I thought it was a person totally
normal I had gone or I was all my
life in a bilingual school where
I learned English
I played tennis all my life here in the
Ecuador and in other countries and luckily
I was a good student
in the end I got a scholarship in the
united states to study economics and
mathematics and the truth that I thought
and I felt very proud about everything
these achievements
that was a photo the first time
snow fell in the university and this one
it was my college tennis team
so I thought it was
completely normal and while drinking
these math and economics classes
He also decided to open a little bit my
mind and took a development class
about and start reading about how
some countries and some projects
had made the realities of
many people change and that
cities or entire countries and is in
another level of what I had lived in
my country
and through that experience in the
decided development class that will take
an internship in my country I will go see
a little bit the different reality and
ended up accepting an internship in a
organization that was in charge of
eradication of child labor in
dumps and how he did it through
give scholarships or certain types of support to
kids like jonathan and david so that
stop working in a dump all
the days and go to a school where
I hope they can build a better future
Jonathan David were part of the project
this foundation and when he took that photo
just this summer had entered his
school as the best with the best
notes to make things more
interesting in that internship my
Larger project turns to
write the life story of one of
these guys
a young man of my same age who had already
gone through this process and that today I was
in college like me then to
through interviews visits to their
houses good because he had two houses one
in the dump and a do not steal from quito
start writing the story with
a lot of emotion and good my project
at the end I had to take the
university too and when that happens
I realize two fundamental things
to get that internship
first they told everyone not that
I was very happy because I wrote the
history and because I had seen of
first hand how a child that had
practically born in a landfill
today I was in a university and they are
studying what he wanted and that already
I had the opportunity and the honor
of having written his story
So that’s the pride that I
I felt when I went back to the states
United
little by little it began to transform
a huge frustration and I do not
I understood the principle because Peron
I went thinking well to the thing and I gave myself
account of two fundamental things
first that I was a being you or me
had had some opportunities that
this person from which to write the
life story I had not had I was born
in a house my parents supported me
always in everything where I was pushed to be
a good student where they allowed me
play the sport that I wanted and over
efforts are made to send me to play
other places and a school where
I learned English and I could aspire in
other places
then I realized it was to be you and
that is not the reality for the
Most Ecuadorians here do not
I know just by watching this audience I do them
a simple question
were you are the parties when
do not be if they are here
the French are pretty high and that
if it were good to do your and I realized
of that as first and second followed
happening that frustration kept happening
still digesting all this idea
what Wednesday
I had written the life of a person
equal to me and I writing the
story who was I
and the other embodiment happened from
from that experience I had to do something
and suddenly they had me with a needle
they had burst that bubble in which
I had lived all my life
the super quiet bubble where
everything I chose was my
hands and ejects me a little bit and it fell
the bucket of cold water or beams that
something to do and I started to develop
a little more of frustration and
after a while he decided to do
something
I think that is a crucial point in my
life and what it takes me to do now I
I told them I was studying economics
I am an economist but and 100 percent
dedicated to education and those were
two stations of those two realizations
that he was a lucky man and that he had already
lived in a bubble that they made me
think that education
it really was a tool for
transform lives
I do it
seen in avid history just do not
had noticed and the problem for
make a metaphor a little
soccer
here is the language that we all speak
is that the court is uneven that I want
say with this
returning to that to the subject of luck
there are people born in the part of
above the court
luckily and they have a match
totally different much easier from
get to score but most
of people in this country were born in the
downstairs
I had not seen him and he has to
work ten thousand times stronger for
get to score a goal and this led me to
keep on thinking about education
for me it is the process that gives you the
tools and opportunities for
get ahead is not the materials is not
the theories is all that knowledge
that all those along the way
that allow you to shape your own future
so what is the problem that
we have in this country if it is that
we accept that education was like that
soccer field that taught them
I put this is the jcp because the
Ecuadorians above all we are
Experts
then as I always say there will not be
here who does not know the ideal alignment
that the technical director of the
selection has to put to play
with venezuela we all know all
we know what the solutions are
vials perfect for this city that I
I put to talk with some of
security as she is an expert in
systems and in education the same thing happened
for me education was the process that
we have to continue to match this
court
let’s put this court on the same level
I believe that only so
every child and every young person is going to
demonstrate your true potential that you
adjusted the match
so I told them how we do
to match this education theme
and that it be equitable and the
experts give me all the solutions already
did not wake up some in infrastructure
others said better teachers other
they said technology and they threw me
solutions I did not even know where
start
I only knew that I had decided to want
do something and it is the cycle of proposals
that I got a little bit almost sick
because everyone proposes but nobody
week
then he took me a step further back 16
that there are solutions or possible solutions
first there must be a person after
of that and that led me to think that he
who is bigger than the ones who
are the solutions but he who wants
do something for me are much more
great that solutions and that’s how it’s born
the project that today the book that is
flame teaches ecuador
luckily I did not have to invent the
warm water but we take a model
that already operated in other countries that
focused precisely on which
we develop first the people who
they will know what the
difficulties and then they will propose
solutions because if they are not solutions
empty and through this model that is
replicates in more than 45 countries through
of a network called teach for all
today we propose to the
university graduates to whom
we try to identify are the most
talented
we propose a simple project
becomes a teacher for two years in
a vulnerable school when I came back
to the equator to start all this was going to
auditories like the one here and
I would stop and ask them all
people there is no one who believes that
education is one of the biggest challenges
great things that we have as a country and
I would ask, I hope that most
he raised his hand and then he
We said the following question facilitates
Which one of you
is doing something to solve this
challenge and that would happen the three more
timid out there that were in fact
studying education then they thought
that they were directly doing what
that we realized that nobody was doing
nothing
everyone told me there was a
problemón and nobody did anything
then why do we have this model
we invite you now then
the best professionals and we put them
in a high-need school with two
very specific objectives but that are
very complex
first they are going to be responsible for
transform many lives as
I always tell them they chose me
when they make this decision to sell a
product as your first job or sell
a service decided to transform lives
and that’s the first thing we hope that
they will appear and decide to do it
during his two years as a professor xy
from that there is also an effect
multiplier because his students
they also start to believe it and the
second effect that happens is when the
people who go through this program will
graduate to propose first you have
to know and now we suddenly
we are generating that team that is
know from a to z what happens in
truth in the education of our country
because it is facilitated to propose from that
building that is called ministry or from
our houses in a talk on a Sunday
but another thing to propose having lived
two years the reality of children like me
I had served my internship
this is our national meeting
when we arrived more than 70 people in
Ecuador today are here with me two
professionals teach because they are
finishing his first school year
I thought
this car peak that not that the
Ecuadorians do not lead to think that
yes they could do something about it
they were going to throw us into the court that
they were always going to stay
spectators proposing solutions but
not doing anything I came across a
totally different reality
there are marked and Luis at a school
between cojimíes and flints because today
we are sending these professionals
where it is needed most
they will be there 24 7 for two
years
understanding that it has to happen for
that those students have a better
life trajectory and that has to
happen so that the system of
education is no longer that path that does not
it’s balanced we have ambassadors
like pancho that after two years of
be the best teacher at your school in
Machachi realized that there was no
teacher training process
continuous for our teachers in the
Ecuador
that you do not realize unless you live
those two years
today the day proposed to us and in fact I
I am a shareholder of a company that is going
to dedicate to offer services of
teacher training for our
teachers met and proposed but what
more I fill that multiplier effect
that we have of the students
how much we can inspire them so that
despite that court that is a little
unequal and that they have to fight
they have a lot to know and they are convinced
that can get ahead after
a talk teaches equal blocks but
some students of sixth of basic
then our professional sends me this
photo to the cell phone and it was valeria
well you can see the message that
since the sixth of basic was
proposing that if you are going to endeavor to
become pec to be able to
This multiply this effect when and
be big you have two years left and
the slope must go up a lot
but that’s the multiplier effect that
education can transform then
I leave the talk of me
the title of my talk forgiveness was in
whose hands we leave the future of
our country and for me the answer is
simple in health education in what
it is in the hands of people who
decide to do something about the people who
stop proposing passively and that
decide that that party has to
play and they are going to get on the court
then he left that question to you
these experts will continue to be
they propose to us every day how are we going
to change the country or they will do and take
the decision to jump on the court where
some of us and we are there well
sweaty and we will give them a good
welcome
thank you very much
[Applause]
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