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I'm passionate about

learning and education, human progress, women empowerment

People don't know that I'm good at

finding solutions

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• TEDCred score: +34.00 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

• A comment on Conversation: Would you translate (or spread) a TED talk if you didn't agree with it's topic or the speaker's point of view?

  Apr 22 2012: I tend to tranlsate speeches that I find interesting. I usually agree with them, at least in principle, but I have to admit I often lack the tools or knowledge to be able to disagree with all the theories underlying them. To answer your question: as a rule, in order to help spread the idea, I prefer to agree with the main message the talker is trying to convey . But, should I partly disagree with the message, I must really really really look up to the person giving the speech and her/his ideas in order to give help spreading their ideas....such a short time, so many talks/websites/articles to translate...I prefer to use my time to help to sprea ideas I believe in.

• A comment on Conversation: Are you dressing above your status?

  Mar 25 2012: If we still had that law today, the situation in society would not change a lot, it would just look more plain and boring. What you wear is a way to express yourself, to make a statement, to feel part of a group or a community. Take that away, and people will find other ways of making their statements. Isn't that what happens to school students who are obliged to wear uniforms? I am a bit lost though, I feel like I haven't really got the gist of your question. Can you explain better? I am interested in this topic.
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  A reply on Conversation: What is your favourite quote and why?

  Mar 25 2012: I know a similar one: "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
  Henry Ford" which is one of my favourite. Were you referring to this one?
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  A comment on Conversation: What is your favourite quote and why?

  Mar 25 2012: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
  George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
  
  Because it's true and it's a celebration of people who are usually misunderstood for most of their life.

• A comment on Conversation: What was your biggest obstacle or frustration during your years of conventional education?

  Mar 22 2012: I think my main obstacle, with regards to my development, was the fact that, according to what the teachers said, if I was good at something it was because I was a girl and as such, a person who gets results especially because she works hard and not because of intelligence/talent/determination. The biggest obstacle in high school was the lack of participation to the process and the necessity to standardize your behaviours in class.

• A reply on Conversation: What was your biggest obstacle or frustration during your years of conventional education?

  Mar 20 2012: Astra, that would not be my biggest obstacle at that time but since you mentioned it I found that counseling in the Italian school system was very very very bad. Just like you I had "potential" in all of the subjects we used to study and I ended up by choosing something I had never ever heard of before. But the question "what should I do when I grow up" is still haunting me....and I guess I fully qualify for grown up now.

• A comment on Conversation: Education: who should have control over children's education?

  Mar 20 2012: Thanks all for contributions and please continue to do so, I just wanted to add some ideas to enlarge the conversation. What happens if the child's parents refuse to send him/her to school when he/she reaches age six? what if they chose a different path for their child? What if governments decide not to support anymore the present system of education? what if everything was left in the hands of the child's family?

• A comment on Conversation: Who SHOULD control children's education? And what if those who should, don't?

  Mar 20 2012: Thanks all for contributions and please continue to do so, I just wanted to add some ideas to enlarge the conversation. What happens if the child's parents refuse to send him/her to school when he/she reaches age six? what if they chose a different path for their child? What if governments decide not to support anymore the present system of education? what if everything was left in the hands of the child's family?
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  A reply on Conversation: What is the 1 Question you'd ask or Idea you'd share with the TED Team ?

  Mar 20 2012: fair enough, so, if you don't mind, I will steal your idea and ask the question myself to the TED community....
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  A reply on Conversation: What is the 1 Question you'd ask or Idea you'd share with the TED Team ?

  Mar 19 2012: I am applying too....if you ever find one and they are looking for more staff let me know! ;)