TEDxDirigo - Zoe Weil - The World Becomes What You Teach

[@purposefirst]

BRILLIANT! Zoe's idea would change school from being boring, to interesting and meaningful, while still teaching the usual fundamentals. And it would actually lead to a better world!

[@DonnamarieMazzola]

This video is many things. For parents and educators, it delivers an inspiring and vitally important message about what schooling can - and should do. For all of us, it is a riveting reminder that every new day is a chance to look a little more closely, think a little more critically, act with compassion and strive to be the change we want to see -- and the best human beings we can be.

[@iunlearn]

Solutionaries. Yessss. The world has always had them and today we have more of them thinking and dreaming of radical solutions than ever before. People like Zoe are needed simply to help these folks to see that that are "playing" on a very large team. Zoe, you have a very simple and yet a very powerful message. Thanks.

[@JacquelineBodnar]

Zoe is excellent, as always! The world needs millions of people just like her!

[@moorr4705]

Thanks from the heart, Zoe. You are an inspiration. "Solutionaries" is a whole new word with a whole lot of meaning! Live Long and Prosper!

[@vfalison]

Thank you for forwarding this video. Human schooling is the solution to the problems in our world.

[@DankalexC]

It truly inspires me when Zoe speaks, but because over the time in school I have been taught to be complacent and I still feel lost and confused about so many of the problems I face each and every day. I am just one person I can't tackle them all. I just want people to care about others, the world and the creatures we share it with and ultimately themselves.

[@wisewords7]

@ZoeWeil As a twenty-one year old trainee Secondary Mathematics teacher in the UK, this talk was especially relevant to me! I am a total idealist and I love the way you have refused to bow down to the 'school of thought' that says because education is as universal as it has ever been, the quality of it is as good as it could be. In particular, I appreciate your concept of the overarching themes and in (seemingly isolated) subjects like mathematics, this could actually even raise attainment as...

[@soitgoze]

Brilliant presentation - thank you! I have been saying for many years that, in addition to the old 3 R's, there should be a 4th - Respect. Not just for each other and ourselves, but for the planet and its other inhabitants. We need to teach children as early as possible that respect is key to our progress and our survival.

[@GoldStarHoneybees]

Zoe - one year later and this talk still resonates deeply with me. Thank you so much for the concept of SOLUTIONARIES.

[@phantomyshkin]

This is a great vision for what is possible for a more humane world. Thank you!

[@alika207]

This is one of the most amazing speeches I've ever heard. Amen sister! (Loud applause and screaming!)

[@KemWalker]

This is beautiful. We gotta teach kids how to love the earth and each other. This is a great start. Thank you!

[@lloydtoxic1]

Brilliant--Our lawmakers need to watch this Tedx!

[@sweetipolkadot9]

Agree. In my high school that I attend, we have been educated to act upon global issues, by multiple projects and such. Thank you for inspiring me and putting purpose into my education about humanities. I've always wondered whether people chose to act to solve the world's issues, because so many people seem clueless or uncaring to these global troubles. You are a fantastic presenter and motivator, and thank you for bettering the world by devoting your life to spreading knowledge of these issues

[@dramos0519]

Wow, Zoe, you continue to inspire me...this time for your tolerance. I wouldn't have even graced that drivel with a response, much less one written so thoughtfully. You don't want to know what mine would have said!

[@tikvahboy]

Great talk Zoe....I am watching it while sitting outside in the desert surrounded by a kirgillion birds and mountains.....I recommend that everyone sit outside and breath and watch this.....And, on a shallower note, you look beautiful in this :)

[@EcoChicBoutique]

Thank you, you have given me further inspiration in homeschooling my children. They already garden, recycle and preach good stewardship with my husband and me, but I can't wait to see them change the world. I think we will be adding a 'real cost' lesson in every week.

[@carrietrixie]

Brilliant. Eloquently expressed! Thanks Zoe. I'll be sure and share this with friends and local elected officials in my community. In the words of Jean Luc in another Star Trek century .... Make it so!

[@EklectikaAaynne]

WOW WOW WOW . . . . so simple, so brilliant!

[@gellybellyism]

Oh Zoe, how I wish every school would evolve to include such a logical and important concept into a fresh curriculum in tune with the needs of this moment in time. It's 2020 but minds, routines and society is still gravely antiquated.

[@CamilleLoParrino]

Awesome speaker and idealist! Thanks for sharing the best ways to teach!

[@lisabowden2677]

This is almost exactly aligned with my core beliefs. I am a former elementary school teacher. I have ideas about writing children’s books about the stories of individual items that consumers use sometimes very briefly before throwing away. I would love if there was a way to connect with others like me.

[@rashidalisaudagar2018]

A really life-changing talk!

[@HKLaurie]

Thanks for responding to my comment. You hit a raw nerve of mine (rampant overconsumption & waste) so I completely missed the fact that your tongue was indeed 'in your cheek.' Thanks for pointing that out. I purchased you book last night and look forward to reading it.

[@theveganbus]

Right on Zoe, well said! Bring on the Solutionaries!

[@guypineapple]

One of the best videos that I have watched all month

[@TeamStowe]

Outstanding. When we shift to examining purpose of education, we become less attached to how we do it (aka: how we've always done it) and more committed to why we do it (little Simon Sinek reference).

[@HKLaurie]

I love the idea of this and like other respondents have forwarded this speech to some of the teachers at my children's school. But with the regard to the true price of the T-shirt (I would have said 'cost') I can't agree that one of the benenfits is that it was produced cheaply so Zoe can buy more. One of the 'solutions' for our age must be for people to pay more & buy less. Pay for quality, cleaner manufacturing, better wages for workers etc. Buy less quantity & less pollution, less waste.

[@richardnsalvador]

Wow!!! You're amazing! I, too, was a huge Star Trek fan. But you articulate so well why I thought the show was important to me and why I enjoyed it so much. I am an educator. I will use your insights and your passion to inform my teaching. Thank you so very much.

[@dhughes0941]

The way we treat animals translates into how we treat each other...respect the earth and all who inhabit...

[@pureawesomeness2382]

no, the way we treat animals is usually better than we treat each other....

[@puppyvideo]

I love the idea of the true price , thank you Zoe

[@getvegucated]

Zoe Weil is a visionary. She has changed so many lives, including my own. So glad she did this TED talk. Next stop: White House and Congress? Hope so!

[@amasabaaluizah9319]

An eye opener

[@KilaNalu]

Beautiful Zoe. Thank you.

[@YestoWe]

Very inspiring Zoe! I share your dream of empowering our youth through education. I think another important thing to address in looking at some of our destructive and non-sustainable systems is "who is benefiting or profiting the most?" from them, and how can we get those who are profiting on board for change? Thanks for the inspiring talk! Peace, Linda

[@luizmoura455]

Great lecture! Let's do it!

[@DavidBiddle]

This is a wonderful talk. I just shared it to a bunch of folks. You should too, unless you think that Zoe is wrong. (Hint: she's not).

[@freefromharmblog]

Very profound speech. I'm inspired.

[@doctorkazoo]

Very lovely and sincere woman with a hypnotic sort of a lilting delivery. She’s completely unrealistic though and I don’t think she’d last too long on Kirk’s or Picard’s enterprise. Still…it’s nice to see something intelligent on KZbin now and again!

[@chatsociety]

Great TED talk, thanks Zoe.

[@twentytwelveinc]

and Thank you for the work you are doing! The world needs you! =)

[@twentytwelveinc]

This is already happening at Waldorf schools around the world! Education for the body, mind and soul - really outstanding and the graduates are some of the best people on the planet. Check it out. We are at Waldorf School of Orange County and LOVE it.

[@pshapiro6]

What a powerful speech!

[@floricica85]

What a great and inspirational video!!!

[@twentytwelveinc]

@ZoeWeil Great that you are familiar with Waldorf, I shouldn't be surprised given your mission. I can't speak too much about the lower school, but I've just started teaching High School Physics, Math and Science at WSOC and I have to say that for our campus anyway - we have and do put a tremendous emphasis on who we are in relationship to the rest of the world (universe - in Astronomy - yay Star Trek!), but I would love to hear some of your specific ideas on how to help create problem-solvers.

[@salochanaprasad]

if my children were allowed to engage in this sort of learning, it would be so much easier for me to get them ready in the morning to go to school.

[@jennbeth1]

Zoe is my mentor.

[@alika207]

@ZoeWeil Great! Thanks so much!

[@NKPyo]

Share this to everyone, even I understood that education system is the main problem a month ago.

[@AraKurd80]

I agree, the fundamental task of schooling should be to create problem solvers. A teacher here.

[@kalijuri]

excellent lecture. let's make it happen...

[@SuperToffee22]

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.

[@steftigger]

Has IHE thought about doing a national public charter school movement to establish schools that aim to graduate a generation of "solutionaries?" I am sure quite a few parents, and kids, would be excited about such an opportunity. Thanks for a great talk. And the hope.

[@wisewords7]

... pupils will be more motivated, engaged and energised in, for instance, apparently cumbersome work involving data handling, because there could be a synthesis between the raw mathematical skills needed to comprehend the data and the linguistic and political interpretations that can be brought out in presenting that data. (If the data concerned human rights, GDP of countries etc. rather than the number of marbles 'John' threw!!) All in all I appreciate the talk and will share it with my peers!

[@GetBearSmartTV]

Zoe: Have you mentioned your plan to Obama or even the First Lady? Seems to be the best idea I've heard in a VERY long time. I certainly hope your audience was full of teachers! I for one, will do what I can within my own profession to become more of a solutionary! Thanks for broadening my thinking. We all need it ..... no matter how environmentally, socially and ethically responsible we think we are!

[@perfectpeace352]

I don't know if it would solve EVERY problem in the world because there would still be mental illness and human issues that are not easily explained away and cause great trouble for those impacted. Although, I appreciate her innocence and hopefulness. I also see how what she is saying would make a huge impact and wouldn't it be wonderful!

[@GreenTV]

Excellent, Bravo!

[@anitanowak2977]

Wonderful!

[@earthday78]

Love it! We make Ashtrays from Cigarette Butts, this inspires me!

[@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

[@foldijoseph]

we're all born knowing the same truth...our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. woody allen

[@rui.n.ouyang]

We need a bigger vision for purpose of schooling, and I believe that it should be this: That we provide every student with the knowledge, the tools, and the motivation to be conscientiousness choicemakers and engaged changemakers for a restored and healthy and humane world for all. Or another way of putting it. I believe that we need to graduate a generation of solutionaries. 4:44

[@GeorgeRyon]

We read an TFK article in class today about an elementary that reused 2200 pounds of Mardi Gras beads and turned them into artwork. My immediate focus went to the students of this school. I don't know who actually came up with the idea but I still believed in what I said to them. I told them that children are creative. That if they think they couldn't solve a problem, they were wrong. Children are the best at it and that they should give it a try sometime.

[@jammersjayy3545]

Great idea!!

[@rui.n.ouyang]

small transcript: 1:44| in the face of global warming, and escalating worldwide slavery, and alarming rates of species extinction, and war and poverty and genocide, and institutionalized forms of oppression and cruelty toward both people and animals in a host of industries, it is very hard to imagine that we can actually create that star trek future. it seems very pie in the sky. | 2:08 | and yet I've spent my whole adult life working toward that future

[@shmziiii]

inspiring!

[@frickingoddess]

You may, if you have not already, enjoy looking into Waldorf education as inspired by Rudolf Steiner.

[@rui.n.ouyang]

3:52 The problem is that many of those graduates would go on to perpetuate and perhaps even exacerbate some of the problems that I just mentioned earlier. The problem is that that purpose is too small and it's outmoded for today's world.

[@kalijuri]

amen!

[@melexilou]

if everyone was home schooled the world wood be a better place

[@killaurnext]

@ZoeWeil forgot my critique...something along the lines of getting public schools to incorporate this way of education would be difficult, and teaching things such as "creativity"...how exactly do you plan on teaching that?

[@rui.n.ouyang]

2:15 and, I discovered the solution and I'm going to share it with you today. There's actually just one system that we just need to tweak a little bit. And if we do that, we can solve every problem in the world. And that key system is: schooling. 2:37 Now, there's a definite silence in the room. Because I realize that the world schooling is probably the most uninspiring word in the English language. But that's because we have a very small perception of what schooling can be.

[@nukboyjman]

Anyone that hands there time out for free is definatly worth recognition, I do so as well. However that is completely an off topic response. You are an intelligent writer/speaker to make my comments look 'mean but not so mean.'Unfortunatly it's that sit on both sides of the fence attitude that easily attracts followers and deep down comes from a mind that understands manipulation very well. And in essence all negative's in the world can be devolved to the source of man's manipulation of evrythin

[@cordeliajosee]

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.

[@twentytwelveinc]

@ZoeWeil If I send an email to you through the website contact us page will it reach you? A few questions & ideas... =)

[@rui.n.ouyang]

If we asked people, "What's the purpose of schooling? " most of them are going to say something like this: Well it's to provide the basics of verbal, mathematical, and scientific literacy, so that our graduates can find jobs and compete in the global economy. 3:14 So let's do a thought experiment. Let's imagine that every child graduates from high school and does so having passed their No Child Left Behind tests with flying colors.

[@kalijuri]

if Hemp was legalized in America, we could have made that tshirt and that tshirt would not effect the environment in a negative way. that tshirt would last your lifetime and you can hand it down to your child and so on...

[@rui.n.ouyang]

and let's imagine further that every single one of them is able to find a decent job paying a liveable wage, or go to college and find such such a job, or go to college and graduate school and find such a job, so that we have 100% employment. Would we think that we had been successful in our goals for schooling? Well I think that most of us would say yes.

[@gabriellerousseau2277]

very nice-))

[@doctorkazoo]

@ZoeWeil PART 2: of drugs that can save our mothers and fathers and siblings and other loved ones then I must be done. I would hope and expect that these types of test would be carried out as humanely as possible. Other than that I don’t really disagree with anything you put forth in this lecture but I just don’t think our species is as selfless and concerned as your ideals require. And I Would LOVE to be proven wrong!

[@nukboyjman]

There ar too many answers for the problems of today that it makes it way too complex. Get to the source. The source of most human prblems all began when some fool said a shinny piece of rock (gold) was more valuable than a tomatoe that feeds your family.

[@GreenTreeNymph]

Gotta love kids...and don't get me started on education, Hahahaha!

[@Refutingnonsense]

Well I think that striving for that startrek future is pretty silly. Especially when we know that times are getting worse and they are predestined to get even more evil. The problem is not what you teach, (in some cases it will influence a lot thats a given) but the problem is human nature. Human nature is evil whether you teach a kid right or wrong, his or her nature will pull them towards evil nonetheless, only rescue from that is God.

[@KawaiiMooMoo]

It's weird to think I know her :/

[@kissfan7]

Adults can't agree on how to solve the world's problems. Hell, we can barely agree on whether something IS a problem. What makes Weil think we can teach these to kids. Her anecdotal evidence is also lacking. Find those kids ten years later and then we can have a discussion about how they are doing. Even if they are all activists, they might be activists in a cause that's causing more harm than good, like the anti-GMO movement.

[@Holly-days]

What does "activism" have to do with education? It's straight-up indoctrination. An educator is supposed to teach people the methods and how of thinking that enables THEM to determine their own best courses of action as they wend their way through life. It is not an educator's job to politically campaign to students, indoctrinating them in the teacher's personal beliefs. This is precisely how our education system has gone off the rails.

[@doctorkazoo]

@ZoeWeil PART 1: Oh…I didn’t mean to come off like a nasty guy! No “crushing” intended, LOL. Would you, settle for Janeway’s ship? I don’t believe in man made global warming. For every source you can site proving it I can site a source disproving it. I think testing on animals for cosmetic or recreational products is unconscionable. While I also don’t like it for medical purposes I reluctantly concede that if it’s necessary for the development (more)

[@PlanYourLift]

Was the audience drunk? i've never seen (or heard rather) an audience laugh so much in a ted talk, sometimes she wasnt telling a joke really.

[@artempredko8538]

СЛАВА УКРАИНЕ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@foldijoseph]

wow what ever happened to the truth :-)))

[@killaurnext]

tempted to be the first dislike....

[@nooked23]

she wants to make an entire class of little social justice professional victims

[@fifi.c175]

If by 'victims' you mean, people who take steps to make change, then sure. People on the internet you see complaining about social justice might seem like victims because they complain about everything and as far as you know, don't do anything about it--but you'd be far from the truth. So many people who are upset about things actually do take steps--then they aren't the 'victims' you're thinking of, who WANT to be offended, but they're genuinely people who just have the skill to think critically about the world they live in, are ready to admit they think something's wrong rather than living in blissful ignorance, and are ALSO willing to make a change.

[@slQueenBluestar]

Attention junky is why. KEEP this 'person; as far away from ANY form of power over OTHER PEOPLE as is physically and mentally possible. This is insane. Get a JOB. Mind your own business. There are NO SOLUTIONS...which are not IMPOSITIONS AND PROPEGANDA forced onto individuals who have apriori right to do their world with THEIR philosophy....NOT YOUR PROPOGANDA.....this video is absolutely horrendous.

[@freefromharmblog]

Very profound speech. I'm inspired.

[@gabriellerousseau2277]

very nice-))