“America’s Real Dream Team” – NYTimes.com
A great op-ed by Thomas Friedman this past weekend:America’s Real Dream Team. He discussed how inspired he was by the young minds at the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search awards dinner. Besides the innovative projects like a software to improve space navigation (by a high school student!), most important and telling was the roll call of American student names. All sounded Asian-American. I agree with Friedman that supporting immigration will help bring parents over that will be very supportive of their children in the sciences and thus bring to the US the greatest import we could ever embrace and nurture: ideas. Young educated minds are the ones with so much promise to think fresh and come up with new ideas and solutions to problems. By embracing immigration and providing solid education for our youth, we can flourish as a society and a country. Now that healthcare reform is passing through our governemnt, let’s encourage our government to not forget to focus on these important issues.
my tpm,
daniel