The pace of global change is now dictating that skills development is more important than the traditional view of education being about recall of knowledge.
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too much information coming at us
too many voices calling for our attention
too many things to purchase with a credit card
too many entertaining entertainments, and
too many things we need to do and in order to function well.
Therefore, he says we are unable to make commitments, unable to set priorities, unable to relax and experience quiet. We lack contentment and are unable to focus. We zigzag through life at an exhausting pace, exhausting ourselves over less-than-purposeful activities. We have become the antithesis of Psalm 23:
The clock is my dictator, I shall not rest.
It makes me lie down only when exhausted,
For instance, when we think about infrastructure with regard to politics, people think about bridges, highways, roads, but infrastructure, ought not it to mean to cope with these issues, infrastructure ought not to include the element of kindergarten, of day care, of early childhood education? i used to measure it, tom, when you were in beirut in 82 and 83, i used to measure a child s future, if you don t catch him by the third or fourth grade, you re going to lose him forever. now i think it s down to age 4 or 5, but we don t pay enough to infrastructure in this country. do you agree with that? i agree totally. we kind of speak in the language of k-12, but it s really now, you know, b through retirement, birth right through life. and the big change that is happening and needs to happen much more quickly, you know, there s a great quota tribed to alvin tofler. that the new literacy today is not reading, riting and
Discipline on the campaign trail will be tested. and literally within that interview his judgment and discipline went totally off the rails and as you say have put him in a position that i think is pretty much unrecoverable from you know, his image as the candidate prior to now was he s the smart guy. he s the guy who really knows the policy inside out and he knows the politics. he s the smart guy. that turned out to be a mirage. yes. he was the least prepared guy you could have sent on to meet the press. look. i think the reputation has always been a little over stated and you ll remember back in the day he was more, he was brilliant if he kind of thought alvin tofler, a futurist, self-styled, but not a genius and he has kind of proven that to be the case. the paul ryan thing is devastating because as the wall street journal editorial pointed out every house member who voted for this ryan plan is now going to have an ad run against them that is going to tag them with right w