"This is a world in which a very high level of preparation in
reading, writing, speaking, mathematics, science, literature, his­
tory and the arts will be an indispensable foundation for every­
thing that comes after for most members of the workforce. It is a
world in which comfort with ideas and abstractions is the passport
to a good job, in which creativity and innovation are the key to a
good life, in which high levels of education—a very different kind
of education than most of us have had —are going to be the only
security there is."