speak less expect more | Matthew Dicks

TEDxTheCountrySchool: Speak Less. Expect More.

By Matthew Dicks | May 20, 2016 |

This is a TEDx Talk that I delivered in April of 2016 at The Country School in Madison, CT. The conference was run almost exclusively by the students of the school, who were of middle and high school age. It’s a variation of a talk that I have delivered before about the idea that teachers…

Less lecture. More learning.

By Matthew Dicks | March 2, 2015 |

In 2013, I did a TED Talk entitled “Speak Less. Expect More.” Unfortunately, the audio engineer failed me that day, and the recording was poor. Although my voice is discernible in the video, the audio is of such low quality that the talk never received any real attention despite initial excitement by the organizers to…