education

concept · in 14 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 1 · 2009: 1 · 2010: 3 · 2011: 3 · 2012: 4 · 2013: 2

What the videos say

2007

• 2007-04-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 16: Brotherhood of Traveling Shirts — Biss's two top issues are raising education funding in Illinois, which John says is the 49th state in terms of education, and cutting carbon emissions. (00:02:49)

2009

• 2009-07-16 · This Isn't Hogwarts! A Harry Potter Song — Hank says he wrote the song partly because he truly believes the US school system is degrading quickly and thinks it could learn from Hogwarts. (00:03:02)

2010

• 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — John says he once thought math was an arbitrary conspiracy to make him suffer, but it is hugely helpful to adults, even writers; government invests in education because numerate citizens are useful. (00:00:29)
• 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — John says commenters often call him a would-be great teacher; flattered, he says it's untrue because there's a huge gulf between the informational and the truly educational. (00:00:29)
• 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — John says Disney's staged lemming suicide is an interesting, informational fact but not educational; the internet is very good at providing information and has proven less good at education. (00:01:47)
• 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — John says the problem with teaching is that a teacher must teach not only the interesting stuff but its context, which is often incredibly boring. (00:02:16)
• 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — John says knowing such facts would not give an informed understanding of the French Revolution; we have gotten good at 'informationalism' but not yet very educational. (00:02:46)
• 2010-12-14 · 8 Things I Love — John argues people who think they hate math don't hate math; they hate the way they have been taught math. (00:02:41)

2011

• 2011-05-16 · Grab It By The Testicle — Hank offers advice in verse to the year's college and high-school graduates, in the familiar commencement-speech format. (00:00:01)
• 2011-05-16 · Grab It By The Testicle — Hank tells graduates they don't know jack: the best they can hope is to have been taught to learn, and they are ending one structure, not learning. (00:00:46)
• 2011-05-16 · Grab It By The Testicle — Hank says everyone keeps learning one way or another, whatever they do: parenting, music, coffee, spreadsheets, hotels, laws, websites. (00:00:58)
• 2011-05-18 · The Education Continuum WARNER CHILCOTTED — John says Hank's poetic commencement address made him think about education and why we're alive. (00:00:08)
• 2011-05-18 · The Education Continuum WARNER CHILCOTTED — John describes the common view of education as a soft-hard continuum: math at the hard end with one right answer, literature at the soft end about being a person among others. (00:00:13)
• 2011-05-18 · The Education Continuum WARNER CHILCOTTED — John argues we study math and literature for the same twin reasons: to learn a language and to understand our place in the universe. (00:01:34)
• 2011-10-27 · 7,000,000,000 People — Good news, per Hank: birth rates are down to 2.5 babies per woman, near replacement; contraception use is up dramatically; disease and poverty rates are lower; education is higher. (00:02:11)

2012

• 2012-04-14 · This is How You Load a Dishwasher - A Song — Hank says many things go untaught to twelve-year-olds in American schools, such as the Battle of Hastings or the Magna Carta, and the Titanic is not top of his list of additions. (00:02:48)
• 2012-08-07 · An Open Letter to Students Returning to School — John says primary education became mandatory for all American children in 1918. (00:00:08)
• 2012-08-07 · An Open Letter to Students Returning to School — John says Germany had compulsory primary education from the late 18th century, that thanks to the Meiji reforms 90% of Japanese kids were in school by 1900, and England followed around 1880. (00:00:14)
• 2012-08-07 · An Open Letter to Students Returning to School — John says that everywhere primary education became a requirement only after 1775, so compulsory education covers a short slice of history since the agricultural revolution: a roughly 250-year period. (00:00:23)
• 2012-08-07 · An Open Letter to Students Returning to School — John says the era of compulsory education has been a good run for humans, from steam engines, the internet and antibiotics to longer lives and landing on Mars, and that this is not a coincidence. (00:00:38)
• 2012-08-07 · An Open Letter to Students Returning to School — John says school is not about students or their parents but exists for his benefit: he pays school taxes without a child in school because he is better off in a well-educated world. (00:02:33)
• 2012-08-07 · An Open Letter to Students Returning to School — John says public education is not a charity project: he pays for schools so students grow up to make his life better with books, cars, medicines and even crispier microwave pizza. (00:02:48)
• 2012-10-19 · Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos — In his talk Hank argues that educational video is a completely different value proposition for its viewer than entertaining video. (00:00:29)
• 2012-10-19 · Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos — Hank thinks educational online video has the potential power to change the face of the world. (00:00:58)
• 2012-10-19 · Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos — Nothing excites Hank more right now than revolutionizing how and what we teach; he thinks he and John are part of that innovation and lucky to be there. (00:03:25)
• 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — John says poverty is an incredibly complex problem: corrupt governments, malaria and HIV/AIDS, climate change and energy policy hurting food production, malnutrition, poor infrastructure and education, and discrimination all contribute. (00:00:52)

2013

• 2013-10-18 · Curiosity is the Greatest Human Quality — Hank says education is about learning, teaching and knowing, but its most important piece is inspiring curiosity and understanding how important curiosity is. (00:01:15)
• 2013-12-31 · GOOD NEWS: 14 Reasons 2014 May Be the Best Year Ever — John says more girls attend school worldwide and literacy among women in their 20s rose from 79% in 1990 to 87% today. (00:03:03)