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Alibaba Group Founder and Commissioner, Jack Ma, Shares His Thoughts on the #LearningGeneration

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Alibaba Group Founder and Commissioner, Jack Ma, Shares His Thoughts on the #LearningGeneration

Published on Sep 29, 2016

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Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba Group and an Education Commission Commissioner, shares his thoughts on why L-Q is most important in educating the workforce of tomorrow.

These remarks are from the #LearningGeneration report launch on September 18, 2016.

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Transcript English (Automatic Captions) 0:18Thank You Julia mr. Branca Excellency's I i agree with all what my fellow 0:25Commission's talk about the money because money is always a big problem i 0:30believe Frank 4p could bring new momentum new thinking a real results for 0:36the most vulnerable young people across the world but this will require strong 0:40leadership and bolt action by individuals organizations governments 0:45willing to drive the change the Commission's vision for the learning 0:49generation will require total spending on education to reach of three trillion 0:53dollars by 2030 cross all low and middle class countries to reach this goal 1:00governments and philanthropist corporations and charitable 1:02organizations should all work together to close this funding that gap founding 1:08from throughout the big corporations and charitable organization should be 1:13increased to 20 billion dollars in 20-30 and this is a very tough and challenging 1:18job but we need to be more creative and mobilize any pot partners to joining and 1:25to join two working together but this is not about money money is always not 1:31enough education is about to guarantee the future and in the future 1:37the bad news is that technology workroom any of the jobs that exist today even if 1:43the jobs were you proud of and wood will be disappeared in 30 years but the good 1:50news is that new economy will create more even more new jobs but are we 1:54teaching our young people to compete and succeed in the new economy and I don't 1:59think so we need to do more about that and we have been educating our young 2:05people in the same way for more than 2,000 years in the classroom eighty 2:09percent of what we teach out kick children happens in a classroom and it's 2:14time for that to change we need to pay more attention to forty and fifty 2:18percent of the learnings that outside classroom in the real world through the 2:23mobile phone through the internet 2:25in this way we need to mobilize more corporations and organization to 2:29facilitate this 2:31and yes money is important we need to fill that gap but more important is that 2:36we create new models for education to prepare for our young people with the 2:41skills needed for yesterday and not footed are not for yesterday 2:46not for today but for tomorrow and we need also put our remember limited 2:51resources and money on the areas that not only on the eq but also on IQ and lq 2:59the queue of love and we and we need to develop the creativity pneus for our 3:08children and the confidence for our children 3:10this report is just the beginning let's reimagine education and 10 our boat 3:16vision into action 3:17money is important but money is not the only resources to accomplish our goals 3:24and should not be excuses for not improving our future education 3:29thank you very much