Educator Stephen Nobles believes curiosity is the key to unlocking a student’s potential. In conversation with TED’s Whitney Pennington Rodgers, he encourages teachers to see every student through a lens of possibility — and asks what each of us might be missing when we let our assumptions go unchallenged. (Recorded at TEDNext 2025 on November 9, 2025)
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@FlamesOfDawn
October 8, 2026 at 11:29 am
Excellent perspective on education. Stephen Nobles and philosopher Ted Lasso have it nailed coming from a former special education teacher. Those kids and I were allies, not enemies. And they were the most reliable people in the building.
@XX-lx4mr
October 8, 2026 at 3:54 pm
The abolition of man by cs lewis makes a great address to this topic
@doubleuenbeeeh
October 8, 2026 at 1:25 pm
Whole lotta nothing
@XX-lx4mr
October 8, 2026 at 3:53 pm
Unfortunately, people need to hear this whole lot of nothing. And where are you to be so sheltered and callouse?
@XX-lx4mr
October 8, 2026 at 3:49 pm
So religion and this mockery of a judicial system and the mockery of an education system thats a pipeline to the mockery of a judicial system is harmful for everyone like we’ve always felt. Cool
@HUH_777_uno
October 8, 2026 at 3:51 pm
I am 72, and I have remained a curious human all of my conscious life: about people, about the earth and all its creatures, how things are and could be, about the Universe and how it is … it has enriched me constantly. I am now completely absorbed by and with children.😊
@RonnyThomas-f3k
October 8, 2026 at 5:39 pm
There is nothing wrong with asking questions but let your question be the concern with the Truth the hold truth not one side