Literacy is the Answer | John Trischitti | TEDxACU

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  • Опубликовано: 25 май 2017
  • John shares the staggering magnitude of our global illiteracy problem and the potential an international focus on increasing literacy has for creating greater social and economic equality for the world’s next generation.
    As the Texas Library Association’s 2014 Librarian of the Year, a former member of the Texas Bluebonnet Award Selection Committee, current Texas State Library and Archives Commission Library Systems Act Board Member, and especially as a father of five, John Trischitti, “Mr. T,” understands the power of literacy.
    This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

Комментарии • 31

  • @Jazzisa311
    @Jazzisa311 3 дня назад

    It's one of the reasons I have a mini library in my front yard. Seriously, books are super cheap second hand, I keep refilling it when kids take books out. It's a lot of fun too!

  • @shareenannlauron9310
    @shareenannlauron9310 3 года назад +29

    im here for my assignment :D

    • @sawphillips1028
      @sawphillips1028 3 года назад

      Sameee

    • @neilaok2809
      @neilaok2809 3 года назад

      @Nicolas Zeke did she find out like get a notification

    • @gyrocattivo5031
      @gyrocattivo5031 3 года назад

      Instaportal is a scam, they make a comment saying they hacked there gf then usually follow up with a comment saying how great the software is.

    • @benmungai5978
      @benmungai5978 2 года назад

      Whoa. . .Me too

    • @mohamedwhbaa8709
      @mohamedwhbaa8709 Год назад

      Same here

  • @lorithomas7738
    @lorithomas7738 7 лет назад +9

    Great talk! John inspires educators, librarians, and all literate people to be proactive to help improve literacy rates by sharing his own story.

  • @Andyhoffman98
    @Andyhoffman98 2 года назад +5

    I always knew reading was good and such but I honestly wanted to know the bread and butter of why literacy is good for society and peoples well being. Great talk!

  • @mycolorfullife9809
    @mycolorfullife9809 2 года назад +1

    Lets all embrace these facts and this way of life and live, love and laugh together through this hardship and storm We call a life 🙏🏻

  • @luhlindayani2912
    @luhlindayani2912 4 года назад +2

    Thank you... this video help my homework

  • @noreengardner1075
    @noreengardner1075 6 лет назад +7

    Terrific message!!

  • @terrygilmour5889
    @terrygilmour5889 7 лет назад +1

    Excellent!

  • @muhammadabdurrahim752
    @muhammadabdurrahim752 6 лет назад +7

    Reading and UNDERSTANDING is the answer

  • @sunnyslplwu6788
    @sunnyslplwu6788 4 года назад +2

    A library is an important place

  • @meklitgaredew245
    @meklitgaredew245 18 дней назад

    Awesome!

  • @sararuizmelquiades1353
    @sararuizmelquiades1353 3 года назад

    La presentación esta en español

  • @gwen9925
    @gwen9925 3 года назад +3

    Why are RUclips ads so annoying

  • @mariannastacy3333
    @mariannastacy3333 6 месяцев назад +1

    This is where my family are from and they where part of low income

  • @youtuber5305
    @youtuber5305 Год назад +2

    The following 2007 article may be of interest:
    "The end of literacy brings with it the end of society -- and of our humanity"

  • @psikeyhackr6914
    @psikeyhackr6914 Год назад

    My mother says she taught me to read when I was 3. I don't remember. But she never suggested any books to read all thru grammar school. But I stumbled across science fiction in 4th grade. My mother called my SF books "something crazy".
    I ended up going to college for Electrical Engineering.
    Why hasn't the US had a K-12 National Recommend Reading List of about 9000 since the 1950s? Updated every 5 years. The "Literary People" decide what boring books everybody is supposed to read: 1984, The Scarlet Letter, Romeo and Juliet.
    A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C Clarke was better than anything I was assigned to read in school. Good science is not supposed to be part of literature. LOL

  • @drew8550
    @drew8550 4 года назад +4

    is that THE JOHN TRISCHITTI THE 3rd

  • @samanthagloria5864
    @samanthagloria5864 2 года назад

    Wow

  • @noellafay
    @noellafay 4 года назад +6

    Dolly Parton's imagination library gives free books to kids under 5 once a month

  • @d7energy239
    @d7energy239 5 лет назад +2

    literacy is important... American schooling aka programming not so good... knowing what
    to read... paramount ... Diabetes is a lifestyle/diet problem... read a little more ... to turn it around...

  • @kevinmyles1158
    @kevinmyles1158 Год назад +2

    I could barely read at 14 years old

  • @desmondlittle6676
    @desmondlittle6676 5 лет назад +2

    John did you know phonic before you knew how to read. You just didn’t read alot

  • @anthonynapier2887
    @anthonynapier2887 9 месяцев назад

    Its convenient, someone who can't read the safety sign who saves you time. Didn't we evolve out of the hunter gatherer phase?

  • @hinzuzufugen7358
    @hinzuzufugen7358 3 года назад

    Health and literacy - yes indeed. I teach - but most of those barely reach - mostly functionally illiterate refugees/immigrants from Syria, Afghanistan etc. Almost none of the men does not smoke or drink heavily sugared tea/coffee, many have diabetes/high blood pressure, women are mostly obese. Few are willing to thread through 90 minutes of - yea, inefficient, ineffective schooling - between the breaks, Reaching the next double cigarette or smalltalk over chai is paramount - more important than to learn how to speak, read, write (well, they fill in blanks) German.