Jul

2 Million Minutes - the world IS flatter

Certainly in secondary education. If you play (too much) - you pay. Thomas L. Friedman, the New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist, in his 2005 book “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century” said that in the early 21st century the the world is flat in terms of commerce and competition.

The documentary film 2 Million Minutes - A Global Examination, profiles six high school students from China, India and the US and argues that US education is lagging behind.

Students have 2 million minutes from the beginning of eighth grade to completion of high school to build the intellectual foundation needed for professional success. The premise is that our students are being left behind in the global educational competition to achieve economic success

The world is flatter than we thought!!

References:

Business Week - “US Schools: Not That Bad”

YouTube.com - 2 million minutes VIDEO CLIPS

60 minutes x 24 hours = 1440 minutes a day

1440 minutes x 365 days = 525,600 minutes per year

525,600 minutes x 4 years = 2,102,400 minutes in high school

How will those 2 million minutes be spent???

Stephen Covey in “The Law of the Harvest” says that you can’t reap a harvest in the fall after playing all summer, you can’t hurry up and cram the evening before the harvest.

We tend to reap what we sow.

“Sow a thought, reap an action;

sow an action, reap a habit;

sow a habit, reap a character;

sow a character, reap a destiny,”

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be” - Socrates