The educational deathmatch of the powers…
America is no longer the leader in world technology, business, or education. India and China are outpacing us.
While I don’t intend to get political about it, we need innovation. Our schools, while decent, are not on par with the rest of the world’s. Our students are technologically adept, but not willing to do much to offer to our future. The most they do usually is get a job and stay there for job security, as machines doing the work to profit the ones who really innovate.
Yet in other countries, take for example India, they school year round and regularly outpace us in many areas, especially the STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering ,Math). Our students, on the other hand, waste much of their time for a quarter of the year for summer break! In the time that they play video games, text, and surf the internet, they could be learning so much more! We may have the nice titles and doctorates, But are we really still the lead?
We DO need to teach globalization from the start in America, yet we must hold on to the things we hold dear. But it is of absolute neccessity that we stop keeping our heads in the old days where America was ahead of the curve and was the leader of industry, and start to realize that other countries have finally managed to make it to that point.
Our jobs are being outsourced to these places because the people in these countries aren’t as worried about being super-comfortable. They are unique because they operate the machines, not act like one.
In America, most people usually has a similar life plan, even if they do not realize it. They plan to go to college, get a degree, get married, buy a cookie-cutter house, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to stay afloat financially and hopefully get good job bonuses. People, in China, on the other hand, are more generational minded than we are. Most of their elderly rely upon their children and grandchildren for support.
The biggest thing that should be a problem is that America is China’s biggest source of income. We are 54 trillion dollars in debt to mainly China for loans that they have provided and we are paying WITH INTEREST!
America has failed to innovate to the grand extent like India and China and is now falling behind. DID YOU KNOW that India and China are right behind America in purchasing power? How long will it be until that is reversed? It is because of our inability to face the future and stay on the the track to innovation that we need to change.
America can do this, if 1-we instill personal responsibility in our children, and 2-if we face globalization as something beneficial, instead of negative. We still have the time to do so, and can make a worldwide difference if we do. What is your choice?
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