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Subject: BROKAW LECTURE (fwd)
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:55:55 GMT
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From: djackson%PPS1-PO.PHYP.UIOWA.EDU@WUVMD
Subject:      BROKAW LECTURE
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          Last Friday evening, Tom Brokaw appeared before students and
          faculty at The University of Iowa.  He was an interesting
          speaker to say the least.  However, out of all the
          information he presented, one comment he made has stuck in
          my mind.

          After the lecture, Tom offered to answer questions from the
          audience.  A student asked the following:  For those of us
          in college, what is the most significant piece of
          information we need to know to prepare us for the future?

          Tom did not pause long before answering (paraphrase),  "Four
          years ago I spent a couple days filming from a rooftop in
          Seoul, Korea.  Just below our location was a junior high
          school playground.  It was still dark and at 5:00 or 6:00 in
          the morning.  We could here a lot of commotion from the
          playground, and upon looking we saw hundreds of students
          aged 10-14 with books open, helping each other to review the
          days studies.....please understand that 25-30 years ago,
          this was a mostly agrarian country, with a 97% ILLITERACY
          rate."

          He continued (paraphrase), "The students, after a couple
          hours, entered the school, and remained until 7:00 PM, and
          they do this for ten and a half months during the year,
          with tutorial studies often making up the remainder.  Today,
          the country has a 98% LITERACY rate.  I think you as
          students in the United States need to know this, because the
          declaration of effort from this country is that first they
          will take over the economy of Japan, and secondly, your's.
          This is probably the best piece of information I can give
          you."

          Most of Brokaw's lecture was light, airy and peppered with
          humor.  It was his response to this one question, in context
          with the issues we've been discussing, that may confirm the
          serious and impending nature of more recent revelations from
          those trying to get the country to wake up.

          Dave Jackson - The University of Iowa
          djackson@PPS1-PO.PHYP.UIOWA.EDU