This is the most exciting innovation in education I have ever seen. Please watch this one:
http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-03-15&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email
Amazing, Salman is so young... and has no teaching background!
And Youtube is just as brilliant. It connects our world in such fabulous ways!
Good idea but check out his videos on banking - he's a real defender of the current unfair, unsustainable banking system. This would be a big help to kids struggling to get through public school but is he really helping them? I guess videos that help teach math can't be a bad thing but I wonder how many lies about history and other subjects are being perpetuated.
Wendy
Bill Gates' involvement with Khan gives me pause. Khan mentions a "one-world classroom" -- which sounds uncomfortably like "one-world government." (Maybe that's just negative association on my part, but there it is.) YouTube is not centrally controlled (I don't think), and a one-world classroom doesn't have to be, but it could easily be. Gates reportedly did attend the 2010 Bilderberg meeting, and his wife did in 2004. And we know that group's agenda.
The Gates Foundation, with its funding of vaccines for the third world, has been accused of furthering the eugenics effort by including in the vaccines drugs that sterilize people. Gates himself, in a talk at TED, mentions vaccines as one of a several ways to bring down the population (here's a short excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQtRI7A064 ) (The link is live even though it's not blue.) And recently we've had posts about the hidden agendas of large foundations.
So, as we consider top-down benefits of all kinds, let's be discerning.
This was a duplicate post, by error. Just deleted the content.
Those two points occurred to me, too, Bob ie. Bill Gate's cameo and the term "one-world classroom."
With so many wolves in sheeps' clothing these days, it is time to rely on our own gut feelings to discern the truth.
Noa
Oops, I think he actually said "global classroom", but the import is the same.
maybe that is the simple key thing. maybe we are in a time when all things authentic, synchronistic and authentically spontaneous will happen from the grass roots bottom up, and all the top down stuff will be contrived machination intended to control and manipulate.
I agree Bob, discernment will be so key, so vital to real understanding, a collective understanding that will ultimately transcend the current colossal meta-paradigm ruse.
and will do so in Love, with no ill will directed toward anything or anyone. this also may be key to transcending the ruse, a ruse we all have played a part in making...