MrBeast says modern education ‘completely broken’, calls for huge reform of school systems

Jimmy Donaldson, better known as online alias MrBeast, has shifted his focus from viral challenges and philanthropy to a far older institution: the classroom and its education system.

In a recent discussion about schooling in the Good Guys Podcast, the highest-subscribed YouTuber argued that the way students are taught today feels fundamentally outdated. “Why are students today being taught the same way their parents were?” he asked. Reflecting on his own time in school, he described a system where teachers “just stand there, read out of a book and write on a whiteboard,” despite the rapid evolution of technology in nearly every other industry.