TED — stands for Technology, Education, and Design — is a great resource. They recently posted their top 20 most watched talks. This is a great resource. I’m happy to see that I’ve already posted, previously, several of these on this blog. And this is a great list. 

1. Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity (2006): 13,409,417 views
2. Jill Bolte Taylor‘s stroke of insight (2008): 10,409,851
3. Pranav Mistry on the thrilling potential of SixthSense (2009): 9,223,263
4. David Gallo‘s underwater astonishments (2007): 7,879,541
5. Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense (2009): 7,467,580
6. Tony Robbins asks Why we do what we do (2006): 6,879,488
7. Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action (2010): 6,050,294
8. Steve Jobs on how to live before you die (2005): 5,444,022
9. Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen (2006): 4,966,643
10. Brene Brown talks about the power of vulnerability (2010): 4,763,038
11. Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation (2009): 4,706,241
12. Arthur Benjamin does mathemagic (2005): 4,658,425
13. Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing your genius (2009): 4,538,037
14. Dan Gilbert asks: Why are we happy? (2004): 4,269,082
15. Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe (2008): 4,153,105
16. Jeff Han demos his breakthrough multi-touchscreen (2006): 3,891,251
17. Johnny Lee shows Wii Remote hacks for educators (2008): 3,869,417
18. Keith Barry does brain magic (2004): 3,847,893
19. Mary Roach 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm (2009): 3,810,630
20. Vijay Kumar demos robots that fly like birds (2012): 3,535,340

I post about education and particularly business education on this blog. A great TED talk is sometimes about business, often about thoughts and leadership, also about creativity, always about presentations and speaking, and always real education.