I'm sure you know the saying "Life is like a roller coaster". Usually what people mean by that is that life is full of ups and downs. Which obviously implies that the "ups" are those great times when everything is...

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Dr. Tae — Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning from Dr. Tae on Vimeo.

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Recently Tim Ferris twittered this: What happens when you give 16,000 kids $20 to turn a profit and make a difference? This: http://ping.fm/0sReH I suggest you check it out, it's pretty cool. One kid turned £10 into £736.77 in a...
Topics: Inspiration

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Apparently, that's still how it is. On average, rich kids score way better than poor kids on IQ tests. And apparently, the big majority of people still think that this is because of genetics. That's of course a very convenient...
Topics: Education

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Pretty much everyone that I met in Thailand that has money (the kind of money that can provide you with a very comfortable lifestyle any place in the world) is sending their kids either a) to ultra-expensive international schools in...
Topics: Education

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