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Perspectives on Leadership: Lessons from Mahatma Gandhi

Submitted by Munjal Dave, Class of 2011

“Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this (Gandhi) ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.” Albert Einstein

Gandhi is generally considered one of the most inspiring and influential world leaders of the last hundred years. From humble beginnings he gained world prominence, helped achieve independence for India and left a lasting legacy for us all.  However, in the age of Facebook and iPad, are his leadership lessons still relevant? I have come to realize that many of Gandhi’s core principles are remarkably relevant. This is especially true of Gandhi’s thoughts and practices in the realm of leadership competencies and self-development, especially the ideas of:

1. Continuous learning and improvement – Gandhi always told his followers that if two of his sentences contradict each other and if they thought he was sane at that time (!), please ignore the first one and accept the second one. This reflects his learning and growth mindset, as well as anticipation of his followers’ needs. As an added corollary, rigid consistency was not one of his traits!
2. Looking at each person without labels, just as a human being –  Personal meetings with Gandhi were very short, generally lasting a couple of minutes (in part due to an onerous poster pasted behind Gandhi’s seat that read, “Be quick, be brief, be gone!”). However, in those minutes people felt that Gandhi gave them undivided attention (no multi-tasking for him!) whether the person was a leading industrialist, a political leader or an average person off the street. He made them feel as if they were the only person in the world that Gandhi would have liked to talk at that time.
3. Being an excellent listener – Gandhi was not a very skilled public speaker; generally he was believed to be quite average. On the other hand, he was an exceptional listener of both the articulated and the unsaid. He seemed to be practicing “seeing with your ears.”
4. Proactively identifying barriers to make change sustainable – In the 1920s an American journalist asked Gandhi what the biggest problem was that India faced at the time. The journalist expected Gandhi to say that the problems were slavery and British rule or pervasive poverty. But Gandhi said the biggest challenge facing the country was “callousness of intellectuals.” He was not just thinking about getting independence but about building a sustainable society.
5. Being the conscience keeper – Non-cooperation was one of the key political movements that Gandhi initiated and led. It was a widely successful initiative. In a distant village, some villagers resorted to barbaric violence against the oppressive police force. Gandhi aborted the movement saying a key tenet of the movement, non-violence, was violated, and that in his opinion “we are not ready for self-rule.” Many analysts and political leaders felt that this was not politically smart or expedient. Gandhi followed his conscience and stopped the initiative. A related trait for Gandhi was his belief that the end did not justify the means. He was insistent, nay adamant, about purity of path in order to achieve desired goal.
6. Heavy emphasis on self-awareness and discipline
7. Balancing value-driven vision and execution efficiency
8. Emphasis on path and result
9. Adopting holistic perspective in every endeavor

Note: This article draws from a series of books and lectures by Gandhi’s long time personal assistant Narayan Desai. These lectures were delivered in Gandhi’s native language, Gujarati, to the Ahmadabad Management Association in India.

To read more of the author’s musings, visit his occassional blog at http://munjaldave.wordpress.com/.

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bill gates

Complex leader of a complex country

If you’re going to read one book about modern China in the period after Mao, then this is the book you should read.

By Bill Gates

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December 13, 2012  3 minute read

 

 

 

 

Though the book is framed around the rise of Deng Xiaoping and his reforms that transformed China into an economic powerhouse, Ezra Vogel’s compelling biography examines how China went from being a desperately poor country to certainly one of the two most important countries in the world today.

A Communist revolutionary and military commander under the brutal rule of Mao Zedong, Deng emerged as China’s capable leader in 1978 for fourteen years. For all of Deng’s success leading China out of poverty, he cannot escape the central role he played in violent attacks on landlords in 1949, or intellectuals in 1957 or the tragic killings in Tiananmen Square under his own leadership in 1989.

Deng was a strong believer of socialism although he supported a market economy and created an export model of economic development. Subsequently China’s economy grew at over 10% per year for 20 years.

As part of our work at the Foundation we strive to improve 10 or 20 million lives in the areas of global health and global development. We have discovered new approaches and created new tools to get vaccines, AIDS drugs and contraceptives to the people who need them, and advanced agricultural innovation to transform farmers’ lives so that they can feed their families.

But, China’s reforms coupled with the tenacity and hard work of its people has improved hundreds of millions of people’s lives in less than a generation. That is more human lives climbing out of poverty post World War II than any other country.

Today, about 15 percent of people in the world - over 1 billion people - live in abject poverty. Fifty years ago, 40 percent of the global population was poor. The massive reduction in poverty is due in part to the “Green Revolution,” in the 1960s and 1970s where researchers produced seeds that helped farmers vastly improve their yields. And because of China. One country alone has lifted 500 million people out of abject poverty.

China in 1979 was one of the poorest countries in the world, far poorer than India. They were barely scratching out a living and their population density made it difficult for them to feed their population. There was very little to build on other than the fact that the party had incredible authority. With this authority, Deng set in motion a series of critical changes early on in his leadership to achieve cultural stability and significant economic growth.

Surviving the Great Famine of 1961 where millions died, Deng reformed the land system and increased agriculture production, initially in just one part of the country. He extended farmers’ land leases and encouraged them to profit from any grain they grew over and above what they owed. He introduced high-yielding varieties of cereal grains and synthetic fertilizers emulating the best innovations of the “Green Revolution”. As a result the agricultural sector exploded with farmers producing three times as much in 10 years, all with less labor.

Where before they taxed poor farmers to bootstrap the industrial commune, the workers who were no longer needed in the fields moved into the cities and created a robust industrial sector.

To support a high growth industrial sector, Deng fostered education and built new schools and institutions of learning to underpin the economy. He also endorsed students and business people to travel internationally to study and learn from other countries. China’s success in part has been its ability to synthesize what successful economies have done well and leapfrog history and the competition.

Vogel, an emeritus professor at Harvard University, demonstrates a deep understanding of China’s complex culture and draws on extensive research and his East Asian experience as an intelligence officer for the Clinton Administration. In a recent New York Times interview, Vogel said, “with this book, I thought I could write something new that would educate Americans about China.” I think he absolutely achieves this. Vogel also helps his readers navigate the labyrinth of people and places with mini bios and a map that was an invaluable reference when reading his book.

Although Deng’s transformation of China cannot be separated from the violent attacks that he administered under Mao’s rule or the brutal approach he took to stopping the Tiananmen Square student protests, the economic reforms have improved the livelihoods of millions of people.  China has capitalized on advances in education, healthcare, agriculture and innovative technology to help accelerate their own development and transition beyond the need for aid.

To have done this essentially in one generation is an unbelievable accomplishment and is unique in the history of the world.

50 to connect fall 21

 worldrecordjobs.com 50 alumni collabs to link fall 21- can you help chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk - india friends brilliant, sunita gandhi; dhaka dr yunus, shameran abed; dc region ted leonsis, rev al hathaway(thurgood marshall), philippe cousteau; tokyo governor koike, naomi osaka; scotland gordon brown, tom hunter; bbc attenborough family, paul rose ; boston jim kim, paul farmer ...

gandhi einstein

 Einstein:

 “Mahatma Gandhi's life achievement stands unique in political history. He has invented a completely new and humane means for the liberation war of an oppressed country, and practiced it with greatest energy and devotion. The moral influence he had on the consciously thinking human being of the entire civilized world will probably be much more lasting than it seems in our time with its overestimation of brutal violent forces. Because lasting will only be the work of such statesmen who wake up and strengthen the moral power of their people through their example and educational works. We may all be happy and grateful that destiny gifted us with such an enlightened contemporary, a role model for the generations to come.” by 1931 ganhi was politely telling londoners that their colonial power were siphoning away 80% of india's economy -Everything including education, sanitation and health etc had to be managed with the rest of 20 per cent.

https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2018/09/real-true-facts-einstein-admiration-for-mahatma-gandhi/

Albert Einstein, is considered as one of the greatest minds in the world who played a major role in revolutionising modern Science. His admiration for Mahatma can be seen clearly in a letter he addressed to Mahatma Gandhi, in the year 1931, praising his methods. Gandhi remained an important influence on Einstein’s life and thoughts.

Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha can be defined as a devotion to truth. This concept appealed to Einstein greatly. The primary reason behind this is its principled ground against political expediency and for the type of moral commitment that depends on self-scrutiny and an inquiry into cause and effect. Similar to the counter-intuitive theories of Einstein, Mark Shepard (who wrote the biography of Mahatma Gandhi) defines satyagraha as a hard to grasp concept, especially for those who are used to seeing power in the barrel of a gun.

Known to be a conservative, Albert Einstein had expressed profound regret after publishing an equation that encouraged the development of the nuclear bomb. He also addressed a letter to the US President Franklin Roosevelt, informing him about the risks associated with nuclear bombs.

EINSTEIN ON AMERICAN FAILING LIVESMATTER 1946

Einstein aco-chaired an anti-lynching campaign and issued a scathing condemnation of racism during a speech he gave in 1946 at Philidelphia's Lincoln College, the alma mater of Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall in which he called racism “a disease of white people.” That same year, notes On Being’s executive editor Trent Gilliss, Einstein “penned one of his most articulate and eloquent essays advocating for the civil rights of black people in America.” Titled “The Negro Question” and published in the January 1946 edition of Pageant magazine, the essay, writes Gilliss, “was intended to address a primarily white readership.”

Einstein begins by answering the inevitable objection, “What right has he to speak about things which concern us alone, and which no newcomer should touch?” To this, the famed physicist answers, “I do not think such a standpoint is justified.” Einstein believed he had a unique perspective: “One who has grown up in an environment takes much for granted. On the other hand, one who has come to this country as a mature person may have a keen eye for everything peculiar and characteristic.” Speaking freely about his observations, Einstein felt “he may perhaps prove himself useful.”

Then, after praising the country’s “democratic trait” and its citizens’ “healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one’s fellow-man,” he plainly observes that this “sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to men of white skins.” Anticipating a casually racist defense of “natural” differences, Einstein replies:

I am firmly convinced that whoever believes this suffers from a fatal misconception. Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man’s quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.

The ancient Greeks also had slaves. They were not Negroes but white men who had been taken captive in war. There could be no talk of racial differences. And yet Aristotle, one of the great Greek philosophers, declared slaves inferior beings who were justly subdued and deprived of their liberty. It is clear that he was enmeshed in a traditional prejudice from which, despite his extraordinary intellect, he could not free himself.

Like the ancient Greeks, Americans’ prejudices are “conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment.” And racist attitudes are both causes and effects of economic exploitation, learned behaviors that emerge from historical circumstances, yet we “rarely reflect” how powerful the influence of tradition is “upon our conduct and convictions.” The situation can be remedied, Einstein believed, though not “quickly healed.” The “man of good will,” he wrote, “must have the courage to set an example by word and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by this racial bias.”

Read the full essay at On Being, and learn more about Einstein’s committed anti-racist activism from Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor’s 2006 book Einstein on Race and Racism.

francis - the last 300 years of the old world got really interesting starting with st francis

everything changed just before 1500 when the med sea navigators of the old world discovered both new world of america to the west and circumnavigating africa to reach asia to the east - but the last 300 years of the old world's tri-continent- Africa-Asia-Europe was probably the most peaceful and multi-win trading in human experience to that date

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and i happily thank francis as the smartest western leader

Francis of Assisi (born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone; Italian: Francesco d'Assisi; Latin: Franciscus Assisiensis; 1181 or 1182 – 3 October 1226), venerated as Saint Francis of Assisi, also known in his ministry as Francesco, was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, mystic, and preacher.^[3] He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of St. Clare, the Third Order of St. Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land.

Coming from 5 generations of Diaspora Scots - i am wary of top down religions, top down staNdardised education curricula, complex top down laws 

bi happily celebrate the ideology of francis

he was a servant leader who went to live with the poor, try to work out what poverty traps were needed for their family/community to grow

he asked his female followers the clares to be last mile communty healthworkers

he asked his male followers to study nature's diversity

he made a visit to Muslims to positively connect his ideology and theirs and this helped make the western end of the silk road whose eastern end was built round consciousness cultures revering multiple natural sprits not one overall god- THE MAPS OF MARCO POLO TELL THIS JOYFUL STORY

personal weariness: -a very scottish viewpoint? if we used a time machine to visit my 4 times great grandad on the isle of arran in 1840s on a sunday you would have seen most of the island doing over an hours walk to meet in a community circle- what to do next? the english having colonised scots were thinning our population- landowners were told they would be taxed around the view that they quarterly made more profit from sheep than growing families- so my descendants negotiated just enough money to emigrate- today that explains why scots are 80% a worldwide diaspora nation not having made a livelihood on our homeland

james grant

 worldrecordjobs.com asks: has any american has been loved as much worldwide as james grant?  he valued poorest children -their health, their freedom/communities to grow up safe and happily curious- everywhere -especially where huge youth populations were struggling with poverty's chains -  making unicef a solutions branch perhaps unlike any un branch before or since 

my personal opinion -year 37 of argument co-authored with dad the economist's norman macrae in 1984-  is when national politicians get in way of future of children - our species survival is put exponentially at risk even faster than what we do to climate but happy to learn from those with alternative valuation hypotheses chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

of course in these exciting 2020s, valuation priorities are tied up with how fast tech is redesigning what is humanly and what is artificially operated real time - changing what government is or isnt free to do- a reason why we want to see what teachers of every age group actually understand about ai - when education misses out a whole curriculum its both a teaching and learning crisis - the biggest loser being the younger half of the world

grant references include - unicef annual report year grant died 

promises kept - testimonies by grant alumni / south asia 

the first 2 saarc summits convened in bangladesh and delhi appear seminal- unfortunately there seem to be few open source proceedings of these conferences - if you find any let us know chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

abed and economistwomen.com - fazle abed 13 months update obituary of the man whose coalitions raised a billion asian women beyond poverty

 

Q1 What life-saving shared solutions did Fazle Abed empower a billion poorest Asian women to apply to end life-destroying poverty? 

Q2 Bangladesh = 8TH most populous nation with 163 million, so why do you claim over a billion people gained from Abed’s shared knowhow? 

Q3 Can statisticians/economists afford not to be naturally and culturally sensitive? 

Q4 Abed spent the first 25 years of building solutions which linked in person to person development in places without electricity and telecoms. What did he lead with his second quarter of a century as a poverty alleviator?

A1About 70 years after Gandhi had become the first notable teenager to travel to Britain to sudy (barrister bar of london), teenage abed traveled to study ship engineering at Glasgow University where the age of machines and humans had started up in 1760s around Adam Smith and James Watt. After 15 years in a global corporate career that saw his rise to regional CEO for the oil multinational Royal Dutch Shell, Fazle Abed life’s purpose was changed by 3 disasters- each killing a million of his poorest compatriots. He devoted his next 50 years of life to designing microfranchises which poorest village mothers applied first to building last mile health and food security services. He translated the world’s most relevant innovations for community building by designing their marketing and financing to scale across hundreds of thousands of villages- by definition poorest Asian villages are those that colonial empires left out of electricity grids and telecommunications- so the solutions had to be peer to peer action learned and back in the 1970s most village mothers were also illiterate. Hi-trust marketing for the poorest in the world required systemically different media than western television. Abed’s most extraordinary innovation was economic - it integrated bottom-up financing systems at both micro and macro levels. It wasn’t until thousands of health service and food security village mothers microfranchises were replicating that he designed microfinance specifically for female village entrepreneurs’ community banking needs. He changed how global aid was channeled through blending two models- bottom-up disaster relief grants are different in skill-transfer consequences than top down ones; banking that is responsible for designing positive cash flow village businesses that change market value chains is the opposite from banking that chains borrowers to debt. You can also map how Abed’s grassroots networking solutions triangularise the 1-2-3 of sustainability goal generation: 1) end poverty, 2) end death by famine, 3) end death by lack of life critical last mile health services. NB Abed was always searching value chain connectivity and goodwill flows across 4 levels of advancing human lot : one village community, hundreds of thousands of villages, national market leader, and redesigning global networking. Once village mothers had savings they demanded brac innovate education of all ages so their girls could leap far beyond village poverty lines

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

 

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi claremont surveys show genius maximises time at spent at experiential edge of unique competence - try to get to 3%- sadly standardised exam education systems give most people less than one thousandth of time needed to experientially learn their own unique talents - not surprisingly flow research also explains emotional intelligence og happiness and jack ma's association of education and loveq- claremont is the LA college dedicated to the practical management/unmanagement culture of peter drucker - some may gain from asking:

will any upbringing ever again flow great maths like von neumann

is there an irony that flow intersects where artificial intelligence and humans best understand eack others contributions to futureoflife

early research of moocs -since suppressed - found greatest impacts of moocs found ismall per cent of ola- these are short videos where expert accidentally or deliberately un-silosises what academics of the expertise siloise

Von Neumann the mathematician who could have saved our species from extinction

GAMES von neumann 4 biggest questions and answers to see if you need to be linked to his alumni

TOP DEBATE 2021 - can you help us connect two sets of notes on sustainability in 260th year of humans and machines started up by glasgow u's james watt and adam smith

70 years of debating what john von neumann started up in his last 7 years 1950-7

50 years of studying person to person networking by the billion poorest asian women to end poverty abedmooc.com

============== some simple neumann orbits for moderating by 3rd grade teachers up

 Q1 what future technologies are directly associated with von neumann alumni from his death in 1957?

do any of the people you know understand urgent debates today at neumann's 3 artificial intel us legacies: 60th year of twin ai labs stanford and mit plus www.futureoflife.org 

Q2 what other post-industrial systems were emerging by late 1950s with most community impact all over the world

Q3 – what does worldwide growth of future history portal/hub maps look like with each 100 fold leap in post-industrial tech 1960s to 2020s

Q4 – how did von neumann grow possibly the most brilliant mathematical brain a human will ever own? why is there no chance of any american millennial having a similar brain? will the completely broken way maths is taught start to be fixed by un youth and tech leaders at www.rewired2021.com and handover of uae expo to japan

rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk to co-edit better answers than these drafts

A1 .While von neumann’s importance to mathematicians and economists (eg beyond zero sum trading games) is often misunderstood, it’s his impact on technologies that changed the way every 21st c human being’s livelihood is shaped. One way to look at this is he turned the power of engines from 2 dimensions of energy and telecommunications with the 3rd dimension of engines as analytic machines soon to innovate what separate human brains cannot do. Coming from Hungary to America in 1929, the possibility of his interactions with Einstein at Princeton could have been amazing- but instead with the exponential rise of hitler from 1933, von neumann was increasingly required to lead america’s race to nuclear energy. In effect, he only got 12 years to mainly focus on fathering the programable computer and inspiring the birth of artificial intelligence researchers. Within 4 years of von neumann’s death, Kennedy had declared the moon race, within 6 years his alumn mccarthy had started up twin ai labs- facing Atlantic at mit, facing pacific at Stanford, within 8 year’s intel’s Gordon moore was declaring analytic power of programable computer chips would increase 100 fold per decade through to the 2020s by which computing analytic power would far exceed human brain power

A2 Those inspired by Neumann’s new technologies have changed life’s possibilities in ways that previously seemed to be pure science fiction. Yet to the 70% of people who are Asian, at least two other system technologies had emerged by the late 1950s which directly explain Asia rising out of poverty and impact the sustainability likelihoods of our species- these are rural systems starting with Borlaug’s without which feeding 7.5 billion peoples of 2020 would not have been possible; and deming’s quality of what engineers design and operate- the whole range of which first evolved out of japan from bullet trains to mechanical diggers, to containerization docking to microelectronic calculators and machine tools including robotics. Until 1995, one way to segment innovation foci of the far east versus the far west, is that Asian future designers focused on innovations that did not primarily depend on thinking or administrating  in English language software. It would be culturally unimaginative to believe that thinking in 26 letter alphabets and many thousand character scripts like Japanese or Chinese leads to precisely the same consciousness of nature, or scientific purpose.

A3 Are smart devices primarily designed for government, personal or societal uses?  It some times seems that von neumann alumni explore all 3 dimensions as win-wins whereas other research funding sometimes get siloised. In 2021 while sustainability will depend on the younger half of the world collaborating on borderless networks demanded by nature, health and above zero sum trading games- essential hubs to linkin additionally to ameruca’s original 2 ai locations include Geneva, Nordica, Dubai, Singapore, HK, Korea, Japan, various Chinese megacities. While we argued in 1984’s 2025report.com for a transformation in education so no child of the 2020s is excluded from humanising AI, catalogues of where ai unicorns are being invested in implies that vast mahority of national governments don’t yet understand “sustainability goal” decisuons on societal data that will be taken unconsciously as more and more real time operating systems live decision making is. Other ways to map exciting ai hubs- look at membership clusters within futureoflife.org or who zooms into the virtual university of #aiforgood at the un itu in geneva

A4 von neumann’s education and parental support is reviewed in detail in norman macrae’s biography of von neumann. It took a very different customization of experiential learning flows of math geniuses that paets of central Europe at start of 20th century were good at- and which sad to say education in usa (and English speaking world) appears to have lost human confidence in. Neumann was born into a community of Hungarian-Jewish shopkeepers in early 20th c smart city of budapest and small enterprise bankers; maths was as important a literacy as talking; families shared slow evening meals where children were encouraged to report what most curious things had excited them today;; neumann was mainly home schooled to 5th grade then participated in vienna's top 20 teenage maths class; by 15 he would be debating with university professors what maths problems his peer group needed to focus on

which are weforum SCHWAB top 20 action networks of 2021

IN JANUARY 2021 davosagenda.com shared 100 video connections by and for humanity rising in 2021- can you help us make 20 most exciting jigsaw-curriculum from these 100 pieces? master briefed by world record jobs creator schwab- 50 year learning curve mediating globes most powerful people

-help welcomed -chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk The Economist's Norman Macrae family foundation and 2025 report co-author-  meanwhile here are some emerging brilliant puzzles- subscribe to this blog for fast moving updates

wef20.1 climate agenda setting, meta-system deadlines- usa kerry biden climate ambassador & gore 20 years why o carbon tax yet, uk sharma london's nomination of overall host of glasgow/italy cop26 & carney bank of england

wef 20.2 - obviously weforum home capital geneva is in middle of this - rather than expose who/red cross/ai health to politics - this core group is not being publicised except where already known eg gates and gavi on vaccines

WEF20.3 - COALITION OF NATIONAL PLACE LEADERS TRSTUSTING FORUM MOST

wef20.4 total education transformation unicef fore, un envoy brown with dubai: gurg, korea. refugee networks un-ny

wef 20.5 ai - main composer of weforum may singapore - tba

wef 20.6 biotech - tracking other than virus challenge the way cop at kumming may is shaped

wef 20.7 to wef20.20 coming soon

schwab musk neumann smith kuan yew glasgow singapore dubai rome

 here's why i'd love to help singapore-glasgow people zoom

- i expect you already know that http://www.futureoflife.org is a leading  boston-stanford-musk network urgently humanising artificial intel -  65 years into the legacy of von neumann whose biography dad (norman macrae) authored- twin ai labs were set up 3 years after neumanns death- pacific-facing stanford; atlantic facing mit boston -which also hosts sloan management school where the number 1 annual graduate entrepreneur competitions are hosted and where mit media lab is currently coordinated by japans joi ito- japanese version of von neumann is being published this summer

schwab, the founder of world economic forum, zoomed davos this year but has declared singapore in May will be his main real 2021 summit and glasgow nov cop26 is where humans will decide if they dare leap forward to green healthy and new education worlds

among 50 half hour debates videoed at http://www.davosagenda.com  two set the scene for glasgow

biden's climate tsar kerry with the indian brit alok sharma, who boris johnson has appointed to coordinate cop26 out of london,  announced glasgow as humanity's last best chance 

in a second session al gore backed up by bank of england's carney explained that while his climate fund generation ig has been profitable over 15 years, until or unless carbon costing is integrated locally worldwide we aren't going to align with nature's exponential forces

both panels announced that instead of paris commitment to 1.5% degree warming we are currently heading to 4.5%+ -enough to drown out most of bangladesh and calcutta to mention but one heavily populated asian disaster zone whose tragic presence is rooted in the worst of british empire's pound economics

i am 10 years into researching- scottish birth of 21st c sustainable economics journal-  ie who at glasgow university most values being where human-machine age started up 260 years ago around adam smith and james watt? sadly a lot of politics/greenwashers have lost much of glasgow's transparency mediation of this as have journalists at the economist - glasgow university hosted 2 events 2010 where my fathers work at the economist was mentioned-the first was hosted by arguably the deepest scholar of smith ever at 250th year of smiths moral sentiments, but then professor skinner died which is when there was a family remembrance party of his and my family approved but not attended by glasgow's italian vice chancellor- italy are co-hosting cop26 after mediating this years g20 just before glasgow

through the 2010s i visited bangladesh 15 times mainly to listen to 50 years of womens poverty alleviation by sir fazle abed; he was also interested in a coalition of tech universities relevant to the ai of ending poverty which he wanted singapore and korea to be core hosts of; by coincidence gordon brown's role as number 1 education change agent at un has led to 2 new movements- an asian education commission hubbed out of korea, and the biggest ever education change summit to be hosted in dubai after dhaka; this makes year ends triple whammy rome-g20::glasgowcop26::dubai expo an unique chance to transform green. health and education coalitions for our species, as well as both human and artificial intel

who do we or your brother know who might be interested in a zoom

cheers chris +1 240 316 8157 wash dc

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borlaug curricula - food security and how genesis of green revolution 1 and 2

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see annual laureates of borlaug at the world food prize- frankly a more sustainable series than anything the nobels come up with

borlaug's mid 20th century agriculture research and open source alumni netwrking probably saved a billion people from famine - this green revolution 1 led to the urgent green revolution of 2020s which was forseeable back in 1984 now that we are designing a planet from 5 billion thru to today 7.5 billion to 2050's 10 billion people we need to go beyong carbon to natural energies - www.economistgreen.com

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00:01 i'm delighted to join you at this eighth global leadership forum and i congratulate you on choosing as this year's theme the biggest question of our time

00:12 what will our post-covid world look like?

 

 and i want to start by thanking all those who contributed to the organization of this  important event and in particular the leader who asked me to speak to you my friend professor lee whose distinguished career has included his great success in reforming education in the republic of korea as minister of education science and technology and his path-breaking work on the global and korean education commissions that i had the privilege to chair

00:37 and who as an academic and writer is recognized and admired for his innovative research and insights especially in HTHT: High-Tech High-Touch education, admired not just in this continent but in every continent --now this conference meets at the right time because we're indeed at an inflection point

 

00:53 covid 19 this microscopic parasite 10000 times smaller than a grain of salt has not only infected 50 million people( ed some models of asymptomatics figure nearer 500 million) 

-and destroyed more than a million lives, but it has made us as individuals come face to face with our own vulnerability- and indeed our mortality

01:10 and it has brought more economic havoc, disrupted more trade, killed off more jobs, led to more lost production, caused more company closures than has any modern recession

01:20 And it has not only  undermined the cultural and social foundations of our lives but it is making us rethink the way we live, the way we work, the way we travel. the way we learn the way we study

01:31 in some cases it is accelerating already underway changes: like the online economy…in other cases exposing age-old problems like poverty and deprivation which have come to the surface and in other cases making what previously seemed impossible 

-- work is changing as more people work from home and  communicate online the consumer economy is changing as retail moves online

 

01:55 public services are changing as we see online education and online health dramatically expand

 

02:01 the social contract is changing as we reframe the rights and responsibilities of individuals and governments 

 

our ideas of fairness are changing as we recognize we will have to do more to value and reward all those who have been underpaid and under recognized ;especially those running personal one-to-one face-to-face

services like social care where some of the lowest paid workers in the world have had to take some of the biggest risks and the jobs we do are changing as IT , logistics, the digital economy as well as social care have to expand to meet new needs- 

 

our ideas of what is acceptable are changing as workers who have been prepared to  be self-employed (without job/health/pension contracts) now seek greater security- 

our idea of society is changing but people have been isolated now more than ever that being part of a community matters more to them than ever it did

 

 02.58 and so each country will have to find its own way forward as it rebalances the relationships 

• between individuals and communities 
• between markets and states, 
• between risk and security, 
• between freedom and control; .
• between the very rich and the rest and of course between man and nature

03:08

and education is changing; and this is where i want to focus the rest of my remarks

indeed i want to suggest today that because we are now more aware than ever of inequality of families and children denied opportunity- of the vast gap between the world's education rich and the education poor, 

 

there is now no route to the future that does not have education at its center, no route to greater equality of opportunity that does not involve education

03:35 no route to more prosperous economies, stronger communities and fairer societies without investing in education, no route to rebuilding our countries too -

03:44 no route to building back better without the contribution of education of teachers, trainers, researchers, academics to the common good

 

04.00  -so for all these reasons, i have to say to you that the pandemic has robbed millions of children of the future

because the education they once enjoyed has been interrupted- many of whom may never return to school, or even if they do they may never catch up on their learning

04:08 you know at the height of the pandemic 1.6 billion children and young people- 90 percent of the world's pupils and students had their education disrupted-nearly a billion students are still shut out from schools today

and the risk is that short-term school closures will lead to long-term reversals in educational attainment with the opportunities available to the world's poorest and most marginalised children already diminished and hit even more

 

04:34 before the pandemic

 let us remember 260 million school-age children did not go to school, 

400 million children left education at 11 or 12 never to return, 

800 million half the developing world's children left  education without any usable qualifications for the workplace

 

 and that while the numbers of graduates (from high school) has increased from 100 million 50 years ago to 400 million in 2 000 to 700 million now ..even in the 2040s when children born today will first come of age 70% of all the adult population of the world will never have the secondary nor college nor university qualifications needed for the well-paying jobs the world can offer

 

 05:20 in low-income countries today a staggering 90 percent of children are in learning poverty which means they cannot read a basic text by the age of 10;now in the last financial crisis the typical child fell six months behind in their educational attainments . but children who are out of school for more than a year are even more unlikely even to return, 

 

and in crisis settings,

girls are two and a half times more likely to drop out of school than boys; but missing out on school means millions of children also go hungry; indeed during this pandemic 370 million children have been missing out on free or subsidized school meals which have often been their only regular source of nourishment

06:01 and with families under extreme financial pressure millions of boys and girls may soon join the 152 million children already forced into child labour

06:11 and many girls will join the 12 million girls a year who are forced into becoming child brides

06.21 with one estimate suggesting this illiteracy could lose us as a society as much as 10 Trillion dollars per year in future earnings we are standing by doing too little as havoc is reaped by one of the biggest forces accelerating inequality in our generation

 06:35 quality education is vital to lift people out of poverty; to ensure healthier families advance racial and gender equality, unlock job opportunities increase security

06:45 and create a more just peaceful and sustainable world- and girls education is a proven link to lowering fertility rates and reducing population growth which itself is one of the key drivers of climate change

06:56 education especially of girls leads to better health- a child whose mother can read is

·          fifty percent more likely to live past the age of five

·         fifty percent more likely to be immunized twice as likely to attend school

07:09

and so this is why we must come together as a global community and save the future of our children in response to this crisis

07:18

the education commission in partnership with an unprecedented global coalition of international organizations launched save our future to call for urgent investigation in education to prevent what we call the generational catastrophe

07:33

three actions are urgently needed

·         first we must reopen schools but make sure they are safe schools

·          second we must prevent what the world bank and unesco estimate could be a funding gap of 200 billions in education budgets in the next year as countries reallocate resources to health and social welfare and

·         third to use available resources to greatest effect we must be innovative

by creating the international finance facility for education securing 500 million of grants and government guarantees that could unlock two billion dollars of educational investment to be made through the asian development bank and other development banks

08:13 and i urge the korean government to join  as a funding donor of the development banks and we must use this crisis as an opportunity to transform education

 8.25 you see if you think of the monumental changes we have seen in the way we organize our factories, our homes, our hospitals and our travel,

08:30 and then think of how little education has changed with until recently so little online and how little the school itself has changed from the setting of world classrooms with the teacher as the sage on the stage and the pupils sitting in rows of desks

08:44 think of the educational revolution we need as we meet the demand for ever-changing skills: continuous learning and try to harness technology to support those most left behind

08:55 a study published just last year revealed how disparities in learning achievements have not diminished over the last 50 years; the most disadvantaged still perform at levels that are three to four years behind the most affluent and we must change this

09:09 online learning became a necessity almost overnight but yet close to half of the world's pupils and students don't have access to the internet

09:17 across the world more than 460 million- almost one third of school-aged children had not been reached by remote learning at all -so this could be the moment for us to transform education, to create individualized adaptive learning which meets children where they are with personalized learning, at scale for every student not just the lucky few

09:39 https://educationcommission.org/about/commission-leadership/

this is why the education commission and its hub in asia under the leadership of korea’s ju-ho lee are spearheading the high tech high touch for all initiative: combining the power of human touch and interaction from teachers with the power of adaptive learning and technology such as artificial intelligence. the high-tech refers to an adaptive technology that can help deliver personalized learning. it identifies prior knowledge and tailors instruction to diverse learning

needs allowing students to be stimulated and nurtured as they progress at their own pace. this can also be done initially in low-tech ways but artificial intelligence can allow us to track a child's

experience with software informed data and gear every child's learning to their aptitude is one way forward. the high touch element is the indispensable human connection provided by teachers. with the use of high tech teachers, can give more personalized guidance.no longer just the lecturer who's the sage on the stage but also the tutor and mentor who is the guide by the side.

10:38

we've already seen the promise of this approach in asia in vietnam as well as in india-and here in korea the HTHT university consortium which includes 16 member institutions provides support to korean universities that use the HTHT approach in their curricula and the k-12 consortium targets low-income students across multiple cities 

TODAY. i'm glad to announce the launch of HTHT for all a global consortium across governments, ed tech innovators, industry providers and educators that will develop a rigorous evidence base and create a collaborative network to support bold ways to address the digital divide so let us be the first generation where every child not only goes to school and learns but feels able to bridge the gap between what they are and what they have in themselves to become and let us be the first generation where instead of developing only some of the talents of some of our children in someof the world's countries we develop all of the talents of all children in all countries

11:40 thank you very much

 

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