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School Really? | Youhan Jung | TEDxCanadianIntlSchool


man do I really love waking up early in
the morning every day I get the special
benefit and the opportunity to be able
to remove myself my bed and drag myself
to get ready for school yeah as you can
already see I’m pretty much of a morning
person I like to hear the birds chirping
a few the morning breeze and see the
sunrise from the horizon so it’s pretty
natural as often no but like seriously
you know I want to see it’s just one of
the hardest processes that I ever have
to go through my entire life and I’m
pretty sure many of you agree to that so
in order to understand why I have to go
through such rigorous processes I
decided to analyze why I have to wake up
so early and most days in my life so the
reason behind my prevalent lack of sleep
was caused by as such every day I would
have to stay up late for the completion
of my assignments and the following day
I’d have to wake up early as a
preparation for school the day’s I
wouldn’t have to wake up as early would
be either during the weekends or the
holidays so to sum it up in a sense the
act of waking up early in the morning
all just depends on whether to go to
school or not okay okay okay okay
purpose of me standing here isn’t to
talk it’s into basically campaign to you
like a spoiled child about how I don’t
want to go to school but it’s rather
propose a solution or rather answer the
question whether we should change the
venue of school as you can probably
already know from what I said earlier
the problem that I’m currently facing is
the lack of sleep which is a common and
widespread problem that is not only
limited to teenagers around my age but
just human beings in general sleep as
you could probably already know is a
daily routine that all human beings must
go through in order to recover our
bodies but and also our minds Alex were
teenagers we need to get around eight to
ten hours of sleep to do so however if
we don’t get that sufficient amounts of
rest there can be several negative
effects to our body such as a decrease
in brain activity deficiency in our
immune system and it just doesn’t allow
us to be prepared for the following day
as students working on assignments
meeting expectations and just improving
in an academic standard is something
deemed necessary in this modern society
to do so we all have to invest a lot of
time into what we do which will lead
this problem unless you’re like someone
like I know who’s
productive even at home so I brainstorm
from changing the timetable all the way
to utilizing the advancement of
technology until I was able to come up
with a certain conclusion I may have
just found an idea that could possibly
solve this problem and this idea all
comes from Who I am as an individual I
am one of the people that watch
science-fiction movies just for the fun
of questioning it’s reality from
feasible to wacky I’ve had a good batch
of memories witnessing different
interpretations of how technology would
advance in the near future
and among these movies The Matrix was
quite intriguing and reads quite a few
questions okay there’s this okay there’s
a scene that movie where neo the main
character decides to enter this virtual
reality world called the matrix where he
learns a few tricks up his sleeve and
just overall experiences a lot of things
just by initiating educational programs
so I wonder can technology improve
enough to make this certain imagination
reality I mean think about it current
technology is improving at an
exponential rate by which even we don’t
know what its limitations are
imaginative ideas lot of decades ago
such as virtual reality is it’s
beginning to become or who knows maybe
it’s already mainstream so for that
reason I hereby present my brilliant
innovative and original idea of sleep
education which is education that
happens when we sleep allosaurus
teenagers our brains constantly function
even when we see in which we can deduce
that we constantly think even at a
subconscious state this idea basically
simulates this phenomenon which
simulates vivid dreaming to allow us to
learn anything in a virtual amount of
time so let’s say if you if you want to
learn about something or gain a certain
skill but you can’t invest the time if
you’re doing so then just run one of
these programs and the next thing you
know you’ll have all the knowledge that
you need let’s see mmm you want to visit
another country but you hate sign
language run a language program you want
to learn how to cook but you can’t even
fry your X properly then just run a
cooking program you want to get a 45 min
to power program just run at the power
program program for get the idea as you
can already see it would be pretty much
a dream come true first so it actually
happen right I mean you could just get
all the noise that you need in the
matter of seconds
well in my opinion I don’t think so
because even because even after
brainstorming so long about a solution
to my like receive while also trying to
answer the question of whether we should
change the venue or not I really don’t
think we should change the venue of
school a lisatsen now I mean even with
this idea of sleep education itself this
system where we could learn anything
perfectly in a very short amount of time
it’s in fact considered a fall which
I’ll get to later essentially
educational systems are the parents of
our society’s form it is just lessons
how to learn how to think how to
interact and also how to succeed after
countless failures through effort
glamorous job positions which are set by
society such as politicians nearest
surgeons and physicians do certainly
serve as important figures in society
however when we go to the root of these
positions we see these figures grow from
preschool primary schools secondary
school and all the way to college where
they can finally gain the ability to
contribute to society of course by
influencing my original idea of sleep
education we could have these
individuals become geniuses in the
fraction of the time required one said
well the generation would cease to feel
or become humane which is sort created
this artificial society where everyone
would have the exact same skills and the
exact same level which in my opinion
would be quite dull and uninteresting in
my opinion I don’t know I mean at this
point we may as well just mass-produced
artificial intelligent robots instead of
course as we all know the current venue
of school certainly has its own problems
with one of its biggest laws being the
indicator of success there are indeed
students who are not set up for the same
amount
in the exact same way which is pretty
obvious since everyone is different I
mean I guess this may have been the main
reason why changing the venue of school
was question ever so in the first place
however you could think of it this way
the way current educational systems
functions drives different individuals
to be shaped in the own unique way which
similar to how we play around with clay
our younger age students would start to
learn the basics the fundamentals and
they’ll start to explore and what their
strengths and weaknesses are which is
similar to how we just play with clay
when you receive it at this point
success
and Baylor is not really emphasized
since we’re just learning more about
ourselves as these students grow older
this ought to start to branch out and
improve on what they’re taught to excel
at to either continue their academics in
the venue school or to just take a
different career path of academics it’s
just not suited for them and honestly
it’s not that much of a bad idea because
society is changing in a positive way in
this very aspect to allow these options
other than academics that feel more
acceptable than ever before for this
reason this once thought to be this flaw
of the venue of school can soon become
this certain advantage for society since
it will provide a diversity and career
options to allow our world feel more
colorful interesting and just humane
after a few more years these individuals
can soon become independent and gain the
ability to contribute to the society
that they live in which similar to how
an art made by the creative functions in
an art gallery and what I said is
basically how how supportive I am of the
current venue of school what’s enough
time effort and technique anyone can
turn a low poly soggy piece of clay into
a magnificent piece of art I mean like
seriously it can’t get any further than
that success no sorry I mean true
success should only be given to those
who put the time and effort into what
they want to become in the future
therefore instead of continuing on
rambling on about whether we should
change the venue of school or not I
think it’s a better idea to derive the
question into answering how we should
improve the venue school
reiterating what I said earlier success
is not thrown to you want to win though
many people know this not a lot of
people truly understand it from the
bottom of the heart like when you look
up your role models the success of that
person is the only thing that truly
catches our attention and honestly it’s
inevitable because it’s bright it’s
admirable and literally the main reason
why you’re ever looking up that person
however we need to understand properly
and be educated thoroughly about the
distance we must take in order to reach
the same level as a role models but oh
may be able to even surpass them however
unfortunately due to how the functions
of society is changing over time it
seems that this concept is becoming more
difficult to grasp which allows the
consecutive generation
to feel more impatient and hasty than
ever before have you ever told anyone
about how easy a pass difficult
experience was oh don’t try that I know
everyone here told at least one person
who’s probably younger than you about
how easy the work is compared to yours
I mean grade 10 personal project
okay okay all of them probably annoy
your juniors is it isn’t necessarily a
bad thing to say because the fact that
you even said that shows this growth an
improvement in your ability to persevere
through a certain hardship and what I
said earlier is how I think the current
venue of school should take its
direction useful skills such as patience
perseverance and decision-making should
be emphasized further by allowing
students to experience events that can
be encountered as adults in society well
I mean if you want to if we don’t know a
reason why and here’s why as I mentioned
towards this entire presentation society
and technologies is improving at an
exponential rate at which popular trends
are scraped out and replaced with
something else in the matter of days or
who knows even seconds this speed and
advancement forces everything to be just
as fast such as let’s say communication
and shopping I mean in this modern era
if you’re just gonna send a short
message to a friend or colleague
why bother go your weight right hand
write a letter when you could type up
view a few words and send it via email
and why bother drag yourself all the way
to a shopping mall when you could have
the potential and the ability to buy the
exact same products online and that is
where I think this problem lies now
everything is becoming so fast and so
convenient that this concept of effort
is slowly but gradually fading from the
minds of society therefore for this
reason it is worrying to see this
potential of individuals gaining this
ability inability to fully adapt to the
workplace due to how convenient the lies
may have become if students take a
breeze or gain little to no experience
or any knowledge about how society
functions it would only be a matter of
time where these students would
encounter this life-changing problem
that they probably would not be able to
make a wise decision of due to the lack
of experience that they accumulated and
what I said is basically how thing
when your school should improve useful
in order to feel less relative
difficulties or hardships as an adult
students must be exposed to not a lot
not less but an adequate amounts of
difficulties and block roads as a
student in school by doing so when they
are encountered with these life-changing
problems they are able to handle it more
calmly and wisely to continue the stable
life as an adult in society in this
hypersonic society sometimes it’s better
to slow down instead of convenient
taking the shortcut
just like the amount of time you invest
in an ordinary school but as in a unique
student or as yourself because in the
end at the peak of success you’ll be
able to look back and say oh well
there’s nothing much thank you [Applause]
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