Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums

http://www.ted.com Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become.

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[David Bain]

Bang, dead on.Im a returning full time student and its gotten worse in the last 10 years alone.And every teacher tells you that they are gonna teach critical thinking but they are not.I self educated in my lapse of degree chasing,Ive always been that way.If I exhibit real critical thinking in the class instead of memorization and repetition im" being disruptive" and all the classes are remedial at best but theese are bachelor degree courses.I do better at home with a library card,peace.

[Arthurmax180]

lol @ the vuvuzela button

[samala51]

TED>BigThink x a million

[John Abrams]

TED talks just rock my world

[insomniacgrace]

Nice one!

[kopi5896]

i know what ya mean during my Undergrad years I have very few Profs that entertained creative new approaches to deconstructing' concepts of absolute "knowledge" unfortunately the majority of us have experienced a dogmatic religious approach to knowledge and even worse is the useless experience of high school.

[many9662]

I agree with "One of the things that always annoyed me is that here in America, the schools didn't teach us practical, productive or usable lessons. This is why we have television shows like "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" -- Most people in America forget the useless information that is crammed into their heads for the first 12 years of their lives."

[claircote4416]

I agree with "in the modern system (i'll leave out the monetary side) if you want to be radical and innovative you better stay at home and pursue ideas which make you feel at home. the current system does not take into account that each individual is different and that educaton should be given on case by case basis."

[careerhuntsville]

nice talk!!!