TED founder Richard Wurman on why we need a Minister of Understanding*

"Each country instead of having a cabinet, or the secretary of education, or the minister of war, or something like that, each country should have a secretary or a minister of understanding. Not a propaganda person who is a press secretary but a minister or a secretary of understanding that actually makes an issue understandable so that any person in the public can explain it to a literate twelve-year-old. They actually make public information - public, available, understandable and free. None of those things are done anywhere in the world".


*Excerpt from my talk with TED founder Richard Saul Wurman. Read and watch more about the secret of TED success here, about the importance of curiosity in life here and on what makes a day interesting here