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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+49 1. chestrefeld commented 13 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 O:)
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-6 2. dragonon commented 13 years ago

NOw here is a lesson for Snotr-ers!!!
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+20 3. PortugaL26 commented 13 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" :D

Really engaging and inspirational
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+19 4. joeman commented 13 years ago

What a great plan...
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-19 5. SjN commented 13 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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+13 6. MooseDude commented 13 years ago

Impressive! :O
just Impressive!
nothing more to say 8-)
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+10 7. joeman commented 13 years ago

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... :P
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+10 8. yurtb commented 13 years ago

Can we give this guy a prize of some kind and also billions of dollars?
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+14 9. YetiGrowl commented 13 years ago

kids are smarter than most adults. great vid.
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+7 10. dredawg commented 13 years ago

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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+5 11. medicino commented 13 years ago

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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+10 12. lockandload commented 13 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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+4 13. eNdEmiOn06463 commented 13 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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+8 14. PaterSin commented 13 years ago

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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+4 15. 420 commented 13 years ago

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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+2 16. moskwiz commented 13 years ago

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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+4 17. huldu commented 13 years ago

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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+4 18. avolyte commented 13 years ago

Snotr Admin...get us a Like or Super Like button :D :D
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+1 19. richardleed commented 13 years ago

Internet, eh?
- Homer Simpson