In all the conversations about improving education for children, the voices of students, teachers and community members are often left out. Educational designer Punya Mishra offers a method to shift that paradigm, taking us through new thinking on the root of success (and failure) at school — and how a totally new, different kind of educational system could better meet students’ needs.
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リマペン
June 9, 2023 at 7:01 am
リスニング練習で使わさせていただいてます
Wilhelm
June 9, 2023 at 7:08 am
The education system need to change,the children is the future,design a school is design our future.
clusterstage
June 9, 2023 at 7:53 am
Really? in the midst of A.I? good luck with that.
Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky
June 9, 2023 at 7:22 am
The present educational system is horrible. But you are assuming that we need schools in the future. All the educational material is available on YouTube, in far superior quality, if you look in the right places. The only thing that is missing is the hands-on laboratory experience. But that can be gained separately, without paying for all the lectures.
SinisterAF
June 9, 2023 at 7:28 am
That’s so backwards. We will always need a educational system: it’s how and what we are learning currently, that’s wasting our time.
The future should at least have optional- high quality& low cost (or free) forms of education…
user 15481
June 9, 2023 at 7:37 am
Stop trying to hock your wares here. You are disruptive. And don’t talk back or I’ll flag your post as being commercial.
SinisterAF
June 9, 2023 at 12:39 pm
@user 15481you’re not talking to me like that, are you?
user 15481
June 9, 2023 at 12:55 pm
@SinisterAF no the original poster.
The Man w/No Name
June 9, 2023 at 7:26 am
🍾🥂 – there better be champagne!
Steven Davies
June 9, 2023 at 7:43 am
The schools are not the problem it’s the teachers and the unions that make them poor examples of higher education.
Matt Bergamin
June 9, 2023 at 10:15 am
What’s being taught now isn’t education, it’s social politics 😂
Kids are doomed unless we bring back real ciriculums and discipline
Tofu Yun
June 9, 2023 at 7:44 am
thank you sir ❤
PERFECTDARK
June 9, 2023 at 7:54 am
It depends on what students we’re talking about. We should definitely separate BAD kids from GOOD kids. Separate kids with disruptive behaviors. Make a school that’s just for them. We will have more students with confidence and boldness to read, speak, and volunteer in the classrooms.
Vincent Young
June 9, 2023 at 8:52 am
@Merhaba Merhaba oh god, yes
Merhaba Merhaba
June 9, 2023 at 9:57 am
@Vincent Youngwell to be explanatory, separating kids is a terrible idea
SinisterAF
June 9, 2023 at 1:00 pm
What a terrible idea that’s already a thing
Vincent Young
June 9, 2023 at 2:16 pm
@Merhaba Merhaba separating kids is an excellent idea.
Merhaba Merhaba
June 9, 2023 at 2:30 pm
@Vincent Young 🫣
Not Applicable
June 9, 2023 at 7:56 am
Good luck convincing ignorant and elitist democrats and republicans of this idea. America’s government would never allocate more funds for schools like this. It would’ve happened by now if we had any leaders who thought more about education than their own pockets.
Phil Latella
June 9, 2023 at 7:56 am
100% agree we need to change the system. With that said we need to change the society as well. Schools are a microcosm of the society at large. When students come in totally and completely ill prepared, drug addicted, abused, neglected and misguided it’s very difficult to teach them anything, even if they like it. When parents could care less, it’s difficult. I’m not defending the system by any way shape or form it has to change, but parents need to step up as well. When parents care and work with the schools, even this broken system works.
Wilhelm
June 9, 2023 at 6:47 pm
A good education system requires a good social system, which is influenced by politics, culture, etc.
Not Applicable
June 9, 2023 at 7:58 am
Everybody loves to rave about their successes but never sharing what they went through in their failures. That’s also part of the problem. Instead of having a stigma about failing in any facet we should encourage challenges. Getting back up. Trial and error. All things that have been carefully curated have went through some form of this one way or another. If a human tries to tell you they are perfect, they are lying or delusional.
Pedro Parkros
June 9, 2023 at 8:18 am
Man sollte Arbeiten etc. In einem bestimmtem Zeitfenster von …🤔 … Oh hier gehts um die Architektur 😐…Entschuldigung ich hab mich scheinbar im Raum geirrt.
K P
June 9, 2023 at 8:34 am
So…describe the school foo.
FANATIC FORAGER
June 9, 2023 at 8:51 am
Q : ‘We design our Buildings, then they design Us’, Churchill ☂️ 2:52
Iron Maiden
June 9, 2023 at 9:10 am
Schools are a gloried Prison for children. They wear a uniform. Check. They need to attend in the morning at the designated time. Check. They have lunch when told. Check. They come back the next day at the designated time. Check. And for 12 years. Seems legit to me.
J G
June 9, 2023 at 9:39 am
Super vague.
Samuel F
June 9, 2023 at 9:54 am
David Cross…?
English Teacher Jeff
June 9, 2023 at 10:17 am
👍👍👍
Viajando Comigo Oficial
June 9, 2023 at 1:38 pm
Hello my frinds from Brazil
Francesco S
June 9, 2023 at 1:45 pm
Carl Sagan is the best
bob 2010
June 9, 2023 at 1:48 pm
Steeping stone
Slogans
Limericks
Poems
Poetry
Squelched
Whim
Dappling
Just and equitable
District
Chamber of commerce
Joy of recess
Hassles
Literally and figuratively
Agony
Francesco S
June 9, 2023 at 3:17 pm
True .I read a lot about this books
David Veal
June 9, 2023 at 5:39 pm
This was wonderful. I’m glad you found your true purpose, and balance your academic with your artists. My father in law also created the school of the future in his community decades ago. The school exists today. Here are some of the points he made about his school of the future. 1. There are no grades, therefor no winners vs losers, or reasons to teach to a program – rather teach to the individual student. this results in high student self esteem, better student work and zero (so I was shown) disciplinary actions. 2. There are no class periods. You do not have to learn math just because it is 10 a.m. on Tuesday. 3. The student and parent(s) and counselor work out that students individualized contract on what subject matter they will work on, and when. Some students need more freedom, others thrive with more structure. 4. There are no classrooms. Rooms are learning labs, where the student enters and gets to work. If they are hungry, they work in an eating area. If they are tired, they can nap. But in the end, to move on, they know what work they have to complete. Where they do it is up to them. 5. Schools are community centers. Always open. Security is there, this isn’t a loose free for all for strangers, but the students and parents and those appropriate from the community can use the building. 6. Students can ask for, or find, speakers for topics of interests. The school will organize the rest. There’s more, but those are some highlights I liked. This was back in the 1970’s. And it was based on previous open school models. My father in law also wrote a manual, at the time, on how to convert a typical school into an individualized learning center. It warms my heart to see what you have done in your community. There will aways be a new angles on the school of the future. We must all be open to seeking them out.
Samuel Zev
June 9, 2023 at 8:16 pm
It’s so obvious that the education system has long been outdated since the establishment of computers and the internet, information has been democratized an anyone can gain gain access to knowledge to accommodate their learning needs. School however remains stagnant and unchanged
Hi it's me
June 9, 2023 at 9:24 pm
Writing essays is a joke. The is NO space for creativity. Because the teachers need to grade the text according to certain strict criteras, we need to write things a certain way and in a certain number of words, and it’s the most boring texts ever. I say this as a french student.
🆃🅺𝓐 〘Pra𝖕a𝖙anKa𝖑i𝖘ar⃝i〙
June 10, 2023 at 12:16 am
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The same is true for the astonishing progress within Muslim-majority countries from Jakarta to Dubai. In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education _.✍🏻_
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🆃🅺𝓐 〘Pra𝖕a𝖙anKa𝖑i𝖘ar⃝i〙
June 10, 2023 at 12:16 am
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“No country, however powerful it may be, is entitled to act outside the United Nations. The United Nations was established in order that countries, irrespective of the continent from which they come, should act through an organised and disciplined body. The United Nations is here to promote peace in the world and any country that acts outside the United Nations is making a serious mistake.”
~Nelson Mandela
during a press conference, Jakarta, Indonesia, 30 September 2002
🆃🅺𝓐 〘Pra𝖕a𝖙anKa𝖑i𝖘ar⃝i〙
June 10, 2023 at 12:17 am
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“As future leaders who will take over from the older generation to which I belong, you face even greater challenges. Though the world has made much progress in the twentieth century, the lives of much of humanity is still blighted by poverty, violence, hunger, disease and environmental damage.”
~Nelson Mandela
speaking at the launch of the Friends of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, Toronto, Canada, 25 September 1998
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June 10, 2023 at 12:18 am
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“Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, colour, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference.”
~Nelson Mandela
from a message to the Global Convention on Peace and Non-Violence, New Delhi, India, 31 January 2004
🆃🅺𝓐 〘Pra𝖕a𝖙anKa𝖑i𝖘ar⃝i〙
June 10, 2023 at 12:20 am
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“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development”
– Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations
🆃🅺𝓐 〘Pra𝖕a𝖙anKa𝖑i𝖘ar⃝i〙
June 10, 2023 at 12:21 am
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“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
– Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations
🆃🅺𝓐 〘Pra𝖕a𝖙anKa𝖑i𝖘ar⃝i〙
June 10, 2023 at 12:22 am
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“We must continue, with still greater speed, to change the lives of our people, especially the poorest of the poor”
~Nelson Mandela
during an Address to the Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan, 4 May 1999
🆃🅺𝓐 〘Pra𝖕a𝖙anKa𝖑i𝖘ar⃝i〙
June 10, 2023 at 12:23 am
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“I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation, perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whilst I was still at school. With such youth, we can be sure that the ideals we celebrate today will never be extinguished.”
~Nelson Mandela
🆃🅺𝓐 〘Pra𝖕a𝖙anKa𝖑i𝖘ar⃝i〙
June 10, 2023 at 12:24 am
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“When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world. We can also learn how to deal with problems we are having by learning from the lessons of the past.”
~Nelson Mandela
👩🏼🎓 I thank you. ✍🏻
🆃🅺𝓐 〘Pra𝖕a𝖙anKa𝖑i𝖘ar⃝i〙
June 10, 2023 at 12:27 am
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“In the end we must remember that no amount of rules or their enforcement will defeat those who struggle with justice on their side.”
~Nelson Mandela
at the 50th anniversary of the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), Geneva, Switzerland, 19 May 1998
🆃🅺𝓐 〘Pra𝖕a𝖙anKa𝖑i𝖘ar⃝i〙
June 10, 2023 at 12:27 am
👩🏼🎓🇨🇭
“In the end we must remember that no amount of rules or their enforcement will defeat those who struggle with justice on their side.”
~Nelson Mandela
at the 50th anniversary of the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), Geneva, Switzerland, 19 May 1998
✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy
June 10, 2023 at 12:35 am
In our house education was top priority. Like his father before him, my father wanted to make examples of us, the next generation of educated and progressive Pakistanis.
— Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰
✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy
June 10, 2023 at 12:35 am
In our male-dominated culture, boys had always been favored over girls and were not only more apt to be educated, but in extreme instances to be given food first while the mother and daughters waited. In our family, however, there was no discrimination at all. If anything, I received the most attention.
— Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰
✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy
June 10, 2023 at 12:36 am
We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself.
— Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰
✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy
June 10, 2023 at 12:36 am
My father had brought me here (at GKB Graveyard) just before I had left Pakistan to enter Harvard University in 1969 (and said): “Remember, whatever happens to you, you will ultimately return here. Your place is here. Your roots are here. The dust and mud and heat of Larkana are in your bones. And it is here that you will be buried.”
✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy
June 10, 2023 at 12:36 am
Pakistan People’s Party was voted into office, my father had started his modernization programs, redistributing the land held for generations by the feudal few among the many poor, educating the millions held down by ignorance, nationalizing the country’s major industries, guaranteeing minimum wages and job security, and forbidding discrimination against women and minorities.
— Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰
✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy
June 10, 2023 at 12:38 am
Writing the book has been difficult. It has meant reliving the pain of the past. But it has also been cathartic, forcing me for the first time to come to terms with memories I had been trying to escape.
— Benazir Bhutto
✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy
June 10, 2023 at 12:38 am
A friend’s chance remark changed my mind. “What is not recorded is not remembered,” she told me.
— Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰
✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy
June 10, 2023 at 12:38 am
Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception, the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) forbidding the practice of killing female infants that was common among the Arabs of the time, and calling for women’s education and their right to inherit long before these privileges were granted to them in the West.
— Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰
✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy
June 10, 2023 at 12:39 am
I pledged to myself that I would not rest until democracy returned to Pakistan, that the light of hope that he (ZAB) had kindled would be kept alive.
— Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰
✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy
June 10, 2023 at 12:40 am
Rest in peace | RIP 😪
*— Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰 —*
On December 27, 2007, Bhutto was leaving a political rally in the city of Rawalpindi. She was traveling in a bulletproof vehicle but used the sunroof to stand half out of the car and wave at the crowd. That’s when a young Taliban terrorist shot her three times from less than 10 feet away, followed by detonating an explosive vest loaded with ball bearings. Twenty-two people died in the attack, including Bhutto.
Al-Qaeda took responsibility, gloating in terminating
“the most precious American asset.”
Riots followed the assassination, leading to another 50 deaths.
✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy
June 10, 2023 at 12:41 am
*TED,* ‘Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. If you were shamed, choose compassion. Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you—to heal instead of becoming bitter so you can act from your heart, not your pain.’
pramod gupta
June 10, 2023 at 12:54 am
We didn’t get to see what you did. There were no example on how you changed the system.
Dan Miller
June 10, 2023 at 2:32 am
Sounds like you should have been an architect, not an engineer. Engineers don’t write poems. They have to calculate precise loads and tensile strengths and compressions. It’s not a very artistic field. Not sure why you pursued it.
kuat aytkazinov
June 10, 2023 at 8:36 am
The schooling we face nowadays are the results of the past century,when industrial government required the type of society that fits only industrial needs such as writing,counting,etc. Just ask yourself one question!
While the modern technology and AI are still altering with very high rates, why do children has to sit in boring blocks instead of going out and reflecting with the reallife experience?
That is very grooming((((
Ray *
June 11, 2023 at 8:24 am
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Silaya1
June 11, 2023 at 2:26 pm
Thank you very much for this Video🤩 What’s the Name of this School?
iloveyoumadhuri
June 13, 2023 at 1:38 pm
This is why only 11% of American students or individuals care to be in STEM positions or education. Thank you, Mr. Mishra!!!