The Educational Seduction of Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson opened a "university" and it's just as bad as you'd think. Just maybe not for the reasons you think. Peterson Academy is not a real school; it has taken the skin of a real school, draped that skin over MasterClass, then puppeted it around like a Renaissance Festival LARP while charging a $400 admission fee. It also doesn't work. The "lectures" are good, enjoyable, smooth, flashy, and attractive, but there is no actual learning happening here. Peterson Academy is not educational. Let's talk about why. Go watch the ‪@JoseBird‬ video! ➤    • "Professor" Jiang's Broken Classroom   Watch me take Peterson Academy's terrible quizzes ➤   / peterson-academy-157094595   SOURCES: ------ "The Dr. Fox Lecture: A Paradigm of Educational Seduction" by Naftulin, Ware, and Donnelly in Journal of Medical Education ------ "The Peterson Academy: Details Galore and First Impressions, From a Cognitive Psychologist" by ‪@CassEris‬ (   • The Peterson Academy: Details Galore and F...  ) ------ "The Fatal Flaw of the Peterson Academy | Cognitive psychologist review after its first year" by ‪@CassEris‬ (   • The Fatal Flaw of the Peterson Academy | C...  ) ------ "Antiwoke U." by Luke Winkie for Slate (https://archive.is/JU3iZ#selection-79...) ------ "Jordan Peterson’s new online school promises to dispense with ‘woke nonsense.’ I enrolled — and here’s what I learned" by Alex Boyd for The Toronto Star (https://archive.is/9NZql#selection-38...) ------ "Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics" by Freeman et al in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ------ "Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning" by Bjork and Bjork in Psychology in the Real World ------ "Appearances can be deceiving: instructor fluency increases perceptions of learning without increasing actual learning" by Carpenter et al in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review ------ "Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom" by Deslauriers et al in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ------ "The impact of binge watching on memory and perceived comprehension" by Horvath et al in First Monday ------ "On Being Expelled from Peterson Academy – Part 2" by Meandering Minstrel (https://www.meanderingminstrel.com/pe...) ------ "I Was Expelled from Peterson Academy" by Dusty May Taylor (https://dustymaytaylor.com/2025/01/19...) CHAPTERS: 00:00 - The Fake Professor 02:34 - Jordan Peterson Made a School 06:25 - It's Not a Real School 10:46 - It's Not Even Educational 18:54 - How Students Fall For It 22:03 - The Performance of Peterson Academy 27:07 - Professor Jiang and the Edu-Grifter Economy 29:59 - How to Actually Learn 31:19 - Outro, Poem, Bloopers To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤    / @zoe_bee   ---Join the Patreon! ➤   / zoe_bee   ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ https://ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Check out my second channel! ➤    / @zoecee   ---Watch my Warrior Cats Podcast! ➤ https://art19.com/shows/the-only-warr... ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤   / itucrew