Jaden Smith: If Everyone "Dropped Out of School," Society Would Be "More Intelligent"
Will Smith's son, Jaden Smith, recently Tweeted against public education.
The mainstream media went crazy:
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Life's easy when you're the son of a popular millionaire.
Society might have a lot more common sense if there were no schools, but anybody that's been to the backwoods of Appalachia knows darned well that no schoolin' doesn't make for the the smartest folks.
Last edited by angelatc; 09-17-2013 at 04:26 PM.
Well when you don't start out with the smartest folks...Originally Posted by angelatc
I think he was making a statement more about our public education system than education in general.
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schooling =/= education. (I've heard of people making it all the way through grad school completely illiterate) As I understand it, that's the general philosophy of the unschooling folks as well.
props to Jaden.
Just because he's privileged doesn't make him wrong.
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Will Smith's son, Jaden Smith, recently Tweeted against public education.
The mainstream media went crazy:
Last edited by Natural Citizen; 09-18-2013 at 02:11 AM.
Some of us can only dream of moving to the backwoods of Appalachia.
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No amount of education will make ever make a person smarter/more intelligent. You are born with all the I.Q. you will ever have.
Applauds Will Smith and his wife!
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Must know a thing or two about the US' educational system to make such a comment. I commend him.
Seriously? You think they're genetically dumb?Do we really think he went to public schools? Sorry, but getting all excited about what a 15 year old Hollywood royal thinks about what we mundanes do and don't require isn't something I'm prepared to do.
I think he was making a statement more about our public education system than education in general.
Sure. It's much easier to be the smartest guy in the room there.Some of us can only dream of moving to the backwoods of Appalachia.
Jaden Smith is homeschooled.
“The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner
Three words:
Fresh American Seafood.
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A police state is a small price to pay for living in the freest country on earth.
I wouldn't be so quick to do that.He can't even properly capitalize his sentences. And he wasn't talking about only public school - he was talking about school in general. And I won't even get into the fact that "Education Is Rebellion" seems to contradict his anti-education theme."People Use To Ask Me What Do You Wanna Be When You Get Older And I Would Say What A Stupid Question The Real Question Is What Am I Right Now"
"All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own."
"School Is The Tool To Brainwash The Youth"
"Education Is Rebellion. If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth."
"If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society . . . Everybody Get Off Your Phones And Go Do What You Actually Wanna Do."
To get a job, you need skills that you learn in school. Well, unless you're the son of two famous rich people who can use their power to get movies produced, starring you. This kid will never know what its like to apply for a job at McDonalds, much less applying for a job at McD's when you can't spell.
I assume that most of the mundane details that we deal with (paying bills, investing money, legal issues) are all handled by people who went to ....school to learn a skill that allows them to provide a value to people like him.
But no way should he be treated like some wise all-knowing prophet.
You're welcome to come visit me in Eastern Kentucky and see if you still believe that after you meet my sons.
One word, mercury.
Adds weight.We get paid by the pound.
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A police state is a small price to pay for living in the freest country on earth.
And everybody knows that stuff makes people smarter.
That's why the Japanese are known to be a stupid, sluggish people.
We've been through this before. There is absolutely no evidence that mercury in seafood accumulates in humans. Scientists are exploring several different theories about why this is.
This is a great example of why common sense isn't always superior to education.
Last edited by angelatc; 09-17-2013 at 08:36 PM.
Did they go to high school?
Hummm.... guess I'll be just as stupid and sluggish as them now that I can't eat any animal protein other than fish.
Lately, I've eaten so darned much fish, my urine is starting to smell like fish.
H/T to Tim Leary. I'd rather everyone "Drop Into" alternative schooling.
If the power ever goes off for a long period of time, those hillbillies in the Appalachians will have had a superior education.
Hell I think they are smarter than most simply because they don't live in big cities; but that's just my personal preferences.
Actually the older one dropped out and went to college for a while then I home schooled him through the rest of high school.
The younger one was home schooled since third grade and is in college now.
Neither one of my grandfathers went to school past third grade. One was a coal miner and one of the most intelligent people I have ever met.
It is infuriating to me when people, usually from up north, assume that Appalachians are stupid. My husband was in the military when we were first married so I have met people from all over the country and I know that intelligence is not regional.
I teach 16-24 year old drop outs at a U.S. Forest Service Job Corps. I am going to respectfully disagree with Jaden Smith.
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