Bill Gates spoke at the TED conference 2009 about his two passions: global health and public education. For first ten minutes, Gates discusses using creativity, technology, and innovation to solve the huge, entrenched problems of global health. These massive, complicated world problems are the type of problem our children must be prepared to participate in solving. Are we educating them to do so?

The second ten minutes of Gates' talk focuses on education. He states that the linchpin in quality education is quality teaching. How do we make a great teacher? Watch and learn from Bill Gates: