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  1. Check out some of the amazing speakers we have lined up for 550 of Cape Town's leaders in education on 16th June tedxcapetowned.org/speakers
  2. Passing civilization from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and responsibility anyone could have (Lee Iacocca)
  3. Tickets for TEDxCapeTownED on 16 June are selling like hotcakes! Go to TEDxCapeTownED.org to get some of the last few #TEDxCapeTownED
  4. Technique and technology are important. But adding trust is the issue of the decade. (Tom Peters)
  5. If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” (Ken Robinson)
  6. Steve Job - Principals should be able to hire and fire them based on how good they were. Schools should be staying open until at least 6pm"
  7. Steve Jobs - "Until the teachers unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform."
  8. Steve Jobs could have been talking to SA - "America's education system is hopelessly antiquated and crippled by union work rules."
  9. It's always a bit gutting when you are the almost 69 millionth person to see somethinng as cool as this on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2e…
  10. When I came across Thoreau's verdict “Men have become tools of their tools” I felt like an enormous tool(Graham-Felsen) tinyurl.com/3qbnrjz
  11. Today's sad fact is that online bingo is a 1.3 billion dollar industry!
  12. RT @CFAInstitute: #CFAInstitute Code of Ethics & Professional Std as told through the lens of the film Margin Call bit.ly/y4dFai
  13. Everything you add to your life that is not important, detracts from everything that is (David Friedlander) tinyurl.com/7ad2yjs
  14. Great app from MIT media lab showing economies in pictures bit.ly/vj8yVF
  15. If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. (John Paul Getty)
  16. The Human Body as Subway Map bit.ly/pMkSyG
  17. Bear markets make you feel dumber than you are, the same way bull markets make you feel smarter than you are (Vitaliy Katsenelson)
  18. Latest CDE report on education bit.ly/mV7O6U
  19. RT @zellfarr: For those needing uplift tonic, read on - A day in SA's miracle school bit.ly/qVTy62