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05/07/2005: The Flat Worlder's
Thomas Friedman (NY Times) has written this provocative GEM: Tuning in to Jon Stewart, and Britney Schmidt. He muses on the intertwining of the cultural limits of “information” absorption form this viewpoint and the future for these (un) “educated” teens to assimilate into the workforce.”….Here are the two most important things I learned from a recent book tour: First, many educated people seem to be getting their news from Comedy Central….
Second, and this may be related to the first, there's a huge undertow of worry out in the country about how our kids are being educated and whether they'll be able to find jobs in an increasingly flat world, where more Chinese, Indians and Russians than ever can connect, collaborate and compete with us…..”
The issue as Friedman sees is “On learning to learn {from a} (flat world) perspective.” Give his full article a read through at the link above.
But then again, these are the same “high schoolers” who (by 60% or more) think newspapers ought to be told by the government what is “news” to print and aren’t much better when it comes to the First Amendment protections on Free Speech. Scary!!
Karen on 05.07.05 @ 09:00 AM CST
