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Kerry Nelson Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.
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Britt Ekland I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
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John Romano Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.
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Tony Buzan All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.
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Sugata Mitra It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.
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Sugata Mitra In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
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Sugata Mitra If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
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Ann Veneman There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.