My summary about the summary of chapter nine of Tom Friedman's book, The World Is Flat.

1. Chapter Nine:
This is Not a Test
Media Presentation
By Ahmad Hussein M. Jaber

2. Old ways
To stop doing things the old way and start
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teaching our offspring the new ways of life.
 New
ways

3. Facing the crises changes, from people
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tearing down Berlin wall, and competing with
Sputnik, to facing the people which want to
build walls between civilizations.

4. Compassionate Flatism to prepare the USA for
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all these problems by shoving political problems
aside.
The necessity of making teaching our first
priority!

5. An Example of these
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objectives for
lifelong teaching of
students and
workers is a bank
named Capital One
which is training and
upgrading its
workers to this day.

6. URLs for info and pictures:
http://www.perrypl.okpls.org/computer.jpg
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http://www.9sg.com/images/paperwork%202.jpg
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http://novaonline.nv.cc.va.us/eli/evans/Photos/Russia/BerlinWall.jpg
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/images/breaking-down-berlin-
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wall-1989.jpg
http://www.bisbos.com/rocketscience/spacecraft/sputnik/images/Sp
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utnik-1l.jpg
http://www.etsu.edu/math/gardner/sputnik/sputnik-launch1.jpg
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http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/gmi/lowres/gmin
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http://mcb.web.psi.ch/teaching/Teaching.gif
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http://wikisummaries.org/The_World_Is_Flat#Chapter_Nine_.E2.80.
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