Breakthroughs seldom come from continuing business as usual. That’s why it is so strange that most children are still pushed through very rigid educational systems that mostly teach what we already know. To get to a new solution, you have to step out of the system. “You don’t change the world by doing what you’re told”, says the director of the MIT Media Lab announcing the world’s first-ever Disobedience Award.
MIT presents: The first-ever Disobedience Award
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