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-- your kids have a good teacher.
How do you know.
And a teacher next door is better maybe there's a better teacher and another state.
As the world's best teacher or several.
Would that be -- -- -- kids could have been teacher.
Well today yes UK.
These kids are this excited about a man -- went so.
-- the -- negative four minus war and we are.
Done -- topping -- a lot of.
The YouTube numbers kept rising and he got letters from the middle East Africa.
We'll talk com has done an amazing.
Now -- funded by Bill Gates and he offers web lectures on everything from history economics and computer science.
Is videos are viewed millions of time.
Not only is it reaching millions of students right now but even if god forbid I got -- for by Abbas when I walked outside.
It'll still be able to reach millions of and maybe eventually billions of students you just happen to be good at teaching -- -- that is coupled with the effect.
It is a compliment each -- teacher I hope that helps you see in the next -- It's exciting -- he gets kids so excited about me ask.
In most parts of life things gotten much better cars computers cellphones.
Education not so much.
Right you know you we relied on an eighty year ninety -- hundred years and you would have.
The local band of you know if you if you had a party that that until it could get that each village might have to Hillary -- exactly exactly with a what you have mass media coming out than.
-- that way while we take the best musician the best actor the best storyteller in whatever way and recorded and put it out on.
Radio put it out on on records or you know whatever and I think.
-- there that could -- with education before but it hasn't even for basic -- multiplication tables I thought -- using video games.
There there's a huge bureaucracy most of which want to say no to change the system blob yet solved if the blob that it is and and I think what's.
-- from our point of view is that we are able to reach students.
Outside of the -- This California school districts are using concert videos in fifth grade classroom.
The teachers were skeptical but now they're impressed at what it does for the kids.
They're happy to walk in the door every morning excited about -- it isn't.
Not that they -- -- you know this yeah.
We assume that.
Most people on their own don't wanna do don't want -- learn -- don't wanna get engaged in mathematics and but rather I think that is frustrated because there -- most of them are in classrooms that are.
Not catering to them.
-- first teachers worried that the online instruction could replace them.
I think it's so -- -- my teachers would tell you they have tot more math than they've ever -- before it now teachers can tutor kids one and -- And and his humor that can.
Win.
Traction from.
I count.
It because kids can't go at their own pace -- but students who are still working on is not application.
And then about -- -- and I think that some kids enjoy cons -- so much they study at home some of them are doing two in three hours a night at home when I'm asking for fifteen minutes banana.
-- and a -- Spot on.
So finally after all these years of kids being bored in school and -- learning math that's over.
I've I think it might be.
Hope so -- happens it will be thanks to those online classes.
-- the charter schools or other experiments that breakout of the union dominated government monopoly.
Let a thousand flowers bloom and its competition that's given us better medicine transportation.
Technology.
-- everything.
-- our kids deserve that too.
That's our show and -- fossil.
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