Someone who is deeply passionate about education sent me this viewpoint. What do you think? "The basic question that needs to be asked and confronted is "What does it mean to be educated in the 21st Century?" We have often heard the most repeated and perhaps most abused by both political and education leaders: "We need to educate our students to be "globally competitive"? But nobody seems to care nor have the guts to ask: "What exactly is "globally competitive?". What is really scary and challenging is that we are preparing our kids to navigate and integrate themselves into the workforce and society in general. Every year we iterally have an army of children who enter into the formal school system and will graduate in 15 - 20 years. But who among us have figured out what the configuration of the working environment or of the society in 15 - 20 years? Which begs the concern that schools should address skills that would empower students to continually reinvent or reengineer themselves...."