Click on any phrase to play the video at that point.Close What I
want to talk about today is one idea. It's an idea for a new
kind of school, which turns on its head much of our conventional
thinking about what schools are for and how they work. And it
might just be coming to a neighborhood near you soon. Where it
comes from is an organization called the Young Foundation,
which, over many decades, has come up with many innovations in
education, like the Open University and things like Extended
Schools, Schools for Social Entrepreneurs, Summer Universities
and the School of Everything. And about five years ago, we asked
what was the most important need for innovation in schooling
here in the U.K. And we felt the most important priority was to
bring together two sets of problems. One was large numbers of
bored teenagers who just didn't like school, couldn't see any
relationship between what they learned in school and future
jobs. And employers who kept complaining that the kids coming
out of school weren't actu