2. Which Class to I take to Learn how
to Learn
•
Learn how to learn:
– Absorb new things
– Teach yourself
– New ways of doing things
Friedman suggests you figure out who were
your favorite teachers and why. Take their
courses, even if you don’t need them. (This
pertains mainly to college)
3. Navigation
• Teach people HOW to use the internet
• How to navigate through the virtual world:
“Separate the noise, the filth, and the lies
from facts.”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=v_CgPsGY5Mw
4. CQ+PQ > IQ
• Passion and Curiosity are more important
than overall intelligence.
• Intelligence still matters.
•
“Give me a kid with a passion and a curiosity to discover and I will
take him or her over a less passionate kid with a high IQ every day
of the week”
• Ever know of a smart but lazy kid?
5.
6. Stressing Liberal Arts
• Liberal Arts makes connections among
history, art, politics, science, and
sociology.
• Allows you to “Connect the Dots.”
• You are able to think “Outside the Box.”
7. Right Brain
• Its about creativity
• “You need to mesh together different
perspectives and disciplines to produce a
third thing.”
• Differentiates you from robots or
outsourcing
• Inspiration
8. Tubas and Test Tubes
• Music inspires collaboration and creativity.
9. The Right Country
• “You need a flexible, deregulated freemarket economy, with lots of
experimentation and competition between
states and universities”
• How can China become the number one
country if it censors Google?
