A very fast read the World is Flat -it keeps the reader glued on until the last page ...Contemporary thoughts ,facing stark reality , and the ability to take a very dispassionate view about countries across the globe are some of the hallmarks of this book .
Of course India might just have been a bit overrated ....and no room for complacency for us Indians ...an A+ Creation nevertheless
Pretty useful thoughts from Friedman's The World is Flat :
1.Attend classes of favourite teachers
What is not important is the facts that they have shared ,but the excitement in learning that they have created
Doesn't really matter whether they are teaching Greek mythology , calculus , art history or American literature
2.Navigation
The ability to weed out the right stuff out of the Internet and visiting the correct website as all look alike as the World is Flat ...ability to interprete the New York Times and the BBC
3.CQ + PQ > IQ
Curisoity quotient and Passion quotient matter more than Intelligence Quotient
Curious passionate kids are self educators and self motivators
The best way to make kids love learning is either to instil in them a sense of curiosity by great teaching or to stimulate their own innate curiosity by making available to them all the technologies of the flat world platform
To put it simply ,you need to redioscover your inner fire truck .We all have one and when you find it ,you'll know it
4.Stressing liberal arts
The ability to make connections between history , arts ,politics and science
While we need to be rigorous in training our people in maths and science , we should also be vigorous about upholding the teaching of art and music and literature because these are also very essential for innovation . Leonardo Da Vinci was a great scientist , artist and innovator and each speciality nourished the other . He was a great lateral thinker . If you spend your entire life in one silo ,you will neither have the knowledge or mental ability to do the synthesis ,connect the dots ,which is usually where the next great breakthrough is found
Its a world today in which comfort with ideas and abstractions is the passport to a good job, in which creativity and innovation are the key to a good life ,in which high levels of education - a very different kind of education than most of us had - are going to be the only security that there is . Indian and Chinese educators are concerned that if maths and science are not leavened by art ,literature ,music and humanities ,their countries will be at a competitive disadvantage as they try to get to the next level of global competition .
5.Right Brain - Daniel Pink ---author of A Whole New Mind - Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age ---The left hemisphere handles sequence, literalness ,and analysis . The right hemisphere takes care of context , emotional expression and synthesis . As Pink says we need to focus education to develop our students' right brain skills - such as forging relationships rather than executing transactions ,tackling novel challenges instead of solving routine problems ,and synthesizing the big picture rather than analyzing a single component .
High concept involves the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty , to detect patterns and opportunities ,to create a satisfying narrative ,and to come up with invetions the world didn't know it was missing .
High touch involves the capacity to empathise ,to understand the subtleties of human interaction ,to find joy in one's self and to elicit in others ,and to stretch beyond the quotidan in pursuit of purpose and meaning
1.Attend classes of favourite teachers
What is not important is the facts that they have shared ,but the excitement in learning that they have created
Doesn't really matter whether they are teaching Greek mythology , calculus , art history or American literature
2.Navigation
The ability to weed out the right stuff out of the Internet and visiting the correct website as all look alike as the World is Flat ...ability to interprete the New York Times and the BBC
3.CQ + PQ > IQ
Curisoity quotient and Passion quotient matter more than Intelligence Quotient
Curious passionate kids are self educators and self motivators
The best way to make kids love learning is either to instil in them a sense of curiosity by great teaching or to stimulate their own innate curiosity by making available to them all the technologies of the flat world platform
To put it simply ,you need to redioscover your inner fire truck .We all have one and when you find it ,you'll know it
4.Stressing liberal arts
The ability to make connections between history , arts ,politics and science
While we need to be rigorous in training our people in maths and science , we should also be vigorous about upholding the teaching of art and music and literature because these are also very essential for innovation . Leonardo Da Vinci was a great scientist , artist and innovator and each speciality nourished the other . He was a great lateral thinker . If you spend your entire life in one silo ,you will neither have the knowledge or mental ability to do the synthesis ,connect the dots ,which is usually where the next great breakthrough is found
Its a world today in which comfort with ideas and abstractions is the passport to a good job, in which creativity and innovation are the key to a good life ,in which high levels of education - a very different kind of education than most of us had - are going to be the only security that there is . Indian and Chinese educators are concerned that if maths and science are not leavened by art ,literature ,music and humanities ,their countries will be at a competitive disadvantage as they try to get to the next level of global competition .
5.Right Brain - Daniel Pink ---author of A Whole New Mind - Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age ---The left hemisphere handles sequence, literalness ,and analysis . The right hemisphere takes care of context , emotional expression and synthesis . As Pink says we need to focus education to develop our students' right brain skills - such as forging relationships rather than executing transactions ,tackling novel challenges instead of solving routine problems ,and synthesizing the big picture rather than analyzing a single component .
High concept involves the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty , to detect patterns and opportunities ,to create a satisfying narrative ,and to come up with invetions the world didn't know it was missing .
High touch involves the capacity to empathise ,to understand the subtleties of human interaction ,to find joy in one's self and to elicit in others ,and to stretch beyond the quotidan in pursuit of purpose and meaning
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