“Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life.  Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.”

6. The Meaning of Effort
Fixed Entity Intelligence: In fixed intelligence making a lot of effort or struggling means your dumb. Its only the winners who feel smart, and only if they didn’t have to work to hard to win.

This is sad because students may never come to value effort. Effort gives meaning to life. It means you care about something, that it is important, and you are willing to work for it.

Incremental/Maleable: In Incremental intelligence effort is what turns on peoples intelligence and allows them to use it to their full advantage. + it can foster a more collaborative atmosphere among students because everyone can feel smart by applying their intellectual abilities to the problems they face.

Source: Carol Dwek- Growth Mindsets and Motivation

Education is one of the most important pillars for development of a society. We see technology innovation in all the domains but very less to truly revolutionize the education sector.

I read this thread on HackerNews: Ask HN: Why is there so little innovation in education?

Update: Rest in peace Mr. Jobs and Thank you, also read Steve Jobs – On Education
The best answer was Steve Jobs quote taken from Wired.com:

“I used to think that technology could help education. I’ve probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet. But I’ve had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What’s wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent.

It’s a political problem. The problems are sociopolitical. The problems are unions. You plot the growth of the NEA [National Education Association] and the dropping of SAT scores, and they’re inversely proportional. The problems are unions in the schools. The problem is bureaucracy. I’m one of these people who believes the best thing we could ever do is go to the full voucher system.

I have a 17-year-old daughter who went to a private school for a few years before high school. This private school is the best school I’ve seen in my life. It was judged one of the 100 best schools in America. It was phenomenal. The tuition was $5,500 a year, which is a lot of money for most parents. But the teachers were paid less than public school teachers – so it’s not about money at the teacher level. I asked the state treasurer that year what California pays on average to send kids to school, and I believe it was $4,400. While there are not many parents who could come up with $5,500 a year, there are many who could come up with $1,000 a year.

If we gave vouchers to parents for $4,400 a year, schools would be starting right and left. People would get out of college and say, “Let’s start a school.” You could have a track at Stanford within the MBA program on how to be the businessperson of a school. And that MBA would get together with somebody else, and they’d start schools. And you’d have these young, idealistic people starting schools, working for pennies.

They’d do it because they’d be able to set the curriculum. When you have kids you think, What exactly do I want them to learn? Most of the stuff they study in school is completely useless. But some incredibly valuable things you don’t learn until you’re older – yet you could learn them when you’re younger. And you start to think, What would I do if I set a curriculum for a school?

God, how exciting that could be! But you can’t do it today. You’d be crazy to work in a school today. You don’t get to do what you want. You don’t get to pick your books, your curriculum. You get to teach one narrow specialization. Who would ever want to do that?

These are the solutions to our problems in education. Unfortunately, technology isn’t it. You’re not going to solve the problems by putting all knowledge onto CD-ROMs. We can put a Web site in every school – none of this is bad. It’s bad only if it lulls us into thinking we’re doing something to solve the problem with education.

Lincoln did not have a Web site at the log cabin where his parents home-schooled him, and he turned out pretty interesting. Historical precedent shows that we can turn out amazing human beings without technology. Precedent also shows that we can turn out very uninteresting human beings with technology.

It’s not as simple as you think when you’re in your 20s – that technology’s going to change the world. In some ways it will, in some ways it won’t.”

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The code translates to:

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Test the code here: http://ideone.com/UwADS
Interesting huh..!?

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Simply #awesome!

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Here is why,

March = 3 (the third month and ignore the century). Then you are left with 3-14-15-9:26:53 and the decimal expansion of pi begins 3.141592653 ? Pi

They also have a Facebook fanpage for this!

lukeywes1234 is one of the hottest keywords on the internet these days. Another star of the Web 2.0 world!

He requested YouTube users to subscribe to his channel, he had an target of 50 subscribers till Feb, 2010.

And here comes the shocker!

He got 7500 subscribers in few hours and a total of 9000 subscribers when YouTube suspended his account. He was himself not aware that he will get such a  response! No body know how the hell did he get 9000 subscribers! To give you an idea, CNN’s YouTube channel has 12,527 subscribers!!

People are angry and they need an explanation from YouTube, that why was lukeywes1234′s account suspended?! There are hundreds of videos coming up on YouTube in support of lukeywes1234, check it out for your self here

Infact, 4chan has even started a protest against YouTube, covered by TechCrunch.

lukeywes1234′s YouTube URL

Update

He back with this ID – lukeywes123

Unbelievable!!

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2. The Swedish keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish drinks tea.
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15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

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