Real people· Real places· 10 years in the making

Real lives.
No narration.
Just wonder.

Wordless films from real people, real places. So children meet the world before anyone tells them what to think about it.

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A moment to slow down

Children scroll past more lives in a morning than their grandparents met in a lifetime.

Most of those lives are two seconds long. Captioned for engagement. Gone before they registered as human.

We made the opposite. Wordless. Slow. Whole. You watch, you wait, you wonder.

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The videos with no words. You actually have to pay attention to get the understanding. The scenery, how the routine of their life just goes on. It just speaks. It speaks a lot.

A student, watching

In their own words

The films are wordless. The people are not.

Each film comes with a story, written in their own words. So children can hear them, then think for themselves. These are real sentences from those stories.

Chetan
Mumbai, India Chetan
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I never imagined I would one day raise twins, and it certainly hasn't been easy.
Bernabela
Lake Atitlán, Guatemala Bernabela
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I am a part of an indigenous Maya group of people called the Tzu'tujil, and we live in the Lake Atitlán region of Guatemala.
Divine
Newark, United States Divine
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I felt differently, and I wondered what would happen if others felt the same.
Areeya
Sisaket, Thailand Areeya
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I figured out early in my life that I learn best when I can experiment and try things out on my own, rather than by being told what to think.
Lam
Oregon, United States Lam
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I was 15 years old at the time, and I only had one summer to adjust to the new culture before starting school.
Reginah
Maasai Mara, Kenya Reginah
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I am one of the oldest, so it is my job to make sure my cousins don't do something that will end in someone getting hurt.
Norma
Ecuador Norma
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I was about 6 years old when this happened, and my job was to make sure that my step-father had enough to eat.
Irfan
Indonesia Irfan
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I can't play any instruments, but I believe God gave me a mouth that produces diverse sounds.
Louis
Goma, DR Congo Louis
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I am Congolese, which means I am from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

These are not actors. Not characters. Just people who let us into their lives.

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Voices from the room

When children meet someone for real, they say it themselves.

These are real words from students, teachers, and learning researchers who use Better World Ed in their work.

A student

It's making me more curious on the lives of different people, and the perspective.

A student

A teacher

We have conversations that I can't prepare for and I would never get to. You can't script it.

A teacher

A student

Even if you don't speak English, or you don't speak Japanese, or you don't speak all these other languages, empathy is universal.

A student

A researcher

The average five-year-old asks 100 questions a day, but then something happens. We call it school.

Tony Wagner

A student

A lot of it proves us wrong about some of the things we think. We all had so many assumptions and most of them were actually wrong.

A student

A teacher

If I tell them that we're doing a Better World Ed lesson after lunch today, and something comes up like a fire drill and I have to delay it, they're upset. They want the lesson.

A teacher

A student

Just like doing something small can help change the world, just showing empathy to other people can help change the world. Because you're passing your empathy on to other people who will then probably pass their empathy on to other people, and that'll slowly just start making the world a better place.

A student

A teacher

When we first asked them what they noticed, they were saying, like, really surface level stuff, like differences they noticed. And then as we had the conversation, they were talking more about how they were similar.

A teacher

A student

Their words, it kind of just directs you into this one point, but if there's not then you can kind of imagine different things.

A student

Quality, not catalog

A small library.
Built slowly, by hand.

Each film took us a year. Sometimes more. We sat with people, shared meals, walked fields, learned names. Then we filmed only what felt true.

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A note from us

Slow, by design.

We made wordless films because words pre-decide what to feel. We did not want to tell children what to think about Chetan, the blind musician in Mumbai who calls himself an artist. We wanted them to watch him, then ask the question themselves.

We wrote the stories in first person because the people in our films deserve to speak for themselves. Not about them. From them.

And we built only what felt true, slowly, because each life is worth the time. The world does not need more content. It needs more attention.

Better World Ed

A longer reflection

A longer voice, unedited.

Tony Wagner

"Better World Ed is breaking new ground in teaching students essential 21st century skills while also developing their capacity for empathy, all while practicing literacy and numeracy in an important way."

Tony Wagner Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute

I asked my class today, "What do you like about the videos?" And they told me: "We love learning about different people. We love seeing where they are. We want to know more about their lives." And that's a curiosity you can't always get, 'cause you can ask them to sit next to somebody in their school and get to know them, but it might not happen. And so by practicing it this way, then they are more receptive to learning more about other people. They're more excited about it.

A teacher, on her class

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