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The Tai Lopez Show

334: Why the School System Sets People Up for Failure

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

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4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Today’s educational system is not setup for people to learn in a way that will really help them in the future. Because of standardized tests, rules, and regulations, the school system actually encourages people to pump as much information as possible into their brain before a test, and then simply dump it out as soon as they are done with the test.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You basically pump information in students' brains, so they memorize it just

0:03.8

long enough to pass a test, and then they dump it out of their brain because they

0:07.0

got another test the next week.

0:14.8

That's why I'm such a big fan of some level disruption of the current education system because

0:20.6

current education system then talk about things like I'm talking about very well.

0:25.5

And if they do, they communicate around a boring way, so nobody remembers them.

0:30.9

Again, people go look at the education system with forced testing.

0:36.6

They thought they'd make schools better by requiring, by judging schools, by how well they do.

0:43.4

Oh, deer. Look how many deer there are. Holy crap.

0:52.1

How many deer was that, Kate? 10. 10 or 20.

0:56.3

Oh, more. Got a snapchat there.

1:02.8

Put, put, post the snake in, put a 10 deer running away. 10 deer jumped up,

1:10.4

a snapchatting, but modern education system, they said, oh, it just

1:15.3

pass laws that you only, you're judged by how you don't want standardized tests.

1:20.6

They forgot that a reaction has an opposite equal reaction, so guess what happens?

1:25.8

Teachers start focusing just on making their students pass the test, not making them have real

1:30.5

comprehension, and there it is. There's some more. So the whole school system becomes about

1:35.4

memorization and then dumping it. I call it pump and dump.

1:39.8

That comes from a different background, but that's what I'm reminded of.

1:45.5

You basically pump information in students' brains, so they memorize it just long enough

1:50.6

to pass a test, not long enough to understand it or utilize the information.

1:55.3

And then they dump it out of their brain because they got another test the next week.

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