When it comes to creative careers, especially those in game design and development, you may very well relate to this video. This is not encouraging you to skip school in any way. This is to encourage you to continue doing what you love and don’t let an exam result determine your fate.
His English is terrible! I didn’t understand almost anything. Have to rewatch.
Innit bruv?
Wrong point. The all “unimportant generic” stuff you get stays there and builds up.
I Would strongly suggest to watch these instead:
Don t become Another brick in the wall
But its not street.
Guessing you haven’t lived in east London mate?
Why is this even here?
Because its interesting and relevant to the world we live in…
Please leave the forum, and go outside and experience the world…
Thank you.
Did you really have to take the get a life route? It’s bloody stupid.
At first, it felt like he was ranting the old “people don’t get me” nonsense that practically everyone goes through. But toward the end he really does make some great comments. The best bit is that rather than just complaining, which is the usual approach, he advocates persevering.
Sadly, standard educational practices are not perfect for everyone. People do learn differently and are engaged in different ways. When you are outside the norm, it is easy to take that on board in a negative way. Much harder to embrace it and leverage it. His message is pretty positive and highlights that. Me like
There’s nothing wrong with his English, yours appears to be the one at fault if you can’t understand a basic accent.
It’s impossible to understand when people swallow the words and always mumble. I can understand people from different Europe countries when they speak English, but sometimes it’s impossible, especially people from England and US - they almost always say something “strange”.
Anyone else notice the bit where he says that he’ll never use Pythagoras’s theorem?
This is probably true for most people, apart from those on this forum. Pretty much every game I make needs to use it…
Still, it is true that you learn lots of stuff you never use (I learnt to shoot a rifle at school :)). Qualifications aren’t magic tickets which entitle you to a job nor are they a way of defining who you are - lots of us could put letters after our names but we never do.
They’re more of a record of achievement which says - I experienced this challenge and succeeded at it. Which is a worthwhile thing to have, because otherwise getting a job would come down to who you know and how persuasive you are.
Incidentally, his point cramming for an exam and then forgetting it afterwards also applies to lots of real world situations including spoken word performance. When I judge his performance, I don’t care whether he’s just learnt it 10 minutes before and forgets it straight afterwards - but if he forgets his words half way through its a big deal, just like an exam.
Any GoT fans here? I recall a discussion between Jon Snow and Ygritte. He said they’d all die if they attacked Castle Black because they weren’t an army, they didn’t have the discipline. Great warriors maybe, but that’s not enough. Effective functioning in a society is not about individual skill or genius, it’s about being a team player. Everyone benefits.
It might be true for most people, but that’s because they’ll pay a premium for someone to do things that they could do themselves, simply because they don’t have that knowledge and stuff related to it. Home repairs and upgrades come to mind rather quickly, since my father has always done all that stuff. Through exposure to him, and the knowledge from school, I know how to do a lot of that stuff as well.
It’s a valid choice, but it’s a choice you should be making, not having made for you. That’s the entire idea behind mandatory public education.
Society has changed a lot since my parents were in school. I’d argue that it makes basic education even more important. Not knowing basic things like how to figure out what size of board you need means you are beholden to people who do have that knowledge. This will always be the case in some way, but the more ways you are beholden the others, the less options you’ll have. That means it’s harder to save money and improve your life. It also means your job options are limited as well.
I don’t mind if people ignore Pythagoras to learn to draw. But they should be learning something. People who fight against education don’t replace it with other learning. They simply do nothing, and learn nothing. They spend the time earning money, but not at a job that’s teaching them a skill.
Yes, some people are the exception. Good for them. Public education is about helping those who would make a huge mistake and raising the base level of knowledge in society. Sure, it might hold a few people back a bit, but it helps too many more.
In the end, you are letting exam results decide your fate. You’ve decided that since you can’t do something well, you’re not going to do it at all. You certainly won’t be an astronaut or engineer if you can’t do the math. You won’t be a surgeon if you can’t learn the medical info necessary to do so. Those exam results absolutely do matter for most high-paying jobs.
You aren’t the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. It’s nice to dream, but you need to spend time securing your livelihood first.
Lots of stuff on the internet is relevant to the world we live in, but is there a subforum for it here? Nope.
Why is it such a bad thing to develop your brain at thing’s you’re not good at?
Say math’s not your thing… big deal! It doesn’t mean you should avoid it.
I sucked at math in school, badly… I never liked it! But now, by pure chance… I use it for stuff with Unity, what did I know back then?? It’s fun to actually apply it in creative ways… and even if I forgot most things, at least I kept the overall concepts. If now I spend my sweet time in google to refresh my memory, it really pays off those time I did pay attention.
Honestly? I wish I had paid more attention, but I wasn’t motivated back then… and I lost so much time. Who cares about grades? Worry about learning while your brain is young and in super-learn mode… when you get older you’re not so slick. Maybe you gain more patience, but you tend to stick to what you know.
Not that education system is perfect, but hey… it’s still mostly parent’s job to guide their kids, encourage and motivate them, and let them choose their fate. After highschool you can do whatever you want anyway.
How is it mostly the parents’ job when kids spend more time in school and asleep than they do with their parents? How is it the parents’ job when one or both parents will have to both be working so much that they likely won’t see their kids until two hours after they get home?
You can’t just say "it’s the parents’ job when the parents don’t have time to do it.
Well, where should I start?
First of all, if you don’t have time to raise your kids, why have them in the first place?
Parents gotta make time for their kids. It’s a big responsibility, and it’s the parent’s responsibility, not their neighbors’, not the government’s.
And it’s not about the amount of time, it’s about the quality.
And last but not least, it is paren’ts job, period! :-p