TEDxDirigo - Zoe Weil - The World Becomes What You Teach

THE WORLD BECOMES WHAT YOU TEACH

Zoe Weil is the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (www.HumaneEducation.org) and is considered a pioneer in the comprehensive humane education movement, which provides people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to be conscientious choicemakers and engaged changemakers for a better world. Zoe created the first Master of Education and Certificate Program in Humane Education in the U.S. covering the interconnected issues of human rights, environmental preservation, and animal protection. She has also created acclaimed online programs and leads workshops and speaks at universities, conferences, and events across the U.S. and Canada. She has taught tens of thousands students through her innovative school presentations, and has trained several thousand teachers through her workshops and programs.

Zoe's most recent book, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life, won the 2010 Nautilus silver medal in sustainability and green values. She is the author of several other books including Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times for parents; The Power and Promise of Humane Education for educators; and Claude and Medea: The Hellburn Dogs, winner of the Moonbeam gold medal in juvenile fiction, which follows the exploits of two seventh graders who become clandestine activists in New York City, righting wrongs where they find them.

Zoe received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Master of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.

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[reggierummy]

I am fortunate enough to teach a Service Elective class at The American School of Doha. My students know they can make a difference-think globally, act locally. Giving kids the knowledge and the tools to impact our global community is essential to educating the whole child. Mankind is our business, and kids need to know that they can make a difference, no matter how small or large the impact.

[jlspleen]

A truly inspiring talk that is well thought out and so well presented. Thank you, Zoe. I love Star Trek too - Live Long and Prosper!

[janet cade]

Why are we thing about 'creating jobs?'Since I was a little child I thought-there are So Many world Problems that no one is looking or thinking about.But there's Job-creation. Jobs need to be solutions to problems,not keeping what we already got. Like Zoe said - IF we were to be solution oriented, and think,care and create- learn the basics by osmosis - for once - have a youth driven culture guided by 'elder' gurus but - youth driven.

[GreenTV]

Excellent, Bravo!

[kalijuri]

amen!

[Joel Lemieux]

All we need is the nullification of the 1937 unlawful ?law? - County by County (all 3100+ of them) then State by State! Then -  Not only t shirts but also over 275 other documented products

[summondadrummin]

Zoe great talk.My suggestion for another aspect of inquiry for True Price has to do with what prices and wages are measured in~ which is money. So what is Money? Where does it come from? How does this effect equality, justice and sustainability? Thanks

[penny sage]

what is a possible scenario to change saudi arabia into a better condition with respects to freedom of religion and judical despotism by means of schooling?

[Diana Sawers]

I love what you say. I believe it is indeed a solution to the problems that beset our troubled world and the pathway towards a brave new one. I intend contacting yr Humane Education site with a view to doing a Master's course.

[7r1gaaa]

I come before the council of all beings as the energy of life.

When i first arrived here i was in search for perfection in a perfectly imperfect world for so long that i forgotten how to feel love, which is to feel life, but i always new how to give life which is to give love, so I gave life to my love to feel love in my life, so i could once again feel the love of life and live a life with love.

Love never dies so stand with me and stand together, stand with me on the edge of forever.

[7r1gaaa]

i come before the council of all beings as the energy of love.

My love is my life, my life is my love for life, the more i live the more i love, the more i love the more i want to live, without my love i am afraid to live, without my life i am dead.

I come from is a world where actions speak louder than words because love creates love, the more you give the more you get back.