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of google founder: 11M40s in search of open standards
Revolution
in Education of Children
Kevin
Kelly video : M15s37 recursion- science = process of changing how we know
video :
142 mile robot car race
M13S45 touring
Los Angeles virtually
Larry Brilliant (exec
director google.org) speaks in this video at Minutes.Seconds
cited 12.13
when
you try to do something huge like economic development, combat global poverty 1
2 or stop the climate crisis - these
are not cross-sectional nouns that occur over a short period of tme, these are verbs that span a long generation of time,
Bill Drayton’s life and service to Social Entrepreneurs at ashoka.org spans a generation
13.08:
when
I think of the Social Entrepreneurs that have inspired our generation the most, its Martin Luther King, and Mahatma Gandhi who was Martin Luther King’s role model; and Bill Drayton is inspired
by, and informed by, and is a student of Mahatma Gandhi, and I cant tell you what a privilege and honor it is to be introducing
him; in our youth we have walked on the same paths (meeting alumni of Gandhi eg Bhave, experiencing what rural India teaches you to explore lovingly as you cross
cultural contexts, and truly open your eyes to grassroots humanity's vital concerns)
14.08
There’s many from my generation who look at what Bill has done as that verb, that continuation of a promise that
began when we were all young and idealistic, and through which we could change the world and make it better; but he’s actually done it…
(to be Gandhian - to behave, communicate
and to network -) is to tell the truth to power with such humility and force that the powerful open up...
– what ashoka is doing (and collaborating with partners to do, inspiring us all
to be changemakers) is
no less... because Bill is being true to his teacher, his lineage and the concepts that Gandhi annunciated...
Bill
Drayton (founder of ashoka and since 1978 connector/sustainer of 2000 Social Entrepreneurs) speaks in this
video at Minutes.Seconds cited
22.43
400 ashoka fellows
focus primarily on children and young people.
One of the vital principles
we have learnt is that if young people don’t master empathy they are going to be marginalized in the modern world
23.19 The single
most important cause of marginalization? whole groups and individuals have not
mastered applied empathy. In 1900, 97% of the world’s children were growing up in rural isolated villages. If they just
learnt the rules, they did what their father did, mother did they would be fine; they would be accepted in society; they would
be functioning. No more. Every day all of us are in situations where the rules haven’t been invented yet; where there’s
a conflict of rules. The manufacturing and sales departments have different rules; let alone when you cross organizational
or cultural lines. We have to every day do this complex thing of understanding when we are about to say or do something;
what’s the impact on all the people around us, several layers out, and into the future, and adjust our behaviours to
be a good person. If we can’t do that we are talking timebomb; nobody wants to deal with us.
24.38 This is not a genetic skill. This
is a learned social skill. As yet, we have a lot of humanity who are not learning this. There
are many ashoka fellows who have figured out how to help children master this