Sparks of Hope in a Dark Night: How Social Entrepreneurs Can Help Renew the Republic

Autor:	Christopher Gergen, Amanda Antico-Majkowski, David Gergen
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	education.field_of_study Political science Population Nobel prizes Media studies education China The Republic Memorization
Zdroj:	Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization. 5:45-52
ISSN:	1558-2485 1558-2477
DOI:	10.1162/inov_a_00026
Popis:	clear in recent months that one of the brightest hopes for the country is to build upon a historic strength: its spirit of innovation. From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney to Henry Ford, Mark Zuckerberg to Oprah Winfrey, Americans have dazzled the world with their creative powers. The U.S. often sends its scholars to Japan and China to understand why their students are so good at memorizing and mastering fields of study, but they send their scholars here to understand why U.S. students are so imaginative. Over the past five years, Americans have won 30 Nobel prizes in science and economics, while the Chinese—with a population four times as large—have been awarded one. There are dangerous signs that the U.S. is slipping, but still, there is something in the nation’s DNA that is reassuring. “The American, by nature, is
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