so good afternoon everyone my name is
Andrew fitzmorris and I just like to
start with a small survey which is
important to me maybe not so important
to you this is actually my second TEDx
talk and I just like to ask how many in
the audience have seen my first one
Thank You Jodi yes not many so I need a
bit more effort out there and what I’d
like you all to do is go onto YouTube
and view it and there’s a reason why my
views are so low at the last headaches
caught compared to the others
not just because perhaps I wasn’t up to
it but also because I thought like today
it was a slightly unfair competition so
firstly the person who was on
immediately before me and you can check
this out on YouTube was a guy called
take Chris so this guy take Chris is a
French guy you know young late 20s very
fit he came on you know pair of black
trousers black t-shirt he’s got this big
shock of wavy black hair anyways they’re
the similarities with me ended because
what he’d actually done to what he’d
done to get his talk onto TEDx I was
talking about my experience at school
that Dartford grammar and what this guy
had done talk about trying to upstage
you but take Chris had done no less than
jump off the Eiffel Tower wearing a pair
of rollerblades and landing onto an
incline there was an audience similar to
today a lot of young people in the
audience and you can imagine that take
Chris got quite a few more hits on
YouTube than I did then my talk did then
I was I was feeling a little bit
disappointed about that and I said to
one of the students I said oh you know
disappointed the way you know I’ve come
up so short compared to take Chris and
you know I wasn’t you know perhaps one
of the better presenters and this is
that have you heard of the expression
being dammed by faith pray
so this lady said to me from our year 12
in boast lady said don’t worry Andrew
you weren’t the worst thank you very
much
anyways so getting on today so I want
you to go out however you feel about
this I want you to go out and watch it
because that’s what counts
right so I’m going to talk to about my
education on the road for my education
on the road started an awfully long time
ago it started in Liverpool in 1964 but
I can tell you how long ago 1964 was
because mr. Rowland’s and mr. Williams
down the front here had just started
their teaching career so you imagine
that it was an awfully I think I was in
one of their classes actually it’s an
awfully long time ago but I started in
Liverpool in 1964
and then my parents were mother was a
nurse my father was a policeman and they
emigrated to Toronto mum work Toronto
General Hospital and my dad was on the
motorbike police of this big
harley-davidson in Toronto and we lived
there for a couple of years went to
school there having been school in
Liverpool we then went to Ottawa I
promised Jen I was going to mention
Oshawa so when Dad art following Toronto
and next went to school in Oshawa there
we are as you are also in Canada we went
from Toronto to us you are by car but I
was in Austria for around about 18
months two years and then after that
decided my parents had the wanderlust
got on the road again and went all the
way across to Vancouver
so I’m around about 11 years old by this
stage and this is my fourth school that
I’m starting to feel that you know this
is is quite challenging and then when I
was 12 they decided to move again and
this time came all the way back where
are we there we are
by boat up through the Panama Canal all
the way to first Southampton and then to
London who ended up going to school in
London and the reason I’m telling this
story is because I think it’s incredibly
challenging when we heard from mr. Olens
about 55 different nationalities in our
school here and
many of those students will be what are
known as third culture kids and that’s
where you are learning a curriculum
outside of you going to school outside
of your home country and that can be
really difficult and it can be really
challenging always being the new student
at school and I remember when I was 12
having come back from Canada and I
arrived in in in London at school in
Edgware in North London and then all of
a sudden I was expected to do long
division and you still do long division
but you know long division I had never
heard of it I don’t know what was wrong
with the Canadian Curriculum I last Jane
at the end of this but we didn’t do long
division so I would sit at the back of
the class just making it up I think it
was mr. Rowland’s and mr. Williams again
teaching me so I would sit at the back
and I would just write whatever number
came into my head down and of course it
was very difficult because you are
moving from school to school you’re
always the new person and you’re always
trying to get involved in a curriculum
with a subject perhaps in a different
way that you’ve been taught it or at a
different stage of that curriculum to
the one that you had been at at your
previous school I think I moved again
then in London by the time I was 13 I’ve
had something like seven schools and
that was part from you know going for
the sympathy vote so that you vote for
me and watch the video but apart from
going for the sympathy vote with that
actually I feel did an awful lot for me
as an individual because always being
the new kid meant that I’m never
frightened of new things so even as I’ve
become older and older and I’m you know
in the executive committee of Nohr
angler education and you know I’m
probably around joint oldest in there I
often think of myself as perhaps the
least frightened about new things and
about change and I think a lot of that
is because of my experience as a child
moving around from school to school and
I think that’s given me you know some
unique opportunities and unique insights
things like resilience you know being
used to change not being frightened of
new situations when I think about the
education that we’re able to provide at
nor dang
year for students in our schools I think
about the way that we’re trying to do
the same thing for people who attend an
odd angle education school anywhere in
the world I just want to follow now by
showing you this brief video which were
a hundred of our students during the
summer last year or this year sorry went
to unicef attended the high performance
event ambassadors delegates to the UN I
think there are thousands of delegates
there and our students were there
attending students from all of the
schools and they were talking to a
delegation from the UN about the things
that affected them so what I’d like to
do is just show you a brief video of
what our students did while they’re in
the UN event in New York during the
summer today at the 2018 global goals
student summit in New York City Nord
anglia students from around the world
join the high-level political forum we
were joined by government
representatives from different countries
who listen to our students passionately
share their ideas about how to address
the sustainable development goals there
was also a discussion on how our schools
and communities have implemented the
global goals and sharing from our
students on what we want world leaders
to take away from people just like us
[Music]
as a wrap-up to our insightful week at
the summit we celebrated at a gala
dinner hosted at the Juilliard School
which brings our event to a close
[Music]
to end we would like to thank UNICEF and
all the students have participated we
hope you can join us next year at the
2019 global student summit
[Music]
so through the UN event that we have
each year and through our camp in
Tanzania or over a thousand of our
students will attend this year many of
our students here have already been you
know through the facility that we have
in Switzerland through collaborations
that we have within the region within
mr. Williams region of northern you of
Southeast Asia
you know what we’re trying to do both in
terms of bringing people together
whether it’s in a particular destination
or enabling people to collaborate online
we’re trying to help our students to
develop the skills that are going to
help them in a really fast changing in
difficult world so I think of the skills
that I got on my educational journey and
how they equip me for my life and what
we’re trying to do is provide those
tools or tools that are going to be
suitable for our students in what is a
very fast changing world one statistic
that I’m particularly struck by which is
be used by the World Economic Forum is
that of students entering school today
by the time they graduate two thirds of
the jobs that they will take up when
they graduate don’t currently exist if
you think about that of the the you know
the students just coming into year one
by the time they graduate they’re going
to be graduating into two thirds of the
jobs that don’t exist today and that’s
because the world is changing so quickly
artificial intelligence and all the
other things that are disrupting the
experience that we have so one of the
things which is really important not
just in terms of a 21st century
educational skill but also in terms of
our ability to make the world a better
place which I know is something that
when we survey our students that they
care most passionately about is their
ability to come together and to
understand each other’s views across
different countries across different
cultures and to do that in a way to be
able to collaborate and constructively
address the world’s problems now I know
that you’re going to be hearing an awful
lot more about that during the course of
today but one of the things which we’ve
really passion
we believe as an education organization
is that we want to align with our
students belief that together we’re
going to be able to make the world a
better place I’d like to finish with a
quote from a really famous third culture
kid and that’s Barack Obama and he said
when he was addressing a school event in
Arlington Virginia and this is
particularly aimed at our students we
need every single one of you to develop
your talents skills and intellect so you
can solve our most difficult problems
thank you very much for listening to me
and I very much look forward to listening to the rest of the event
Andrew fitzmorris and I just like to
start with a small survey which is
important to me maybe not so important
to you this is actually my second TEDx
talk and I just like to ask how many in
the audience have seen my first one
Thank You Jodi yes not many so I need a
bit more effort out there and what I’d
like you all to do is go onto YouTube
and view it and there’s a reason why my
views are so low at the last headaches
caught compared to the others
not just because perhaps I wasn’t up to
it but also because I thought like today
it was a slightly unfair competition so
firstly the person who was on
immediately before me and you can check
this out on YouTube was a guy called
take Chris so this guy take Chris is a
French guy you know young late 20s very
fit he came on you know pair of black
trousers black t-shirt he’s got this big
shock of wavy black hair anyways they’re
the similarities with me ended because
what he’d actually done to what he’d
done to get his talk onto TEDx I was
talking about my experience at school
that Dartford grammar and what this guy
had done talk about trying to upstage
you but take Chris had done no less than
jump off the Eiffel Tower wearing a pair
of rollerblades and landing onto an
incline there was an audience similar to
today a lot of young people in the
audience and you can imagine that take
Chris got quite a few more hits on
YouTube than I did then my talk did then
I was I was feeling a little bit
disappointed about that and I said to
one of the students I said oh you know
disappointed the way you know I’ve come
up so short compared to take Chris and
you know I wasn’t you know perhaps one
of the better presenters and this is
that have you heard of the expression
being dammed by faith pray
so this lady said to me from our year 12
in boast lady said don’t worry Andrew
you weren’t the worst thank you very
much
anyways so getting on today so I want
you to go out however you feel about
this I want you to go out and watch it
because that’s what counts
right so I’m going to talk to about my
education on the road for my education
on the road started an awfully long time
ago it started in Liverpool in 1964 but
I can tell you how long ago 1964 was
because mr. Rowland’s and mr. Williams
down the front here had just started
their teaching career so you imagine
that it was an awfully I think I was in
one of their classes actually it’s an
awfully long time ago but I started in
Liverpool in 1964
and then my parents were mother was a
nurse my father was a policeman and they
emigrated to Toronto mum work Toronto
General Hospital and my dad was on the
motorbike police of this big
harley-davidson in Toronto and we lived
there for a couple of years went to
school there having been school in
Liverpool we then went to Ottawa I
promised Jen I was going to mention
Oshawa so when Dad art following Toronto
and next went to school in Oshawa there
we are as you are also in Canada we went
from Toronto to us you are by car but I
was in Austria for around about 18
months two years and then after that
decided my parents had the wanderlust
got on the road again and went all the
way across to Vancouver
so I’m around about 11 years old by this
stage and this is my fourth school that
I’m starting to feel that you know this
is is quite challenging and then when I
was 12 they decided to move again and
this time came all the way back where
are we there we are
by boat up through the Panama Canal all
the way to first Southampton and then to
London who ended up going to school in
London and the reason I’m telling this
story is because I think it’s incredibly
challenging when we heard from mr. Olens
about 55 different nationalities in our
school here and
many of those students will be what are
known as third culture kids and that’s
where you are learning a curriculum
outside of you going to school outside
of your home country and that can be
really difficult and it can be really
challenging always being the new student
at school and I remember when I was 12
having come back from Canada and I
arrived in in in London at school in
Edgware in North London and then all of
a sudden I was expected to do long
division and you still do long division
but you know long division I had never
heard of it I don’t know what was wrong
with the Canadian Curriculum I last Jane
at the end of this but we didn’t do long
division so I would sit at the back of
the class just making it up I think it
was mr. Rowland’s and mr. Williams again
teaching me so I would sit at the back
and I would just write whatever number
came into my head down and of course it
was very difficult because you are
moving from school to school you’re
always the new person and you’re always
trying to get involved in a curriculum
with a subject perhaps in a different
way that you’ve been taught it or at a
different stage of that curriculum to
the one that you had been at at your
previous school I think I moved again
then in London by the time I was 13 I’ve
had something like seven schools and
that was part from you know going for
the sympathy vote so that you vote for
me and watch the video but apart from
going for the sympathy vote with that
actually I feel did an awful lot for me
as an individual because always being
the new kid meant that I’m never
frightened of new things so even as I’ve
become older and older and I’m you know
in the executive committee of Nohr
angler education and you know I’m
probably around joint oldest in there I
often think of myself as perhaps the
least frightened about new things and
about change and I think a lot of that
is because of my experience as a child
moving around from school to school and
I think that’s given me you know some
unique opportunities and unique insights
things like resilience you know being
used to change not being frightened of
new situations when I think about the
education that we’re able to provide at
nor dang
year for students in our schools I think
about the way that we’re trying to do
the same thing for people who attend an
odd angle education school anywhere in
the world I just want to follow now by
showing you this brief video which were
a hundred of our students during the
summer last year or this year sorry went
to unicef attended the high performance
event ambassadors delegates to the UN I
think there are thousands of delegates
there and our students were there
attending students from all of the
schools and they were talking to a
delegation from the UN about the things
that affected them so what I’d like to
do is just show you a brief video of
what our students did while they’re in
the UN event in New York during the
summer today at the 2018 global goals
student summit in New York City Nord
anglia students from around the world
join the high-level political forum we
were joined by government
representatives from different countries
who listen to our students passionately
share their ideas about how to address
the sustainable development goals there
was also a discussion on how our schools
and communities have implemented the
global goals and sharing from our
students on what we want world leaders
to take away from people just like us
[Music]
as a wrap-up to our insightful week at
the summit we celebrated at a gala
dinner hosted at the Juilliard School
which brings our event to a close
[Music]
to end we would like to thank UNICEF and
all the students have participated we
hope you can join us next year at the
2019 global student summit
[Music]
so through the UN event that we have
each year and through our camp in
Tanzania or over a thousand of our
students will attend this year many of
our students here have already been you
know through the facility that we have
in Switzerland through collaborations
that we have within the region within
mr. Williams region of northern you of
Southeast Asia
you know what we’re trying to do both in
terms of bringing people together
whether it’s in a particular destination
or enabling people to collaborate online
we’re trying to help our students to
develop the skills that are going to
help them in a really fast changing in
difficult world so I think of the skills
that I got on my educational journey and
how they equip me for my life and what
we’re trying to do is provide those
tools or tools that are going to be
suitable for our students in what is a
very fast changing world one statistic
that I’m particularly struck by which is
be used by the World Economic Forum is
that of students entering school today
by the time they graduate two thirds of
the jobs that they will take up when
they graduate don’t currently exist if
you think about that of the the you know
the students just coming into year one
by the time they graduate they’re going
to be graduating into two thirds of the
jobs that don’t exist today and that’s
because the world is changing so quickly
artificial intelligence and all the
other things that are disrupting the
experience that we have so one of the
things which is really important not
just in terms of a 21st century
educational skill but also in terms of
our ability to make the world a better
place which I know is something that
when we survey our students that they
care most passionately about is their
ability to come together and to
understand each other’s views across
different countries across different
cultures and to do that in a way to be
able to collaborate and constructively
address the world’s problems now I know
that you’re going to be hearing an awful
lot more about that during the course of
today but one of the things which we’ve
really passion
we believe as an education organization
is that we want to align with our
students belief that together we’re
going to be able to make the world a
better place I’d like to finish with a
quote from a really famous third culture
kid and that’s Barack Obama and he said
when he was addressing a school event in
Arlington Virginia and this is
particularly aimed at our students we
need every single one of you to develop
your talents skills and intellect so you
can solve our most difficult problems
thank you very much for listening to me
and I very much look forward to listening to the rest of the event
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