Teachers and students will have new tools to master and to use. I believe one of your great obligations, one of our great obligations as well, candidly, in corporate America, is to help them. Help them use these new tools and master them. So here is what I would humbly suggest might be three strategic priorities for each of you as Governors looking to remain competitive in this new age. And as I mention these three, I think it is very important to keep something in mind again that Mr. Friedman said earlier.
Time means something different now.
We simply do not have the time we think we have, whether we are CEOs or whether we are Governors. My belief is that in this new economy faster is always better than slower, and sooner is always better than later. Because technology has changed what time means in very dramatic ways. Education is at the heart of everything I believe. You must, we must together continue to reinvent and re-engineer our education systems to achieve higher standards of competence and skill.