This episode is by request. You have asked me many times for an
episode on education, accelerated learning, and my mentors. It
will all be covered in the following conversation with Charles
Best (@charlesbest), the founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org, a
nonprofit website that enables anyone to help a classroom in
need. It is one of my favorite companies -- profit or non-profit
-- in the world. (And I'm not just saying that because we used to
be wrestling partners in high school.) Charles founded
DonorsChoose.org back in 2000 at a public high school in the
Bronx where he taught history. Flash forward to 2017, and
DonorsChoose.org is one of Oprah Winfrey's "ultimate favorite
things" and made the cover of Fast Company as one of the "50 Most
Innovative Companies in the World," the first time a charity has
received such recognition. To date, teachers at more than seventy
percent of all the public schools in America have created
classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org, and more than two
million people have given to those projects. Charles joined me
for a conversation at SXSWedu in front of an audience of
educators and administrators to talk about learning things
faster, good teaching versus bad teaching, the value of tough
love, and much more. Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode
can be found at www.fourhourworkweek.com/podcast. This podcast is
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