Education Gaps and The Bottom Line

Friedman's perception is one of many perceptions of upcoming educators unfortunately. First, he mentions the problem of educators not getting their students interested in the material that they are learning. Then comes the "thunder". He talks about recent immigrants having a higher success rate in education because of their drive from parental advisement. This is a country based on extreme freedoms presented to us when we are children. It takes more than future endeavors to envelop our students in a cloud of learning. That is one of the major problems, we need to bring our students into a world where they are conquering intellectual barriers.

The second dirty little secret implies that schools that are still living in a "Flattened World", are just leading their students over a ledge into poverty. This is a little drastic to comment on, but it is the truth. A lot of the jobs that were around are now gone because manufacturing companies have moved their companies to exploit the third world and leave the working-class in our nation homeless. Sorry, that concept just peeves me pretty horribly. But seriously, if we do not update our schools to keep up with the rest of society, then we are setting our future up for failure.

I see these gaps as major problems not because of some nationalistic reason like Friedman sees it, but because I believe everyone deserves the same education in order to succeed in the future. Other nations do are taking over technologically in schools though and Friedman believes that other nations are out to get us as Friedman mentions, "They want to dominate us - in a sense that they want to be creating the companies of the future, ones that people all over the world will admire and clamor to work for" (Friedman 351). This is not a race. We are here trying to make better schools for our children and their children so that they will be able to have a more complete understanding of literature and a better opportunity for jobs. I can care less about how other nations are doing. Lets worry about us instead of how they are doing. I am not saying lets not have technology, I am saying lets stop looking at this as a race. Before I came to 307, I honestly had no idea that our schools were even moving towards this sort of notion. I had no idea how much trouble we were in when it came to the use of technology. Now I do, and I plan to use it in the future to fix this problem.