Bill Gates: How I'm trying to change the world now

This is a great presentation made by Bill Gates. In his philanthropic life, he is trying to solve and bring awareness to more problems in this world. Throughout this presentation he poses 2 problems in which he believes to have equal value:

1. How do we stop a deadly disease that's spread by mosquitos?

2. How do you make a teacher great

Me personally, I can relate to the second question he posted. I currently am going to school in Hawaii and have seen an education system that definitely can be improved upon. One of the main reasons I started the entrepreneurs club at UH was simply because I wasn't getting the tools needed to step into the real world. I wanted to educate students in a more active oriented, learning environment. Get students out of the chairs in the classrooms and into the world solving problems.

Bill Gates speaks of a education program called "KIPP" which is all about being able to teach to young, underprivileged students, in the most effective way. One thing "KIPP" does in their classrooms is that they are constantly making sure each student is actively involved in the learning process. The teachers at this program are asking questions to all the students, and doing other things to get them engaged. Teachers get feedback from school tests to see if they are being effective in the classroom, and have created an environment that they can ask other teachers how to improve themselves as a teacher.

Hawaii as well as a lot of other places in this world need to understand the value of a great teacher. We should be helping solve the problem of bad education systems because schools are where the future leaders of our country will be coming from. If we cannot improve the core, we will be left behind.

One of my favorite quotes from Bill Gates in this presentation was...

"I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved."

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