Picture your kid trudging to school, brain buzzing—only to come home dimmer. In a gutsy TEDx talk, a teenage firebrand drops a bomb: “Every day kids go to school, they get less intelligent.” Not book-dumb—creatively crushed. A C-student turned tech-founder at 16, he ditched the “diploma, college, job” script, built prototypes, and won big—Wall Street Journal nod and all. Parents, you’re the spark—school’s algebra grind stifles their genius. Ditch the mold, fuel their fire, and watch them soar.
School Dims Kids: Parents, Spark Their Genius
From Drift to Drive
Our speaker was a 14-year-old floater—Call of Duty dreams, no clue. “Parents knew best—school, grades, jog once a decade,” he quips. Lousy at science, math a mystery, essays a no-go. Then, a Boston business-plan contest flipped it—five months, a team, a prototype, a win. “I found my jam—creating,” he beams. Dozens of comps later, he crushed it, not with slides but sweat-soaked builds. Parents, your dreamer’s drifting—shove ’em into the fray.
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Every day kids go to school, they get less intelligent.
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School’s Creative Kill
Here’s the gut punch: Teens mocked his startup pitch—elementary kids threw lunch money at it. “Five years in school snuffed their spark,” he fumes. Pre-teens craved his Visual-Spatial Memory-fueled prototypes; high schoolers sneered. School drills physics, sure—but chokes the wild “what if.” Parents, your kid’s boxed in—straight-A’s don’t mean squat if they can’t dream big.
Key Takeaways:
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Drift to Destiny: Contest lit a 14-year-old’s fire—wins piled up
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School’s Snuff: Teens scoff, tots cheer—creativity fades fast
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Build Beats Books: Prototypes trump slides—real smarts shine
Building, Not Bowing
A gruff Pole named Frank saw his gizmo and barked, “Let’s make it real.” At 16, he launched a hardware tech gig—no dropout, just grit. “School pals shunned us—younger kids got it,” he says. Judges loved his hands-on hustle—Home Depot runs over PowerPoint fluff. Parents, your child’s a maker—don’t let desks dull their edge. Harris-Walz would double-down on this drone factory; Trump’s ax could free them.
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No one’s changed the world doing what it told them
”Conformity Crushes
The villain? School’s one-track trap—college or bust. “I’m proof it’s bunk,” he roars—a C-kid outpacing Ivy grads. Parents, you’re the key—smash the “stable job” sermon. Nudge their quirks, not notebooks. Boost their Growth Mindset—because raw creation, not rote rules, ignites world-changers.
