Jaden and Willow Smith Tell Kids How Pointless School Really Is
Here’s something that should fill the nation’s teachers with rage. Jaden Smith and Willow Smith, children of movie stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, gave a joint interview to The New York Times’ T Magazine and it is full of some seriously out there musings from the 16 and 14-year-old actor/singers. But it is their respective thoughts on the value of school, which is vital to most American children and perhaps less so to multi-millionaire teenagers with active careers, that really stand out.
Below is the passage in question:
So is the hardest education the unlearning of things?
WILLOW: Yes, basically, but the crazy thing is it doesn’t have to be like that.
JADEN: Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end. The school that we go to every single morning, we will continue to go to.
WILLOW: Forever, ‘til the day that we’re in our bed.
JADEN: Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.
WILLOW: They never want to do anything, they’re so tired.
JADEN: You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.
WILLOW: I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, “Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.” But it was the worst experience because I was depressed.
There you have it kids, if you want to be like the Smiths, don’t bother with school. Especially not driver’s ed. Seriously, “what’s up” with that?
Read the full interview at nytimes.com.
[Photos via Wikimedia Commons]
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