In a flat world imagination is the key

"The first thing I tell my kids is that the single most important thing you can learn in school is to learn how to learn because what you know today is going to be outmoded so much faster tomorrow. I tell young people: ask your friends one question - Who is your favourite teacher? - and take their courses. It doesn't matter what they teach. The first place you learn is from a great teacher and the first place you learn how to love how to learn is from a great teacher, which is why teaching is more important than ever. The second thing I tell my kids is a little kind of mathematical formula: CQ + PQ is always greater than IQ. That is, curiosity quotient plus passion quotient is always greater than intelligence quotient. Give me a young person with a high curiosity quotient and a real passion quotient for learning and I'll take them over the kid with the high intelligence quotient seven day a week." (Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat, SMH 4 May 2007)