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Maybe Tomorrow — We Will Make the World a Better Place
They’re Not Afraid of Technology. They’re Afraid of Irrelevance.
Remember the movie Dangerous Minds?
Michelle Pfeiffer in a leather jacket, walking into a classroom no one wanted, filled with students the system had already given up on. She didn’t save them. She saw them. Perhaps she wasn’t the best teacher, but she treated her students like real people with real futures.
That’s how April 24 felt to me.
This is not one of those everything is on fire and we’re all doomed stories. I’m not wired that way. I’m still (mostly) positive. Although I’ll admit, it’s getting harder to hold onto that optimism.
But then there’s April 24.
I finish teaching a class.
And suddenly, I believe again.
Not just in education. In people. In progress. In the possibility that we might actually make the world better. Economically. Socially. Environmentally.
Even with the mess we’ve made.
“They did it again,” I think, not for the first time.
The students had just managed to blow the minds of people from a major supermarket chain. They had previously done this for a water utility…
