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Consciousness-Based Education supported by South African educator Dr. Blecher is the Director of Consciousness-Based Education (CBE) for South Africa. As a Social Entrepreneur and Co-founder of SA's first free tertiary institute educating the financially disadvantaged, Dr. Blecher was recognised as one of 100 young leaders round the world, making an exceptional contribution toward "making a better world". Focusing on social change and alleviation of human suffering, Dr Blecher is providing virtually free education to the poor in South Africa. Dr. Blecher says, “The CBE programme works. You can change your school in 90 days. It works for any school. It has worked all around the world where it's been implemented with hundreds of thousands of students. Education is really only about people. It's about the hearts and minds of the teachers and students. “We often think it's about shortages of libraries, or computers, or infrastructure. Those are just tools. We've seen over and over again in our country's history, that a school can have no buildings, students can learn under the trees, and they can still get 100% matric pass-rate. “This programme deeply supports and helps the people in the school, the teachers and the students. It will change lives. It will dramatically improve academic performance even for top performing schools. It increased pass-rates by 25% for 9 000 school students in Alexandra over a 3-year period. “Most of all the environment in the school will become a place that every teacher will look forward to work every day. It will be a place that gives you energy and doesn't drain it away.” © Copyright 2009, CBE Schools
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