Education on the Joe Rogan Experience

“I've seen estimates anywhere from 5.5 million to 10 million years of life lost by the fact that they won't have the achievement that they might have had otherw…”

Dr. Phil claims school closures during COVID will cost students 5.5 to 10 million years of life expectancy, and that around 30% of fifth and eighth graders and 19% of high school graduates cannot read at a basic level.

“They did an experiment Back in I think it was the 60s They did something called teaching machines. Have you ever seen that?”

Dr. Phil describes a 1960s educational experiment called 'teaching machines' that removed failure experiences entirely, claiming the program was scrapped after students who mastered the material with 100% success rates fell apart when returned to normal classrooms.

“The student population was more than 50% trans, queer, and nonbinary. More than 50%.”

Rufo claims that before his takeover, New College of Florida's student body was more than 50% trans, queer, and non-binary.

“she says 130 million Americans can't read at the most basic level and I said define basic level for me and she said basic level is they can't read a prescripti…”

Dr. Phil repeats a claim from a guest that 130 million Americans cannot read at a basic level, defined as being unable to read a prescription label.

“130 million adults are unable to read a simple story to their children. 21% of adults are illiterate in 2022. 45 million are functionally illiterate and read b…”

Dr. Phil claims 130 million U.S. adults cannot read a simple story to their children and 21% of adults are illiterate as of 2022, citing a literacy expert guest.

“And it also brought the Chinese into the economy, which is a big deal. The Chinese produce more engineers every year than”

Peterson claims China produces more engineers every year than the total number of engineers that exist in the United States.

“our education system, our education system was designed in Chicago in the late 1800s to produce factory workers because it was set up when rural people were mi…”

Peterson claims the modern education system was deliberately designed in Chicago in the late 1800s to produce factory workers for industrializing cities.

“we did it at Mohawk College in Canada a year ago, and we dropped their dropout rate in the first semester 50%”

Peterson claims his Self Authoring program cut first-semester dropout rates by 50% at Mohawk College.

“only six percent of american high school students are in technical or vocational training in germany that's 59”

Yang claims only 6% of American high school students are in technical/vocational training compared to 59% in Germany.

“They shifted school start times from I think it was at 7:25 to 8:30 in the morning and they look at SAT scores and in the year before they made the time change…”

Walker claims that Edina, Minnesota shifted its high school start time from 7:25 to 8:30 a.m., and that in the year before the change the top 10% of students averaged an SAT score of 1288.

“we've raised their grade point average of their kids 25 percent, dropped their dropout rate the same, and it's had a walloping effect on men and on non-Western…”

Peterson claims his Self Authoring writing program raised GPA by 25%, cut dropout rates by the same amount, and moved non-Western minority students from 70% below average to outperforming Dutch native women at Rotterdam School of Management.