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Education is an inseparable essence in society, including economy, medicine, politics, and every other life aspect. It gives solutions, and alternatives to problems. Better education to people means automatically better life and standards. That is why people need to put an accent on developing the techniques for educating themselves. As Sir Ken Robinson pointed out in his Ted Talk “Schools kill creativity”, we should create an educational system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Led by that, our project is based on improving the way of education by using the existing resources. In that fashion, we will avoid the classical schools, where individual are sorted by the year of birth, sit and listen to a professor, having exams, homework and grades. Instead, to achieve better and more attractive education, we will use the world air traffic. According Stanford University, about 1.5 billion people travel by airplane yearly. A part of those people, fly from location A to location C, visiting point B in meanwhile. Those B – airports are called transit zones. Waiting at the transit zones produces a lot of wasted, ineffective hours, when people have to wander around than do something useful. What we are trying to implement in our project is to convert wasted time at the airport into educational opportunities - empowerment. Simpler, we will use that huge amount of people, and we will engage them in educational causes. We will build improvised schools near the airport, where people from different generations can sit and listen to the lectures from comers and goers. And the whole process of educating will be cost-free. The whole concept is based on the assuming that every individual has certain knowledge or skill, and that individuals are willing to volunteer for educational causes. The advantage of this kind of education is that people are gaining knowledge from real professionals, and for free. With this type of education, we are reaching communities who do not have the privilege of paying for proper education, putting the accent on the education of developing and poor countries. In addition, both sides benefit from this project. But, the most interesting part is the diversity that this type of learning offers. The outcomes of that kind of community interaction are: reducing the level of discrimination, learning about different cultures, and most important, getting experience in different aspects of life.
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20 comments
c our as well.. and tel us how do u find it
http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/1026/solutions/1273
18th June, 2011 @ 10:00 AM CEST
good job! check out our vid too: http://challengefuture.org/tea ms/1012/room/solutions/1296
thanks! :)
19th June, 2011 @ 2:35 PM CEST
nice Idea,it would be interesting to have something like that close to the airport..
21st June, 2011 @ 6:55 PM CEST
ur solution can benefit the education in the future! Good idea!
22nd June, 2011 @ 6:16 PM CEST
Denis Kotov | Action team
I like it! You won't believe but I am not a part of those 1.5 billion people! Travelled by plane one or two times in my life, of course when I was a toddler. Sadly, I currenly sticked to my home. Anyway, your solution is really fun and meaningful. Even though, I would suggest you to obtain some kind of deviced that detects drunken people cause they are really annoying and alchogol at dutyfree shops are very affordable, lol. How you will deal with those?
24th June, 2011 @ 7:07 PM CEST
nice idea, but what about those living in rural places and the cost of the professionals using the aeroplanes? You have my vote.
28th June, 2011 @ 9:52 PM CEST
great job, and I really agree that schools kill creativity and we need to build a new system about education. got my vote and good luck ;)
also waiting you to: http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/770/solutions/1392
12th July, 2011 @ 1:01 PM CEST
hey well done... :)
Every idea in this competition is meant for a noble cause..
And everyone is running blindly to get more accolades for their own idea.. We all are trying to gather and convince friends to vote for us..
But as a part of this competition, we ourselves should motivate eachother.. for a while we should keep the competition aside.. and we should look into all our felllow competitor's ideas.. and should encourage the idea they came up with for the noble cause..
Lets keep aside the competitive feelings aside.. and lets vote for all the ideas we consider worthy in our perspective...
lets encourage each other ideas.. I will vote for you as i liked your idea.. and for all other ideas as well which i liked..
Join me in this drive of voting and encouraging your those fellow competitors.. WHOSE IDEAS YOU FEEL ARE WORTHY...
If you like mine, you are cordially invited to vote for our idea too....
http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/1026/solutions/1273
And If you don't like, we would love to have your opinion on how can we improve on our idea :)
Team DiA
14th July, 2011 @ 7:53 PM CEST
First of all, a lot of thankies for your comments. I am so sorry I've been away from computer for a long time. By tomorrow I will give you feedback to everybody who wrote me.
Regards
17th July, 2011 @ 10:09 PM CEST
Another nice project, we are full of great ideas.
please vote for us in the link below iff you like our solution:
http://challengefuture.org/cha llenges/1330/ajax/vote/up
18th July, 2011 @ 1:35 PM CEST
Noble, hingly-promising and generous initiative, guys! Keep working.
I'd like to ask you one question.
You appealed to Sir Ken Robinson quote that "Schools kill creativity".
Some are there any researches that prove this suggestion?
As for me, I always thought that the true creativity comes from those people, who faced difficulties while dealing with "totalitarism regime in schools" - who have always been under pressure, who had to live inside their imagination. Franz Kafka, for instance.
20th July, 2011 @ 2:00 PM CEST
---- I like it.
Check out our idea: http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/993
Congratularion good idea!
21st July, 2011 @ 9:54 PM CEST
Jude Christoper Roxas | Action team | CF Chapters
It sounds cool. with the things that you have in mind regarding improving our edcation, i believe that it is really something to be taken into consideration
But here are just my thoughts. I hope to hear somethings from you soon
Considering that this will be implemented over the years to come, how sure are you that this will give us "Quality education" instead of quantity education?
I think that the main targets here are those who are travelling by plane only. Do you think that this might also be of help to those in the wider scale of the community?
What could perhaps the educational structure for this kind of education? How can we handle schedules to cater the needs of people whose travel times are different from each other?
Good luck guys! :)
Jude
CF Aprentice
25th July, 2011 @ 11:17 AM CEST
Great idea, if I may build on it: maybe instead of building a school next to the airport you could simply have a booth in the airport where teacher and student can meet up and have some quiet space to teach and learn? Of course everybody can sign up for a lesson either as a student or a teacher before. Or go there spontaneously.
3rd August, 2011 @ 5:44 PM CEST
Looking forward to Seeing you in the finals. Best of luck
28th October, 2011 @ 12:22 PM CEST
Sachi Bansal
hey the idea is good.. keep it up..
18th June, 2011 @ 10:00 AM CEST