Without any other form of education
No. So many things are miss represented in movies and TV or skipped entirely in the name of entertainment.
Yeah, like sneezing. Or head rests. Or phone calls.
Saying "bye" before hanging up
Finally, someone pointed it out! I was beginning to think I was the only one who cared. This used to keep me up at night as a kid.
Definitively no.
Imma need a source for this
You'd never learn lots of things. What garlic tastes like. How to swim. Anything that involves interacting with non-story reality basically.
You can learn a lot of things but there is definitely a crossover where you're putting your brain to work to solve the problem with a known answer that you don't know that is going to be graded that television can never replace.
No. Not even close.
There are a lot of cultural things to learn from Hollywood, but very little actual academic content comes out of Hollywood. If any.
Add public TV to that mix and the academic content level goes WAY up. I don't think of public TV as Hollywood so I'm unsure if OP is including it.
Seems that youtube has much more content that I would call educational. I would go there for an education before Hollywood.
So then I have a different question:
Could a child learn everything they need to know just from watching YouTube without any other sources of education?
I would want to research before saying for certain. But I think so.
It would be interesting to see if you could get everything required for High School graduation there on yt.
On one hand I am always amazed at what kids can learn and latch onto in the weirdest ways. So I have no doubt that a lot can be learned through context. Watching movies can absolutely demonstrate a seemingly endless scenarios in a way that can be understood.
However, as someone raising a child, let me tell you how often I have to stop and explain that certain things are not real just because there's a video of it. Or how many words are being used incorrectly because they were heard in one context that was misunderstood.
I think a child who only had media to teach them, with no one to correct things, would have an endless amount of misunderstandings - nevermind the amount of things they'd believe that are entirely fictional. Basically, no, this kid would be screwed.
You can learn a lot even from seemingly stupid/mundane things. Like Seinfeld, it's not educational but how many tidbits about life and culture can you pick up from it? You learn there was a popular drink called Bosco, there is a brand of snack cakes called Entenmann's, you learn things about the JFK assassination on the Keith Hernandez episode, you see a parody of George Steinbrenner and learn he was the manager of the New York Yankees, people retire to Florida and live in crazy retirement communities, just to name a few. There is a grain of truth in most jokes. But you can't learn everything from watching TV/movies.
School and university especially give a student access to more than just material to absorb, they teach a student how to learn. Without that framework, a person is not equipped to think critically. Not to mention, the real value of a teacher is not to dictate information to be memorized, it is to identify mistakes and issue corrections. No type of non-interactive medium can accomplish this.
No joke, before moving here, I learned a lot about USA daily life from The Simpsons.
Obviously not, and I'm not even going into the depth of your definition of "everything", where would a kid learn long division?
Watch "Lucky Hank", it's about a teacher or something. He probably does math at one point
