Energizing Education

By Kleinheider Posted on May 7, 2008 at 7:19 am

Bettina Chavanne warns that Lamar Alexander’s Manhattan project on energy only works if we have enough educated brainpower to concentrate:

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said the time has come for a “new Manhattan Project.” In 1942, he said, the world feared the country to develop the first atomic bomb could blackmail everyone else. “Today, countries that supply oil and natural gas can blackmail the rest of the world,” he said. “We need to guarantee victory over that kind of extortion. Concentrating brainpower to that kind of idea isn’t new.” But that brainpower can only come if it’s fostered and encouraged from an early age.

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