Today I'm just doing videos, and I want you to watch them.
So get some tea and spend the next 40 minutes just listening to people talk.
Its actually important.
First, Bill Gates (yes that one, but he isn't talking about Windows, he's actually trying to do good things now):
Bill Gates: How I'm trying to change the world now
It all is important, but the part I really wanted you to listen to is the last half.
Education. We need to do better. Not only for America but the world.
Just look at the last election and how education and lack of education played a large part of what we saw during the campaign season. Educated people can hold different views, but if emotions are used to judge instead, because no education is there to draw from, you end up with a dangerous and incompetent government.
i.e. if we don't educate Americans. Make them think for themselves, make them problem solve, make them world aware, make them understand and appreciate history, science, and, yes, art. If we don't do these things we could easily have another Bush administration, just with a different name. I don't know if we all could withstand another administration that repeats with relish all the idiocy of the past 8 years.
But how to make education better? Well let's be up front about this, teacher's unions aren't our 100% allies in better education. Their primary goal is being supportive of the teachers and that includes the bad teachers.
How to get rid of the bad educators and keep and encourage the good educators is a huge question I realize.
But continuing to let education collapse in our nation is one of the greatest threats facing our nation. And I'm not kidding.
And now teachers teach to the test, because of no child left behind, and all that gets you is repeaters... not thinkers.
We need better thinking to survive.
Here's another video that you need to sit through, that brings home the importance of an education that teaches thinking. And how it could save a nation and a continent.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them
- Albert Einstein
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