Friedman: Behind Every Grad...

I used to hang on every word Tom Friedman wrote, especially in the days after 9/11. Now I think he's increasingly unhinged, or maybe just caught in his own illusions about democracy in Iraq and the Middle East. Its a common plight for the liberal hawks that supported the Iraq war.

But when he talks about the Flat World, and living in the globalized economy, his words still inspire. Today's editorial is from the Tom Friedman I like. Behind Every Grad... - New York Times:

"We are heading into an age in which jobs are likely to be invented and made obsolete faster and faster. The chances of today's college kids working in the same jobs for the same companies for their whole careers are about zero. In such an age, the greatest survival skill you can have is the ability to learn how to learn. The best way to learn how to learn is to love to learn, and the best way to love to learn is to have great teachers who inspire.

And the best way to ensure that we have teachers who inspire their students is if we recognize and reward those who clearly have done so.

Imagine if every college in America had a program like Williams's, and every spring, across the land, thousands of great teachers were acknowledged by the students they inspired? 'No Great Teachers Left Behind.' How about it?"