TED Talks Education

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Hear inspiring leaders on the topic of learning in this TED project hosted by John Legend.
Hear inspiring and forward-looking leaders and thinkers on the topic of learning, including Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth, Bill Gates, Rita F. Pierson, Sir Ken Robinson and Geoffrey Canada, among others. Hosted by John Legend, this special focused solely on education marks the first TED project produced specifically for television.

[@WandaProwellSCHOOLREADINESS]

AGREE: Teaching and Learning should bring JOY! WE ARE BORN TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! ~

[@FatBestialSwan]

"There are people who move. People who make things happen. What we've seen here this evening are wonderful examples of people who are moving, and there are many people throughout the country also moving. If we can encourage more people, that would be a movement. If the movement is strong enough, that's in the best sense of the word, a revolution; and that's what we need." I want to be part of this revolution.

[@sujathakorlam4946]

This is really true " no significant learning takes place without significant relationship" . I knew how my kids loved their teachers particularly in their primary school .

[@rebeccaglasencnik3062]

I have listened to Rita Pearson give her TED talk so many times - but I love it so much, I can't hear it too many times.

[@abdelkaderhattou7139]

me too

[@laurenfletcher7388]

Every morning, the principal at the school I work at closes the morning announcements with -"education is the key to your future". I wish more people understood this simple but plausible saying. We as educators can unlock so many doors.

[@jacquelineway]

Everyone needs to hear this. It is a message that will travel through generations of educators.

[@MegaTeacher2]

"We are teachers, we are born to change" That's our JOB, isn't it?

[@markvincentordiz]

Or to improve the way of life

[@TroyChadwell]

Lmao the First Lady gave me chills can't even lie. Wish I had her as a teacher .

[@andyluminto208]

Its true that relationship is important between pupils and the teacher..I admired to what the facilitator says that a learner cannot learned if she/he hate or don't like the teacher. this is a great video.

[@rdelrosso2001]

GREAT Video on Education! Very Inspiring! This is one reason why I have been watching KZbin, rather than TV for the past 2 years! Geoffrey Canada is awesome! we need 1,000 of him! No, 100,000! Malcolm London is only 19? Wow, I thought he was very mature for 19! I thought he was about 28!

[@theresael-amin2416]

Awesome! An inspiration to thinking about a 10-year plan in a school district where only 45% of students in Black high schools were graduating in 2012. Thanks to the Superintendent of Education who was hired in July 2013, the graduation rates at the 45% schools are over 85%. Nine years of strategic commitment. The best is yet to come. Consistent grit is key.

[@BRaisa1]

Mrs. Pearson(?) I salute you! This needs to be shown to all teachers

[@asmachakoua3955]

Teachers are born to make a change we are all about learninf

[@affinityemmyaffinity2379]

Rita was so amazing we teach to inspire confidence, we teach to build self esteem.

[@SCATutoringCenterGarfield]

"Kids don't learn from people they don't like" -Rita Pierson. Very true

[@shireenhendricks2194]

Agree. Some teachers are the real bullies causing juds to suffer from anxiety cause of fear. Teachers should study psychology bedore education. Some teachers are heartless and lacks compassion. They humiliate kids and they favour the bright sparks. Kids learn more by observation and curiosity.

[@rebeccahart1921]

This was a fair and balanced conversation. I look forward to see more TED talks on the subject.

[@francismausley7239]

Schools needed updated subject material. "Happy are those who spend their days in gaining knowledge, in discovering the secrets of nature, and in penetrating the subtleties of pure truth! " ~ Baha'i Writings

[@juelwoitowicz7606]

Thank you for creating this source!

[@wendolenszazueta7422]

This is absolutely amazing!

[@liamodwyer2782]

a very enjoyable and thought provoking group of talks. i value the human relationships discussed throughout and realise that as an educator for nearly 20 years i may need a bit more GRIT to support pupils with opening their creative channels even though funding across schools has been slashed. i now understand more about the reasons i first chose teaching as a career and will endeavour to facilitate these skills through a delicate touch of climate control. many thanks

[@thestickystudynotesolution2870]

Education is very important! We also encourage high levels of education to be practiced.

[@jacobmaska2777]

This was perfect, I just wish that something would really happen in the schools. I mean I go to school everyday and learn nothing because my teachers rush through lessons that need to be more in depth of what it is about or how to do it.

[@CrashRebootL3]

one of the best TED Talks, thanks

[@academyofmine]

#education Wonderful way to spend an hour! What's interesting is that schools that work at are "alternative education"…. love it!

[@psmitty3715]

Rita Pierson, I don't know who you are. But you Rock! God Bless!

[@asianaestar]

Ken Robinson is my spirit animal

[@namcao3780]

Thanks so much.It’s a great program 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@KravMagaChennaiTamilNadu]

Amazingly energetic! Thanks

[@lovechids3051]

omg where was this women all my life lol ... I wish I had her for a teacher . omg I would be a rich women lol . that first women was the best .

[@thaikiennguyen6796]

lolololololololololololololololololollolololololololol

[@rosyoliver5316]

Me too Yes, she was awesome, I love it.

[@FranciscoValenzuela92]

Inspired by this talk!

[@laurenfletcher7388]

In case you feel like school is really boring, here you go! Some people ACTUALLY agree!

[@mariarosales7414]

Hi, I noticed these captions were auto generated and it causes the captions to spell out a different word. I think it’d be nice if there was captions non auto generated to provide more accuracy for those who aren’t able to hear the actual video:)

[@topcloudvisuals6284]

THIS VIDEO IS ON POINT ENJOYING IT.

[@amanuelyitbarek861]

This was a fascination video

[@jonkay2463]

John Kenneth Galbraith, a left domain economist, actually said the following: "When it comes to deciding on issues that concern themselves personally, teachers are amongst the most conservative groups you will find." By "conservative" Galbraith was not implying a complement. I think he may have been referring to the disruptions at San Francisco State College campus in the late 60s .

[@bosscertifiedentadmin9934]

Geoffrey Canada is the man!#harlemachievementzone- nice Ted Talk

[@KamalHossain-yq5rx]

Thank you very much.

[@janhendriksjunior2835]

Very important issues there, a must see to all teachers and educators. :) thanks

[@user-sx2fh4eg5t]

Knowledge is power, aspiream is your cradle！

[@andreahlavathy9440]

Thank you!

[@lowellwballard]

"They won't eat unless we feed them, they won't learn unless we teach them..." that song lyric seems to be the core of the problem. Instead of helping students determine/focus on what is valuable then structuring a learning environment to help them create that value, we decide what is valuable and force feed an education. The philosophical model of education needs to shift from one of central control to one of learner motivation/enablement. Information Technology is allowing a form of reformation in our lifetimes that will have more impact than the Printing press and the reformation of the 1500s.

[@kalumprasannaHW]

I love TEDx... Graeat !!!!

[@linalina-tp9ox]

The best education is not going to school at al. We don´t need no education. We need inspiration, an heroic home culture, where the parents can be a leading example, where the parents live successful habits, like how to respect eachother, how to learn from eachother, virtues, and morals, values, and christianity or a good religion, philosophy and how to read people, how to handle toxic people, or challenging situations, reading, public speaking, critical thinking, running your own race, loving what you do, and keep on doing what you love, how to laser like focus, persistence, endurance, consistency and learning every kid to think for themselves and how they can educate themselves. HOMESCHOOLING is the only answer on growing kids that will be GENIUS.

[@e-learningsources9320]

I do inspire through this sharing.

[@terencedillard2120]

Great.. Highly recommended video..

[@MyPhurba]

Great talks TED:)

[@couragenobi8143]

GREAT PRESENTATIONS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT

[@DeborahJBoyd]

totally right on.

[@berbudy]

10 years later and nothing change

[@rueG]

"Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can , alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit therefrom". Bahaullah the founder of Baha'i Faith

[@celethawright2533]

Awesome show

[@rdelrosso2001]

In 1853, a 6-year-old Boy in the Midwest was so sick, his Mother kept him home from school. (They did not have many medicines in those days.) He started school in 1854, at the age of seven. He thought, somewhat innocently, that he'd be placed in the 2nd Grade, because he was Seven. But the teacher said: "You never went to 1st Grade, so you are starting in First Grade today." It was a "One-Room School House" with Grades One through Eight ALL IN THE SAME CLASSROOM. (There were only 3 or 4 Children in each Grade.) The teacher would just go from one "Grade" to another, instructing the students in one Grade at a time. (And the other 7 Grades were on their own.) Don't ask me how ONE teacher ever did all that. On that First Day of School, the teacher was reading a story to the First Graders about a river that flowed uphill. That 7-year-old Boy asked the teacher: "How does the river go against Gravity?" That was an excellent question from a 7-year-old, especially in 1854! But the teacher said that was a "Silly Question" and that the Boy must be "Addled" (Retarded). (The teacher should have said the story was Fiction or fake, but failed to do so.) When the Boy came home from School he was crying: "Mama, the teacher said I was addled." The Boy's mother was a Schoolteacher herself before she had been married. So she did not send her son back to that school and home-schooled him instead. She just basically let him read whatever he wanted to. At the Age of Seven, he was reading a Chemistry Book, that was far in above his age level. The 7-year-old boy struggled to understand how 2 Gases (Hydrogen and Water) could ever come together to form the liquid we call Water (H20). After a few years of home schooling, the boy DID go to an Elementary School for 3 years. Then, at the tender age of 13, the Boy's initial schooling had ended. The boy obtained a job in 1860, selling newspapers on the Railroad. He was also doing Chemistry Experiments in the Caboose. In 1861, the American Civil War broke out and the Boy figured out how to use the still relatively new invention of the Telegraph to get timely news into a newspaper he printed himself on the train, selling copies for about 2 cents. But one day, his Chemistry Experiment exploded. The conductor was so angry, he fired the Boy, tossing him and his Chem Lab off the train. The Boy obtained a job as a Telegraph Operator, but he was not the best Telegrapher in the world. By 1869, the boy, now a young man of 22, had been fired from many Jobs. On

[@marquisenash2319]

Fg

[@ameenalgamal.9741]

awwwwwwwwwwwesome. Thanks

[@avishaiaasildavid4865]

What Bill Gates Just Described there is Basically TQM (Total Quality Management) Meaning Continuous Improvement can be used in anything like Education and Healthcare

[@LeNaSmileyStar]

Look to Finland, and what changes they did 30+ yrs ago, and where it got them today ;)

[@itsmecasper8617]

Thank you for CC

[@jane2295]

the value and importance of human connection... wonderfull speech

[@samzeeify]

precious words thanks TED ♥

[@DaveWard-xc7vd]

What makes the difference between knowledge and understanding is intelligence. We need standardized testing ti ensure that all students are being held to the same standards. An "A" on the east coast should be equivalent to an "A" on the west coast and everywhere in between.

[@jhezamora]

Great content,amazing video..god bless po.

[@user-qw5xf1ic8h]

John legend is the best

[@abdarhmanishag9463]

it is for learnees

[@sontareid]

I enjoyed this video very much. Sonta reid

[@topcloudvisuals6284]

AWESOME

[@katlegomorulane5054]

Grit - quite true

[@theovanrossum8267]

Little by little we broke every rule - and we will have a new school system

[@VivzMusic]

May we add life skills to our standard educational systems? Students with some sort of disability gets to learn life skills, yet the other students don’t receive life skills as part of their curriculum. Can we have Home Economics class add more useful things that can be used in the real world? May we add character education as a subject in our educational system and actually get graded for it? Can we promote creativity and humanity? Please no haters. It’s just a suggestion that’s out of the box.

[@huangaisha9614]

i see kids who watch this kind of videos ask teachers to help him, to like him and to have teaching coming his ways. No one can make other people to do what "I" like. To be reasonable, I don't have to like my job to want to do it well. Students don't have to like their teachers to learn. We do have to know being happy in the process of learning and working come by the power of will. Simple thing such as "I" like goes beyond what a normal person can do. It can become an attitude. "I" don't like this. "I" don't like that. With this type of kids, it's very energy-draining. Don't tell me that under this circumstance, I have to act like students like me for me to work things out. Students share the responsibility to like what they learn. Discipline is part of learning. It not a feel-good process all the time.

[@NitzeliSanchez]

Huang Aishag Aisha I totally understand what you are coming from. You have a great level of understanding and consciousness to realize that discipline is a key to success. There are kids that come from very poor families and cannot get any help from their parents. Their parent come from poor families they cannot be a good role model. Discipline is something that you learn .

[@billcosby9953]

Bra and panties off

[@helenpierce-lamoureux3124]

Much of the learning and training to BE a teacher is not only about the mechanics of teaching a subject matter but about HOW to reach students from the different tapestry of socio-economical backgrounds AND familial/cultural enhancements. Teachers-a good one-CAN 'make' other ppl do 'what I like'-I Guarantee you that-especially children still in their developmental years AS WELL AS adult students. You couldn't be MORE wrong! A Good teacher CAN generate interest, motivate curiosity, encourage success, effect and influence more positive behavior. I'm interested in hOW is it that you 'see kids watch this kind of video's and ask teacher's to help him, to like him and to have teachers coming his way'. I mean, what do you do and/or how is it you 'SEE; these kids do that? There are poorer teachers, but pls do not set that as a standard for ALL teachers because you just do not know WHAT you are talking about not only as far as teachers, teaching OR how to motivate/reach people! That makes no COMMON SENSE much less any INTELLIGENT, factual or informed sense. Your Opinion you express as FACT when it could not be MORE wrong!

[@helenpierce-lamoureux3124]

Much of the learning and training to BE a teacher is not only about the mechanics of teaching a subject matter but about HOW to reach students from the different tapestry of socio-economical backgrounds AND familial/cultural enhancements. Teachers-a good one-CAN 'make' other ppl do 'what I like'-I Guarantee you that-especially children still in their developmental years AS WELL AS adult students. You couldn't be MORE wrong! A Good teacher CAN generate interest, motivate curiosity, encourage success, effect and influence more positive behavior. I'm interested in how is it that you 'see kids watch this kind of video's and ask teacher's to help him, to like him and to have teachers coming his way'. I mean, what do you do and/or how is it you 'SEE; these kids do that? There are poorer teachers, but pls do not set that as a standard for ALL teachers because you just do not know WHAT you are talking about not only as far as teachers, teaching OR how to motivate/reach people! That makes no COMMON SENSE much less any INTELLIGENT, factual or informed sense. Your Opinion you express as FACT when it could not be MORE wrong!

[@asmachakoua3955]

That's lit

[@twister290395]

IT IS VERY USEFUL

[@shahnawazalam724]

nice one

[@IMPROVETuition]

Interesting!

[@giasuaihocy3349]

good!!

[@samscreativefarm]

how can kids engage in learning when they outnumber the teachers 30:1 who comes up with these ridiculous ratios? yet it seems pretty universal.

[@shahnawazalam724]

superb

[@ayselorujova9832]

I wonder where is Mr Ramzi from?

[@monkeybunny89]

pay teachers 30% more and make them work till 5pm to lesson plan = problem solved. all other talk is just "talk."

[@pammyholisticmed]

Dear Educators and those passionate about education, please help our small school get a new playground and vote for our little school till June 3rd: www.state-assist.com/cause/1501400/quinton-township-school (You have to give them facebook permission just once)...This town is so small that I'm reaching out to strangers for help. There are no other parks here, no other place for the community to do sports here. Dear Stranger, thank you for helping our community!!!

[@kunhyun2590]

She has a funny talking😁

[@LeLe-ld3ig]

TED Talks Education

[@julian_hesse]

Nearly nothing changed... ...how long will it take? Maybe the system we live in has to changes, before we change living.

[@user-is8ld1vt8w]

.👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@anapauladasilvalima8971]

Myself

[@RuralLife8]

grit - Syn: perseverance , stamina

[@RuralLife8]

thank you much))

[@prabhatsingh981]

Anna Moskvina HEY,ANNA-HOW ARE YOU.THIS IS PRABHAT FROM INDIA.I AM DOING PH.D IN EDUCATION.WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A GOOD FRIEND?E [e-mail] First time i read ted talks in paper and after i bacame the fond of it .This is very good .

[@kaushikutkarsh]

To Support Please visit: igg.me/at/educate-slum-kids There are about more than 2000 children living in slum areas near New Delhi. These children are forced to leave their education and are subjected to work in order to earn the livelihood. We have planned to initiate the fulfillment of the basic education for as many poor children as we can. We started our initiative in the mid of October, 2014. We already contacted more than 300 families based in local slums new New Delhi. We have also contacted local NGO's and schools to facilitate their admissions in the upcoming session of 2015. We have already arranged the funding for about 114 children this year. And we need some support in fulfilling the rest. Here is the link to our campaign: igg.me/at/educate-slum-kids "Even a smallest contribution counts in this noble mission, and so does a good intent. So please spread the word among your friends and let every one share the same feel." Please visit: igg.me/at/educate-slum-kids

[@salamonika584]

Good

[@dr.dilippatel3015]

NICE

[@gishabbay7195]

NICE WOW!

[@lilsaintclg]

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[@thelmathompson6900]

If America had a national curriculum then what would be the outcome?

[@kunhyun2590]

The education in English is so powerful,,,😂

[@pimkanbier2811]

imposeble no no its im posible :D

[@decidedlychanahella3689]

America's global leadership?

[@lucidnightmare8196]

Oh no, not education! Noooooo. I just Finnish school😖

[@joereano596]

i FEEL like this is SAD FEELING SHIT is why we cant pass anything important

[@joereano596]

I wish WE THE PEOPLE would demand better ways to teach

[@jerzaw]

Ask the student why

[@677984tc]

Tell them to ask their cell phones.

[@WandaProwellSCHOOLREADINESS]

Dropping out of school IS NOT an option! School Readiness for Parents & Children, K-12; ISBN# ISBN# 978-0-615-54346-8 Parent Involvement is KEY for positive relationships & student intervention ! SO TRUE- Kids learn from positive relationships. . . .

[@buddyinfobiz]

Hyderabad certainly get better private school then? shown "EssayThinker"

[@couldbe8348]

There no educational CRISIS. This system could certainly be improved but this is overstating the issue.

[@joshn2342323]

I hate to say it but this video mostly consists of people patting themselves on the back. It is motivational to hear their stories but it lacks solutions to improve the overall system.

[@tashley8475]

I could never become a good English teacher because I dunno how do we pronounce support as support! lol