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For instance also here, learning about salmonella bacteria, which is an important topic that many
schools
cannot teach for good safety reasons.
And so it is our hope that more universities and
schools
and teachers will collaborate with technology companies to realize this full potential.
In Guatemala City alone, over 400 businesses and
schools
shut their doors.
There are 1 million such
schools
in India.
And even for me, who's lived in India all her life, walking into one of these
schools
is fairly heartbreaking.
By the time kids are 13 or 14, they tend to drop out of
schools.
And yet, 40 percent of the parents today are choosing to pull their children out of public
schools
and pay out of their pockets to put them in private
schools.
It has 15,000 public
schools
and 2 million plus children in those public
schools.
Before we went into schools, a lot of people told us that education quality is poor because either the teachers are lazy, they don't come into schools, or they're incapable, they actually don't know how to teach.
Well, when we went inside schools, we found something completely different.
On most days, most teachers were actually inside
schools.
You see, what had happened was, over the last two decades, India had been fighting the challenge of access, having enough schools, and enrollment, bringing children into the
schools.
We could train, we could put technology into schools, but the system wouldn't change.
All of them were limited to 50, 100 or 500
schools.
And here, we were looking for a solution for 15,000
schools.
And in the 50 or 100
schools
that they actually operate in, those additional resources actually create a difference.
But now imagine that the head of this NGO goes to the head of the School Education Department and says, "Hey, now let's do this for 15,000 schools."
Where is that guy or girl going to find the money to actually scale this up to 15,000
schools?
So right at the beginning of the project, what we said was, "Whatever we have to do has to be scalable, it has to work in all 15,000 schools."
But we did not have the budgets to give that to 15,000 schools, 2 million children.
So in this way, whatever we designed, we were actually able to implement it across all 15,000
schools
from day one.
How do you implement something across 15,000
schools
and 100,000 teachers?
Now, we knew technology was the answer, but we also knew that most of these
schools
don't have a computer or email.
Once a quarter, all students across the state are assessed on their learning outcomes and
schools
which are doing well are rewarded.
And
schools
which are not doing so well find themselves having difficult conversations.
And that can't just be something that's left to our schools, although that's important to begin at an early age.
We have helped factories, farms, schools, homes, resorts, apartment buildings, public parks and even a zoo to have one of such forests.
What a place, what an ideal place to create an ecosystem that could build the hardware and the software needed for their
schools.
Each one of us can be more mindful and can take actions to lift others up around us, at work, at home, online, in
schools
and in our communities.
I have some role in whatever thirst you now feel for revenge, and that thirst now tempts me to plot ever more elaborate escapes from our common life, from the
schools
and neighborhoods and airports and amusement parks that we used to share.
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