How to save the world? A global journey into making our lives better…

Here is a lovely example of a brilliant idea that help us rethink our approach to education. The town of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the place where this unusual partnership takes place…

The Jenks school district joined with the Grace Living Center, a local nursing home, to create this wonderful setting. It came from observing the waves of excitement in nursing homes when children come in to visit grandparents. It answer the question “why do we keep the young and the elders apart”. Other, older cultures used to find it natural to keep them together…

There, the children attend preschool inside the retirement center to the greatest benefit of both the young and the elders. The elders get to assist every children in reading, and also to share and talk with them about their life, the world, the place in which they live, etc.

As a result, the children reading ability have overtaken the district standards. Moreover, the children get what is lacking in many schools: an education, which is another word for “transmission of wisdom”.

And even more, many of the pensioners stopped needing to take medications, become more energised in their life and approach every day with a great excitement.

Credit to Phorecast.com who did the original interview of Sir Ken Robinson, which you can listen to below.

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