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School of magic 36/16/2023 ![]() Because no matter which career you select to go into- it's going to no longer be your knowledge around that, because that knowledge is so freely available now on the internet. Jon Wertheim: I could see some people watching this saying, "This College of Magic is all well and good, and you're teaching kids to make coins disappear, but why aren't you teaching 'em coding or something more practical?"ĭavid Gore: I think the most important skill in the 21st century is going to be imaginative thinking. is that hard for you to watch?ĭavid Gore: Yes I think it's an important part of our- nation-building, and for understanding that young people get to understand how each other is living and how we think and- and how we approach life because these are going to be the young people who are going to drive this nation forward. You have other kids getting picked up by parents in- in fancy sports cars. Jon Wertheim: You have some kids coming here who are malnourished, you have to feed. So, like, I have to be indoors because hear gunshots. Like, busy robbing old people, like being on drugs and stuff. The sprawling shantytown, like so many others in the country, is pocked by violence and drugs.ĭuma Mgqoki: Some of them are carrying guns. Duma's mother was murdered four years ago. Duma Mgqoki's day starts at dawn in the tin shack he shares with his grandmother and aunt. Now, as then, students come from the most wealthy suburbs and from Cape Town's most impoverished townships. Michael Barta juggles for correspondent Jon Wertheimįrom the school's beginning it reflected a cross-section of South Africa. How did he do that? (Yeah) And it's mixed with this curiosity and this wonder. you come here and there's a healthy skepticism. Those two things are needed in education. ![]() Michael Barta: Magic develops skepticism. Is magic about what you see or what you miss? Barta thinks it's both. The school was always conceived to go beyond hocus-pocus. ![]() Michael Barta: I teach children how to use their hands.
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