Is it not our job to hold people's hand and bring them back to the doctor?
The example I'm going to give, let's give a job example, the coal industry, people in
the coal industry are those exact people whose hearts and lives have been disrupted and broken,
and instead of having their hand held, saying you know what, let me retrain you for a different
industry, instead the message is I'm going to get you your job back, even though economically,
environmentally, none of those things.
Look, it's an easy thing to say I'm just going to bring all these jobs back, but I tell you,
Stephanie, we say we're going to retrain them, our retraining doesn't work in this country.
Why?
Because the government programs are bogus, they really don't work.
You do you do know you're part of the government.
Yes.
And I have argued to people, the thing about a Governor is somebody that actual has to
solve problems and give me the money from Washington, let me design the program, I have
guardrails, I shouldn't be spending them on some nonsense over here to cover my political
back side, but give it to me so I can begin to train, but I also believe we the people,
you've got to do this.
You've got to provide the examples and the role models as to how people in your company
should behave and perform, when none of us are looking for sanehood, but what is the
decent set of rules, and secondly, our education system is not geared to the customer.
I mean, whether it's K‑12 or kids graduate, they're not ready for college, whether they
go to college, they graduate and they're not ready for work.
I mean, what are we doing?
So he mentions Sebastian, didn't mention his name, but he has a new way of learning.
My daughter works at Pink, she's 17 years old, she hates math, she didn't like it, she
comes home with spreadsheets now explaining to her mother about how to order stuff, her
last math test was an A. See, what we need to do is first of all determine what are the
jobs of the future, what are we going to lose, what are we going to gain, we're trying to
do this in Ohio, what are we going to lose, what are we going to gain, what do we do to
prepare kids and tap into what they were born to do?
And it's up to all of us to do that.
So what do I say?
Many of you were involved in school reform, you spent a lot of money school reform.
Great.
You really want to know how to change it?
Get in the school.
Go to the superintendent, the principal, the school board, and they won't like to see you,
believe me, go in and see them and tell them that you want to help them design the curriculum
for K‑12, and when you help design the curriculum, it just can't be for IT, everybody is not
going to be a software engineer, we need to design a curriculum that can serve everybody
and you can be involved in it by getting some of your colleagues.
You want to impact kids?
Mentor them and help design a curriculum of the future and disrupt the current education
system.
In the four‑year schools, accreditation, I would tell you that the CEO of Google is
not really interested so much in my degree, the CEO of Google wants to know what is your
skill?
So we need to give people skills in different ways.
Sebastian has one way to do it, he had the move where people all over the world were
living, when kids get out of college, what document to be?
These are the jobs available.
This is what they pay.
What do you want to do?
We need to treat them like our children and our family, these institutions are so big,
they need to change so that we can customize, give skills and give people hope.
If we don't do it, people are going to lose their jobs, number one job in America is driving
cars, in ten or eleven years how many drivers are we going to need?
So you have to figure out what do you do with them?
And you think we're divided now.
Just wait until you have massive dislocation, unless we answer the bell now.
And it's up to we the people, not somebody else.