An excerpt from the Fearless Teaching story entitled: Boulder

 

On the last day of the gathering, Sugata Mitra, the celebrated global educator and advocate for youth and their innate sense of wonder and wisdom, was seated in a tight circle of chairs with four other educators and community organizers all of whom intended to tell their stories. This was striking because, Mitra, whose TED Talk featured on YouTube was approaching two million views, would clearly have keynoted at almost any educational conference in the world. Just that past February, he had won a $1 million prize from TED to advance his work, and yet at IDEC his name appeared in the conference program brochure in small print on a single page along with over 60 other conference presenters...

 

Sugata Mitra explained there are four billion parents in the world and what they want was for their children to be able to get or create jobs.

Focusing on his words didn’t last long though as someone from Detroit said their schools had 75 pupils in a class, that students were suspended for 4 days if they didn’t have their ID,
and that students go to jail for minor school infractions. It was the school-to-prison pipeline...