Child-driven education

Hi guys,

Last day I was reading some of the cards what were hanging outside to celebrate Book's Day and there was one that particularly grabbed my attention. It said:

" A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary"

Yesterday, while I was waiting for ages to do my interview, I stated the quotation aloud. Regarding this matter, I met a teacher that recommended me to watch the video below and I must say I am fascinated about it (Antonio, if you're reading this, thanks a bunch!!!)

This time education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. 

In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

I hope you like it!!!

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Advertising

As you know, advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. 

In this video, Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real” value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life.

And here you can have a look at some of the funniest commercials all over the world

 

Why you will fail to have great careers

Here you are a funny video about the reasons why you are not going to get a great career.

Today's talker is Larry Smith. He is an instructor of economics at the University of Waterloo. Throughout his several decades of teaching at the University, he has taught both introductory microeconomics, macroeconomics and entrepreneurship courses.

Smith has also advised several of his former students as far as how to start-up a business, position the business and in general has given business advice to these start-ups. His advice is received by most as generally helpful in the business they are starting up, and has been used in the past to create powerful start-ups.

After you watch it, think about these questions: Do you think it's all about excuses? Or is it something different?