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Ted talks went on my cable TV in 2010 (Sic Radical channel), it just cached my attention on full time, sometimes I saw it on TV, then I started searching on youtube, and now here, Ted Talks is amazing and I love it

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• A comment on Talk: Ben Dunlap: The life-long learner

  Oct 25 2012: Hello, does anyone have information about the company of Sandor Tezler? I'm going to do an assignment about it!
  
  Thanks for the attention

• A comment on Conversation: Euthanasia: Should we allow it?

  Oct 19 2012: Yes we should allow it !
  
  I believe that my liberty cannot take the liberty of others to do what they want, if someone wants to simply die, they must really have their mind into it and made their choice.
  
  In part of Economy and even in Social phenomenons all the exemples you gave are important and a big part of it, I may sound rough now but the truth is that a lot of people in the world need that people in order to get their salary and their life on the right track.
  
  I hope people don't get me wrong and understand me and in the same time I hope I answered to your question bro

• A comment on Conversation: How can wisdom be gained?

  Oct 19 2012: Wisdom comes from the capacity to learn, the hability to listen and the most important, acknowledging our own ignorance
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  A comment on Conversation: Before you die, what do you want to do?

  Oct 19 2012: Travel to Faroe Islands, live in Barcelona for a while, see a FC Barcelona match at Camp Nou, have a record, invite at least one person from each nationality to live in Porto!
  
  You're all invited!!!! ;)
  
  Cheers!

• A comment on Conversation: What motivates you?

  Oct 19 2012: Whatever gives me the rush of accomplishment and the feeling of showing how I got away of the "dark clouds" to those that pushed me down through the years!
  
  Well, basically what motivated Rocky in their movies ehehehe

• A comment on Conversation: What has been your greatest take away from TED so far?

  Oct 17 2012: I love TED, I really need to come here more often!
  
  Cheers
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  A comment on Conversation: Test Schools, Not Children

  Feb 25 2011: I'm 20y old and in the 7th grade I wasn´t aproved to the 8th grade, at that time I remember not having "happy" days in school, all I used to do was wrinting stuff that were on the blackboard and no interaction with teachers and all the material besides the black board were like a world map of the 60's and documentaries of the 80's.
  The teachers weren't motivated, they didn't like their jobs and that reflects on the students,
  At my second year teacher looked at me like I was a lost case and didn't bother about me and I became a part of a group of "lost cases" where teachers don't look to us and only see an F in my brain..
  
  As my case there were a lot, like 20% of the students that weren't aproved each year, all them get lost in drugs, and thinking that they're ideias didn't worth the effort, for example a big friend of mine wanted to be an Geographer and he wasn't aproved 3 times and he droped out, now he is just a guy addicted to cocaine, alcohol and living with sadness and with a "phobia" to schools.
  
  So, if schools should be tested, I guess yes, but first of all we need give the materials that a school needs to work.