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As the cyclical and seemingly never ending debate about education rages on, the topic - somewhat ironically, often poses more questions than it provides answers.

But what is the value of mainstream schooling? Why is it that some of the most high profile and successful figures within the Western world openly admit to never having completed any form of higher learning?

Paying homage to Jefferson Bethke's Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus, a piece that received 22 million views in the space of a week, I address a number of these issues in my offering Why I Hate School, but Love Education.

With scores of school leavers wanting to further their education with no guarantee of their dream job at the end of it, we should ask ourselves whether qualifications still hold the same value now as they did in previous years?

Does success in the school system correlate to success in life? Or is the school system simply geared towards fact retention and regurgitation?

What is true education?

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Windows 10 introduces additional features designed specifically for K - 12 educators and students, alongside other education news today from Microsoft.

Many technologies have promised to revolutionize education, but so far none has. With that in mind, what could revolutionize education?
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I have also discussed this topic with CGP Grey, whose view of the future of education differs significantly from mine:

I think it is instructive that each new technology has appeared to be so transformative. You can imagine, for example, that motion pictures must have seemed like a revolutionary learning technology. After all they did revolutionize entertainment, yet failed to make significant inroads into the classroom. TV and video seem like a cheaper, scaled back film, but they too failed to live up to expectations. Now there is a glut of information and video on the internet so should we expect it to revolutionize education?

My view is that it won't, for two reasons: 1. Technology is not inherently superior, animations over static graphics, videoed presentations over live lectures etc. and 2. Learning is inherently a social activity, motivated and encouraged by interactions with others.

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Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational death valley we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.

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World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced plans to invest $2.5 billion over 5 years in education projects that directly benefits adolescent girls, whose empowerment is a World Bank Group focus. The announcement in Washington was followed by a call from First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, for urgent action in support of adolescent girls.

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In terms of quality education, the US has fallen far behind many countries. So what countries offer the best education?

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One in five British students leave school without acquiring basic skills, according to a new report commissioned by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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Asia tops biggest global school rankings

The biggest ever global school rankings have been published, with Asian countries in the top five places and African countries at the bottom.

Education post-2015

Next week, UNESCO will convene the world's educational leaders in Incheon to set the agenda for educational development over the next 15 years.

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In the mid 1800's, Horace Mann captured the potential impact of education on society. We have yet to realize the potential he saw, and in fact, we are missing the mark by a wider and wider margin. We have created a Toxic Culture of Education in our country that is damaging students, impacting our economy, and threatening our future. Since the passage of No Child Left Behind, we have embraced a culture of high stakes testing and are perpetuating a false sense of failure in our schools. We have ignored research and data on effective policy making practices in order to serve the interest of private industries that have monetized our students. The impact is being felt in communities, on college campuses, and in our economy. The solution lies in a common sense approach to student development, curriculum choice, career exploration, and relevant data analysis. This talk will present a vision of an education system that allows us to embrace our full potential if we only had the courage to ask Why Not?

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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.

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Education in the 90s was very different from what it is today. Our latest sketch looks at the differences between Education then and Education now.
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How does education work? Where does the money come from? Who pays for it? Is going to college a good investment? Adriene and Jacob are talking today about the economics of education. Most countries require that their citizens get some education, and most countries pay for basic education, but the quality of education can vary widely. And in the US, post-secondary education can come with a lot of costs.

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Sir Ken Robinson addresses the fundamental economic, cultural, social and personal purposes of education. He argues that education should be personalised to every student's talent, passion, and learning styles, and that creativity should be embedded in the culture of every single school.

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The health ministry of India recently suggested that sex education be banned in the country. We look at India's attitude towards sex through a government approved sex education lecture.

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Sir Ken Robinson said schools are killing children's creativity. High school principal Ken Grover agrees, so much in fact, that he decided to let his students do virtually whatever they want, when they want, how they want. Listen to Ken explain why he has found that personalized education is the only way to achieve equity for all students.

Ken first became extremely passionate about changing the learning environments of when he encountered a particular student whose future was looking grim. It became clear that he needed to improve student’s high school experience -- it was a moral imperative. As such he created a comprehensive and fully reimagined educational experience for 21st century high school students. This personalized education model utilizes the power and scalability of technology to customize education where students through multiple measures -- both cognitive and non-cognitive -- have shown educational improvement.

Ken believes that it is incumbent upon us to recognize now the opportunities to impact and influence change for our children. This opportunity is only available for us to embrace if we become the catalyst for change, if not the change will not occur.

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Sex education varies widely between school districts, leaving many teens without comprehensive information. We made a video that covers what some schools are too embarrassed to teach.

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Since 2003, PBS has followed children from different countries as part of the documentary series Time for School. In this fourth installment, hear the story of Ken Higashiguchi from Nara, Japan, where the school hours are long and the expectations are high.

Finland's educational system. Fascinating thing about three decades ago Finland has an educational system that is doing terribly and they look around and they go okay what are we going to do about this, we gotta revamp the whole thing. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss the revolutionary educational system Finland has instituted and the results of that system on the education of their children.

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When it comes to international results, Finland's schools score consistently at the top.
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Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist, spoke at the University of Arizona on Feb. 8, 2012. His lecture, Education: For Whom and For What? featured a talk on the state of higher education, followed by a question-and-answer session.

Chomsky, an Institute Professor and a Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he worked for more than 50 years, has been concerned with a range of education-related issues in recent years. Among them: How do we characterize the contemporary state of the American education system? What happens to the quality of education when public universities become more privatized? Are public universities in danger of being converted into facilities that produce graduates-as-commodities for the job market? What is the role of activism in education? With unprecedented tuition increases and budget struggles occurring across American campuses, these are questions that are more relevant than ever.

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How important is your education to you? Have you ever thought about designing your own education? Till H. Groß is a remarkable young man with a passion for psychology. He took his education in his own hands...with mind blowing success.

As soon as Till finished High-School he took his education in his own hands. After reading the whole psychology section of the small town library in his city, he set out to personally meet the authors of the books that thrilled him. In 2011, he started to consciously seek out the best psychologists, therapists and coaches all over Europe in order to learn from them. He visited them at home, attended their workshops and engaged in long email conversation asking numerous questions. His teachers were the founders of whole psychotherapy schools, masters in their field and some of the best paid coaches in Europe. Having the best teachers possible sped up Till’s learning curve immensely and enabled him to give talks throughout Germany at the age of 19, hold a guest lecture at the University of Vienna at age 20, conduct his own seminars, found a startup, and work as a coach at the age of 21.

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The biggest financial issue currently facing young Americans is not the decline of manufacturing jobs or the housing collapse, but mounting student debt.

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Raj Dhingra is a twenty-year veteran of the technology industry with an extensive track record of building strong, sustainable and profitable industry leadership positions in new and emerging categories. Raj brings entrepreneurial drive and success, and a rich depth of corporate experience across general management, business development, product development, sales and marketing functions. Prior to joining NComputing in April 2011, Raj was VP and GM at Citrix where he led the company's desktop virtualization business from zero to half a billion dollars growth in sales over a 3 year period. As well as his leadership role in global virtualization companies such as Citrix, Dhingra has held executive leadership positions in public companies such as McAfee, 3Com, SonicWALL and startups such as IntruVert Networks (acquired by McAfee) and PortAuthority Technologies (acquired by Websense).

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AFT President Randi Weingarten visits schools in Finland to learn how they have ascended to the top in student achievement.

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En déplacement jeudi à Mantes-la-Jolie, la ministre de l'Education nationale Najat Vallaud-Belkacem a réagi au rapport de l'Unicef indiquant que les élèves défavorisés accusent un retard scolaire très préoccupant et que les inégalités se renforcent en France. IMAGES ET SONORES.

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Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or an investment and the value of standardised assessment.

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It has been two years - and in Chibok the Government Girls Secondary School remains shut. The administration of former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan assured the school will be rebuilt. But residents say with the school shut, their children have no access to education. Maria Galang with that report

What would it look like to truly collaborate on the future of our schools with all stakeholders, from kindergartners to administrators? Educator Matt Beaudreau argues that alternative and democratic schools are successfully challenging existing educational paradigms, and embracing a radically collaborative approach that could change the face of education for America's children. Hang on-- it's about to get uncomfortable.

Matt Beaudreau is vice principal at Adventure Christian School in Roseville and a teacher trainer with the Center for Teacher Effectiveness. With his nickname, Education Dude, he has given keynote speeches at education conferences and worked with more than 10,000 educators across the country. He is the lead on a committee to build a state-of-the-art high school in Northern California.

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When 13 year-old Logan LaPlante grows up, he wants to be happy and healthy. He discusses how hacking his education is helping him achieve this goal.

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Learn how to describe your educational qualifications correctly and clearly in English. Make sure to watch this video before your next job interview, to make a strong positive impression.

Education may be the key to solving broader American inequality, but we have to solve educational inequality first. Harvard’s Ronald Ferguson, director of The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, says there is progress being made, there are encouraging examples to emulate, that an early start is critical, and that a lot of hard work lies ahead. But he also says, “There’s nothing more important we can do.

Alex Faaborg shares how Virtual Reality introduces unique challenges for interface design, and opens up incredible opportunities for the future of art, journalism, and education. Virtual Reality design techniques and Google Cardboard is introduced to over 1000 TEDxCincinnati Main Stage participants.

Alex Faaborg is on the Virtual Reality design team at Google. He has led the design of Android Wear, Google Now, and the Android OS on the Nexus 5. Prior to joining Google, Alex served at Mozilla as the principal designer on Firefox for five years.

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British government is credited for being instrumental in the field of education particularly in low developed countries like Uganda.
To further the education partnership with Uganda, the British council is to invest more money in the education sector in areas of science and sports.
While signing the three year MoU on behalf of government the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Science Technology and Sports Rose Nassali Lukwago, said the move will see pupils attending universal education access better education facilities.
Nassali says there is need to deepen the skilling of learners if their potential is to be fully tapped, making them eligible for the competitive and dynamic world.
While signing on the document the Country Director of the British Council Peter Brown said the investment in education emanates from the good working relations with Uganda.
Peter Brown expressed optimism that with the new arrangement, some of the challenges affecting the sector like the inadequate facilities will be dealt with in order to improve the quality of the education sector.
The teachers will also be equipped with better teaching skills compatible with the big number of learners they are confronted with in universal educations schools.

The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.

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At the World Education Forum (WEF) UNESCO will be leading the way, in collaboration with six co-conveners, to build a powerful new education agenda that will transform lives. The target date for reaching Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goals is 2015 and governments are now preparing the new agenda for 2015 to 2030.

The importance of education cannot be stated enough! During this REAL moment, Loni sheds tears as she shares why going to college was so monumental in her life.

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First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday highlighted the importance of school for young girls, after the World Bank announced it would set aside $2.5 bn over the next five years for female education.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

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Michael Bodekaer wants to make quality science education more accessible using technology. He has an idea that might revolutionize the way we learn and teach science in schools today.

Michael Bodekaer is the founder of Labster which teaches life sciences through gamified education in immersive 3D virtual worlds and laboratories. Proven to significantly enhance student’s motivation, these pioneering teaching tools that are bringing a revolution to world ­class learning. He also founded Learn Technologies, a Swiss company focused on immersive Virtual Reality for learning and training simulations.

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AFT President Randi Weingarten travels to Singapore to learn from their successful educational system.

Many people think the point of higher education is economic: graduates get better paying jobs and the economy gets the knowledge-workers it needs. But, there is another story. There is a role for higher education in skilling-up citizens so they can play an active and effective role in a democratic society. Hear from political philosopher, Professor Fred D'Agostino as he shares numerous examples of this alternative story.

Fred D'Agostino is Professor of Humanities at The University of Queensland and was Executive Dean of Arts and Associate Dean of Arts (Academic) during his ten-year stint at UQ. He is a philosopher, author of four books, sometime editor of the journals Australasian Journal of Philosophy and Politics, and Philosophy and Economics. He co-edited the recent Routledge Companion to Political and Social Philosophy. A member of the UQ Senate for four years, he is interested in the purposes and processes of higher education. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has held Australian Research Council and Australian Learning and Teaching Council grants. His next big project is on the disciplines (e.g. History, Sociology) and how they work.


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