"Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination" Two million minutes is roughly four years, the amount of time high school students have to prepare for life.

Venture capitalist Robert Compton’s travels to India in 2005 and 2006 laid the groundwork for his decisions to author a blog, publish a book called Blogging Through India, and produce a documentary called Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination.

Two million minutes is roughly four years, the amount of time high school students have to prepare for life. The documentary compares and contrasts the education experiences of six students; two from each of the countries of India, China, and the United States.

It includes statistics on the amount of time spent in the classroom, the influence of the student’s parents on their decisions to pursue a certain career, and the degree to which those choices impact their free time during their high school years. Robert Compton talked about his documentary film and the education community’s response. Video clips were shown.

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