The nerd's guide to learning everything online

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This week on TED.com July 25, 2015

Talk of the week John Green: The nerd's guide to learning everything online 18:10 minutes · Filmed Nov 2012 · Posted Jul 2015 · TEDxIndianapolis Some of us learn best in the classroom, and some of us ... well, we don't. But we still love to learn -- we just need to find the way that works for us. In this charming, personal talk, author John Green shares the community of learning that he found in online video. Watch now »

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Quote of the Week “ A lot of the learning I did in high school wasn't about what happened inside the classroom, it was about what happened outside of the classroom. For instance, I can tell you that "There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons -- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes --" not because I memorized Emily Dickinson in school when I was in high school, but because there was a girl when I was in high school, and her name was Amanda, and I had a crush on her, and she liked Emily Dickinson poetry." John Green The nerd's guide to learning everything online

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