Why Do We Have to Go to School?
Mr. Beat presents a brief history of school, starting with the question: “Why do we have to go to school?” and then narrowing to the focus of school as an institution, especially as a public and mandatory institution.
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Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century. R.W. Southern
n the beginning, for hundreds of thousands of years, we didn’t go to school. During the hunter gatherer days, when humans just gathered wild plants or chased wild animals, that’s pretty much the main thing we did, and we learned it at a very young age. At that time, children learned to be good members of their tribe, or clan.
Around 3500 BCE, civilizations around the world began to develop writing systems, making it easier to teach others stuff so they would, what’s the word, uh...forget? Yeah, forget. (I should write that down) Formal schools, usually revolving around some kind of written language, popped up in places like ancient Greece, ancient India, ancient China, and ancient Rome.
But usually only certain people had access to these schools, and those were the Three Rs: The Rich, The Religious Leaders, and The Royalty. Other than, you pretty much just starting working when you were three, and worked your butt off until you died a few years later.
There were exceptions, of course. In the city-states of ancient Greece, anyone could open a school, and even the poor could sometimes afford to send their sons to school. Notice how I said “sons.” Yeah, girls rarely went to school. And the schools were not mandated by the government. It was voluntary, although a dude named Plato, kind of a big deal, first popularized the idea of making education mandatory in his book the Republic.
The first universities popped up during the early Middle Ages. Students there studied specialized in one thing. Usually the arts, law, medicine, and of course, theology. It was during this time that the University of Bologna
was established. That university, in modern day Italy, was founded in 1088 and still exists, still kicking butt today. But that ain’t got nothing on The University of al-Qarawiyyin, which opened in 859. It’s the oldest existing educational institution in the world and it’s also still kicking butt today.
In Europe, most universities, and schools, for that matter, were Christian. In 1179, the Catholic Church gave free education for the poor. Well I mean, poor boys, not girls. Universities would spread throughout the entire world during the Middle Ages.
The most important leader of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther, called for mandatory education. Across the ocean, in modern day Mexico, the Aztecs already had mandatory education for every child. While the poor there did not go to the same schools as the rich, they still had the opportunity. And girls could go to school, too. The first country to kind of do this in Europe was Scotland. Its government passed the School Establishment Act 1616, in 1616, which forced all kids there to go to public, church-supervised, schools.
During a period known as the Enlightenment, schools all of sudden were cool. One person I should probably mention from this time was John Amos Comenius. Comenius, who came to prominence in the 1600s in central Europe, promoted the ideas that everyone deserved an education, regardless of how much money they had. This included women. He also looked for ways to make instruction more universal and practical.
The New England colonies in North America were ahead of the curve regarding public education. Sure, public schools, schools for everyone in a society and also paid for by everyone in that society, had existed here and there before, but in New England in the 1600s they were all over the place.
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Thanks for watching students/former students. Just wanted you to know that I am using the excuse of Labor Day today for taking Friday off, so I'll see you next week.
@pimplepoppergang9557
6 жыл бұрын
Mr. Beat your my greatest fan
@bithacker3679
6 жыл бұрын
I'm whaching this in school
@adonaiislavieyra6731
5 жыл бұрын
MrBEat, you're usually quite thorough, how come you skipped summerian and egyptian schools? At least an honorable mention!
@marcusvachon845
5 жыл бұрын
Why didn't you mention that John Dewey was the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System?
@nielcarpnava
4 жыл бұрын
One thing that I learned from your video... JAH JAH JAH JAH JAH JAH JAH JOHN DEWEEEEEEEEY!!! Kidding, I've learned more (and counting) from your videos on your channel! Your new fan here! Subscribed to your channel since last week! Also I love history!
I live in Massachusetts, I never knew we had so much influence in school systems. *They never taught that in school*
I have learned more on the internet than in school
@TheeGreenApple
4 жыл бұрын
@ls7orBust2 exactly
@Shaw4123
4 жыл бұрын
ls7orBust2 Ehhh more or less
@Shopbsmaquinasbh
4 жыл бұрын
@white go study 24/7 and work 9-5 on your stupid work for your rabbi boss if thats what you like
@surythecat9993
4 жыл бұрын
Same
@solluxthebritish2437
4 жыл бұрын
Same
Watching this as a grad student avoiding assigned reading. Never too old to avoid homework! 📚
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
+The Exploration Haha get to work fellow lifelong student!
@williamcfox
6 жыл бұрын
Woke up early to get it done. Getting back in the swing of schooling is harder than expected!
@kripmoney8961
4 жыл бұрын
The Exploration with William C. Fox nerd
@gachagirluwu56gamersarah55
3 жыл бұрын
The reason why im homeschooled and my siblings go to school cuz for some reason my parents just let me to decide if i wanted to go are not and i was like no because its jail
@berhilifamily2205
2 жыл бұрын
@@gachagirluwu56gamersarah55 ur so lucky
We went to school so that people like you get to keep your job
2:28 those Bill Wurtz vibes
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
Definitely Bill Wurtz inspired
Plato 2:30 John Amos Comenius 4:29 Horace Mann 7:40 John Dewey 9:15
Technically we read every single day because of youtube
@jukujuku6153
3 жыл бұрын
KZread, video games, food labels, road signs, instructions, everything pretty much
Your deadpan delivery is phenominal and I applaud you educational and creative efforts
Great video, and lots of fascinating details about the way society's attitude to widespread schooling has changed. Another factor in the rise of state-funded schooling, in my understanding, is that as the Industrial Revolution transformed the way people worked, and drove urbanisation and regulated work-hours, there was a growing need for childcare, especially among the poorest groups, where both parents often had to work. I'd be interested to know how those pressures interacted with the factors you discussed.
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
Excellent info that I forgot to sneak in there. Definitely a factor. Thanks for the feedback and for watching!
Even around the beginning of the 20th century, it was quite common for children to leave school at about the age of 12. Boys were often apprenticed about that age.
Plato did NOT want mandatory education. In his book "The Republic" he says "compulsory learning never sticks in the mind".
@ThatDixieDelinquent
Жыл бұрын
Where did he say that in the Republic?
My grandpa always talks about how his dad only went to high school because he was too small for the farm. He went to the same private school that I did, but his tuition was a sack of potatoes!
Hey good to know about the "normal" word. My aunt in Guadalajara, 🇲🇽 is a school teacher there. She went to the school named "la normal (the normal)" to get training. I assumed the word normal was the name of the school. Now I know thanks to mr beat.
I’ve learned more out of school during my own time then in school -_-
Why am I watching this instead of doing my homework?
@oltaolta5844
3 жыл бұрын
hhahhahhhhahaah
Imagine the kids watching this in class.
@robertboisvert3477
3 жыл бұрын
I feel sorry for kids learning in school today
Visited Comenius home in Czechia in 2010. Thank you for including his contribution to progressive education.
Go to school and carry a big stick
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
Teddy! Where you been, man?
@theodoreroosevelt8618
6 жыл бұрын
Mr. Beat I've been resting in my Oyster Bay, New York cemetery ever since I died 195 years ago. I've been good so far. How bout you?
@tommy-jf4xh
5 жыл бұрын
Can you come back
@ehanoldaccount5893
4 жыл бұрын
Things have changed Teddy, the kids these days have big guns which are no match for our sticks
@RachaelMarieNewport
4 жыл бұрын
Teddy we need you again to be Prez
This channel deserves wayyyyy more views. Who agrees?
@dolphinsfan31
6 жыл бұрын
Me! The contest is very professional and funny!
@patriot483Channel3939
5 жыл бұрын
me
I’m fine with free education being paid through taxes. Yes taxes suck but the benefits are bigger than the negatives by a long shot. I think college should also be like other education. Paid through taxes so we can eliminate student debt. But that’s my opinion. (Tho wish it was that way)
@lynnhathaway3755
2 жыл бұрын
I feel quality education is an investment in the community and the country.
@PremierCCGuyMMXVI
2 жыл бұрын
@@lynnhathaway3755 it is
@orangeorangeorange5075
7 ай бұрын
You are probably the same kind of person who also thinks teens and young adults still jumping inside a bounce house sometimes is okay too
I am 27 and I am still mad that I had to go to school. One of the reasons I don’t want kids is because I do not want for them to have to endure having to go to school.
@redfather5342
Жыл бұрын
So dont send your kids to school
@kingcharlesFrench
9 ай бұрын
Eat your kids
Although I think the title is pretty boring, it's pretty interesting. Industrialization and mechanization mean there doesn't need to be a bunch of uneducated people tending them, resulting in the rise of more common and public education to become more powerful. In America, I still think the education system could be much better though because we have the money to do so and we don't need a bunch of low-wage laborers.
Can you make a story of 9/11 because it is almost 9/11
@Officialbrody
6 жыл бұрын
Amanda Golden ok
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to this week, but hopefully I can in the near future.
@amandagolden3837
6 жыл бұрын
Mr. Beat 😭 will it be on 9/11 or later?
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, later. I'm sorry
@so-tk7eh
3 жыл бұрын
Is there a video about it rn?
I' m pretty sure we have to go to school is because of the Printing Press made by Gutenberg. Gutenberg was the first person to add capitals and periods at the first and end of sentences. Because of the Printing Press, Leonardo Da Vinci was able to learn about Philosophy, Science, and math, (so did others like Isaac Newton, Nicholas Copernicus, and many other historical figures). (But ultimately, it was Horace Mann's Fault!)
Thanks for the video, Very interesting!
but what if the school system is in under a political institution
@Cacowninja
3 жыл бұрын
It is.
@ry6651
2 жыл бұрын
Like Prussia and Cuba
I’m in 8th grade rn, but I can’t remember not one thing I learned in 3 years of middle school. I’m in honors classes, but I have learned anything useful for my life
Great video! (Love the name jingles...John Amos Comenius is gonna be stuck in my head all day now...so thanks for that...😆)
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
haha it did have a nice flow. Thank you. Looking forward to watching yours. :)
Who needs school when I learn everything on the internet
@shinygoldenpotion1587
Жыл бұрын
You can get almost half of your education through the internet alone but atleast you get to have almost 3 months off per year in total
@idreadFell365
Жыл бұрын
Not everything on the internet is true however I can say the same for anywhere else.
There is a town - small city - in Illinois called "Normal". Not because it is a normal town, but because it was the home of Illinois State Normal College, now Illinois State University (Go Redbirds!).
I have learned so much from you Mr. Beat
I’m isolating myself from the world because I’m afraid if I go outside people will judge me. I haven’t been in school for almost 3 years but I went once I think. I’m trying to find a video that will help me want to go to school but his is the best I could find lol.
I learned most of my things from the internet
I think we learn a lot socially and less factually. Some girls in my class learn they are amazing, mich better than they think they are. Me and a few others have learned: we aren’t skinny enough. Our skirts aren’t short enough. Hair too long, too short. We are bigots who deserve to walk the halls with signs like loser, and idiot, floating above our heads. We deserve no love, when we go to the dances and parties, we will never be complimented, because our hips aren’t wide enough, yet our waists aren’t thin enough. Teachers won’t care or help you unless your parents are known to donate a lot. This is what I’ve learned, all thanks to school.
@harizazrin4059
3 жыл бұрын
Well yeah that's the truth, School is really shit. That's why I skip school 90% of the time and my attendance is really low. But luckily I didn't get expelled or anything like that, anyways hope you're doing better now after two years and have a nice day.
No point of school!
@caleb4369
4 жыл бұрын
fazejd yt there’s plenty of point
@phillipe8850
4 жыл бұрын
@M P Benefits of school: 1. Raping your Creativity 2. Destroying your Self Confidence 3. Bullies 4. Physical fitness bad 5. Junk food is THICC 6. Sexual Relationship is taboo 6.1. Phone Bad 7. No Questions against the Useless Books 8. Shut the FUCK up and listen to me - Said by a Asshole Boomer Teacher
@mermaidcharlise4908
7 ай бұрын
The school system needs to change! Not end
I might be a savage and skip the last days of school lmao
7:41 yep, Horace Mann. I remember looking up who invented the modern education system to see why somebody would do such a thing, and his name came up. Why Horace, why?
What did the teacher say to the students Get it?
Lol I live in Massachusetts. Yep school/education is big around here.
youtube is my school bruh. i learn way more shit on youtube then at school.
I have learned more from mr beat than I have in school
People wouldn’t go to school today if Adam and Eve never ate that apple
I learn more on the internet than school
@tacoexpressSEEDEEholeeveryones
7 ай бұрын
limert
I think one reason of establishing schools was because people needed jobs to make the money so that the economy would prosper?
@truthbetold4350
6 жыл бұрын
RagingSwordElite and to indoctrinate you.
@youare5907
4 жыл бұрын
Making jobs is never a reason for anything. If it was they could have simply made jobs hugging trees
Great video, oh that's why do we go to school.
The best book I read about school was Education: Free and Compulsory
Too many people get mad that dumb kids go to school. The point of public schooling is to raise the average knowledge, not create geniuses.
@stegotyranno4206
2 жыл бұрын
They always hold back everyone else tho.
Thank you for this great video 😊
I wonder if the little music you use to mention all people's names is meant to make it easier to memorize.
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
It is :)
Please do not skip school and then please continue onward to college after graduation from high school. It produces more innovative citizens down the road
Legit I stopped getting value out of school at around junior-senior year of high school. I recognize the good education has done for me, but It stops being important once you plateue and lose interestI
OLD SCHOOL MISTER BEAT THE O.G. OF KNOWLEDGE
Because the proces of going to school gets you in a steady riddim , to wake up early start the day etc etc...go to school and maintain it doesn't matter if your bad at or in some courses...
@jchrg2336
3 жыл бұрын
@@Tyler-zw4kq is that the ''from a medical point of view'' the correct word for it ''the circadian rhythm''? Ok, thank you anyways for the info and may God bless you abundantly.... I am going to look it up though!
Unrelated from the video, but what would you consider your political ideology? Conservative, liberal? I would consider myself mostly libertarian, but there are some issues that my opinion differs with that of the average libertarian. I really enjoy your videos, and would be interested to know.
@keenstar1113
6 жыл бұрын
Also, my favourite series of yours is the elections. Is there anyway you'd be able to cover election from other countries?
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
Perhaps, but right now Supreme Court Briefs is taking up my time. Regarding your first question, I don't like to label myself, I also lean libertarian, but I'm really all over the place politically, and my views evolve as I'm introduced to new information.
@keenstar1113
6 жыл бұрын
Mr. Beat Fair enough. I really enjoy your videos though. Keep up the good work!
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
+KFPlayz That means a lot. Thank you :D
@roberteischen4170
2 жыл бұрын
Why would anyone want to identify themselves with either party? Have you _seen_ our politicians? Both sides suck and I kinda wanna overthrow the whole system and establish a dictatorship with myself at it's head.
Mr.Beat yes you Mr.Beat you
I'm still in school and I love it. P.S. Love the video!
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
So glad to hear that you love school :) and thank you
My school schedule is in 12nn - 6pm yay
Esy ancer: btw i have bad english. School purpes is not to get a edication but to get the school paper that will alow you to get the high buget jobs. Its all about the papers ake deploma nothig els. Like why do wee have to go to school for 20 yers just to get that s***.
School gets us used to prison
All my life has been only in school :/
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
+muffinkitty Me too :)
I can see you in the morning when you go to school Don't forget your books, you know you've got to learn the golden rule, Teacher tells you stop your play and get on with your work And be like Johnnie - too-good, well don't you know he never shirks - he's coming along! (School, Supertramp)
I wonder how many adults have school ptsd
"Probably not for that long?" Damn sounded condescending
In the South, after the Civil War, there were few, if any, public schools. Establishing public schools on a racially segregated basis was a practical necessity, because if the South had been required to established them on an integrated basis, they would not have established any at all. Southern support for public education fell sharply after Brown v. Board of Education, leading to the establishment of private segregation academies. Nowadays, the proprietors of the private schools seek ways to siphon money from the public schools (e.g. direct aid, tuition vouchers, etc.).
(FACTS OVA FEELINGS). In School Eu R Taught A Lesson And Then Give A Test But In LIFE Ur Give A Test That tEACHES Eu
0:16 damn fella shot me
currently avoiding my studies- what a guilt inducing distraction this was. now going back to my studies.
@nnelabaptiste5502
5 жыл бұрын
Joshua Hunt wow check us
@joshuahunt8911
5 жыл бұрын
@@nnelabaptiste5502 Back to your studies! I will do the same and get off KZread, I promise haha
You should do a series like the presidential election series called "State Governor Elections in American History"
@jasonwilliamtjandra
2 жыл бұрын
Well that's going to be a lot
@brownmcjuggernuggets5292
2 жыл бұрын
@@jasonwilliamtjandra unfortunately
@jasonwilliamtjandra
2 жыл бұрын
@@brownmcjuggernuggets5292 cause it's going to be 50 states and going back to 18th century
@brownmcjuggernuggets5292
2 жыл бұрын
@@jasonwilliamtjandra Yeah :’( just usually more fun to see that somewhat obscure content since ya usually don’t learn much outside your own state.
@jasonwilliamtjandra
2 жыл бұрын
@@brownmcjuggernuggets5292 I mean ofc, btw I'm not from the US
What are your thoughts on school choice?
We don't have to go to school.
@tatogreen
2 жыл бұрын
good joke
Oldest university in world is Taxilla present day Pakistan which is more than 2000 years old
now we have the internet, so we can learn whatever we want and make the country better. People like Albert Einstein and Bill Gates never graduated college, but look where they got. what's the point of school now? for the government to make more money? exactly
@noahdecarmo8668
5 жыл бұрын
Person who founded Ikea never went to school
@rayvaul3539
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, that’s what I think is going on. I have a learning disability, but still I am forced to go! 2nd semester algebra 2 is ridiculously hard. For me, I forget how to do such math just between 5 minutes to 3 hours a day! That’s how bad my learning disability is, I have a low grade in algebra 2 right at this moment!
@SamAronow
5 жыл бұрын
Education *costs* the government money.
@tatogreen
2 жыл бұрын
Bill gates dropped out of Harvard, not 11th grade English class
The good thing we can learn new things and also make new friends.
Even though my school days are shorter than they used to be thanks to BOCES, I still wish I never had to go to school & it's always been this way since it begun. & I've always been in anticipation for going home during a school day. Do you have that same feeling like I do?
"The Underground History of American Education" - John Taylor Gatto
Can you do story time of hurricane Harvey
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
Someday absolutely
I better write that shit down too before i forget.
Fun fact: Prussia actually does still exist as the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation.
0:15 My school doesn't start until 9/11 because of the damage Harvey did to my school district
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
Oh wow. I'm sorry about that. Are you safe? How bad was your area affected?
@lukedetering4490
6 жыл бұрын
Mr. Beat My area Wasn't hit that bad. My house didn't flood, because we were on higher ground, but for most of the Cypress and Houston area, the flooding got really bad. The delay has mostly occured because a portion of the people who needed to fix their houses and some schools that got flooded.
i made my grand daughter watch this
I blame the Aztecs
I thought Taxlia was the world's first university.
It feels like the sun was actually just a giant lazer.
@ALEC-gi2nt
3 жыл бұрын
Sticky fingaaaaaaaa
mr.beat do a Video called:2020 election prediction
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
Already?
@Officialbrody
6 жыл бұрын
Yes
@Officialbrody
6 жыл бұрын
Please
I don’t think we should need anything more than middle school. All you really need is to read and write and be decent at practical math. I think the rest of what you would need you would learn from experience and throughout life.
@kennethkho7165
2 жыл бұрын
OECD measure exactly that each year with their PISA measurement and I'll tell you it's not good in the United States. It is supposed to be the bare minimum standard of a reasonable person to contribute and function in today's society. Finland and Japan is among the highest scoring nations since the state pays their teachers really well and the market does its magic with a handsome return of investments into the country's economy, teachers are professional with ability to adapt and make specialized discretionary judgements on how to teach just like lawyers, doctors, accountants.
@shinygoldenpotion1587
Жыл бұрын
I kinda agree only about a quarter of the things you learn in school will be important somewhat later on
3:00
we need more charter schools
Me: and what after I learn to write Schools: what about *USELESS MATHS, BIOLOGY, LATIN AND ANCIENT GREEK*
My college was founded in 1909 as a normal school lol
I am in high school
MR. BEATS WOULD PROBABLY LOVE TO MEET HUGO . MAYBE HE'D RATHER LEARN FRENCH THAN SPANISH....
2:30 Play-Doh
Why do you look like the guy on Blue's Clues.
I want to go to school but i just wish it wasn’t tedious. But I do like studying law, history and physics (I want to build a home made nuke to cause a coup just in case Puerto Rico, my home, gets too corrupt)
wow mr beat talking about school indoctrination. what a topic to cover right now
22 years? Should the channel be Dr Beat?
To please others
If you think these are the only reasons we have public schooling, you should watch some videos by John Taylor Gatto or Charlotte Iserbyt.. there's a lot more to it than this.
@iammrbeat
6 жыл бұрын
Did you watch my video to the end? I do realize there is more to it, but I hit the main points.
@unitedwestand7778
6 жыл бұрын
Mr. Beat I agree with a lot of what you said but this is more of the candy-coated, diluted, partial story. I also do not agree that school should be mandatory. What's very interesting is the underground history of public education... At least for America
@nietsnethceil4639
6 жыл бұрын
UnitedWeStand 777, I too believe that school should not be mandatory. We should have the right to any path of education we desire, so long as we can achieve literacy through it.
@rayvaul3539
5 жыл бұрын
Nietsnethceil I totally agree. I’m a high school student and I believe kids should be given the right to choose to go to school or not. I’m currently struggling in algebra 2 due to the difficulty level of it as of the second semester, I have a learning disability and to make things worse; I’m on the autism spectrum. And yet I’m still being forced to go! I learn more things on my own time than at school. Heck I can write novel level fanfiction. Besides the ones behind this failing school system only care about money.
Thanks for the Trump clip. Love it