How Radical Social Entrepreneurs Can Revolutionizing Education and Much More! (Guest Michael Strong)




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Summary: <p>In a free market, entrepreneurs provide goods and services to satisfy the unmet consumer needs, including for products like laptops, smartphones, the internet that consumers don’t even know they needed but are delighted to find can enhance their lives.</p> <p>Meet Michael Strong, head of <a href="http://www.radicalsocialentreps.org/">Radical Social Entrepreneurs</a>! He argues that technology is moving quickly, but our social systems — governance, law, community, education and culture — are not keeping pace.</p> <p>Michael cut his teeth working on the best ways to educate inner-city children. His book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Habit-Thought-Socratic-Seminars-Practice/dp/0944337392/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Michael+Strong&amp;qid=1573509631&amp;sr=8-4">The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice</a> is an education classic. He’s founded several innovative schools and co-founded Freedom Lights Our World (FLOW) with Whole Foods founder John Mackey.</p> <p>Strong argues that we need radical innovation in law, education, community, culture, and governance. We need start-up communities and incubator cities, skill exchanges, crowd-sourced schools, open-source governments, and entrepreneurial legal systems. We need to do for our social systems what yesterday’s entrepreneurs and scientists have done for technology.</p>