SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell: 制造业企业家对教育的看法
Read SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell’s speech to 2021 graduates, urging US educational reforms
曾经贴过。
- SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell delivered Northwestern University’s commencement address to the class of 2021.
- Shotwell gave Northwestern’s students an overview of her career, especially focusing on the nearly two decades that she’s worked for Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
- She also declared that she is “worried about our nation’s children,” saying the U.S. education system is “not preparing our children for their future.”
全文：https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/14/spacex-president-gwynne-shotwell-2021-commencement-address.html
其中，有个人经历、如何配合Elon Musk发展spacex的业务、担忧、建议等。
摘两段：
I’m worried about our nation’s children. We are not giving all of our children an education that will shape them into resourceful and productive people that our country needs to remain relevant. Every child is a resource to better our future, and our future will be driven by technology. That is why I am so concerned about the science and math test scores that we have in this country. China scores first. Ireland – I just bring this up because it’s what my heritage is, my ancestors are from Ireland – scores 12th, and the United States ranks 25th.
Worse than that, if there is a worse than scoring 25th in math and science as well as reading, is that the gap between our lowest scoring students and our highest scoring students is widening. We are not preparing our children for their future.
I love this country and I’m worried about the widening, economic, social and racial divide which was amplified during the pandemic. Not addressing education for our youth is not helping that. We are not treating our neighbors with the respect that they deserve. We are not listening hard to each other and respectfully working on the really important issues that we face as a country and as a human race.
I haven’t helped our country work on these issues yet – I whine a lot about it – and it’s time, probably in the very near term, for me to commit and help fix them. Maybe we can work on these things together.