Name: Zoe Weil - The World Becomes What You Teach - TEDx
Uploaded: 2012-12-15T16:04:10.000Z
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When I was fifteen I asked William Shatner,

who played Captain Kirk on the original Star Trek series,

And like a lot of psychologists and sociologists at the time,

who were trying to understand the Star Trek phenomenon,

and why these characters were so profoundly important to me

that I would be willing to publicly humiliate myself as a 15 year old.

Well, I've given it a lot of thought and I've come to the conclusion

that the reason why Star Trek has so many millions of fans

is because of the future that it depicts.

A future in which we've solved our earthly problems.

we're no longer myopic, and mean spirited,

we're part of the United Federation of Planets, -

and we're actually explorers without being conquerors.

when I felt my most despondent about the state of the world,

which is easy to do, in the face of global warming,

and alarming rates of species extinction,

and institutionalized forms of oppression and cruelty

towards both people and animals in a host of industries.

It is very hard to imagine that we can actually create that Star Trek future.

And yet, I've spent my whole adult life working toward that future.

and I'm going to share it with you today.

There's actually just one system that we just need to tweak a little bit,

and if we do that, we can solve every problem in the world.

Now, there's a deafening silence in the room.

Because I realize that the word schooling is probably

the most uninspiring word in the English language.

But that's because we have a very small perception

If we ask people, "What's the purpose of schooling?",

most of them are going to say something like this,

"Well, it's to provide the basics of verbal, mathematical and scientific literacy,

so that our graduates can find jobs and compete in the global economy."

Let's imagine that every child graduates from high school,

and does so, having passed their "No Child Left Behind" test with flying colors.

And let's imagine further that every single one of them

is able to find a decent job,  paying a livable wage,

or go to college and graduate school and find such a job,

Would we think that we have been successful in our goals for schooling?

I think that most of us would say, "Yes".

The problem is that many of those graduates,

would go on to perpetuate and perhaps even exacerbate

some of those problems that I just mentioned earlier.

The problem is that that purpose is too small,

We need a bigger vision for the purpose of schooling.

that we provide every student with the knowledge,

conscientious choice makers and engaged change-makers

for a restored and healthy and humane world for all.

Or another way of putting it, I believe that we need to graduate

Now, some people have asked, "Well, is this good for kids?

And is it really fair to them, to burden them with the responsibility

to fix all the problems that generations before them have created?"

Well, to answer those questions, I want to tell you

some stories about my experience as a humane educator,

somebody who teaches about the interconnected issues of human rights,

And I found this program that was offering week-long courses

to middle school students in Philadelphia.

So that's were I taught my first humane education courses.

And I watch in amazement as these kids were transformed

I taught about product testing on animals one day,

and I talked about how soaps and lotions and oven cleaners

are squeezed into the eyes of conscious rabbits,

and forced fed them in quantities that kill.

And a boy from the class went home that night

and he made his own homemade leaflets about product testing.

Well, he came into class the next morning

and he show them to me and he asked if he can hand them out.

I said, sure, I thought he wanted to hand them out to his fellow classmates.

He wanted to hand them out on the street.

So while the rest of us were having lunch,

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