Lionel Nation - The American Education System Is Pathetic and Needs to Be Revamped Rejuvenated and Rewritten
Aired: 2023-12-04
Duration: 09:48


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[00:01:31]  It's about time that we end one particular bad and sad joke, and that is that there is some kind of an educational system in this country, because there's not.
[00:01:41]  There's not.
[00:01:42]  It's disgusting.
[00:01:44]  It's disgusting.
[00:01:46]  I was very lucky.
[00:01:48]  When I was a kid, growing up in the 60s, I went to Catholic school.
[00:01:53]  When Catholic school was Catholic school, we had nuns.
[00:01:55]  They were great.
[00:01:57]  Nobody ever acted up.
[00:01:58]  Nobody ever skipped a grade.
[00:01:59]  Oh, you went back a grade?
[00:02:00]  We heard about a kid who actually went back in a grade because of his handwriting.
[00:02:05]  He didn't pass handwriting.
[00:02:07]  Handwriting!
[00:02:08]  Today, did you ever hand a kid a pen?
[00:02:10]  They hold it like a dagger.

=== Schools As Daycare (07:34) ===

[00:02:13]  The same way people hold...
[00:02:15]  Forks.
[00:02:16]  Do you ever see that?
[00:02:16]  When they cut meat?
[00:02:17]  It's like, what is this?
[00:02:18]  They're playing the cello.
[00:02:19]  They're Pablo Casals out of Western Sizzler.
[00:02:22]  In any event.
[00:02:24]  Under my rules, we've got to realize one thing.
[00:02:26]  They come to grips with something which is very, very simple.
[00:02:29]  Schools, for the most part, are glorified well, they're basically daycare.
[00:02:36]  I'm sorry.
[00:02:38]  The teachers, I'm sure they're great, but listen, they're through.
[00:02:42]  They just want to get their retirement.
[00:02:44]  They want to go to the rubber.
[00:02:45]  They don't care.
[00:02:46]  Look, stop it!
[00:02:47]  And why should they care?
[00:02:48]  I'm saying it's partly their fault, but not really their fault.
[00:02:52]  Next, we've got to make a determination right away.
[00:02:54]  Who's going to go to college and who's not?
[00:02:56]  Listen, you know, let's face it.
[00:02:58]  There are people who aren't going to go to college at all.
[00:03:00]  The only college they're going to go to is, as the boys downtown call, prison.
[00:03:04]  We have to reintroduce this notion of vocational schools, trade schools, learning something, learning a craft, learning an art, learning something, learning something.
[00:03:13]  If somebody wants to work with computers, do it now.
[00:03:17]  Reintroduce woodworking and carpentry.
[00:03:19]  Stop pretending that it's a one-size-fits-all thing because it's not.
[00:03:23]  Next, school is not this default thing you go to.
[00:03:28]  Here's the rule.
[00:03:28]  Three strikes and you're out.
[00:03:30]  Three significant, serious, disciplinary actions, and you go home to Mommy and Daddy.
[00:03:35]  You're on your own.
[00:03:35]  That's it!
[00:03:36]  Sorry, Mrs. Lipschitz.
[00:03:38]  Little Bucky here is coming home.
[00:03:41]  Why?
[00:03:42]  Too scary.
[00:03:43]  Too disruptive.
[00:03:44]  He's yours.
[00:03:45]  Sorry.
[00:03:45]  What do you mean?
[00:03:46]  You heard me.
[00:03:47]  He's yours.
[00:03:48]  Oh, no, you don't.
[00:03:49]  Oh, no, no, no.
[00:03:50]  He's yours.
[00:03:50]  We're done.
[00:03:51]  We're through.
[00:03:52]  That's it.
[00:03:53]  You know how many kids in New York City never came back after...
[00:03:55]  after...
[00:04:00]  COVID.
[00:04:01]  Remember all that nonsense with this remote learning?
[00:04:04]  They just never came back.
[00:04:06]  They're not AWOL.
[00:04:07]  They're not a truant.
[00:04:10]  They're just gone.
[00:04:11]  Nobody cares.
[00:04:13]  We are losing our shirts to China, Europe.
[00:04:18]  Let me tell you something about China.
[00:04:21]  One of the biggest cons ever is how terrible China is.
[00:04:24]  Do I want to live there?
[00:04:25]  No.
[00:04:26]  But I don't want to live in Hawthornsville, Utah, either.
[00:04:29]  And I just made that city up because I just don't want to live there, with all due respect.
[00:04:34]  But let me tell you one thing about China that they do.
[00:04:36]  You know, whenever they talk about these factories where they make the, you know, the Apple phones and people are jumping out of the windows and it's a hellhole and all this.
[00:04:48]  Let me tell you about this place.
[00:04:49]  I'll never forget this.
[00:04:50]  Somebody told me years ago that If you, that Apple or somebody, and don't quote me on this, but I like the idea.
[00:05:00]  That Apple said, we need a factory where we can have like 200,000 workers.
[00:05:08]  We got it.
[00:05:09]  Oh, and they have to be educated.
[00:05:12]  We got it.
[00:05:13]  And middle management has to have a master's or higher.
[00:05:17]  We got it.
[00:05:19]  And we're going to go 24-7.
[00:05:21]  We got it.
[00:05:24]  That's why they're there.
[00:05:25]  Not just because Apple and Coke and all these people are into draconian slave-like working places, but because they have something that the United States does not have.
[00:05:35]  Because our education sucks.
[00:05:38]  Sucks.
[00:05:39]  And you think with Elon and this business about rocketry and SpaceX and all this stuff and AI, you think there would be this resurgence.
[00:05:48]  You would think there would be this in it.
[00:05:49]  No!
[00:05:50]  Go to any class.
[00:05:52]  No, better yet.
[00:05:53]  Go to any public school.
[00:05:55]  Just hang around.
[00:05:56]  Not hang around.
[00:05:57]  That looks weird.
[00:05:58]  But just listen over here, a playground.
[00:06:02]  You will hear mind-numbing, paralytic vocalese.
[00:06:13]  Kids who can't make eye contact.
[00:06:16]  Kids who've never held a ball.
[00:06:18]  Kids who swipe, kids who are just enfeebled by virtue of psychotropic medications, bad families, a lack of initiative, a lack of imagination, a lack of smarts, not to mention homozygotic cousins inbreeding over the course of generations, and that's who we are.
[00:06:36]  Am I being harsh?
[00:06:38]  I'm not even being harsh enough.
[00:06:39]  We are through.
[00:06:41]  Let me tell you something.
[00:06:42]  Until somebody comes in and says, alright, that's it.
[00:06:44]  We have to care as much about kids in school and building the best and the brightest than we do with, you know, NBA or football or NFL or whatever.
[00:06:56]  That we care about.
[00:06:57]  Oh, we go crazy over that.
[00:06:59]  But do we care about anybody, any kids who...
[00:07:04]  I mean, we used to care about Eagle Scouts, which, frankly, I think is one of the dumbest things anybody's ever done, but it doesn't matter.
[00:07:10]  At least we cared about it.
[00:07:11]  Not anymore.
[00:07:12]  Do we even have Eagle Scouts anymore?
[00:07:14]  Let me tell you something.
[00:07:16]  We've got to act now and quick.
[00:07:18]  Listen to what I'm telling you.
[00:07:19]  I'm not just saying this.
[00:07:21]  I'm not just being cute.
[00:07:23]  I'm not just acting like one of these Bill O 'Reilly wannabes where there's kind of a no-shite obviousness.
[00:07:30]  And we've got to get back to basics.
[00:07:33]  Yeah, I know that.
[00:07:33]  Thank you very much.
[00:07:34]  I'm talking about the essentials.
[00:07:37]  The essentials and why we're losing.
[00:07:40]  Do I have to remind you we're the only country in the world that has somebody who is Brain damaged and brain dead?
[00:07:47]  A man who, as a friend of mine said, would you let Joe Biden drive you home from the airport?
[00:07:52]  No!
[00:07:53]  We have a guy who shouldn't be handling sharp objects.
[00:07:55]  This is a guy walking around yelling, who ordered the veal cutlet?
[00:07:58]  We had Dianne Feinstein, who didn't know where she was.
[00:08:01]  We got Fetterman, who's talking into some kind of a machine.
[00:08:05]  I don't know where he is.
[00:08:07]  Mitch McConnell hasn't blinked since the late 80s.
[00:08:10]  I mean, this is where we are, and we're just accepting it.
[00:08:14]  And we're accepting every variation of demented and degenerate, but we reject excellence when it comes to intelligence, reading, education, talent, gumption.
[00:08:28]  I'm not even sure what gumption is, but you know what I'm talking about.
[00:08:30]  This is where we are today.
[00:08:32]  Education, education.
[00:08:34]  We ought to have schools, special schools, special treatment where we...
[00:08:42]  We pull these people.
[00:08:43]  We go out scouring to find out who's the smartest, who's the brightest.
[00:08:47]  And we take them and we coddle and we coax and we luxuriate them with respect.
[00:08:56]  And we say, you're going to make a commitment like people would do to the military.
[00:09:00]  You're going to make a commitment to STEAM and other kind of projects.
[00:09:03]  We have to do something to try to reinvigorate, recultivate, refocus, repurpose.
[00:09:11]  Reorient, recalibrate what used to be in our country this respect and this admiration for smarts.
[00:09:17]  There was a time when Einstein came over here.
[00:09:20]  He was the hottest thing in the world.
[00:09:21]  Let's face it.
[00:09:22]  When was the last big scientist we cared about?
[00:09:25]  Stephen Hawking.
[00:09:25]  Why?
[00:09:26]  Because he was in the chair and he was on South Park.
[00:09:28]  Nobody knew what he was.
[00:09:29]  Nobody knew Hawking radiation.
[00:09:31]  Nobody cared about that.
[00:09:32]  No, no.
[00:09:33]  We've got to do something to do it now, my friends.
[00:09:35]  And it's more than just...
[00:09:37]  Trump and Biden.
[00:09:39]  It's about us.
[00:09:40]  It's about who we are.
[00:09:41]  It's about a reinvigoration and a reconnection and reattachment to the notion of smart.
[00:09:46]  You got it?
[00:09:47]  Good.
[00:09:47]  Because you're smart.