Reform the public education system.

I want to support open source education for all. I assume it won’t take long before everybody in the world can access primary, secondary and higher educational content (read: education) online.
I urge educators (teachers) to develop their specific skills based on information selection and personalisation rather than passing through textbook information.
For a lot of good background info see Project Renaissance: http://www.winwenger.com

I hope the educational content will be enriched and transformed using theories like Multiple Intelligences (MI) by Dr. Howard Gardner so more people with specific (different than regular) dominant intelligence can adapt more easily.
bullet Linguistic intelligence (“word smart”):
bullet Logical-mathematical intelligence (“number/reasoning smart”)
bullet Spatial intelligence (“picture smart”)
bullet Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence (“body smart”)
bullet Musical intelligence (“music smart”)
bullet Interpersonal intelligence (“people smart”)
bullet Intrapersonal intelligence (“self smart”)
bullet Naturalist intelligence (“nature smart”)
More:
http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm

Also I hope students and seekers within their life long learning roles will develop their portfolio within teams using techniques like Appreciative Inquiry (AI) by Dr. David Cooperrider. Focus attention on what gives life and possibilities rather than a problem oriented approach.
http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/

One of the primary reasons I aspire to be successful in life is that I feel that as a person increases in financial and social standing, one is empowered to change and improve the lives of more people than before. The power to influence and/or contribute on a wide scale, rather than a very local one, appeals to me greatly.

I feel the current educational system in place in the US today is designed more as a holding place for kids during the day while the parents are working and less of an actual place to go and learn. The bare minimum is taught and standardized testing creates a system that treats each student as if he or she were just like the next.

A book I read once was titled, “Miracle in Harlem”. In one of the poorest neighborhoods in the USA. In a school system overburdened by bureaucracy and undermined by apathy an educational gold mine has worked its way to the surface. That gold has been refined and worked and tried in the fire and has been offered to the world as an educational roadmap to excellence. In the great words of Dr Martin Luther King JR, “I have seen the promised land.”
The children of East Harlem are learning and in their learning they are teaching a new generation of educators that the old time tried and true methods of high expectations and discipline along with close parental involvement is the only true path to acedemic achievement.
I want to let the light of East Harlem shine throughout the United States and bring a better life for our children and our children’s children.
If the poor children of East Harlem can achieve far beyond what even educators and administrators thought possible, then what is the excuse for the rest of our country?