Comments by "andrew worth" (@andrewworth7574) on "TED" channel.

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  6.  @stefaniasmanio859  assuming you're gushing over Monbiot's speech for its content rather than style I have to ask why? Monbiot attacks "neo-liberalism" by which he means the current economic system that is transforming the world, making the world richer and all countries that have adopted the current western economic system richer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usdJgEwMinM Monbiot claims the system has failed, he offers no evidence supporting that contention, indeed, all the evidence supports the contention that Monbiot is dead wrong about the current economic system being a failure, the Earth's population is richer and happier today than at any time in history (as Hans Rosling demonstrates in the above link and as Steven Pinker demonstrates in his book Enlightenment Now. You state "I think that my students are going to learn this speech by heart... " That's super creepy, and illustrates how the modern education system has become captured by the ideology of many teachers. I can't imagine a good teacher ever threatening his/her students with rote learning of the speech of a journalist of no great accomplishment, rather, I'd hope a good teacher would emphasis the importance of critical thinking, of not accepting just the ideological view point most preferred by the teacher and slavishly memorizing a speech expressing that view point, your commitment to forcing your students into memorizing Monbiot's speech reminds me of how the Chinese were expected to memorize Mao's Little Red Book - to the exclusion of any opinions that contradicted Mao.
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