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Jack Ma in Conversation with The Education Commission

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Jack Ma in Conversation with The Education Commission

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Published on Feb 25, 2016 The Education Commission The Education Commission Subscribe72 Add to Share More 231 views 1 0 Transcript English (Automatic Captions) 0:1311 12 years 0:16and my geography teacher she came to class members say well jogger phrase 0:22very important as she said this morning I was in the West Lake in Hangzhou and 0:26met some Westerners and she said I ask where you're from and they said some 0:31nations said I don't know how they draw a map they say now I know because that 0:36from the Met I know where they're from what she told us the story and I see 0:41very interesting if I can communicate with the westerners about about the the 0:48world of it quite interesting so the next day I start to end the Westlake 0:52lake for asking for the foreigners for nine years every morning almost no rain 0:59sound I went there looking for foreign tourists become the free guide and I 1:05made a lot of friends that television no English book for me so it would be 1:11difficult to adjust to pick up anything I can find the English were asked the 1:15tourists EDD foreign tourists to teach me the the the the books and one of the 1:22American lady to become a pair of French said jaga toko mobbing because my 1:28Chinese name is my it's very difficult for the westerns to pronounce he said do 1:33you need a job English name I got social my father called Jack my husband 1:38carjacking rejects yes there since then I'll be using that for almost 30 years 1:42ago jack mom this train me the way of think different from the other kids in 1:48China my generation goes everything I learned from the tourists foreign 1:55tourists are so different from the things I learned from my from the 2:00schools my parents because we thought China like that world like that in our 2:05books in but the thing that I learned from our side that's so different so 2:10that trained my way of thinking different and people talk about 2:14everything when everything people agreed now I'm worried I'd take one minute to 2:20think about is that true when everything disagree as he take a better one minute 2:24think about it 2:25is that true so that was a training and when I was trying to pass examinations 2:36for university it was only six point you know six to seven percent of the people 2:43of the students can go to university so I failed three times and then all the 2:49good schools apply for those those who accept me there's only two hundred 2:53Teachers College accepted to me and I went there for four years I was trained 2:59there and I thought he and I should never ever be a teacher I never thought 3:03would be a teacher and opted graduate I was the only guy assigned to teach in 3:09the university and than 500 graduates guess I was considered to be a good 3:14student and 499 of them went to the middle school so that day when I 3:20graduate might my president of a hundred teachers colleges said Jack go to the 3:25university and only for five years because he knew with my personality I 3:31met a girl I don't be teacher so I said yes President I will keep my promise for 3:37five years so in the school for teaching for the inverse take top for six years 3:43because I go nowhere I promise to get on but the pay was too bad and teachers not 3:50respected but seems to promise a promise a six years teaching experience made me 3:57love to be a teacher I think the situation experience to me there are 4:02other creatures which people may not realize now from a mean people do not 4:08know about me is people see i learning from tourists but it seems there is no 4:13way to learn english at that time there is no teachers inner-city who can teach 4:17people to speak English so I listened to the BBC and Voice of America and there 4:24every evening 9 across a truck to nine o'clock I open my video 4:30from the first Monday Wednesday and Friday I listened to the VOA the first 4:36book I heard about is the adventure of time soya and sometimes if the signal is 4:43better I can listen to the BBC English world in use so by listening to them and 4:50there is English program for this to radios so they struck me that today 4:54there are so many kids in the rural poor areas there is no education if we can 4:59use that time the radio how about using the internet on mobile for iPad and it's 5:06it's much more a fancier morning can keep the kids are much better 5:11opportunity since 1999 businesspeople leader for the Alibaba Group ice to call 5:17myself chief Education Officer everywhere I go I spent time with young 5:21people tell sharing my experience sharing my courage menem I know that my 5:25knowledge I think the ways of the world is changing I feel proud of the past six 5:31years in the tejan five years and under 60 was elected by my students the best a 5:39teacher of the university and and even now many of my students you know another 5:4718 funders seven of them were my teachers my students and my have a lot 5:54of students in the evenin Skytop property of 2,000 students even as Skuse 6:01for five years as a volunteer English teachers and the oldest one was 86 years 6:06old people like my girlfriend goes you follow me everywhere and we've been 6:11together so I think as a teacher you learn so much from the students 6:20benefited so much from the students and it's like everybody apart from your 6:26parents 6:27everybody's a teacher and if you respected teacher if you love respect 6:34and love your parents the same thing in China teacher is a father teacher is the 6:39mother Published on Feb 25, 2016 Founder and Executive Chairman Alibaba Group and Commissioner Jack Ma sits down with The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. “I still call myself Chief Education Officer. Everywhere I go, I spend time with young people – sharing them my experiences, sharing them my encouragement and my knowledge.” Find out more at: http://educationcommission.org. Follow us on Twitter @educommission and on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1PoiiCj SHOW MORE COMMENTS