Bill Gates talks fixing the education business on CNN
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I'm sort of a fan of Fareed Zakira's reporting on CNN. In a world of screaming Jim Cramers, Zakira's GPS show is low key, but high on the good questions quota.
Recently he had Bill and Melinda Gates on the show where they talked about trying to fix the U.S. education system. That is no small undertaking as Gates' acknowledged during the interview.
Gates can usually rise to the occasion but I thought his discussion of trying to fix education centered too much on, what seemed to me, trying to find a tech fix to a systems issue. And, it seemed all the talk is about trying to crank out more engineers and scientists. Look, what is wrong with trying to raise the entire tide including social scientists, humanitarians and business execs that don't put getting a bonus ahead of ethics.Â
In any case, he said he expects a lot of great IT developments to come out of the labs (including the Microsoft Labs) and into the market over the next couple years.Â
Zakira covered most of the bases, but did miss a good opportunity to get down to the issue of allowing wide open immigration into the U.S. technology industry versus protecting those U.S. techies currently at work in U.S. companies.Â
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