 [ABCNEWS.GO] Jaden Smith might be best known as the star of the remake of "The Karate Kid" and for his lifelong role as the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, but the 15-year-old is also starring in his own online controversy after sounding off against America's education system, calling school a brainwashing tool.
Can't argue with that statement.
Jaden tweeted to his more than 4.5 million followers Sept. 12, "School Is The Tool To Brainwash The Youth" and "If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth."
Ummm... No, they wouldn't. They'd still be ignorant. Even more ignorant than your average 15-year-old.
Jaden, 15, is considered Hollywood royalty, being a friend of Justin Bieber and dating a sister of the Kardashians, Kylie Jenner, but some people say he is setting a bad example with his comments.
Someone would actually pay attention to the ramblings of a 15-year-old blockhead?
"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."
"And who do you look up to, little boy?"
"Jaden Smith."
"I fear for the Republic."
Jaden and his sister, Willow, 12, are both home schooled.
So they know lots more than you and I do.
Jaden had attended the New Village Leadership Academy, a private school his parents founded in California five years ago, until it closed its doors in June because of lack of funding.
They started it, then let it collapse?
The academy used "study-tech," a teaching method created by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, something to which Will Smith alluded on "Live with Regis and Kelly" in 2007.
Golly. It was on Live with Regis and Kathy Lee Kelly? It must be really neat.
There are "powerful educational concepts that we believe in," Smith said on the show.
They were developed by the founder of Scientology, after all.
But instead of revolutionizing that educational system, the younger Smith seems to be suggesting his Twitter followers abandon it. "If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society," Jaden tweeted on Sept. 13.
Being a fifteen-year-old dork, he confuses education and intelligence.
But his philosophical musings have been met with skepticism.
Not everybody believes that ignorance is bliss? How strange.
"This is why we don't let celebrity children make decisions on the education system," one person tweeted. Another even resents one of Smith's comments with the heading, "Stupidest tweet ever."
Actually, both of those statements can be taken as truisms.
The teen actor explained his approach to life this summer on "Good Morning America," saying, "I really try to do me and really what I want to do and please myself instead of trying to please other people."
So he's not only a dork, but a self-centered dork.
In his latest tweet, Jaden advises his followers: "Everybody Get Off Your Phones And Go Do What You Actually Wanna Do."
What if what you actually wanna do is to beat the snot out of some dorky actor's kid?
Jaden was rumored not too long ago to be seeking emancipation from his A-list parents, but his dad recently joked that off as being untrue.
"If he was emancipated, he'd have to get a job to support himself, and he's not qualified for McDonald's." 
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