Dave Eggers @ TED: improve education yourself

"The future is our children, thus we should pump vast amounts of money into schooling."

This is basically the argument that's always used by people who want better education. Well you won't hear me deny it, but I think there are other ways to improve schooling systems.
My opinion totally aside, some time ago I came across this really inspirational speaker at TED. The speaker being Dave Eggers, his speech on how he improved a local school being below.



The essence of what the man did was open up a tutoring center where he offers one-on-one guidance after school. Children, especially the ones in primary schools, have to be motivated to do homework and to do something at school. (If they're not motivated they don't do it). That's where Eggers came in, he managed to motivate the children at his center. Which is pretty awesome.

Ultimately Eggers is saying that the education level would improve if everyone invested a bit of their spare time in a local school to help with tutoring. And that's probably very true.

-jdh