1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 [ Documents / Educational System / Work ] 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,121 After an Identity is assigned to you, without your knowledge. 3 00:00:06,260 --> 00:00:08,938 you will be sent to an organization called: 4 00:00:09,015 --> 00:00:11,000 An Educational System 5 00:00:11,430 --> 00:00:13,892 It differs a little, from country to country 6 00:00:14,030 --> 00:00:18,123 considering the culture, but more than that, a country's budget. 7 00:00:18,768 --> 00:00:23,152 So i will refer to the educational system from the country where I was born. 8 00:00:23,660 --> 00:00:28,460 The differences are, almost, less important, considering the similarities. 9 00:00:35,799 --> 00:00:40,261 Kinder-garden lasts about 3 or 4 years, but can vary. 10 00:00:40,415 --> 00:00:46,776 In kinder-garden I learnt many stories, tales, things related to imagination. 11 00:00:46,915 --> 00:00:53,476 Why? I don’t know, nobody told me. I still have no idea why. 12 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:04,230 Well, You must understand that today, we expose children, to artificial values 13 00:01:04,338 --> 00:01:08,153 first: boo boo said the cow, baba said the sheep. 14 00:01:08,276 --> 00:01:11,253 When you bring up children with that kind of garbage, 15 00:01:11,376 --> 00:01:15,361 they can learn Geology, children can learn Engineering, Mathematics. 16 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:19,130 Children are capable to learn the same thing adults are. 17 00:01:19,238 --> 00:01:23,400 It takes just as much garbage, that you fill the kids head with. 18 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:28,600 and you keep pumping information into their heads, that is unreal. 19 00:01:28,743 --> 00:01:31,784 and then you expect them to be able to think later on 20 00:01:31,923 --> 00:01:38,046 Children can learn and read at very early age, they can understand complex things. 21 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:43,353 Like continental drift, they can understand volcanos, nature. 22 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:46,323 they can understand the symbiotic process. 23 00:01:46,492 --> 00:01:50,814 but you have things like Mickie Mouse club. Imagine that 24 00:01:51,815 --> 00:01:56,138 Imagine all the ridiculous things that children are exposed to. 25 00:01:56,307 --> 00:01:58,646 So, here we damage them right away, 26 00:01:58,769 --> 00:02:02,400 because they think, so i guess that's the way children are. 27 00:02:02,569 --> 00:02:04,284 No They Are Not. 28 00:02:04,423 --> 00:02:07,300 I would like to say this about my own little boy: 29 00:02:07,469 --> 00:02:10,800 when he was about 4 years old, he said: 30 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,376 Daddy the wheel came off my toy car, would you fix it? 31 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:19,500 So i said: so it did, i'll get your baby toys where the wheels don't come off, 32 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,346 and I threw the car on the garbage. 33 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:25,000 oh, I watched him, and I noticed that lower lip come out. 34 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,561 He said: you throwing it away. 35 00:02:28,584 --> 00:02:30,498 I told him: Yes I did! 36 00:02:30,745 --> 00:02:34,576 So, he: Well, maybe i can fix it. then I took it out and I gave it to him. 37 00:02:34,715 --> 00:02:39,346 and he tried to put it together, and he did put it together within few minutes. 38 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:43,792 Then i picked him up and said "That's Wonderful" how did you do that? 39 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:46,000 he said: I'm not THAT little. 40 00:02:46,100 --> 00:02:48,322 In other words if you give kids responsibility, 41 00:02:48,507 --> 00:02:54,000 instead let daddy solve this, let daddy do that for you, let mommy fix that. 42 00:02:54,153 --> 00:02:57,200 you produce a blob that doesn't think. 43 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,800 School 44 00:03:11,161 --> 00:03:14,200 I was often forced to wear the same outfit as others, 45 00:03:14,676 --> 00:03:17,598 an outfit imposed by the educational system. 46 00:03:18,075 --> 00:03:19,768 Without an explanation. 47 00:03:20,415 --> 00:03:22,645 The School program is fixed. 48 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:27,645 So, you are bound to respect it, otherwise, it is likely to expel you, 49 00:03:27,782 --> 00:03:30,476 resulting in a potential lack of job, 50 00:03:30,953 --> 00:03:36,076 leading you to starvation, being unable to take possession of money. 51 00:03:37,307 --> 00:03:40,699 Speaking of program, school started early in the morning, 52 00:03:40,791 --> 00:03:44,753 because of this i was forced to wake up around 7 AM. 53 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:49,500 This meant that bedtime was not dictated by the biological system, 54 00:03:49,653 --> 00:03:52,500 but, by the educational system, 55 00:03:52,660 --> 00:03:56,700 leading to constant brain, and other organs, fatigue. 56 00:03:57,999 --> 00:04:00,523 I often came to school very sleepy, 57 00:04:00,661 --> 00:04:05,400 and the school wants to be an institution in which you must retain information. 58 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,600 Classes were fixed, so were the breaks. 59 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:21,400 The program was about 6 - 7 hours a day, five days a week. 60 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,661 The educational program lasted about 12 years, 61 00:04:26,615 --> 00:04:30,245 and the break was about 2 - 3 months every year. 62 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,969 The educational system has created the first scale of values, 63 00:04:36,076 --> 00:04:39,015 and labeled people as being stupid, or smart, 64 00:04:39,153 --> 00:04:42,984 because of some unknown rules, creating envy. 65 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:46,600 if you are born with a better brain than him, 66 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:52,400 say the tissues is better quality, the neurons processes are better built, 67 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,000 if you live in nazi germany, you become a nazi faster. 68 00:04:57,306 --> 00:04:58,583 even if the brain is better, 69 00:04:58,707 --> 00:05:04,229 the brain has no mechanism for knowing that which is relevant or less relevant. 70 00:05:04,888 --> 00:05:07,286 That goes for intelligence. 71 00:05:07,592 --> 00:05:09,500 I don't know if i've talked to you about, 72 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:13,800 an electrical engineer 75 years ago, an intelligent one 73 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,700 couldn't get a job today 74 00:05:15,999 --> 00:05:19,102 so when you talk of intelligence, what are you talking about? 75 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:24,407 it's an ongoing process, there is no such a thing as an intelligent person, 76 00:05:24,515 --> 00:05:31,199 there are people that are fairly well informed in area A&B, not informed in area C 77 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:41,337 Also, schools promoted competition, that leads instinctively to dispute. 78 00:05:41,492 --> 00:05:46,530 And, do not forget that competition may have winners and losers. 79 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:51,115 Mostly, the school in which I, along with millions of other children, 80 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:56,584 have taken part, created a false scale of values and promoted competition. 81 00:05:56,815 --> 00:06:02,007 Also, schools destroyed something very important: Curiosity, 82 00:06:02,237 --> 00:06:06,900 since nobody gave you an explanation for the way you are forced to behave, 83 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,315 just telling you to do things without asking. 84 00:06:19,252 --> 00:06:20,530 You said you are worried about kids, 85 00:06:20,637 --> 00:06:23,498 I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups, ok? 86 00:06:23,623 --> 00:06:24,715 These are the ones who vote. 87 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:29,176 These are the ones who tell you 'the world is coming to an end in 2012,' 88 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:31,130 kids don't say that, grown ups do. 89 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:32,376 I'm worried about grown ups who say: 90 00:06:32,530 --> 00:06:35,653 "read my horoscope, tell me whether I'll find money tomorrow". 91 00:06:35,792 --> 00:06:39,453 Grown ups say this, not children, ok? 92 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:45,000 Children do not read horoscopes, ok? 93 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,661 Childrens are perfectly happy counting through the number thirteen. 94 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:54,900 Children are not afraid to walk under ladders, 95 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,400 they see a black cat cross their path they say "oh kitty kitty", they want to pet it, 96 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:02,745 not run in the other direction, children are not the problem here. 97 00:07:04,846 --> 00:07:06,315 Get me started... 98 00:07:07,876 --> 00:07:11,000 Because kids are born curious. 99 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:14,492 They're always exploring. 100 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,800 We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk. 101 00:07:20,106 --> 00:07:23,114 And the rest of their life, telling them to shut up and sit down. 102 00:07:30,115 --> 00:07:35,403 To see what it is all about, and to summarize what I have learnt in school, let's recap: 103 00:07:36,250 --> 00:07:41,526 I remember that I learnt a language. This language that you are hearing right now. 104 00:07:41,650 --> 00:07:44,496 Let's focus a little bit on that. 105 00:07:46,923 --> 00:07:48,900 don't know if you understand me, 106 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,853 we don't know, lot of people think somebody invented language. 107 00:07:54,375 --> 00:07:57,946 and they say to read and to write is to communicate, that's not true, 108 00:07:58,222 --> 00:08:01,822 what happened, a guy banged his elbow, said "aam", 109 00:08:01,976 --> 00:08:06,113 then banged his knee said "uuh", then he eats something said "oo" 110 00:08:06,236 --> 00:08:11,048 language is an extrapolation of all those sounds over many years, 111 00:08:11,156 --> 00:08:14,599 nobody ever sat down and invented language. 112 00:08:18,928 --> 00:08:21,676 The Language in this form is centuries old, 113 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,311 and although it represented the point of support 114 00:08:24,466 --> 00:08:27,936 in the development of mankind, it is now outdated. 115 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:32,007 Often slow, sometimes too long for the sent message, 116 00:08:32,161 --> 00:08:36,144 but more importantly it’s interpretable, which makes it useless. 117 00:08:38,953 --> 00:08:44,576 We know that mathematics, chemistry and physics are not subject to interpretation. 118 00:08:44,791 --> 00:08:46,626 They are fixed languages. 119 00:08:47,717 --> 00:08:51,491 Well... the language that you are hearing right now, is interpretable. 120 00:08:55,053 --> 00:08:58,823 I can tell you now, that you and your boss are the same. 121 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,775 But... what did I actually mean? 122 00:09:02,223 --> 00:09:08,930 You are the same, but how? You look the same, behave similarly, or what? 123 00:09:10,007 --> 00:09:13,800 Depends on what you understand, because this is interpretable. 124 00:09:14,447 --> 00:09:20,561 But, if I scientifically prove to you that both of you are composed of the same chemical elements, 125 00:09:20,684 --> 00:09:24,191 then no one would have any doubt about what my message means. 126 00:09:29,521 --> 00:09:33,345 Consider now the people who build all kinds of buildings. 127 00:09:33,514 --> 00:09:38,650 They are constructing using all those fixed languages, so that everyone understands, 128 00:09:38,850 --> 00:09:43,833 and the building could fit in the environment. No opinion here. 129 00:09:48,692 --> 00:09:52,146 So in those 12, or for me 15 years, of school, 130 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:56,953 I learnt an exceeded language, that adds to the confusion of the current world. 131 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:06,320 Moreover, I learnt one language out of hundreds, which does not help me when I leave the country. 132 00:10:06,723 --> 00:10:08,565 I learnt an Interpretable language, 133 00:10:08,719 --> 00:10:15,007 that helps me communicate with a few tens of millions of people on the planet, out of 7 billion. 134 00:10:16,992 --> 00:10:21,807 That, in an era of the Internet, a place without fictitious boundaries. 135 00:10:24,850 --> 00:10:27,704 Why haven't I learnt a universal language? 136 00:10:28,459 --> 00:10:31,298 One more compact and less interpretable. 137 00:10:31,469 --> 00:10:36,500 Or why didn't I learn the other fixed languages, better than this interpretable one? 138 00:10:36,890 --> 00:10:42,276 I have possible theories, but they don't matter, all that matters is that you ask yourself. 139 00:10:47,250 --> 00:10:49,855 Besides this language, I learnt mathematics, 140 00:10:50,025 --> 00:10:52,145 and even after I finished school, 141 00:10:52,330 --> 00:10:56,923 I thought that mathematics is a bunch of letters and numbers, with certain rules, 142 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:01,261 and that everything is a game for brain development. 143 00:11:02,245 --> 00:11:07,138 My colleagues thought the same thing, perhaps some of them didn’t even ask. 144 00:11:09,207 --> 00:11:14,330 I created this theory because nobody, ever, could give me a more detailed explanation, 145 00:11:14,484 --> 00:11:17,960 other than: you need to know how to calculate. 146 00:11:19,252 --> 00:11:21,546 Calculate Money? Or what? 147 00:11:22,123 --> 00:11:26,714 I wonder if my old colleagues even know what mathematics really means. 148 00:11:30,623 --> 00:11:33,388 The same happened with physics and chemistry. 149 00:11:33,573 --> 00:11:38,533 Blackboard, white chalk, and a professor with a fixed character, 150 00:11:38,703 --> 00:11:41,757 together with fixed and obligatory school schedule, 151 00:11:41,896 --> 00:11:44,339 pushed me away from reality, 152 00:11:44,493 --> 00:11:48,043 and all those fixed languages have become nonsense bonds. 153 00:11:48,843 --> 00:11:54,430 That's why many students hate such classes, their value is never explained. 154 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:02,050 Remember that no such fixed language could help me in daily life of the monetary system, 155 00:12:02,192 --> 00:12:07,030 because the basic language used here is the one that you are witnessing right now, 156 00:12:07,169 --> 00:12:10,670 a language old and subject to interpretation. 157 00:12:16,426 --> 00:12:19,295 I also learnt geography and history. 158 00:12:20,105 --> 00:12:25,071 History never interested me because I did not know if indeed such things happened, 159 00:12:25,256 --> 00:12:29,684 they were just writing for me, and the present is much more important anyway. 160 00:12:29,992 --> 00:12:36,007 Besides, I didn't agree with stories where armed criminals were seen as leading heroes. 161 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,343 Geography taught me names, that it said, were countries. 162 00:12:44,890 --> 00:12:50,244 That means... some portions of planet Earth, were 'conquered' by people, 163 00:12:50,829 --> 00:12:53,756 just as monkeys do, and named. 164 00:12:54,289 --> 00:12:59,206 This is the concept of countries, and that is how countries evolved. 165 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:02,926 Even today, boundaries separate areas, 166 00:13:03,326 --> 00:13:06,517 and are dividing the human species, leading to racism 167 00:13:06,671 --> 00:13:10,414 and instinctively slowing progression, due to separation. 168 00:13:13,336 --> 00:13:15,702 Countries and cities have no importance, 169 00:13:15,841 --> 00:13:20,145 because the Earth itself is the common heritage of all humans. 170 00:13:20,736 --> 00:13:26,250 You can define a piece of Earth, name it, and say it is yours only by imagination; 171 00:13:26,675 --> 00:13:32,610 it will be recognized by others, in its value, only if others accept that as being true... 172 00:13:32,764 --> 00:13:35,100 also through imagination. 173 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:40,861 That's what i retain from geography, names and imaginary demarcations. 174 00:13:46,461 --> 00:13:49,007 I learnt about God, and religion, 175 00:13:49,115 --> 00:13:54,460 a theory that says the world was created by a divine creature, within 7 days. 176 00:13:54,992 --> 00:13:58,400 Basically, the theory was promoted and accepted by all, 177 00:13:58,507 --> 00:14:01,792 especially as it was taught in school as being true. 178 00:14:02,407 --> 00:14:05,761 It is in contradiction with other subjects in school, 179 00:14:05,900 --> 00:14:09,300 such as physics, chemistry or biology, 180 00:14:09,484 --> 00:14:13,634 even with reason, and for me, it just created confusion. 181 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,486 My school didn’t focus on sport, music or drawing, 182 00:14:22,625 --> 00:14:26,249 so I can not remember anything from these areas. 183 00:14:31,807 --> 00:14:34,576 The closer I got to the end of these 12 years, 184 00:14:34,700 --> 00:14:37,683 the less rationality I found in what i learnt. 185 00:14:37,875 --> 00:14:42,346 What we learn in school does not have any tangent with reality, 186 00:14:42,485 --> 00:14:45,956 only with further education through college. 187 00:14:48,368 --> 00:14:52,943 In the monetary system, college is the final step, of this human education, 188 00:14:53,082 --> 00:14:55,810 and college will prepare you for a job. 189 00:14:56,792 --> 00:15:01,345 That makes the educational system, a system of training workers. 190 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,471 12 years, in which I learnt a language that confused me, 191 00:15:10,579 --> 00:15:12,558 more than it helped me. 192 00:15:13,561 --> 00:15:18,467 12 years, in which I was confused by this different theories of my existence. 193 00:15:19,212 --> 00:15:23,458 12 years, in which I have been obligated to present myself at fixed hours, 194 00:15:23,596 --> 00:15:27,703 to an institution, and to have a certain uniform. 195 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,230 12 years, in an organization, that, pushed me away from mathematics, 196 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,276 physics, biology or chemistry. 197 00:15:37,726 --> 00:15:42,540 12 years, in which, I did not receive any explanation for what I learnt, 198 00:15:42,694 --> 00:15:47,645 or why I learnt it, or why I should respect the educational system’s rules. 199 00:15:48,414 --> 00:15:53,018 12 years that I personally consider being lost, and immoral. 200 00:15:53,311 --> 00:15:56,898 12 years, in which I could learn so much. 201 00:15:57,046 --> 00:16:02,120 Then, another three years of college, which only prepared me for a job. 202 00:16:03,950 --> 00:16:06,548 So, where is the education? 203 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:11,903 Maybe, the country where I was born, was to blame. 204 00:16:12,765 --> 00:16:15,322 But then, you can think of the years you’ve spent at school, 205 00:16:15,492 --> 00:16:17,582 and the information learnt, 206 00:16:18,583 --> 00:16:22,583 then correlate that with reality and draw your own conclusions. 207 00:16:25,045 --> 00:16:27,441 After you draw your conclusions, 208 00:16:27,611 --> 00:16:30,915 think about whether you accept taking part in such a program, 209 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:34,383 for 12 to 15 years, only to learn; 210 00:16:34,507 --> 00:16:38,546 without receiving any degree or any gratitude at the end. 211 00:16:43,140 --> 00:16:45,543 I haven't heard school teachers say: 212 00:16:45,635 --> 00:16:49,966 "Let us make education relevant to the needs of people" 213 00:16:50,058 --> 00:16:53,953 I've never heard descriptive system from Universities 214 00:16:54,061 --> 00:16:57,586 or any elaborate organization. 215 00:16:57,710 --> 00:17:00,196 The democratic concept for example, 216 00:17:00,350 --> 00:17:03,189 where everybody participates and contributes, 217 00:17:03,976 --> 00:17:05,623 I believe they can only contribute 218 00:17:05,731 --> 00:17:08,579 to that which they've learned from the culture. 219 00:17:08,671 --> 00:17:14,135 And they can't be that different and be a member of a standard organization. 220 00:17:14,832 --> 00:17:20,710 Even though the universities today, have the most sophisticated equipment, 221 00:17:20,850 --> 00:17:24,997 In the science labs, the architectural labs, all the labs 222 00:17:25,151 --> 00:17:27,546 the wars are getting worse. 223 00:17:27,699 --> 00:17:30,221 The explosives are getting worse. 224 00:17:34,140 --> 00:17:38,950 [ Alternative Solutions ] 225 00:17:49,996 --> 00:17:52,331 Now, let's look at how children learn, 226 00:17:52,470 --> 00:17:55,950 and how schools might look in a system focused on progress 227 00:17:56,088 --> 00:17:58,665 and freedom of human beings. 228 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,981 The children enthusiastically got up to me, and said: 229 00:18:03,073 --> 00:18:04,128 "Now what do you want us to do?" 230 00:18:04,251 --> 00:18:06,652 I gave them 6 GCSE questions. 231 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:11,271 The first group, the best one, solved everything in 20 min. 232 00:18:11,410 --> 00:18:13,675 The worst, in 45. 233 00:18:13,798 --> 00:18:15,687 They used everything that they knew: 234 00:18:15,810 --> 00:18:19,682 News groups, Google, Wikipedia, Ask Jeeves, etc... 235 00:18:20,128 --> 00:18:22,938 But teachers said: "Is this deep learning?" 236 00:18:23,030 --> 00:18:24,737 I said: "well, let's try it!" 237 00:18:24,861 --> 00:18:26,155 I come back after 2 months, 238 00:18:26,294 --> 00:18:30,590 will give them a paper test, no computers, no talking to each other etc.. 239 00:18:30,809 --> 00:18:35,183 The average score when I done it with the computer and the groups was 76% 240 00:18:35,630 --> 00:18:39,861 When I did the experiment, when I did the test after 2 months, the score was... 241 00:18:40,550 --> 00:18:41,745 76% 242 00:18:43,344 --> 00:18:46,560 There was photographic recall. 243 00:18:46,730 --> 00:18:48,730 I mean, if there is stuff on Google, 244 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:51,399 why would you need to stuff it into your head? 245 00:18:51,538 --> 00:18:55,730 I basically embedded a computer 246 00:18:56,268 --> 00:18:59,653 into a wall of a slum in New Delhi. 247 00:19:00,606 --> 00:19:02,425 The children barely went to school. 248 00:19:02,563 --> 00:19:05,505 They didn't know any English. They've never seen a computer before. 249 00:19:05,644 --> 00:19:07,591 And they didn't know what the Internet was. 250 00:19:07,730 --> 00:19:10,653 I repeated this all over India 251 00:19:10,730 --> 00:19:14,190 and then through a large part of the world. 252 00:19:14,406 --> 00:19:18,606 I noticed that children will learn to do 253 00:19:18,730 --> 00:19:21,606 what they want to learn to do. 254 00:19:21,730 --> 00:19:24,606 So at the end of it, we concluded 255 00:19:24,730 --> 00:19:26,190 that groups of children 256 00:19:26,314 --> 00:19:29,046 can learn to use computers and the internet on their own, 257 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,060 irrespective of who or where they were. 258 00:19:33,230 --> 00:19:35,376 I got an interesting phone call once from Colombo, 259 00:19:35,530 --> 00:19:37,376 from the late Arthur C. Clarke, 260 00:19:37,530 --> 00:19:39,576 who said "I want to see what's going on". 261 00:19:39,730 --> 00:19:42,175 And he couldn't travel so I went over there. 262 00:19:42,314 --> 00:19:43,837 He said two interesting things. 263 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,852 "A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be". 264 00:19:50,175 --> 00:19:52,437 The second thing that he said was that, 265 00:19:52,606 --> 00:19:57,560 "if children have interest then education happens." 266 00:19:58,784 --> 00:20:02,870 And I was doing that in the field, so everyday I would watch it, and think of him. 267 00:20:02,993 --> 00:20:07,372 It is possible and they can definitively help people. 268 00:20:07,495 --> 00:20:12,667 Because children very quickly learn to navigate the web and find things which interest them. 269 00:20:12,806 --> 00:20:16,117 And when you got interest then you have education. 270 00:20:16,225 --> 00:20:20,559 I think we've just stumbled across as self-organizing system. 271 00:20:20,666 --> 00:20:24,156 A self-organizing system is one where a structure appears 272 00:20:24,341 --> 00:20:27,000 without explicit intervention from the outside. 273 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,685 Self organizing systems also always show emergence, 274 00:20:30,870 --> 00:20:34,966 which is that system starts to do things, which it was never designed for. 275 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:39,417 Which is why you react the way you do. Because it looks impossible. 276 00:20:39,556 --> 00:20:42,116 I think I can make a guess now: 277 00:20:42,270 --> 00:20:44,606 Education is a self-organizing system 278 00:20:44,730 --> 00:20:47,203 where learning is an emergent phenomenon. 279 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:51,694 Now that we know that children learn, 280 00:20:51,818 --> 00:20:55,127 and organize themselves better through curiosity, 281 00:20:55,312 --> 00:20:59,176 you should only provide information and access to them. 282 00:20:59,330 --> 00:21:00,753 It's simple. 283 00:21:00,892 --> 00:21:05,058 Hi! My name is Sal Khan, the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy and 284 00:21:05,211 --> 00:21:07,455 we are trying to educate the world. 285 00:21:12,620 --> 00:21:15,464 Welcome to the presentation on "basic addition": 286 00:21:15,588 --> 00:21:21,021 In august of 1789 they've already done their version of the Declaration of Independence... 287 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,553 And the process is called photosynthesis... 288 00:21:27,171 --> 00:21:34,031 I was tutoring my cousins, literally, and I had kind of figure out a way to scale myself up, 289 00:21:34,186 --> 00:21:38,089 so I started recording youtube videos and I started making little software modules for them. 290 00:21:38,227 --> 00:21:42,325 But I made them so anyone can use them and started to get a lot of attraction. 291 00:21:42,464 --> 00:21:44,680 What Sal Khan has done is amazing, 292 00:21:44,850 --> 00:21:50,750 He's taken all this material and broken them down into little 12 min lectures. 293 00:21:50,873 --> 00:21:55,205 I used it myself to remind myself of things, I've children who like it, 294 00:21:55,343 --> 00:22:00,034 so I was super happy, he came up and we got to talk about, "where does he go now ?" 295 00:22:00,173 --> 00:22:03,604 "how can my foundation help him pursue this dream" 296 00:22:03,727 --> 00:22:07,727 "and connect it up with the other great things going on on the internet." 297 00:22:09,755 --> 00:22:12,138 I want it to be a stand alone virtual school 298 00:22:12,277 --> 00:22:14,816 where anyone in the world, who wants to learn anything, 299 00:22:14,955 --> 00:22:18,811 can go there, start from the basics, progress as far as he needs to go, 300 00:22:18,935 --> 00:22:22,515 get feedback, get assessment, get practice. 301 00:22:22,670 --> 00:22:24,596 And eventually I want it to actually become the operating system 302 00:22:24,735 --> 00:22:26,291 for what goes on in the classroom 303 00:22:26,430 --> 00:22:28,731 where every student is allowed to work at their own pace, 304 00:22:28,870 --> 00:22:32,046 and the teacher actually becomes more of a mentor or 305 00:22:32,199 --> 00:22:33,666 of a coach. 306 00:22:34,530 --> 00:22:38,625 So I see Sal Khan as a pioneer, in an overall movement 307 00:22:38,810 --> 00:22:43,048 to use technology to let more and more people learn things, 308 00:22:43,203 --> 00:22:44,858 know where they stand 309 00:22:45,013 --> 00:22:47,380 it's the start of a revolution. 310 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:54,160 A system like that will create curious, intelligent and inventive individuals. 311 00:22:54,345 --> 00:22:56,645 Something different from a worker. 312 00:22:56,830 --> 00:23:00,420 Such a system couldn't help you in the monetary system. 313 00:23:00,590 --> 00:23:03,681 Then you have to ask yourself "Why is that?" 314 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,646 I didn't want to teach my kid how to read 315 00:23:08,786 --> 00:23:11,596 so I used to read to him at night 316 00:23:11,734 --> 00:23:14,063 and close the book at the most interesting part 317 00:23:14,217 --> 00:23:16,698 and he said "what happened then daddy?" 318 00:23:16,867 --> 00:23:22,430 And so I said "Why don't you read? I'm too tired, I'll read it to you tomorrow". 319 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,150 He had to need to want to learn to read. 320 00:23:25,319 --> 00:23:28,700 Don't teach children how to read, don't teach them mathematics. 321 00:23:28,870 --> 00:23:31,254 Give them a reason to want it! 322 00:23:31,378 --> 00:23:33,632 Does everybody know what that means? 323 00:23:33,781 --> 00:23:36,837 In school they're working it backwards. 324 00:23:37,900 --> 00:23:43,159 [Alternative solutions] 1) Provide information and access 325 00:24:01,870 --> 00:24:04,118 An individual of the human species, 326 00:24:04,288 --> 00:24:07,138 the dominant intelligent species on planet Earth, 327 00:24:07,292 --> 00:24:10,152 should learn how he and the environment works, 328 00:24:10,306 --> 00:24:13,551 to try to understand what is happening around him 329 00:24:13,674 --> 00:24:17,349 through the best and demonstrable information possible. 330 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:24,200 It is a mockery to use 12, 15, or even more years of a human being's life, 331 00:24:24,370 --> 00:24:28,985 that is around 70 to 80 years, to prepare him to be a worker, 332 00:24:29,093 --> 00:24:32,882 or to learn a language limited by your culture. 333 00:24:33,513 --> 00:24:37,261 Such an educational system is against evolution, 334 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:44,089 it makes the human species go forward... not in a straight line, but in ellipses.