you
[Music]
[Applause]
my generation did not really believe in
education as a vehicle for change
instead we went on street we shouted the
screamed we threw stones at the police
and we wished for some people to be dead
the violent and social chaos that
dictionary is called revolution of
course we dearly paid for that I lost
many of my friends classmates and
neighbors to torture executions to more
and to excruciating pressures of refugee
camps and exile
I know the taste of loneliness and
despair from the experience of counting
the minutes when you are sitting in
solitary confinement and you don’t know
what will happen to you next
but none of that come close can surpass
menu as a teacher here that yet another
student has committed suicide
stress depression anxiety and suicide
have become part of our education system
and nobody should be surprised with the
mentality of ranking and competition
naturally breeds psychological disorders
that occasionally erupt into physical
violence and this ranking mentality is
omnipresent is everywhere and if you try
to refute it or to resist it you will be
faced with ear resistant perhaps this is
due to the fact that its roots go really
back to our primitive ancestors more
than 2 million years ago Homo habilis
had to look at pieces of stones compare
them and choose the best tool arguably a
matter of survival
as Homo sapiens he perfected this
ranking and selection process by relying
on our consciousness among others to
distinguish between edible and poisonous
food again clearly a matter of survival
but the problem is that 12,000 years
after the beginning of human
civilization after the dawn of
agricultural revolution those primitive
comparisons of metamorphose into a
pandemic disorder the ranking disorder
the rank everything from trial to bon we
learn to rank and compare ourselves
against our siblings classmates
neighbors colleagues I am taller richer
smarter than you I am more knowledgeable
and more experienced are more beautiful
than others most of these comparisons do
happen subconsciously
driven by the invisible force of our
opera names habits and conditionings
maybe pay attention we see that the
ranking disorder permeates every aspect
of our lives
opinions are collection of rankings
judgment is a subjective ranking that is
usually very insensitive to others
stereotypes are collectively cherished
rankings that they politely do not
express outside of our group pride a
cornerstone of our education is nothing
but a mere reward psychological reward
for achieving your targeted ranking
tolerance is inaction passivity in spite
of your ranking bias is a deeply
reinforced ranking belief if when I
declare my own ethical ranking a sacred
hands untouchable and ultimately war is
the ultimate eruption into physical
violence to settle ranking disputes why
is ranking wrong why are we associating
competition with violence isn’t ranking
natural is in competition necessary to
make partners ranking exclusively serves
competition when there is no competition
there is no ranking and it’s
evolutionary in its evolutionary context
ranking is perfectly justified when
applied on the physical wall what a
prominent that we projected it into the
psychological domain which is a
tasks evolutionary de Raymond perhaps it
happens long time ago thought after we
developed consciousness now the very
education that one might dare to expect
should prepare us for life is completely
consumed by this one in this one we
constantly compare our students rank our
students our professors our schools our
universities my minutes after I received
the news of the student suicide an email
invites me to celebrate highly ranked
students the ranking oriented education
of course glorifies knowledge
universities have become extremely
highly efficient manufacturer of skilled
workers the national significance of
skills is not only abused what is also
has become the only mode of training in
systems that have no deep understanding
of learning the glorification of skills
and knowledge has made colleges and
universities too aggressive trade
schools that mistake brutal efficiency
for academic excellence of course we
need to acquire skills I need to write
code to talk to fly a plane to perform
surgery to build a commune to bake a
breath of course these are essential
skills that we need to live and to
survive in a highly complex society with
all its local and global
crocuses what isn’t that just our Homo
habilis legacy where is the safety
involved skills or quantity of life
where is the quality if sapien is not a
self-indulgent misnomer
then education should prepare us to
discover and to nurture intelligence
intelligence is neither a set of skills
nor a bundle of knowledge intelligent
has to be more than the human evolution
in foreseeable future will be
predominantly of psychological nature we
will not most likely not grow a six
finger or a third eye we have to find a
state of the mind you have to reach a
state of the mind that is governed by
high quality intelligence and not or a
prehistoric competitive instinct
universities are obsessed with
quantities and measurements awards honor
lists reputation are vigilantly
worshiped and the suffering and
psychological violence that comes with
it is accepted as collateral damage it
is not just that we subject our students
to suffering is not even that we do not
prepare them for life we dismiss
into the society with a very distorted
view of life a ranking oriented
primitive Orion view of life our grain
development continues well in our
twenties the prefrontal cortex is
crucially responsible for planning for
decision-making for logic reasoning for
relationships
basically for everything that makes us
human now here a question for educators
what are we doing to our young students
in this crucial brain development stage
when we at the universities subject them
to so much stress and pressure nobody
knows and isn’t that the total
bankruptcy of the education system it’s
not like we are not doing anything we
have done some stuff we are really good
at ideas you have invented some theories
for education we have perennialism
essentialism progressivism we have
social constructionism and some other
isms we do homeschooling on schooling
these schooling you have created a large
number of alternative schools and if you
look and some of them actually may see
traces of the right education that is
not ranking oriented but the problem is
that we’ve usually failed to recognize
actual root cause of the misalignment or
you refuse to change because we are not
serious so any attack and you see
yes at to find a solution to develop a
new understanding of Education has to
start with the fundamental question do
we love our children do we care about
our students please don’t take this
question lightly do we want our children
to have food and shelter and be
physically safe do we want our children
to enjoy life to find love to be free
from suffering and psychological
violence maybe they don’t know how to go
about this is not easy
maybe we have to put a lot of effort to
investigate to start a dialogue but if
you are serious if they are passionate
for passion is the intensity of
understanding if you really care
maybe we can recognize the silhouettes
of the right whale education which is
not cannot be ranking orient
maybe we have to start to teach our
student to think slowly a mind that
thinks fast is prone to prejudice to
judgment to self centric views a mind
that goes slowly goes deep is sensitive
towards and relies on perception and not
on memory maybe we have to teach our
students to ask questions a question a
mind that ask questions is a dynamic
mind is a mind that does not get
imprison in the disorder of ranking and
the perpetual anxiety and depression an
inquisitive mind questions norms
expectations benchmarks traditions
conventions and the very assumption of
certain knowledge you have to start to
teach ourselves to be sensitive you have
to learn to be sensitive when there is
sensitivity there is no ranking can you
observe your yourself in situations that
you choose to not express your opinions
because you don’t want to hurt somebody
we have to be sensitive to others to
animals to nature at large we have to
teach to learn and not to collect
knowledge we have to teach to perceive
and not to conceive when we are dealing
with human relationships we have to
teach to care if life is the most
precious and sophisticated but million
years of evolution has created on this
planet and compassion is the emergence
of pure intelligence
the education of tomorrow will ascertain
prosperity and comfort the education of
tomorrow will also bring us joy and
beauty but if and only if if we free
ourselves from ranking and competition
thank
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
my generation did not really believe in
education as a vehicle for change
instead we went on street we shouted the
screamed we threw stones at the police
and we wished for some people to be dead
the violent and social chaos that
dictionary is called revolution of
course we dearly paid for that I lost
many of my friends classmates and
neighbors to torture executions to more
and to excruciating pressures of refugee
camps and exile
I know the taste of loneliness and
despair from the experience of counting
the minutes when you are sitting in
solitary confinement and you don’t know
what will happen to you next
but none of that come close can surpass
menu as a teacher here that yet another
student has committed suicide
stress depression anxiety and suicide
have become part of our education system
and nobody should be surprised with the
mentality of ranking and competition
naturally breeds psychological disorders
that occasionally erupt into physical
violence and this ranking mentality is
omnipresent is everywhere and if you try
to refute it or to resist it you will be
faced with ear resistant perhaps this is
due to the fact that its roots go really
back to our primitive ancestors more
than 2 million years ago Homo habilis
had to look at pieces of stones compare
them and choose the best tool arguably a
matter of survival
as Homo sapiens he perfected this
ranking and selection process by relying
on our consciousness among others to
distinguish between edible and poisonous
food again clearly a matter of survival
but the problem is that 12,000 years
after the beginning of human
civilization after the dawn of
agricultural revolution those primitive
comparisons of metamorphose into a
pandemic disorder the ranking disorder
the rank everything from trial to bon we
learn to rank and compare ourselves
against our siblings classmates
neighbors colleagues I am taller richer
smarter than you I am more knowledgeable
and more experienced are more beautiful
than others most of these comparisons do
happen subconsciously
driven by the invisible force of our
opera names habits and conditionings
maybe pay attention we see that the
ranking disorder permeates every aspect
of our lives
opinions are collection of rankings
judgment is a subjective ranking that is
usually very insensitive to others
stereotypes are collectively cherished
rankings that they politely do not
express outside of our group pride a
cornerstone of our education is nothing
but a mere reward psychological reward
for achieving your targeted ranking
tolerance is inaction passivity in spite
of your ranking bias is a deeply
reinforced ranking belief if when I
declare my own ethical ranking a sacred
hands untouchable and ultimately war is
the ultimate eruption into physical
violence to settle ranking disputes why
is ranking wrong why are we associating
competition with violence isn’t ranking
natural is in competition necessary to
make partners ranking exclusively serves
competition when there is no competition
there is no ranking and it’s
evolutionary in its evolutionary context
ranking is perfectly justified when
applied on the physical wall what a
prominent that we projected it into the
psychological domain which is a
tasks evolutionary de Raymond perhaps it
happens long time ago thought after we
developed consciousness now the very
education that one might dare to expect
should prepare us for life is completely
consumed by this one in this one we
constantly compare our students rank our
students our professors our schools our
universities my minutes after I received
the news of the student suicide an email
invites me to celebrate highly ranked
students the ranking oriented education
of course glorifies knowledge
universities have become extremely
highly efficient manufacturer of skilled
workers the national significance of
skills is not only abused what is also
has become the only mode of training in
systems that have no deep understanding
of learning the glorification of skills
and knowledge has made colleges and
universities too aggressive trade
schools that mistake brutal efficiency
for academic excellence of course we
need to acquire skills I need to write
code to talk to fly a plane to perform
surgery to build a commune to bake a
breath of course these are essential
skills that we need to live and to
survive in a highly complex society with
all its local and global
crocuses what isn’t that just our Homo
habilis legacy where is the safety
involved skills or quantity of life
where is the quality if sapien is not a
self-indulgent misnomer
then education should prepare us to
discover and to nurture intelligence
intelligence is neither a set of skills
nor a bundle of knowledge intelligent
has to be more than the human evolution
in foreseeable future will be
predominantly of psychological nature we
will not most likely not grow a six
finger or a third eye we have to find a
state of the mind you have to reach a
state of the mind that is governed by
high quality intelligence and not or a
prehistoric competitive instinct
universities are obsessed with
quantities and measurements awards honor
lists reputation are vigilantly
worshiped and the suffering and
psychological violence that comes with
it is accepted as collateral damage it
is not just that we subject our students
to suffering is not even that we do not
prepare them for life we dismiss
into the society with a very distorted
view of life a ranking oriented
primitive Orion view of life our grain
development continues well in our
twenties the prefrontal cortex is
crucially responsible for planning for
decision-making for logic reasoning for
relationships
basically for everything that makes us
human now here a question for educators
what are we doing to our young students
in this crucial brain development stage
when we at the universities subject them
to so much stress and pressure nobody
knows and isn’t that the total
bankruptcy of the education system it’s
not like we are not doing anything we
have done some stuff we are really good
at ideas you have invented some theories
for education we have perennialism
essentialism progressivism we have
social constructionism and some other
isms we do homeschooling on schooling
these schooling you have created a large
number of alternative schools and if you
look and some of them actually may see
traces of the right education that is
not ranking oriented but the problem is
that we’ve usually failed to recognize
actual root cause of the misalignment or
you refuse to change because we are not
serious so any attack and you see
yes at to find a solution to develop a
new understanding of Education has to
start with the fundamental question do
we love our children do we care about
our students please don’t take this
question lightly do we want our children
to have food and shelter and be
physically safe do we want our children
to enjoy life to find love to be free
from suffering and psychological
violence maybe they don’t know how to go
about this is not easy
maybe we have to put a lot of effort to
investigate to start a dialogue but if
you are serious if they are passionate
for passion is the intensity of
understanding if you really care
maybe we can recognize the silhouettes
of the right whale education which is
not cannot be ranking orient
maybe we have to start to teach our
student to think slowly a mind that
thinks fast is prone to prejudice to
judgment to self centric views a mind
that goes slowly goes deep is sensitive
towards and relies on perception and not
on memory maybe we have to teach our
students to ask questions a question a
mind that ask questions is a dynamic
mind is a mind that does not get
imprison in the disorder of ranking and
the perpetual anxiety and depression an
inquisitive mind questions norms
expectations benchmarks traditions
conventions and the very assumption of
certain knowledge you have to start to
teach ourselves to be sensitive you have
to learn to be sensitive when there is
sensitivity there is no ranking can you
observe your yourself in situations that
you choose to not express your opinions
because you don’t want to hurt somebody
we have to be sensitive to others to
animals to nature at large we have to
teach to learn and not to collect
knowledge we have to teach to perceive
and not to conceive when we are dealing
with human relationships we have to
teach to care if life is the most
precious and sophisticated but million
years of evolution has created on this
planet and compassion is the emergence
of pure intelligence
the education of tomorrow will ascertain
prosperity and comfort the education of
tomorrow will also bring us joy and
beauty but if and only if if we free
ourselves from ranking and competition
thank
[Applause]
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