Finance expert Niall Ferguson thinks (as I do) that better education in China may help explain China's new economic power.
On Dec. 7, 2010, the NY Times reported that Shanghai students outscored the rest of the world in reading, math, and science. US students ranked 17th to 23rd worldwide.
All children are born thinking outside the box. (They haven't seen the box.) Like Shanghai, we could educate for discipline and skill. And in the great American tradition, we could nurture creativity and inventive scope: music, art, and writing.
Education is the best investment. Communication can win what armies only botch.
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