After reading the book and many of my colleague posts, I have optimism that the challenges presented can be tackled. The issues of globalism, deficits, energy/climate and IT are serious and they are invading my life on almost a daily basis. Whether it is making the uncomfortable call to a call center across the world for help, feeling the heat from global warming, or counting the number of people you know that are unemployed or underemployed, we have many reminders of what is going wrong. The authors and our posts don't sugarcoat the issues.
Despite that, Friedman and Mandelbaum and many of us were able to still see the potential for change. Even at H-H, changes such as the grad project class, have shown me that we can educate the creative creators that will lead us. I hope that the coming school year gives me the opportunity to spark these students and maybe convince other students that "average is over".
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