Coasting October 1, 2007
Posted by Zack in Off Topic, North Carolina , trackbackMet a guy from Ghana this morning on our way to the Charlotte airport. He graduated from college in Accra last year, where he studied economics. Now he’s driving the airport shuttle. It was 6:00 AM but he was very talkative. I asked him how he was liking Charlotte. Somehow the conversation came around to a comparison of Ghanaian and American education—and his surprise at how bad American schools seemed to be.
I said, “Yes, it’s a disgrace. We need to do better.”
He said, “Well, in America, you’re already where we in Africa want to be. Back when you were developing, then you had a reason to try to be educated. But now, you’ve built your whole economy. Now anyone with just a high school degree—or not even—can run this machine. You just have to read the manual or something, you don’t need to build it. You can just coast now.”
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