Recently, U.S. President Obama said "This is our generation's Sputnik moment," and indicated that the United States should invest in biomedicine, information technology, and clean energy technology. In this part of his State of the Union address, he compared this spending to the Apollo program, which put a man on the moon.
It's interesting to watch what's going on in the world, and how fear can be a motivating factor in people. Back in the late 1950's and early 1960's, fear of the Soviet Union caused the United States to put a man on the moon. Today, China has made the fastest supercomputer. While the U.S. still has good universities, recent news has clearly showed that primary and secondary education there needs to improve. The economy there and elsewhere could be better. What about you? Do you have a motivation, or a reason, to invest in your studies? Do you think the students in Taiwan can compete in the world?
We will be reading about different kinds of goals and the countries and times that produced them. Sometimes the governments or a leader made a bad decision. What do you do in unfavorable or uncomfortable circumstances? If you face the problem, or fight your fear and find meaning in life, you will be like the protagonist in one or two of our books. Read on!
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