Madhav Chavan won the WISE award for providing an education for millions of impoverished families in India. Educating millions really is worth cheering about. (See BBC news report here.) Have a look at the World Innovation Summit for Education – building the future of education. Perhaps you can help lay a few bricks. Education is …
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Online education – Khan Academy
Yes, it’s good (if you have a decent internet connection …). KhanAcademy.org Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free. With over 3,100 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we’re on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own …
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Life, humanity and school.
Rule 1: Life is fair. Humans are not — get used to it! Rule 2: People won’t care about your self-esteem. People will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a …
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Barefoot College
I had forgotten about Barefoot College until Pammy sent me this link to a talk by Sanjit “Bunker” Roy who has legitimised education without degrees. The confidence he has inspired has changed lives of thousands. Anyone want to start Bog College with me? http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/es/bunker_roy.html
Learning is painful.
At least when you’re making a leap or really starting something new. You can either accept the pain of the process or not. Not accepting it means avoiding it and not learning. If you accept the challenge choose to live with the pain and enjoy the process. Or choose to hate the pain and fight …
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How To Write A Story
This is a great guide to story writing from WikiHow: How to write a good story. Everyone has a story to tell. There are many factors that can inspire a good story. You need to make sure you are always keeping your audience intrigued and then you know you have a good story. Here are …
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Infographics – the world in a picture.
Excellent graphics from Princeton that pull together the drivers of major issues like the arms trade, government bureaucracy, transport, food, … (Note the date of the data.) INFOGRAPHICS eg: GLASS HALF EMPTY THE COMING WATER WARS
Project Gutenberg
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More or less incarceration?
My vote is for less incarceration. Incarceration is incongruous wth a species that understands space and time and can destroy planets. Rehabilitation is appropriate. Spend less on belligerence and more on education and community infrastructure. The report Prison, Community Sentencing and Crime released by the think-tank Civitas says that less incarceration and more community service …
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Jaime Escalante inspirational educator.
“The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty” “Determination + Discipline + Hard Work = Way to Success” The California maths teacher who inspired the film Stand And Deliver, Jaime Escalante, has died aged 79. Escalante, a Bolivian immigrant, transformed a tough high school in Los Angeles by motivating …
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