New York Times

I have high regard for The New York Times.

Recently, Thomas Friedman, wrote about the changing attitudes towards education "all over the world". The link may require a user id and password, so I am summarizing the content here (which in this case, isn't a tall order).

The article starts thus,

Tony Blair has been fighting with his own party over permitting more innovative charter schools. Singapore is obsessed with improving its already world-leading math scores before others catch up. And America agonizes that its K-12 public schools badly need improvement in math and science. I was just in Mumbai attending the annual meeting of India's high-tech association, Nasscom, where many speakers worried aloud that Indian education wasn't nurturing enough ''innovators.''

And I should say, ends there. There was nothing "all over the world" about the rest of the article which centered around a few people he had met in (Oh no, not again!) India!! Needless to mention, it is just a rehash of his now famous rather redundant book with the unusual unjustifiable title "The World is Flat". Same Jerry Rao, same Nirmala Sankaran, same level playing fields, same changing world order and it finally ends with another of Friedman's win-win situation.

The big question the article leaves unanswered is how NY Times lets him write again and again in its Editorials. Someone said after reading "World is Flat" that Friedman needs a good editor. Now, if indeed he gets one, he might not get anything published at all.