Bill Gates goes to the Sundance Film Festival, offers an education – "Waiting For Superman"

When Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the richest man in the United States, came to the Sundance Film Festival http://festival.sundance.org/2010/ here this week, it wasn’t movies on his mind, it was education — your kids’ education.

A new documentary, "Waiting For Superman," http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/waitingforsuperman_sundance2010 by director Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth") looks at what Gates and Guggenheim say is a U.S. public school system in shambles.

"The quality of our educational system is what made America great. Now it’s not as good as it was, and it needs to be a lot better," Gates told Reuters after the film’s premiere on Friday.

"Many of these high schools are terrible, and this film, ‘Waiting for Superman’ by Davis Guggenheim, which I have a very minor part in, tells this story in a brilliant way," he said.

If that last part makes Gates sound like a movie pitchman — he got the title of the film, its Oscar-winning director and "brilliant" in the same sentence — he knows it, and he’s not ashamed.

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