Thomas L. Friedman's The World Is Flat

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Children are the Future There’s times where you just sometimes lose motivation for learning, am I right? We don’t realize how much our globalized world is changing and how this might affect us. According to, The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman our world has changed and it’s becoming flat. We are all competing for jobs and those jobs that were able to get without further education are now being sent to other countries. But why do we sometimes just lose interest of getting educated? Could it be that our education system is failing to prepare us for the “real world”? Can we change this for new generations? Providing Universal pre-k programs for all children is important for our globalized flat world. Once children start school the school
When we are small our curiosity levels are high, there some children who are just so curious about everything. When I used to take care of my little cousin he would always asking questions, he was three years old at that time. “How does that work?”, “But why?”, “Is it fun?” These are a few questions I would always hear from him. In The World Is Flat, Friedman mentions that, “curious passionate kids are self-educators and self-motivators “(314). When I first read this statement I didn’t know what Friedman was trying to say, but now I understand it. He means that kids who are curious about everything they motivate themselves to learn. How you may ask? Well simple if you are curious about a topic you then motivate yourself to learn about that topic and that’s when you actually learn. Giving children the opportunity to attend a pre-k program will make their natural curiosity come out which will motivate them to want to learn. Friedman also stated that, “Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid” (314). Which he means that curious kids work harder to learn something they want to know. This is important to know because that’s why sometimes we see children with tablets and they actually know how to use it. Kids get curious and they will work hard to learn how to do something. So why not take advantage of these curious kids and teach them to be curious about school since they are young that way they will be ambitious and compete in the flat world we are living

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