Alvin Toffler: In our book Revolutionary Wealth, we play a game. We say, imagine that youre a policeman, and youve got a radar gun, and youre measuring the speed of cars going by. Each car represents an American institution. The first one car is going by at 100 miles per hour. Its called business. Businesses have to change at 100 miles per hour because if they dont, they die. Competition just puts them out of the game. So theyre traveling very, very fast.Then comes another car. And its going 10 miles per hour. Thats the public education system. Schools are supposed to be preparing kids for the business world of tomorrow, to take jobs, to make our economy functional. The schools are changing, if anything, at 10 miles per hour. So, how do you match an economy that requires 100 miles per hour with an institution like public education? A system that changes, if at all, at 10 miles per hour?
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:50:57 +0000
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