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Dean Kamen: U.S. Must Focus on STEM to Regain Innovative Spirit

June 22, 2012 /

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We must encourage students to excel in math and science if the U.S. economy is to remain competitive

In a free society, you get what you celebrate. If we continue to focus our adulation on the results of our national wealth, the "leisure time" for sports and entertainment, rather than the brilliant inventors and innovators who produced it, we will continue to fall behind. It would be easy to blame teachers or politicians for our predicament, but pointing fingers won’t help–swift action will.

By Dean Kamen

Full Story: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/06/21/without-focus-on-stem-fields-us-is-losing-its-innovative-spirit

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