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“But how exactly do you go about nurturing your right brain skills? I have to leave the details to education experts. But I would guess that one way you nurture your right brain , which can not be easily repeated, automated, or outsourced. As Pink put it: The sorts of abilities that matter most now it turns out are also the sorts of things that people do out of intrinsic motivation. Relatively few people become accountants out of a sense of income creators and empathizers to become designers and story tellers and counselors and consultants. This weekend there will be accountants painting watercolors in their garages, there will be lawyers writing screenplays. But I guarantee you that you won’t find any sculptors who on weekends will be doing other people taxes for fun. In other words, there is growing congruence between the sorts of things that people do because they love doing them and the sorts of things that confer economic advantage. And so concludes Pink, when you hear your parents or your college graduation speaker telling you to do what you love they are not giving you some syrupy pabulum, they are giving you a survival strategy.”(pg.323)

It is important to nurture this wave into our education system, based on Wu Qi Di’s mind blowing reflection:

“Although we are enjoying a very fast growth of our economy, we own a very little intellectual property, we are so proud of China’s four great inventions (in the past), the compass, papermaking, printing and gunpowder, but in the following centuries, we did not keep up that pace of invention. Those mentioning fully prove what the Chinese people are capable of doing- so why not now? We need to get back to that nature.”(pg.366)

Most Japanese are doing that and that is how they ensure creativity stays put in their generations. How about us? Is by focusing much on Science Stream and forgetting Art will lead to disaster? I believe and we should or we must put it these ways, “ creative thinking and entrepreneurship are the exact issues we are putting attention today and important to have an integration in arts and science so people will have the creativity and independent thinking, among the teachers, some of them are not well trained to get the integration of arts and science”(pg 367)

If we reflect more on how to flourish our Malaysian Universities, perhaps we should ponder at Friedman thoughts on American Universities:

“The BankBoston Economics Department did a study titled “MIT: The Impact of Innovation.” Among its conclusions was that MIT graduates have founded 4000 companies, creating at least 1.1 million jobs worldwide and generating sales of $232 billion.”

“What makes America unique is not that it built MIT, or that its grads are generating economic growth and innovation, but that every state in the country has universities trying to do the same. “America has 4000 colleges and universities,” said Allan E. Goodman, president of Institute of International Education. “The rest of the world combined has 7,768 institutions of higher education. In the state of California alone, there are about 130 colleges and universities. Tere are only 14 countries in the world that have more than that number.”(pg.331)

Abbasid in Iraq during the Khilafa established world renowned universities that had been destroyed by Tartar, thus its crucial for us to implement above quotations. China follows the same step:

“In China, where there are 1.3 billion people and the universities are just starting to crack the top ranks, the competition for top spots is ferocious. The math /science salmon that swims upstream in China and gets itself admitted to a top Chinese university or hired by a foreign company is one smart fish. The folks at Microsoft have a saying about their research center in Beijing, which for scientists and engineers, is one of the most desirable places to work in all of China. “Remember, in China when you are one in a million- there are thirteen hundred other people just like you.”(pg.367)

It is sad to say this happen (refer quotation below) to Egypt, the land which scholars are abundant ( if any Arabs were angry at his profound fact, I would kick those Arab buts)

“Egypt has masses of low wage workers like China. It sits right next to Europe, on the Suez Canal. He could be and should be the Taiwan of the Eastern Mediterranean but instead it is thrown in the towel of atheistic China on the manufacture of one of Muslim Egypt’s’ most cherished cultural artifacts, ‘FAWANIS’(pg.406)

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