Jackie Danicki

And how it relates to world power:

I think Hessler’s line that the [Chinese] system “didn’t teach people how to drive, it taught you how people drove” could be changed for the education system: “it didn’t teach people how to think for themselves, it taught you how other people have thought.”

The point here is the only way America will compete against China’s vastly larger numbers is to teach its students how to think creativity and be leaders and rule-creators, not rule-followers. China’s going to provide hundreds of thousands of excellent middle managers. The world still needs founders and CEOs.

Not that Ben is worried about China dominating the world:

[C]hatter about when China is going to knock off America as the world’s superpower is kind of silly — we’re moving toward a multi-polar world and when America recedes, as it undoubtedly will, the power will be spread around…

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