Dan Martell - February 27, 2026


School is teaching the wrong things

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Dan Martell
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Episode Stats


Length

36 seconds

Words per minute

195.15

Word count

118

Sentence count

7


Summary

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These days, you just can t trust the education system. Schools are preparing kids for jobs that just won t exist. By the time they graduate, accountant, lawyer, and even doctors might not even be jobs that exist.

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00:00:00.000 Schools are preparing kids for jobs that just won't exist.
00:00:03.140 By the time they graduate,
00:00:04.660 accountant, lawyers, even doctors,
00:00:07.280 those might not even be jobs that exist.
00:00:09.500 Schools teach skills that were relevant
00:00:12.040 and created for like the 90s.
00:00:14.120 And you look in the last three years,
00:00:15.720 how much change has happened,
00:00:17.220 and yet none of that has shown up in the education system.
00:00:20.580 None of it has been thought through
00:00:22.240 from a different lens of this world called AI.
00:00:24.820 By the time they graduate,
00:00:26.240 everything that they learn will probably be obsolete.
00:00:28.540 my kids know how to prompt they know the tools they're using ai to propel their life
00:00:34.380 these days you just can't trust schools