As a convergence of art and science in the natural world, few things can summon a sense of wonderment like Nikon's Small World photomicrography competition.
Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together
Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums
Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education
Bill Gates on mosquitos, malaria and education
Let's use video to reinvent education: Salman Khan
"the failures of the institutions responsible for indoctrinating the young."
It's not just you learned how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things. And that can be done from kindergarten on
There are a lot of factors. And one of them, probably, is just that students are trapped
First of all, the existence of the advertising industry is a sign of the unwillingness to let markets function. If you had markets, you wouldn't have advertising. Like, if somebody has something to sell, they say what it is and you buy it if you want. But when you have oligopolies, they want to stop price wars
there's no real economic reason for high-priced higher education and skyrocketing student debt
It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself