Great Throughts Treasury

"Close your eyes. Now imagine you have to cross a street. You don’t know how far that street is and you don’t know if you’re going straight and you hear cars whizzing back and forth, and you had a horrible accident that landed you in this situation. "

"Learning needs to be a constant discovery where formal learning taught in schools can be combined with informal learning, which is accomplished through everyday social collaboration. The rapid advances in computational power combined with the rise in social networks for the first time gives us the ability to personalize learning for people everywhere."

"The biggest change for me was looking down at my hands seeing that I?d lost 10 years of my life. I thought that time had stood still for some reason and moved on for family and friends. But when I looked down, I realized that time marched on for me too."

"We didn?t have words like crowd-sourcing and radical collaboration when I had my accident. But the concept held true ? people working with people to rebuild me; people working with people to re-educate me. I wouldn?t be standing here today if it wasn?t for extreme radical collaboration."