Fun + Meaning2 = 2030 semi finals

*Futurers*: Fun + Meaning2 = 2030 semi finals

Education is an inseparable essence in society, including economy, medicine, politics, and every other life aspect. It gives solutions, and alternatives to problems. Better education to people means automatically better life and standards. That is why people need to put an accent on developing the techniques for educating themselves. As Sir Ken Robinson pointed out in his Ted Talk “Schools kill creativity”, we should create an educational system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Led by that, our project is based on improving the way of education by using the existing resources. In that fashion, we will avoid the classical schools, where individual are sorted by the year of birth, sit and listen to a professor, having exams, homework and grades. Instead, to achieve better and more attractive education, we will use the world air traffic. According Stanford University, about 1.5 billion people travel by airplane yearly. A part of those people, fly from location A to location C, visiting point B in meanwhile. Those B – airports are called transit zones. Waiting at the transit zones produces a lot of wasted, ineffective hours, when people have to wander around than do something useful. What we are trying to implement in our project is to convert wasted time at the airport into educational opportunities - empowerment. Simpler, we will use that huge amount of people, and we will engage them in educational causes. We will build improvised schools near the airport, where people from different generations can sit and listen to the lectures from comers and goers. And the whole process of educating will be cost-free. The whole concept is based on the assuming that every individual has certain knowledge or skill, and that individuals are willing to volunteer for educational causes. The advantage of this kind of education is that people are gaining knowledge from real professionals, and for free. With this type of education, we are reaching communities who do not have the privilege of paying for proper education, putting the accent on the education of developing and poor countries. In addition, both sides benefit from this project. But, the most interesting part is the diversity that this type of learning offers. The outcomes of that kind of community interaction are: reducing the level of discrimination, learning about different cultures, and most important, getting experience in different aspects of life.

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