Re US education. Here's hoping that your well-placed boot will help our country's leadership realize that they have to constantly encourage parents, teachers and neighbors to themselves encourage, push and cajole young people to accomplish in life.
Studying, thinking, creating, inventing, innovating must be seen as stimulating, inviting and ultimately rewarding both personally and economically for us to maintain the extraordinary standard of living that we have.
"The seed capital from past decades was strong enough to carry us for decades. We got talent from abroad to mask the erosion at home. We used financial engineering to substitute for the real thing. We borrowed to the hilt and sold each other our homes in an ascending spiral that made us all feel rich. And we kicked all the real problems we face down the road, hoping that someone else would solve them. This too has become part of American culture, a culture that desperately needs to change if we are to preserve American innovation and rekindle the real American Dream."
- Is America Losing Its Mojo? | Print Article | Newsweek.com (view on Google Sidewiki)
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