Bill Gates: The End of Textbooks as We Know Them

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/08/A_Conversation_with_Bill_Gates_at_Aspen_Ideas_Festival

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pinpoints the problem with today's textbooks, and predicts where the future of learning lies for K-12 students. He stresses the importance of self-diagnostic tools, which he foresees as an important component of tomorrow's online, interactive texts.

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An Afternoon of Conversation engages big thinkers and doers in serious discussion about their work and the future. This conversation features Bill Gates and Walter Isaacson. - Aspen Institute

William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft had revenues of US$39.79 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2005, and employs more than 61,000 people in 102 countries and regions.

Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe - was released in April 2007.

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"Bill Gates pledges to leave his £30billion fortune to charity... rather than his children

By SOPHIE BORLAND

Last updated at 4:01 PM on 20th June 20)" Try doing some research before getting owned next time! Even if Gates stepped on other companies to get where he's at in order to help the poor, SO WHAT? He's a modern day ROBIN HOOD in the eyes of poor and suffering 3rd world Africans! NOW PISS OFF

[blo0magic]

It is true.... I grew up in Korea until 4th grade and my textbook was thin as a modern smartphone today. Not only elementary but until high school its like that. They have books for 1st and 2nd semester separate. Its sort of like a college.

[espnchris]

american math text book is 3 times bigger then a asian text book......bill is ganster

[ss620110]

mister gates please help!

[SgtThom]

I know Bill gates is spewing bull*** right there.

[SgtThom]

I now Bill Gates is Bull**** right here.

[Dissidentsdissent]

Aldous Huxley argued that teachers became obsolete when textbooks became widely available, he went to Oxford and only went to two lectures a week by his own account.

[PornStar650Biker2012]

hey bill gates, you peice of shit: why not give hundreds of millions to the poor and hurting right here in america, instead of apefrican and other shit countries? You and your dad support 1098 which raises taxes for ALL americans, but why should you care because you have billions and billions. Why don't you give hundreds of millions to schools HERE in the U.S, instead of supporting a tax hike on the rest of us to pay it. Why does microsoft hire thousands from india to work there? Fuck you. Die..

[Wantthosedaysback]

@tubaboy71 There are much worse ideas that deserve to be learned by those interested . Don't think I'm insecure or spiteful enough to burn books .

[tubaboy71]

@Wantthosedaysback LOL you think books written with a communistic point of view by a true closet communist is a good idea?

[Wantthosedaysback]

@tubaboy71 why though?