It is said that a child has 2 million minutes from the beginning to the end of highschool…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. How do North American students use these 2 million minutes in comparison to the rest of the world? The documentary 2 Million Minutes explores this very question.
This hour long 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. The film follows 6 students, a boy and a girl from each of these 3 countries, and composes a global snapshot of education, from the viewpoint of kids preparing for their future.
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Although this film falls outside the age bracket that Pop Lock and Learn is focused, it does serve as an interesting overview of the rights, wrongs and difference of mindsets in the educational strategies and policies embedded in each of the modern day super powers. The only insurance policy for future society with a thriving populace is the priority that a country places on educating its future generations.