He's barely passing my class and with grades like this.

I'm just not sure what kind of future he's gonna have

What do you have to say for yourself?

You're supposed to graduate this year

Listen to Mr johnson

What kind of future do you think you're gonna have?

With all due respect

Don't call me a failure

Failure is an event, not a person in fact

And you talk about the future Mr. Johnson,

But you're not preparing us for that

Excuse me?

Just listen to what I'm saying

This should be good

Would you agree that

In the future

Most careers will become automated?

Yeah... So?

So the people who succeed will have to be

Curious

Innovative

with resilient to adapte to new changes

What's your point ?

My point is, the focus in this school

is not on that

it is on

that it is on regurgitating information and tests taking

And that's just real...

but in today's world

creativity is the most important leadership skill.

Oh, that's how you feel..??

you feel you don't have to believe me but maybe you will believe the 1,500 executives

who recently said creativity is the most important leadership skill

see pretty soon no one will be hired because of what they know because who

cares what you know or if you've memorized the fact we've got Google and

Siri for that in the future people will be hired because of what they can do

with their knowledge can they creatively solve real-world

problems not just follow instructions or directions and Bubble in a

multiple-choice questions so mom that's why I'm stressed cuz these robotic tasks

we learned in school should stop because no one can do a robot's job better than a

robot billionaire founder of Alibaba Jack Ma

said that we should not compete with artificial intelligence but instead

focus on developing unique human intelligence mr. Johnson drills are for

teeth not the human mind so these repetitive knowledge-based tasks we must

leave behind or in the future you're gonna find a lot of people graduating

out of your class right into the unemployment line see many top companies

today don't look at grades Mon that old way is expiring Google has been quoted

as saying GPAs are worthless criteria for hiring founder of Tesla Elon Musk

agrees so I say this with unease and sorrow if you continue to teach today as

you taught yesterday then you rob us students of tomorrow mr. Johnson I'm

gonna keep it real with you sometimes sitting in your class is tough

I'm constantly thinking that if I don't look up at the clock maybe it'll speed

up so I listen to you do my work and pay attention feeling like an hour had to

have gone by but it was only three minutes so if you wonder why we're bored

in class look you want to get a kid to hate reading give them this a school

textbook and some people think it's all falling and that hurts me they say you

can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink and to that I say no

firstly you could put salt in that horse's hay and make them thirsty and if

you bring joy in your classroom and you can make any bad student, nerdy as he

or she discovers the beauty of truly learning mr. Johnson I mean no

disrespect you have the most important job on this planet you build create and

save lives but if you really care about my future like you say then you have to

fully commit and ask yourself honestly how do I prepare a child for future that

doesn't yet exist here's a hint the answer is not found in this it's using

this and this see in the future we would need more passion and compassion people

with inspired hearts and wisdom to uplift this planet and mom I love you

but can I be real go ahead you want to know one of the biggest factors for

childhood success it's not IQ its family meals and we haven't had one of those in

a while see I know sometimes you don't feel

proud cuz I may not be a straight-a student

but I'm not stupid these tests maybe 70% of my grade but there's zero percent of

my future but don't worry I'll pass this class and get through

this but I need you to give me the space I need to be me and live true cuz the

best feeling in the world is that your own parents get you there's a passage in

a book called the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran and if you don't mind I'd love to

share it with you go ahead so he says your children are not your

children they are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself they come

through you but not from you and though they are with you they do not belong to

you you may give them your love but not your thoughts for they have their own

thoughts you may house their bodies but not their souls for their souls dwell in

the house of tomorrow so mom I'd appreciate it if you give me the love

that I need to pursue my dreams see if we are to succeed all three of us need

behavior change on all fronts we talk about the future but the future is now

and it is created now by all of us I've never heard you speak like that before

yeah I didn't know but I'm gonna reach out to administration and try to change

some things you have my word