As readers of my blog know, in my first TEDx talk, “The World Becomes What You Teach,” I ask the question, “What is schooling for?” At TEDxYouth@Brooklyn Free School where I recently gave another TEDx talk, “Educating for Freedom,” Seth Godin, a brilliant thinker, writer, and changemaker, gave a talk, “Stop Stealing Dreams” in which he asks and answers the question, “What is school for?” Check it out:
What do you think school is for? What should it be for?
~ Zoe
Zoe Weil, President, Institute for Humane Education
Author of Most Good, Least Harm, Above All, Be Kind, and The Power and Promise of Humane Education
My TEDxConejo talk: “Solutionaries”
My TEDxDirigo talk: “The World Becomes What You Teach“
My TEDxYouth@BFS “Educating for Freedom”
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