"Strong people make as many and as ghastly mistakes as weak people. The difference is that strong people admit them, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they became strong." - Richard Needham
What We Do
TEDSOL was launched in August 2009 after receiving a grant from Taiwan's Ministry of Education to develop new and creative ways to teach English.
In fact, we don't "teach" language very much. Most of our students already know most of what they need, their problem is to use that language effectively. Our approach is to require students to use English to complete tasks that are interesting and engaging, fun, and also useful to them in their future careers. Our activities teach problem-solving, presentation skills, systems analysis, engineering, marketing, teamwork, cultural isses, and much much more.
We provide training courses to a variety of schools and universities, and also operate our own classes at various locations in and around Taipei. In addition, we are developing web-based teaching materials for launch in 2010.
Our mission is very simple: We aim to enable our students to reach their full potential, not only in English, but in their whole lives, to give them control over their destinies.
The biggest single failure of the education system in Taiwan is to teach students the wrong values about use of English. To put it simply, students spend most of their time learning the wrong thing, and don't pay attention to what is important.
Our research draws on the work of scientists at the University of Michigan and University College London to understand the issue in more detail, however the solution is relatively simple.
TEDSOL is all about helping people. As a business, we need to make a profit, but we are also free to give some of our time to help those who are less fortunate than others.
