Thursday, April 28, 2011

John Hunter TED TALK #5

After listening to John Hunter talk about how the future of our world being in our children's hands, He really shows that the kids have the right ideas, but we need to teach them how generate these ideas into solutions for today’s problems. After listening to John talk, I can't help to think that personal problems get in everybody's way. While looking at the way that the United States Congress addresses the issues of our country, their politics and family matters get in the way. This is John theory, and to tests his theory, John gives his 3rd grade classes a list of the issues. While a 40 Year old has lots of issues to interfere with his decision making, a 3rd grade boy only takes in the facts and says what he thinks about it. The simplicity that the problems are addressed with causes the children to look at the issues with best intentions in mind. While almost everybody with power would look at a solution that they can benefit from, children do not look at their decisions on the broader scale. The future does not have as big effect on their thoughts. So I encourage you to listen to John’s TED talk and think about, “if you were to have the power to make decisions for the world, would personal issues influence you?”

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