Thomas L. Friedman said on Meet the Press that major employers are "all looking for the same kind of employee now: Someone who can do critical reasoning and thinking...who can adapt, invent, and reinvent the job, because in this hyper-connected world change is happening so fast."

 

Clearly, Freidman argues, education has got to change--it's been too rote, and now it needs to prepare thinkers, leaders and innovators.

 

This is a hard job for an industry made up of mostly non-entrepreneurial, deeply security-minded types.

 

He says that, "going forward there really are just going to be two kind of countries in the world: HIEs and LIEs: High-Imagination-Enabling countries and Low-Imagination-Enabling countries. Forget Developed and Developing."

 

That's big.

 

And it means a better kind of education must be adopted.