Dave Eggers won the 2008 TED Prize Wish with this personal project. An accomplished novelist in his own right, Dave came up with an idea to partner local schools to help improve the literacy level of students. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open their own centres and reach out to others in their own communities. Dave's passion to create positive change is deeply moving. His idea is a simple one, but extremely portable to our local context in Singapore. Perhaps the way to a better education for Sinagporeans lie not just in our public education system but also on how non-governmental groups can come in to integrate, providing a more wholistic solution to our challenges especially with regards to the less academically inclined.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
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