Grammar Works 2 Teacher's Book

But what can happen is a decline in our standard of living, if more Americans are not empowered and educated to participate in a world where all the knowledge centers are being connected. We have within our society all the ingredients for American individuals to thrive in this world, but if we squander those ingredients, we will stagnate. I repeat: This is not a test. This is a crisis, and as Paul Romer has so perceptively warned, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” Developing Countries and the Flat World NINE: The Virgin of Guadalupe It's not that we are becoming more Anglo-Saxon. It's that we are having an encounter with reality. —Frank Schirrmacher, publisher of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, commenting to The New York Times about the need for German workers to retool and work longer hours Seek knowledge even unto China. —saying of the Prophet Muhammad The more I worked on this book, the more I found myself asking people I met around the world where they were when they first discovered that the world was flat ...»