T. Friedman, On the Right Path Again ...

In an op-ed by Thomas Friedman, "Fix Schools As Well As Banks" recently published in the Charlotte Observer, he proposes that the success of the new workforce relies on the success of our education system and even quotes our hero around the office, Dan Pink, and his book A Whole New Mind.

That is the key to understanding our full education challenge today. Those who are waiting for this recession to end so someone can again hand them work could have a long wait. Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables - to invent smarter ways to do old jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services, new ways to attract old customers or new ways to combine existing technologies - will thrive. Therefore, we not only need a higher percentage of our kids graduating from high school and college - more education - but we need more of them with the right education.

Full piece, here.