TED Talk: Self-Teaching
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime...
Don't give kid education, give them Internet! They'll figure out anything!
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2. Comment rated too low. Show this comment dragonon 2 years ago
NOw here is a lesson for Snotr-ers!!!
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3. PortugaL26 2 years ago
"2 children watch a TED-Talk. They wanted to be football players before. After watching 8 TED-Talks they want to become Leonardo da Vinci" 
Really engaging and inspirational
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5. Comment rated too low. Show this comment SjN 2 years ago
Ok, I think the media is trying to convince me that an Indian person invented computers and the internet.
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Just watched it again... really touched me.
Such a wonderful project to reach kids in those hard places.
Don't worry, we'll still get to the whales... 
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Gonna put a lot of teachers out of work, but like Arthur C. Clark said, a teacher that can be replaced by a machine, should be.
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This is a huge prove that Steven Pinker is right, we are not blank slates; even with the accents, we don't get them from our parents or family, but from our peers and classmates.
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12. lockandload 2 years ago
excellent video, very interesting- this guy should get the funds he needs and make it global, its a winner 
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13. eNdEmiOn06463 2 years ago
I'm still waiting for the invention that can upload information directly into our brain like it is done in movies like "Battlefield Earth" and "Outlander".
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Build a man a fire keep him warm for a day, set a man on fire keep him warm for the rest of his life.
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so this genius realized that giving the internet to poor people will make them smarter ?!?!? how is that an amazing discovery, everybody already knows that !!
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Since this is TED I'm going to give this a thumbs-up and a good comment beforehand, and then watch it
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Teachers are becoming irrelevant. Tomorrow the computer is the teacher. Just playing around with the computer and discover things on your own is the best way to learn things. Its not having someone who isnt even interested in their work talk about it front of a class hours after hours.
Giving internet to anyone will open them up in time. Even if you're just watching videos or writing comments you're learning new things all the time. It might not seem like that when you're doing it, but in time it will show.
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1. chestrefeld 2 years ago
Posted 42 minutes ago.
1st comment 33 minutes ago.
Video lasts 17 minutes.
Time to write such an intesting comment 10 seconds.
At least watch the entire video before commenting.
No wonder the "first post" so often gets a minus vote!!!
Interesting and educational video. Loved it