2 Million Minutes - a documentary on global education

Regardless of nationality, as soon as a student completes the 8th grade, the clock starts ticking. From that very moment the child has approximately -

…Two Million Minutes until high school graduation…Two Million Minutes to build their intellectual foundation…Two Million Minutes to prepare for college and ultimately career…Two Million Minutes to go from a teenager to an adult.

Those 2 million minutes decide the destiny and economic prospects of the student for the rest of his life.

This film takes a deeper look at how the three superpowers of the 21st Century - China, India and the United States - are preparing their students for the future. As we follow two students - a boy and a girl - from each of these countries, we compose a global snapshot of education, from the viewpoint of kids preparing for their future.

The documentary is the brain child of Memphis businessman Robert A Compton.

It contrasts Brittany's and Neil's (the two American students portrayed in the doc) easy suburban lives with those of two Indian teenagers and two Chinese teenagers, making the case that the foreign students are just plain hungrier for success.

"You just want to shake America and say, 'Wake up. We are falling behind daily,' " Compton says.

So this documentary shows that our students are a lot more hard working than them American students. Something mr. Barack Obama wont like seeing.

I guess this is one hell of a reason for us Indian students to party HARD!!