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TEDxJacobsUniversity - Valentina Uribe - An ode to difficulty

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Valentina Uribe

An undergraduate Integrated Cultural Studies student from Colombia talking about how providing and receiving an inspirational and fulfilling education must be a common goal for all. Education, not in the archaic institutionalized conception, but as an omnipresent activity organic to man, just as creation, imagination, storytelling and art. However, all the above are born only out of struggle, dedication and toiling. Education, in the archaic sense, must encourage an appreciation for difficulty if education, as we dream it, is to be inspirational, fulfilling and creative.

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