The Wish of Dave Egger

In this video, Dave Egger explains how he helped to create an organization that helps students struggling in school by offering one on one tudoring. I found this to be interesting because, the students actually learned something and wanted to come. This place was very similar to other tudor organizations, except for the fact that it is a nonproft organization. The odd thing about his "school" is that it also sells pirate supplies, and has a magazine working in the background and/or along with the students and volunteers. Wouldn't that be distracting for both the students and the writers for the magazine to be working in that kind of place?

I found that Mr. Egger was very nervous during his presentation, because he said the word 'um' a lot and it looked as though he wasn't very well rehersed. If anything, that made him seem a little bit unprofessional, but I did like how he used humor during his speech to help give a light hearted but still meaningful TED talk.

He used pictures from his presentation as accents to what he was talking about, I don't think that his presentation would've been as effective if he hadn't used them. He showed smiling kids with their tudors, and pictures of his shop and others to help show the atmosphere of the learning environment. What made the students want to come, was it the fact that the environment was different from school, ore because they had a pirate theme? Is there another reason?

To me, it matters that the kids he meant to help learn were actually learning, and I think that if I had had something like that as a part of my school, I would've enjoyed learning a lot more than I had in elementary and middle school. What is the age limit for this organization of tudors, because if there was no real age limit, it could be a really useful tool to high schoolers that can't take the pressure of their classes all by themselves?

I think that if the word keeps spreading about these types of nonprofit organizations, the entire United States education will have to change for the better, becasue the students will be receiving the help that they need, and will be inspired to show their creativity in the work that the organizations provide. If it can change a communnity for the better, then it could certainly change the world and make it more educated as a whole, which could be good or bad depending on what we would do with the knowledge we learned.

If the organizations are there to help kids learn, then when the finish their homework, do they get to study anything they want? I feel as though that would also help the students to learn and develope because they would be taking the time to study something that is of interest to them as well as the things that they would be studying in classes at school.