We need good education. We face so many problems.
Babies are born addicted to drugs. Children are denigrated by their parents. Children are bullied by their peers. Teenagers have guns, and kill people. People face long-term unemployment, because once you are unemployed, employers think there must be something wrong with you so they won't hire you. People get beaten for being transgender, or for being Muslim. Political commentators use misleading statements and doctored videos to sow divisiveness and hatred. People get so worked up about things that aren't even true -- the idea that President Obama was not born in U.S., or that Park51 is to be a "Ground Zero Mosque," while our planet is suffering the effects of climate change, including floods, drought, hurricanes, and heat waves.
We need technical knowledge of science and engineering. We need people with skills in policymaking. We need people who can help us transcend divisiveness and hatred, and work together to solve our problems. We need journalists and historians and librarians to help us build our knowledge. If we are going to address the problems of the world, we need people with many different areas of knowledge to work together. We need everyone to contribute. And that is why we need education, to create a world in which everyone is equipped to contribute.
