too good !
“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where through consumption and entertainment, the slave would love their servitude.” ~Aldous Huxley
Can we at least get the orgies and drugs from BNW?
As I labour through watching TV, Huxley's observation is part of nearly all of us now.
Entrapment!
Isn't that the idea of the Panopticon?
Basically as soon as we can plug our minds directly into computers that will begin.
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." ~Hannah Arendt
Pro wrestling fans
> Repeats meme about communism being totalitarian. > Meanwhile US gov funding some child mercenaries in Africa. Opinion immediately disregarded. Edit: kids calling me dumb, but cant give me exeamples of communism being totalitarian. even NK has a better voting and democratic system than the US. (although 50% of the crowd in NK is religious and think of kim as some prophet, which I do not like, they do have a better voting system, so people get who they want. unlike in the US, where the christian cult get manipulated into voting for trump.) I can give you examples of laws in NK, which show how much freedom people there have(for exeample weed is legal, also the weed there is different from the addictive toxic stuff that people in the US call weed). Ignorants like to BELIEVE that everyone outside the US are just a "herd" while they themselves are the biggest "herds".
@@RagingGeekazoid LMFAO! Fair point. No wonder they love Trump.
@@godfather7339 WTF are you talking about? How did the quote imply your first claim, strawboy?
What better example could there be than those who believed the completely asinine Russia collusion hoax?
Absolutely accurate ! They can't even fix their passwords 😂
Bill Maher....telling it like it is!!!!
There's a scene in The Incredibles that's absolutely brilliant, but played off as a joke. When Mr. Incredible doesn't want to go to his son's "graduation ceremony," his reasoning is "It's not a graduation. He is moving from the 4th grade to the 5th grade... It's psychotic. They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity. " I taught 8th grade. I watched parents cry at the 8th grade graduation, as if their kid accomplished something. You literally could not fail, could not be held back, could not NOT graduate. It was psychotic.
There’s also the scene where Syndrome says “And when everyone’s super, no one will be.” Lowering the bar for kids’ education while praising them for basic functions is proving that.
@@mightyluvthe boy wanted to used his powers to win the race at school and mom told him not to. Dash “Dad always said our powers were nothing to be ashamed of; our powers made us special. Mom: “Everyone is special, Dash” Dash: “Which is another way of saying no one is” I’m not big into animated movies but watched them as my kids grew. That line stuck with me. It’s a bit of a trope for a villain to give a message like that but it’s heartbreaking from a kid. Very damaging.
The scene that stuck with me from "Whiplash" was when the kid met with his very demanding instructor played by JK Simmons, who had just been fired for pushing his students too hard. Search "good job scene" on YT.
Your points are well taken. However, if one were to be charitable, one could interpret the parents’ tears as simply a bittersweet reaction to the passage of time rather than pride at their child’s “accomplishment”. Whether or not failure was ever a possibility, having your kids transition to high school is still a reminder that you and they are getting older. Soon they will leave home, with all the mixed emotions that this milestone entails. While I’m not a parent myself, I suspect that there’s more than one perspective here. Either way, I would agree that having a ceremony to mark this transition is unnecessary and can come across as self-indulgent.
As a teacher in New York State I do know that diplomas are handed out to students that have not earned them. I believe this practice undermines the value of a diploma and gives it the same worth as a piece of toilet paper in some cases. I also know that the reason for this is because public schools are terrified of having low graduation rates and high drop out percentages which invite state scrutiny and threaten them with the loss of funding the situation turns into a nightmarish catch-22. You either stand up for the standard of your school's education and have students repeat grades (which can be refused by parents) or drop out while losing your funding or you pass students along through the industrialized education processing machine and know that the valedictorian and the 'Queen Elizabeth is from Brazil' graduates will be sporting the same diploma. It's tragic and, while a bit more complex than a quick comic quip, is leading to a slow undermining of the country which, at length, will make social control a highly successful enterprise.
It's right there-- parents can refuse to have their children be accountable. Oh and somewhere someone decided that all students need to be technology savvy. so they take digital literacy and keyboarding and coding every dang year even when they can't read to grade level or do basic math
Yes but the rich do not need smart people to do their slave jobs.
When they dumbed down the New York Regents exams years ago I knew we were doomed. A Regents diploma used to mean excellence but not anymore. If it makes you feel better, undeserved diplomas are rampant across the country. The parents are also to blame because many only care about the grade and fight with the teacher if their kid didn’t do the work and didn’t get a good grade. If the teacher refuses to change the grade parents go to the principal and they override the teacher and change the grade. It’s politics. The principal wants to keep the parents happy.
No worries as long as the students are minorities they’ll be hired no matter how fucking stupid they are. Diversity in the workplace is such an amazing idea! Lowering the quality of work and standards by which people have to succeed but making sure we have a whole rainbow of fucking colors in that same place. As long as there’s lots of colors it doesn’t matter how shitty the outcome or how crappy the work ethic is.
I baffles me why a school district that has poor results should have its funding cut. It needs MORE funding to ensure better materials and instruction can be utilized. Cut it you just ensure more failure, not more success. But, one would have to be well educated to be able to point that out and our leaders are braindead stupid.
I can't believe I've put off watching this. This was FIRE, Bill. Way to go!
This monologue is so accurate and damning... I don't know whether to laugh or cry
Frightening...just frightening. As a teacher I'm trying VERY hard to fight back against the culture of social media...and to be honest...social media is DESTROYING our youth.
What about the " teachers" with blue pink purple hair, and Marxist communist political ideologies stapled all over the classroom, who spend quality time with the students, focusing on sex/ grooming gender bending, child porn in the libraries, white hate/ shame, anti American propaganda, transvestite appearances and after school Satan club?
I applaud your positivity, good luck.
I am against censorship but sometimes safety comes first and we banned our kid from Tik Tok. It is owned by the Chinese, I don't know how this isn't considered a threat. It should have the plug pulled, and I am an actual FOS advocate and harm to individuals doesn't trump free speech rights. And this has gone beyond harmful into the sadistic.
I hope you are teaching children you know, stuff. You should watch some of those "questions on the street" I remember one where people were very very upset when they were asked if they thought it was ok that the Trump kids were shooting Sabretooth tigers and Triceratops in Africa for sport. "They shouldn't kill those beautiful and endangered animals." I do not know if I could handle middle schoolers or higher as a teacher now days, grade school seems to be failing them before they even get to those grade levels.
@@vir9002 It is rather sad to see, what was once a great nation heading down the abyss. It's not that USA don't have good leaders, but the "systems" put in place by its very own 0.01% elites/wealthy class is what led US to its decadence or cancer that it is today. ALL its systems, its alphabet agencies are all corrupted including education, judiciary, executive, legislative, food, EPA, you name it, all corrupted in one way or another and it is deep. I am guessing, this is what Rome was like just before it crumbles.
I’m a conservative, and he’s totally right about the ads. LOL
agreed
It's still biased tho. He's acting as if this exclusively a right-wing problem. And I say this as a liberal.
@@sadsongs7731 I agree...It is a problem on both sides. They are pretty much all lawfully and morally corrupt. There are just as many ridiculous and misleading ads by dems as repubs. I also believe there must be a limit to what is taught in public schools. We need to get back to the basics. Furthermore, in high schools, we need to start teaching our children more about business and finances.
@@sadsongs7731 ugh... why can't it be biased? SOMETIMES.. ONE SIDE DOES CERTAIN THINGS MORE THAN THE OTHER.. in this case it's ads.. fuck man..i'm a liberal too..but not like your brand. jesus.. no on said it was an exclusively right-wing problem... do you need a safe space?
@@edwilson7798 yep both sides are a bunch of morons stealing our money and doing nothing for us. Well we fight and argue amongst ourselves for no damn reason at all. We are all American and should stick together take this country back
If I was American, I'd be wearing a paper bag over my head right now
😂
There’s something else that nearly all of these stupid people have in common. Can you guess what it is? Lol
We Americans are way too proud for that. The dumbest among the most proud.
It's just as bad and many times worse in other countries.
So funny, especially the candidates shooting things.
This is what "No Child Left Behind' gets you. Entire generations of college grads who struggle with pre-algebra but feel entitled to every position of power and responsibility.
At this point, it's more like "Every Child Left Behind"
This is why the DOE should never have been started...We've declined in our educational standing internationally since it's inception.
Add common core as well.
god so many memories of abuse
@@hippiepisces9745 how do you mean HP?
This is quite terrifying. It's not only geography they don't understand, they don't know ANYTHING. A deli owner told me that a kid working for him had to use his phone to figure out how long half of a foot-long grinder would be, and when I told a kid selling flowers at the farmers market that I was buying flowers so I could paint them, he couldn't figure out for the life of him why I'd put paint on flowers since they were already colorful. I'm so thankful I'm old and nearly dead!
K,kmm,
Chuckled out loud.
I can relate to old and nearly dead The tragedy is that we are leaving our children and grandchildren with an insane world.
We had a 21-year-old come in to be an ironworker Apprentice that didn't know how to lace his own boots. He said when I go home I'll see if my Grandma knows how to do it. I didn't know what to say I drew a complete blank I was totally Blown Away that he didn't know how to do that.
To be fair, you've given some pretty bad examples where communication adds unnecessary confusion - "figure out how long half of a foot-long grinder would be" distracts you with wondering what a "grinder" is and would be helpful context. Could also just say 12-inch "grinder". And saying "I'm going to paint flowers" is on you because that can easily be misinterpreted - you should have said you're going to make a painting of the flowers and you're using them as a reference. You remind me of those people who think they're witty when they make wordplay "jokes" but they're actually just socially awkward and unable to read social cues.
I laughed soooo hard at this entire monologue great great stuff
Back in 1973 I visited the US and was shocked to read that there were teachers who were functionally illiterate. Coming from the UK I was already aware that our A levels, (school leaving exams taken at 18) were the equivalent of US degrees. But that even some of your school teachers could barely read and write was a shock.
Meanwhile Islam has taken over the UK!
The ebonics-speaking teachers are the ones I worry about the most, as their students will not know English well enough to function in business.
"Idiocracy" is a documentary ahead of its time.
That's the comment stupid people say to make them feel smart.
@@Nathan-gd7xq even if you are correct, where would that place you? I could say the same thing, that's the comment stupid people say to make them feel smart. that's the comment [that's the comment] stupid people say [stupid people say] to make [to make] them feel [them feel] ESS-EMM-AYE-ARR-TEE [SMART]
Nope, Idiocracy was a prophecy and it will become a documentary for the Chinese children in the future of why education is so important.
Stop
@@marsmancho looks like you're smarter than us both
The crowd clapping doesn't realize he means you too... But not me of course 😂
He is actually trolling everyone, and they don't even know or care.
Of course.😂
@@thedoc8876 You mean baiting... stupid people think it's trolling, a word corrupted by morons in America who were linguistically illiterate.
women think the same when they are told they wont find a millionaire husband. they are always the exception and that's another reason why society is crumbling. everything is about clout nowadays not producing things but taking things
You make me feel good! This has been going on longer then i thought
We need to upgrade our public education system.
I worked in public schools for years and the amount of kids who were passed through and couldn't read or write was astonishing
When I was a high school reading teacher I had tenth grade reading classes, not remedial reading but court ordered reading which everyone was required to take, and there would be kids in the class with 3rd grade reading levels. So one might ask in all obliviousness, how is it that people with 3rd grade reading levels get promoted past the sixth grade into secondary schools? I gave up and became a deck hand in the merchant marine. At least you’ve got to pass a test given by the Coast Guard to become an able bodied seaman/lifeboatman. And no, they don’t socially promote people from ordinary seaman to able bodied seaman just like they don’t socially promote ABs to 3rd mate or mates to master, and so forth if everyone gets the concept. If the merchant marine were run like the schools the ships would all founder.
Same.
But you might hurt their feelings!!!
Thanks.
That's why so many college graduates are so bloody stupid.
I want to highlight that as a teacher, one of the key problems we have is our professional standards for teachers suck. The video's "I should know this, I'm going to be a teacher." alludes to this issue. In college/university, professors are more concerned now making sure teachers in training are vessels of empathy and put more emphasis on socialization or kids emotions rather than making sure they actually know, or are passionate about what the f*ck they're teaching as a subject. All the while making sure kids know, and more importantly *can process*, knowledge. Edit: This isn't meant to lean politically. It's an observation that our society has maybe gone a little too far in the direction of feelings and emotional incontinence. Perhaps to the point it's detracting from everything else and even hindering kids becoming more resilient to adversity, which in the coming years- There will be plenty of.
Agreed. Having been a substitute teacher and having many family members who are teachers, I will say sadly that while there are some AMAZING teachers in the system, even before the system went woke there were some problems with many teachers. The reason the students don't know the answers to these questions is because the teachers who taught them don't know the answers. You can't teach what you don't know. I'm not trying to disparage teachers. It's an incredibly difficult job that I think most members of society wouldn't be able to make it through even one week doing it. Part of the problem is our school system wasn't set up to education our children. It was to babysit our children after child labor laws were put into place and mom & dad still had to both go to the factory. And the babysitting side will, imo, make it impossible for school to ever genuinely be a place of learning. In order for it to be a place of learning, attending school has to be optional and a priviledge. Students have to have the right not to go, and teachers have to have the right to kick students out of class any time they aren't valuing the priviledge of learning. And then our teachers have to also know enough to teach the subject. I had a Junior High School math teacher who couldn't remember what sine, cosine, and tangent were and told us to go home, read the textbook, and teach ourselves. My brother had a math teacher that graded the first test of the year out of 100 and every other test out of 10, and she entered the scores as point values, not percentages. My brother was sick and scored less than 50 on the first test. He scored 100% on every other test. The teacher instintively knew my brother shouldn't be failing, but she couldn't figure out why the computer said he was failing. As a substitute teacher who taught all around the District, at lunch I would get to meet the majority of the teachers in the school. And consistently there would be between one and three competent teachers that you could tell were quietly holding the whole school together in the background. I still think the other teachers are basically heros because they are doing an incredibly hard, emotionally draining job, and they were fulfilling the babysitting part of the job quite well. But based on the conversations it was usually pretty evident that the teachers were stunted emotionally and were not competent in the subjects they were teaching. I mean this in the kindest way. I have often speculated about this, and I have decided that either the job attracts people like this because it is a ridiculously hard job for relatively low pay considering the difficulty and the required skill set, so that is why most teachers are this way. Or the job drives sane, competent teachers crazy over time, which having done the job would make perfect sense. Or in the hiring process, the traits that administrators search for lead to this kind of a workforce. I am saying all of this with respect. Since I did the job, the odds are that all of these descriptors describe me as well. And I couldn't hack it. After a couple of years, I finally had to give up because it was way too hard and emotionally draining. But yes, if it was that bad 20 - 30 years ago, I can imagine how much worse these problems have become as too many schools are now actively prioritizing what I call woke ideology over real learning.
@@hollybigelow5337 I'd say lack of funding going to actually educating students and Ghouls like Betsy DeVos that want to end public schools in favor of turning education into a profit driven system is a much bigger problem that "woke ideology". I'd also say that part of the problem goes back to the second President Bush and the No Child Left Behind Act which put so much focus on standardized tests. So that instead if being taught to learn for them selves, to think and understand things students are taught to pass tests. Soon forgetting much of what they learned soon after the test is over. Most recently the push back against "CRT" and "woke ideology" (things that are hardly ever actually defined by their opponents) is leading to people insisting that students be taught that 'America is great the way it is' that 'We are number one'. That a teacher can't upset students by exposing them to the holocaust or the horrors of slavery or the ugliness that Civil Rights leaders like Martin Luthor King fought against (Florida passed a law that makes it a crime for a teacher to hurt the feeling of White Students).
Sweden's educational methods are worth a few minutes of time to listen to and makes me wonder why we struggle so much with our system. Maybe we're awash in our arrogance, refusing to admit other countries have a few lessons to give us along with a few pointers to better our method of teaching.
@@hollybigelow5337 I hope that you weren't an English teacher. :P~
@@auturgicflosculator2183 No, I certainly wasn’t. And yes, I was aware even while typing that that it wasn’t grammatically correct. However, I certainly substituted English, which I think is even further evidence that teachers are regularly not qualified to teach the subjects that they teach.
These interviews with kids are not funny. we are doomed.
😂😂😂 i swear you never get to old 😂😂😂😂😂
This just goes to show what the rest of the world has been saying about America for years
The rest of the world has never understood America. My entire life I've watched them misunderstand America. They think it's one place.
It’s not any better in Europe either
@@garys1216 Where is it better
@@garys1216It really is. It’s great here. I don’t have to sell my house when I get sick. College doesn’t bankrupt me. I don’t have to fear being shot in school. The list goes on.
Amen!! It’s a third world country!
I appreciate that Bill has also pointed out the semi literate society we currently live in as well. People not only don't know shit, they can barely read and spell which only adds to the frustration when dealing with idiots and their lack of logic or reasoning.
True. "According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of U.S. adults 16-74 years old - about 130 million people - lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level." - That should be seen as a national emergency. If America diverted 5% of it's military budget towards education, the problem would be resolved.
when you put together emojis and shorten your words in text messaging, when you dont socialize anymore and stare at your phone, what else do you expect.
@@delphi-moochymaker62 Sorry, we need your boys and girls on our borders now that Russia decided to increase its sphere of influence. Best regards, Euro Scrubs. In all seriousness, this issue is not exclusive to USA. Pretty much across the globe, and mostly visible in developed countries. Polices have shifted from trying to get an educated society in order to allow people to get richer and thus expand the strength of their country on all possible planes, to just giving people the bare minimum so that they can fill in mundane and cheap jobs. Politicians don't even prenetd they care anymore, some years back they'd explain themselves for 2-3 years after election that things are tough and their hands are tied. Now it's 2-3 months, and that's it folks, back to business of screwing their voters even further. But the best part? We allow large corporations and openly hostile countries to map our societies and influence us on a massive scale, and our own governments do nothing under the pretense of "free markets" and "dialog", at the same time allowing "feelings" and minorities to dictate overall policies turning democracies into crippled satires of what they should be. Yes, as a whole we're getting dumber, and thus we elect even dumber representatives who will bend their knee to the highest campaign donor and pass legislation that is in open contradiction to the interests of the majority of people who elected them in the first place. This will end in one of two ways. People at some point will get cornered so badly, they will have to choose: submit or rebel. And neither option will be good for all of us, shame we're allowing things to get closer and closer to the tipping point.
The first step to improve is to recognize you are dumb. Mona Lisa was painted by an Italian, but it stays in Paris (France), not in Italy. Should we add this to the common knowledge questions?
I unironically believe Idiocracy is happening before our eyes. If not already, we will soon be seeing diminishing instead of increasing IQ in western countries.
I am self-taught. I dropped out of school in the fifth grade, which is why my critical thinking skills are still intact. I had plenty of time to perfect my craft as a writer. I have spent the last nine months on the street. I had over two thousand dollars taken from my account due to the lack of any effective corporate oversight by our government, and there was nobody else I could have turned to. Believe me, I tried. I don't know what you were expecting from an educational system designed to create capable factory workers for the eighteenth century. Not much has changed since then. Oh, wait, I take that back! They've dropped some curriculum and now I hear that they are not even teaching whole sections of history and banning books.
ask them science questions and it gets worse.
I'm a teacher and let me tell you: it might be counter-intuitive, but the problem in our schools is not a lack of standards--it's too many standards. That's why they are churning out so many standardized idiots. Top-down educational reforms will always make things worse.
So propose a solution.
come on man.. you say you are a teacher.. too many standards, too little standards? they are churning out standardized idiots? who is they? if it is not you? standards are great, if the standards are great. if the standards are garbage, then the standards are garbage. it's not about the abundance of standards, or lack of standards...it's about the QUALITY and INTELLIGENCE of the standards. Ask me..am I smart? maybe.. sort of..? "Top-down educational reforms will always make things worse." Education...to me.. doesn't use the word (always)..because, how can anyone learn anything, if 'always' is how it is? What would be the point of learning anything? if always is always always? what? right? exactly? Be a quality educator, (which is not an easy thing to be) and is made even harder, when making generalized statements. Hopefully, I didn't make too many of my own...?
@@kfhroe8262 You are falling into exactly the trap I was talking about. There is no one solution. The answers lie with individual teachers working with individual students.
@@kfhroe8262 I love clowns like you, this guy seems like a genuinely concerned teacher pointing out a obvious problem with our education system and derps like you chime in with your brilliant contribution like you actually did something.
@@danaaronmusic absolutely 💯 agree. I left teaching because I realized trying to pound biology 2 into the head of a child who couldn't read as a senior and already had a job lined up as a welder was pointless. He needed to be in some form of reading class every day all day untill graduation but all they care about is state test scores.
The last decade has really helped in the dumbing down, by creating people who focus on which side of the political spectrum you believe in, rather than on the issue. You need to be able to think and to accept opposing views.
You don't need to accept opposing views (did you mean "receive" them?). One needs to listen and evaluate. Sometimes opposing views help sharpen your own or they at least help you learn to articulate them in a more effective way. And this last decade certainly sped up the dumbing down. In a post modern society this is inevitable. I also agree that people have sharpened their focus on a particular political spectrum rather than on real issues. Easy to do in an environment where journalists have disappeared and large media outlets are agenda driven.
As a Brit with long-standing ties to the USA, I keep a close eye on US life and politics. There should be no such thing as a 'Career Politician', anywhere. Three terms, then you're Out. Not long enough to make millions more than your salary? Tough. Though, I'm not sure its too much of an insult calling people 'You dumb fox.'
@@terencejay8845- Agree. Another big Problem, in my opinion, is they get a paycheck for life along with health ins, that we the tax payer pays! Very few have redeeming values. Two terms and then go back into society without the liberty to get paid as a lobbyist.
Iaisosto: Exactly!!!, I noticed The Same Exact thing.
Thinking posts a part in that, which is a different teaching concept to knowledge. It is a part of it, but even if you aren't smart, if you're taught to be respectful, you can listen then understand that but everyone's like you & disagree with them rather than just shouting & mocking then
This whole segment had me rolling 😂
They definitely need to put this closure on it bill you are spot-on bro
I never could understand how a generation with hand-held information devices that connect to the internet, giving them all the info in human history at the touch of a button can actually be dumber than generations without the internet.
It's down to common-sense and an education. i think the internet is a wonderful creation, but it's like owning a car and not knowing how to drive it.
It's amazing,I say the same thing. I guess it's because we had to learn it wasn't in our hands.
If you play candy crush 24/7 it does not help, as much as an whole library does not make you smarter if you read only the pulp fiction section. What we as a whole socitie missed invoking is the hunger to find things out and the hunger to find solution and the firm belief that invention is good (and i am not talking about faster cars) In the 50s the city of the future was an shiny place with happy healthy people, today the city of the future is a war zone. It is not the schools fault, it is our all fault that optimism into the future has become an dirty word. Is there really anyone who studies history even on an casual level who claims EVERYTHING was better in the past? Or denies that not everything modern is good and that we have to fix what is wrong, but in general, progress is an good thing? Science fiction is an good indicator about how we as societie think about the future, and todays SF scares the hell out of me.
It's mental atrophy from a lack of brain exercise through wondering. If we question something, we just look it up now. Imagine if this is your entire life from birth. We don't wonder like we used to, so we don't exercise our brain like we used to. It's all of us.
@@barnabycollins7337 I do not know, for me the internet is someway the extension, I want to know things, I am not particular good at anything, as soon I know how it works and how to do it i move on, not much for becoming an master in anything. But what scares me is people who have no desire to know anything at all, or only in the narrow field of there job, but outside of that it is crickets. Theres an whole fuckin universe outside there and we are alive 80 years if lucky, I mean, there is no time to waste.
Involved in Education for over 30 years and he’s 100% correct. I’ve been saying this for 2 decades.
lol
Funny, just when the internet hit its straps.
And yet as a society we now trust little kids to know what being misgendered means or being in the wrong body means, when there's grown ass adults who dont know the difference between a City, a country or a continent.
One of the problems in education (and this is almost the elephant in the room problem) is that people do things based on incentives. If I am a student in your class and I do poorly, what, and be honest, would be the consequence? I get a D in your class which means I pass and don't have to take it again? In contrast to this, if my employer wants me to learn something (say database management for example) and I don't learn it? Well, I get fired which could possibly cause me to not be able to make rent or buy food. Yet too many educators think that if we do away with public schools, children won't be educated (as if they are educated with public schools).
The first step to improve is to recognize you are dumb. Mona Lisa was painted by an Italian, but it stays in Paris (France), not in Italy. Should we add this to the common knowledge questions?
"me like these things, you like, vote me" 😂
Bill, you channeled Carlin on this one. Your voice is priceless.
Most frightening words in this video: "Gosh, I'm gonna be a teacher, so I should know this."
No it's not, she has self-awareness and can actually improve her level of knowledge. The trouble is those who think they know. As Carlin used to say, confident and stupid.
So how far is she from becoming a teacher? Did she just get into a program? All she really said is she is NOT a teacher currently. She plans to peruse becoming a teacher. 🤷♂️
“The dumbing down (of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.” - Carl Sagan He had a foreboding of America of the future. While he was alive, he witnessed how manufacturing jobs were being shifted abroad, and everything became focussed on making as much profit for as few super-rich as possible, and as much for a few as possibly achievable without an outright revolution, while the endless talking and talking and talking carried on and on and on... In more detail: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
@Ralph Bernhard See how few thumbs-up you got? A handful. That's all. Shows you something. Thanks for the Carl Sagan quote. I read the whole thing. Amazingly it has come true.
Seems here most don’t know who the great scientist Carl Sagan was…. But damn he hit the nail on the head with that quote.
Celebrating ignorance, can you say cardi b
Holy shit.
It would appear the Republican party is a celebration of ignorance.
We love you Bill
You know what, I'm from Greece and it's an election year and I'm sad to say that if the political ads that Maher is making fun of were made in my country, it would be a big improvement.
Bill is totally back on top of his game: relentless reality
there is still hope for him
Yeah but would he support Trump if he ran for office again? He doesn't have any convictions
@@tinafrompasadena3192 . Maher has nothing BUT convictions! As does Trump
too late, we will never forget his past actions
Here, here!
I can feel George Carlin in the DNA of this monologue. And glad to hear it.
I’m thankful for Bill Maher Because regardless if we agree on things He speaks what he really thinks and feels Even if it’s not very nice One knows where he stands And that, I respect
Laughter 🤣🤣
100% thank you. I remember vividly being in middle school and thinking the show Street Smarts was fake, I couldn’t imagine anyone actually being that dumb. I thought this is a child! I’m first generation went to public school so didn’t have any fancy education but I liked to learn and I didn’t realize how out of the ordinary that is until I joined the work force. So many people are really just sleep walking through life.
I think people are ‘street smart’ enough to know that a correct answer ends up on the cutting room floor
Ask 100 people the same question (pretty much any question), and you’re bound to find one confident idiot who doesn’t have the sense to say “I don’t know”
@@GLORYNEVADASMITH I
Perfectly put. People are only concerned about their own inane personal lives and have zero interest in the world around them. It's so challenging to have a deep, intellectual conversation.
Amen to that
Bill Maher gets right between the lines and shows how crazy both sides can be. Very impressive I must say.
Devon Zeller- Because Bill can only criticize. It's his Forte. Bill will tear to pieces anyone or any idea, but as far as solutions, he has none.
Billdo supported and Voted for the RESIDENT in the wh and Voted for every demoncrat he could vote for.. He's supported demoncrats his whole life look where that's Gotten US as a Country! ENJOY BILLDO What You helped Create an America being Destroyed faster than Ever! NOTICE Not one demoncrat EVER PUSHES BACK AGAINST THERE LEADERS NOT ONE! Total PUPPETs the Hoke lot of them! VOTING REPUBLICAN Is how AMERICANS FIX AMERICA! November 8th 2022 2023 2024!
@@afellowamericanafellowamer5317 maybe because it's not his job to find solutions. It's politicians job.
Sides? Leftism/wokism is the worst problem. Any side that opposes that does well.
Devon Zeller- Any jerk can point out whats wrong. Its the people who show up and do something productive who make things better.
As always, education is one of those issues that is complex, never simple. But at the risk of coming across as if I'm simplifying things to one issue: I do think the reading curriculum debates, and subsequent outcomes, of the past generation or so have had much more of a negative than positive impact...maybe just as much if not more than social media addiction. And this is in consideration, too, of how reading affects EVERY subject area of teaching and learning, not just the English/Language Arts classes.
Bill you are wonderful, thanks!
And this is why I'm a history teacher. To make the world a little less dumb. I'm hoping none of my students ever appear on any of those segments, otherwise I might quit.
Luck to you!
The 13-minute, 42-second 1942 US Department of Agriculture video *Hemp for Victory* is the key to reducing unemployment, reducing poverty, reducing hunger, reducing homelessness, reducing health care costs, reducing crime, reducing police brutality, reducing government spending, reducing political corruption, reducing pollution, replacing fossil fuels, ending deforestation and stopping climate change, all at the same time. There is an official .gov link to the film from the US National Archives. It has been public since 1990. There was a bill in Congress titled HR 3652, the *Hemp for Victory Act of 2019.* Teach this because it hasn't been taught in 80 years.
I hope not. But I can't say for sure.
Thank you for what you do for our children. People need to understand that teachers are continually blocked from properly teaching our students by parents and the government. Your job is so difficult, but so important!
But do you actually cause them to gain knowledge or do you just give them a bunch of work and assignments to do? I started kindergarten in the year 2000 for some perspective and for my generation, we were never measured on our intelligence only our workload. It seemed like the whole thing was designed to get us ready for office culture, not college.
My 25 year old niece, who has been in college for 5 years now (without a degree yet), says she loves Socialism. When I asked her what she loves about it, she said "everything is free". I reminded her that someone has to pay for things, nothing is absolutely free. "She said, very proudly, "I know that, the money comes from the Government". So, I asked, where the Government gets the money, and she replied, "from the US Treasury". She truly believed that money is just printed by the Treasury and no one has to replace it. How did we end up with kids like this?
Sadly, that kid is right: Socialism for the rich and corporations works exactly as she said. The Fed prints infinite money and spends 800 billion in one year on military crap we don't need or use. It prints that infinite money and hands it to rich oil and gas corporations as unneeded subsidies. Tell the kid to go to work for Big Oil, the military industrial complex , or Big Pharma, and she really will get everything for free. Meanwhile, the rest of us will have nothing but piles of paper dollars that can't pay rent or buy food.
Her parents done fucked up somewhere
First you start by punishing these fools. It has to be appropriate. They must forever associate lies with pain.
By letting mouthbreathers have children...
I’m sure from her perspective it’s true. That’s all she has seen in her life. Hasn’t paid taxes yet and to keep the economic boat from sinking had just seen the treasury print money. She has been taught this and observed this. It’s all freeeeeeee yay.🙄 don’t be a boomer yo. 😂 reality is going to hurt her badly some day.
Some are always everywhere. But there,way to many.
Thank you 🙏
But it isn’t just the schools! It’s the overall attitudes, culture, and motivation of Americans. Having graduated from high school in the early 90s (Gen X, yes), I was once astounded at university regarding how well we compared with students from other nations. So in almost 30 years, the decline is astounding! It can’t be just the education system. The people themselves need to take responsibility...for once.
Teachers aren't allowed to teach, parents aren't allowed to discipline. But when the kids come of age they finally get consequences for their actions by going to jail... (or maybe being elected President of the United States)
Late 80s. When I got to college, I couldn't believe how easy the schoolwork was. If I even tried, I could've gotten 3.8 - settled for 3.4. The people I see, the s****y little brats I cross paths with? Tosh said it best: if the unemployment rate is 10%, how do 90% of you have jobs?!!
You can take chumps to the classroom, but you can't make them think.
It’s a bigger problem than “ The people have to take responsibility “ in the 1970’s I heard the rumblings of universities are becoming less individual think tanks of expression and more like corporate agenda’s. Fifty years later universities have become corporate brands. It’s no longer about teaching our youth to become positive contributors to our communities, it’s about pushing the corporate brand. Stupidly & greed are road to cultural suicide.
Yes, but the FBI will be at the school board meetings to make you a criminal. We have a hidden government, how many people can name their school board let alone what they stand for. Yet we voted them every time. 😢
Remember what Hannah Arendt said about education: "The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any"
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tom I agree in part. A lot of people just don't care that deeply about issues that don't affect them directly. I really don't know if there is any other way to see things in the end either. It's hard enough to get through life. Having convictions would be a lot of extra work, take up a lot of free time from your main job. It would be like a hobby. Few people can pull it off. But more should.
Oh they have convictions about what they think they know and will run to their safe space to protect their ignorance
Basically the GOP voterbase
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 If Bill has any influence at all he is part of the group persuading Dems to become GOP people. Bill needs to retire asap. I don't know who he speaks for other than himself, Mr. too cool for words. Watch his episode with Chris Cuomo, Bill was intimidated.
My sister gets angry when I use words she doesn't know the meaning. I told her I'm trying to improve my vocabulary, not belittle her. Hence, this would be a good opportunity for her to learn. I think that because I earned an MA in history, some people get intimidated. I'm not that smart. I just worked hard to earn my degrees.
I never thought I would agree with Bill Maher, but he has hit it right on the head
He can hit it out of the park when he returns to his logical origins. Somehow he freaked out during the Hillary years and hitched his wagon to that train wreck. I think he knows he needs a better..more educated, base to attract for his schtick.
why wouldn't you able to agree with him at least some of the time? To think that you couldn't agree with a reasonable person makes me think that you're ideologically stubborn
Very entertaining BUT he was dead wrong about woke being a better product than conservatism. Another major error is that he selectively shows idiotic examples of conservatives, but never identifies the idiotic youngsters as "liberals" which they are much closer to. Face it Bill, "liberals' lost the battle of the Left to the extremists and your approach is to bash idiots on the right, and say the evil idiots on the extreme left are not as bad. But they are worse. The average prewar German had a far better life under Hitler than the average prewar Soviet citizen had under Stalin. Ditto for the Chinese people under Mao, or the average Cambodian under Pol Pot, or the average North Korean under the Kims. It is very sad that the United States has declined precipitously in the short 20 months or so that the old-school liberals have been in charge, after allowing the corruption of its societal institutions from within by the psychotic Left. And the left never speaks about the rather profound principles of conservatism that seek at least preliminary evidence of improvement before making potentially significant changes to complex, interactive systems.
@@jaimhaas5170 Had more people voted for Hilary Clinton, we’d not be as fucked as we are now. SCOTUS would not be 2/3 Catholic and turning America into The Republic of Gilead. But, yeah, sure, it was so much better to have The Donald in office. 🙄 I don’t just love HC, but since Obama, she has been the lesser evil, so to speak. I wanted Bernie Sanders. I really did, but I knew it wasn’t likely to be. So, I’ve done what I always have: I’ve voted blue, across the board- BLUE. I would rather have a democratic-led country, warts and all, over the alternative.
@@iamcasihart the problem now with blue is all the woke crap they have promoted. I will never vote blue again. They goofed.
"Idiocracy" wasn't meant to be a documentary. Yet here we are. Edit: LMFAO replies tell me all I need to know. It's always the other sides fault, never our own. We're fucked.
And it wasn't written to be partisan, although it's scary to see how the political party of the future shares far too many similarities as the MAGA GQP.
It's not a documentary either, the Demo(n)crats are using it as an instruction manual.
@@tiffbeevachou108 Huh? And the college aged kids featured and being discussed by Bill vote overwhelmingly Democrat? When will the desperate lies stop man? Ever? Lies are not the future. And everyone saw WHO the future is in the vid, those aren't "MAGA" thats stupidity went to college.
It’s got electrolytes
@@mikem6997 It's what plants crave!