My teacher, Mr. Solarz, was fortunate enough to travel to Dubai last week for an education conference and to meet former Top 50 Global Teacher Prize candidates for the Varkey GEMS Global Teacher Prize. He shared his unbelievable experience with us, and here are some things that I learned from our discussion:
- One thing that I learned was that the head of the program gave away more money than he kept. Let's say he earned about $10 billion a year he would probably give away $8,900,000 that year. He does that every year and donates to different charities or things that he believes in. He keeps giving it away until it hurts.
- I learned about different cultures and some interesting things about them, and how no matter what culture you are or what lanuage we speak we are more a like than different.
- I learned that some people can be really smart and really good at something, and then they have some things that they really need to improve on.