Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@newworldhello says : Online homeschooling is the answer.>> <<@RightsFocusCanada says : I'm dyslexic and have tried to learn French my whole life. It would be more achievable to win the Boston Marathon at the age of 52 than be remotely fluent in French or any language>> <<@gam3garage says : This interviewer makes me squirm a little.>> <<@susansusan8046 says : When in high school when taking tests I was so stressed I could barely spell my name. English was my second language and I struggled. I was treated and felt dumb. As an adult I took a few college classes and got on the deans list, i started an successful international company. I'm proud of my can do attitude but at 77 still feel inferior because I didn't get a college education.>> <<@madhatter1662 says : What I am getting from this is that children need to be evaluated on an individual level and provided a tailored education that plays to their strengths while challenging their weaknesses. That by brute forcing a cookie cutter education on all children uniformly, the education system is failing society by ignoring the talents of individuals for the sake of a proscribed and procedural methodology.>> <<@Plivermore-o1x says : Tom. When you use bad language it interrupts some of your listens thought process.>> <<@janicedobis6490 says : As a student that struggled with info retrieval for tests, but sponged-up everything that was taught, this is relatable. I became an educator more as a defiant position to each of the horrible teachers I ever had. Being in the “system” I see for myself how bad it works. I work with some amazing people who struggle in the space between laws, policies, curriculums, tests, and the actual reality of children. I also work with teachers who see the kids as the problem. As humans we all have egos/bias that get challenged by personalities that oppose our egos and bias beliefs. The students that ask too many questions, struggle in some way that inconveniences the class or teacher, is done first or last, etc, is too often doomed. We don’t work with preservice teachers at all on this issue. The testing in insane and really tells us nothing about creativity, resilience, and real life problem solving. The curriculum is burdensome but with very little sincere depth-like a buffet where you have to sample everything, and from that tiny spoonful know everything there is to know about the item. And the policies are written by policy makers who seem to have zero understanding of child psyc and development as well as how learning actually occurs. Basically. I don’t know who is responsible for our system, but it is beyond fixable. It truly needs to be re-designed.>> <<@jillgaglione3555 says : My son has a severe learning disability language based…he has started learning the violin via the Suzuki method and is doing amazing…it brings me so much joy that he is learning something without struggling !!!! Thank you for saying all of this!!!>> <<@VickyGRUENBLAT says : I love him. My son Philip wanted to play the violin, but a teacher turned him off. Something else could work better. "Incaluable harm." That's an understatement. I could do music either. But music has something in the brain thats importsnt.>> <<@kricketflyd111 says : Terrance tried introducing him to a eternal concept but Erick would not listen because its new to him.>> <<@hollygolightly8048 says : Stop dropping the “F” bomb. It dilutes your point.>> <<@pj9591 says : Hello Eric I am sorry you had so many problems with learning French. I am French and I have never heard that everything was gender in French, in France. We do not think that “une porte is feminine and un sac est masculin. The French language must sound nice to the ear, and the orthograph must be arranged according to sound. Furthermore, if you make a mistake using le, la, or any article that does convey feminine or masculine connotations, people, still will understand what you are saying. Not like the English language with its 65 ways (I believe) and meanings of up or down, if not used properly nobody understands what you are saying. I still have difficulty with those little words in English. Whatever learning difficulties you had, I would not mind being as intelligent as you are.>> <<@jandroid1962 says : Consider this - 1. Many teachers are excellent and caring and effective. 2 - Most teachers aren’t that great at their jobs. 3 - Many teachers are low key emotionally/verbally abusive. If I were raising a child today they’d be homeschooled. And we’d be having fun and we’d both be learning.>> <<@tomconrad7091 says : Thank you fellow Loser! My story is quite similar of anger and hate. I am in the top 1 percent of wealth with four children and 8 grandchildren. People don’t understand why I am so compassionate to losers, those who were eaten by the system.>> <<@SuagrWaffers says : If teachers have leeway to give As to students who didnt complete assignments correctly, but have glimpses of brillance, every deviant and truant student will pass with flying colors.>> <<@trooper738-m6h says : "C" students run the world...>> <<@vernonshoaf says : I wished there were no F bombs in this type of rich conversations.>> <<@LordMalice6d9 says : I was mostly a C student in school. But my severe ADD and aspergers negatively effected my grades even though I was a deep thinker.>> <<@Baczkowa78 says : There are good schools and teachers. There are parents who neglect their children, but they should be the first educators.>> <<@Alan-lv9rw says : I have a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree, both from elite schools. I had a very solid (although unspectacular) career in business. A guy I knew in high school dropped out of college twice (he struggled academically). Then he became a general contractor and did extremely well. A high IQ does not guarantee success and a mediocre IQ does not guarantee failure.>> <<@travelermike8541 says : I have a BS and MS with mixed experiences in school. I believe teachers mistake their mission. They are instructors and should follow the motto to do no harm. With an education degree they are not qualified to judge the arc of a young persons life or to mold young minds. Fact is, that rowdy boy will be the man you call to fix your plumbing or AC some day.>> <<@pattymcmullen8551 says : How does the f word help this interview...at all. Poor command of the English language I'd say>> <<@booksteer7057 says : I was a straight A student who stupidly thought that my academic success would transfer into worldly success. I graduated from a very prestigious, private college. I had a degree but very little work experience. So when I tried to enter the workforce, I got the big "So what?" If I had not been forced to do volunteer work in high school, I would've had almost no work experience. I think every job I've ever had, except for being a telemarketer, can trace its roots back to the volunteering I did in high school.>> <<@julieb7785 says : Exemplary man, EW. His brother too.>> <<@slappy8941 says : The system is designed to fail.>> <<@timreyes2179 says : Ah, eric tells his full origin story 😂>> <<@artnovalite1125 says : Stop saying fuck . It drops your intelligence with me even if you could be intelligent>> <<@carolheinzig666 says : Eric is sooo brilliant I have an engineer, just graduated from university, and an empathetic child(he told us he was empathetic in 8th grade with comment that he did not want to be pathetic) Both had such different learning needs. My empathetic is in 4th year at university in a stem economics program. He was the most work as a parent in trying to help him understand himself (both of us are engineers) and getting him through the broken educational system that wanted to fail him which would have changed his perception of himself and having confidence in himself. My husband and my first goal was to build skill and confidence in the heart of our children starting at age 4.>> <<@barbloft says : We need Eric to overhaul our graveyard of an education system.>> <<@zalllon says : I was fortunate enough to be born in 1970, where toys were board games, backgammon, chess, puzzles, mechano sets, and a microscope. The types of things we played with took time to complete even when we played outside. There were so many things we did as play that required so much time to figure out. As I’ve had teams of analysts and had to hire, and more specifically, interview young folks … I have seen a lot of MBA grads do well on logic, but struggle to apply it during an interview, and get beat out by those with college diplomas (Canada) or international students. And then there are those who are only high school diploma grads who have had 5+ yrs in the workforce, and a lot of them crush it. I design my interview tests to be unlikely to finish all the questions, and go in early at the end … as I want to see who asks for more time. Very few ask for that, none of the MBAs have ever asked for more time, they just stop as soon as they see me. Initially I was blown away by this, now I’d be surprised if they did ask for more time. I’m not looking for people to punch out at 4:55 pm when there is a problem at the table.>> <<@therocinante3443 says : I'll never forget being smarter than many of my teachers yet struggling with even getting Cs>> <<@marcmorrison4297 says : Well at least it failed Eric>> <<@jetman551 says : A single bad teacher destroyed my desire for "higher" education. I am a member of Mensa with a 152 IQ. College is a complete waste unless you go into stem or medicine. And then it's questionable.>> <<@txdmsk says : Primary school I was touted as one of the most brilliant kids in the country. High school I took every chance to ditch classes, not do homework and I was pretty much a C student in most subjects, as I lived off things the teachers said during classes I heard with one ear. The vast majority of stuff being taught made no sense to learn, especially not in a way it was taught. School is largely regurgitation. It's daycare. High school teachers told me I won't make it in life. I work from home in IT and make 15-20x the national average. I could rake in much more. But I don't want to. The stress associated with running a company and being responsible for the livelihood of other people is not worth the extra money for me. I already can't spend this much anyways, as most luxury goods and services are just as stupid as the school system.>> <<@AncientRylanor69 says : m>> <<@atomicvinylreviews3420 says : This hits close to home for me in so many ways as someone who was given up on and struggled through the schooling system with what I now know was undiagnosrs ADHD... The older I get, The more I discover how damaging and how messed up that system was. Even for the nerotypical students who do well it can be bad. Schools focus and prioritize the resuts from them that bennifit the schools prestige and image, not what will actually benefit the kids whelbeeing in life... Like, it dosnt matter to them if little Timmy develops some sort of debilitating anxiety issies and a messed up sense of his self worth tied to his grades.. No. What matters more is that he gets the higest marks on his tests making the schools look good on paper to those who fund them...>> <<@joeharris3810 says : Always thought A students get told what to do by B students who work for the C students D students name bridges and shit>> <<@Stan-b3v says : Vivaldi, he played in the pub a tiny town I was in in about 1980. Liloett BC. Surprised to hear his name come up.>> <<@Stan-b3v says : My bookkeeper told me “A students work for the government and B students work for the C students. Pretty much the way it is.>> <<@chipcook5346 says : The old story about what George Patton's father did is illuminating.>> <<@howardskillington4445 says : That Vivaldi melody is entirely formed of the conventional major scale, without a single accidental. It contains no mysteries.>> <<@rick3156 says : Tom, you are hosting a lot of fringe people of late. Are you going down a rabbit hole of conspiracy and misinformation? Seems like it. I’ve seen this guy on multiple podcasts and he is smart but more than a bit out there. Your guests are for the most part turning me off to your show and I only tuned in to tell you this.>> <<@JustinArthur-d5h says : I love you Erick.>> <<@tethyn says : 21:50 great insights. It would seem that a mutation without any advantage would lead to immediate death, because if it didn’t; then it had an effect which created good and bad advantages. And why do I think it brought good or at least neutral advantage? If it was all bad the organism would not be able to live. It would be that poisonous. If it didn’t, then it has a potential that is only minimally, or not expressed at all, could be expressed in an advantageous way. the value of advantageous traits only comes from the environment the organism exists in currently. As such, is only potential until actualized by the appropriate states of affairs.>> <<@Planeet-Long says : 03:05 Indonesian is the easiest language in the world because it removed a lot of illogical fallacies and other constructs from languages.>> <<@Seofthwa says : That is the problem with institutions, they become ridged and anyone who does not fit the mold gets tossed aside as useless.>> <<@georgemink1813 says : Eric, what you're describing is nothing new! I picked up on this in Catholic School. The teachers would take jabs at you there, when I/We said something they couldn't wrap their minds around, whilst simultaneously encouraging my peers to inflict a great deal of psychological bullying. Damn, the stories I could write, lnowing they were true.>> <<@jonetier4494 says : WOW....Great insight. Dead on the money!!!!>> <<@tickfawriver7990 says : Tom, can you please have more respect for the public and yourself by eliminating the F bombs.>> <<@MuzeTitaN says : I was always told in school that I read slowly and had a hard time in math and English. They gave me a test for dyslexia with a teacher in a quiet room . Of course, I did well because there were no distractions, lol . I have adhd and on the spectrum for autism .I was put in the "special class". I got kicked out of music class because I couldn't read music . I was trying to play by ear . I was constantly told I have a learning disability and would amount to much . I taught myself how to play guitar and started at 15 . The first thing I learned by ear was eruption by van Halen. I have been playing for 20 years as a hobby and also study and research ancient history, philosophy, astronomy, astrophysics, and often have conversations with my kids about black holes and quantum mechanics . I run my own business, have a house and a family. Never graduated high school. I also taught myself how to cook,build computers and currently leaning ancient Hebrew>>