"Project Unlearn : Rethinking Education" | Eleena George | TEDxJIM Indore

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What does it look like when a classroom is in a beehive? Eleena George, a teacher, an educator, speaks about her experiences of working with inmates in prison to Project Unlearn in her TEDxJIMIndore speech. Her speech asks one to put aside their preconceived notions about an individual and to ask himself whether making an error to shape the rest of his existence is an honest means of determining his character? A class in the prison was the source for powerful insights into the transforming possibilities of education, empathy and opportunity to begin again, as Eleena reflects. She calls attention to the importance of offering second chances, not as a do-over but as a chance to learn and grow and rebuild. Her point of view suggests new definitions and reimagining of classroom; of punishment; of post-punishment; of human potential; and sometimes, of the most important lessons being learned in the most unconventional of classrooms. Eleena George is a social entrepreneur and advocate for

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