The Impact of Education on Society

But yes, everybody can be rich. And let me give you a thought exercise,

okay?

Imagine if tomorrow we could wave a wand

and everybody was trained as a scientist or an engineer.

Everybody.

Even if you weren't very good, you had enough understanding of computers,

you could

write some code, you could build some hardware.

And don't tell me people can't do it, because they can.

That's just the tyranny of soft expectations.

That's just you looking down on somebody else. They can do it.

They just have to be educated. Now, if they're educated all as hardware,

software

engineers, scientists, biologists, technicians, hard sciences, not the social

sciences,

we would all be done within five years.

Robots would be doing everything from cleaning toilets to cooking food to flying

airplanes to driving Ubers. And what would we be doing?

We would be doing all creative jobs to entertain each other

and researching science

and technology. We would have wonderful lives.

So it is really just a question of education