Jaden Smith, the 15-year old son of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, recently took to Twitter to post a series of controversial messages for his millions of followers, encouraging kids to drop out of school while claiming that it is a tool designed to brainwash them, ABC News reports.
Both Jaden and sister, Willow, 12, are home schooled, although Jaden had been attending the New Village Leadership Academy, a private school his parents founded in California five years ago, until it closed in June due to lack of funding. The school was founded based on Scientology principles, the religion that the Smith family allegedly follows, using "study-tech" teaching methods that Will Smith has referred to as "powerful educational concepts."
Perhaps his alternative schooling in part drove Jaden Smith to tweet things like, "If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth" and "School Is The Tool To Brainwash The Youth." He also included the tweet, "If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society," which many found to be troubling.
If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.
— Jaden Smith (@officialjaden) September 12, 2013
"This is why we don't let celebrity children make decisions on the education system," one person tweeted in response.
If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society. — Jaden Smith (@officialjaden) September 13, 2013
"He has such a huge group of fans that really look up to him," Us Weekly reporter Jennifer Peros told ABC News. "So this isn't really the example you should really be setting."
Jaden's latest media scandal occurred earlier this year when the teen was reported to be seeking emancipation from his father, which the two cleared up, joking that it was just a rumor.
Jaden's latest tweet was written yesterday, and reads: "Everybody Get Off Your Phones And Go Do What You Actually Wanna Do," which may be in response to the backlash he's received for his comments, though he nor his parents have yet adressed the Twitter rant.
Other bizarre tweets from the teen star, all oddly capitalized, include, "If A Book Store Never Runs Out Of A Certain Book, Dose That Mean That Nobody Reads It, Or Everybody Reads It," and "Education Is Rebellion."
