Page 6 October 4 , 2012 TORRANCE TRIBUNE A Student’s Perspective Author from front page The Importance of Knowledge enormous--the challenges that we have to commodity and I don’t believe that we shouldadvantage of desperation. Desperation is not a“The things that we are up against are By Glen Abalayan, folk and continued to produce “the next best overcome are immense and I am not going to create systems of exchange that take advantage Torrance High School Student thing.” Reports that display the United States’ be the one to solve the problem. What I am of absolute human desperation.” Regardless of a person’s net worth, decline in education should be startling news hoping is that at some point, enough people In the audience, which reached almost knowledge is the greatest investment towards to its citizens because of how the country can start saying that they do want to know where 100 attendees, one gentleman briefly shared the improvement of any individual. Knowledge potentially lose future innovations that can the organs come from,” Carney said. “Just his experience traveling to a European is one of the few things a person can gain create new markets to boost the country’s because you need your knee to be operated, country for cornea surgery. Unlike the that can never be taken away. But the United struggling economy. the doctor will come up and tell you that you market that Carney probed where anonymity States isn’t just having an economic recession, A reason for this sudden downturn is how need a knee operation or you’ll never walk. allows for the market to thrive, the unnamed but is also facing a knowledge recession in today’s young generation views books and What they don’t say it is that you need someone gentleman was aware of the source of his which students are losing their hunger for education. Unfortunately, today’s generation else’s ligaments or else you will never walk treatment and the work by the institutions learning. The importance of knowledge and perceives books as a monotonous exercise again. They don’t personalize it and I think that behind his treatment. education cannot be stressed more today, and school as a mere place to be with their is where it has to start. If we start saying that “That was a complete surprise--we did not especially during a time when our country friends. The negative view of teenagers in you need someone else’s kidney to live, that have him as a plant in the audience, but to is searching for the next best thing to revive school depicted in films is gradually coming is really the first step to start the conversation. have someone who was actually the recipient its economy. true as students are paying more attention to Right now we treat organs as meat. We treat of a donor-type program made it real for According to Insead’s Global Innovation the latest gossip as opposed to real history. other body parts as if they’re not personalized everyone in attendance,” Vinke said. “Scott Index, the United States is far behind from The introduction of social networking sites and they don’t come from anywhere. When can get up and talk about his investigation, being the leader in education and is now has made matters worse as students are now we do that, we do a disservice.” but this is the type of programming that we outranked by countries such as Great Britain, wasting their free time, which could be spent The book discusses elements of the really enjoy because people can take the Ireland and Uzbekistan. In fact, one of the learning, searching for a status on which to trafficking of human organs such as kidneys, book and take it a step further. That was a reports, which focused on K-12 education, comment. With the increasing popularity but also touches on the market behind corneas, pretty interesting surprise to have someone ranked the United States 31st compared to of having a negligent attitude towards human bones, blood supplies and even children who was actually part of the topic discussed.” Japan, which is ranked 25th, and South Korea, education, it is getting more difficult to have becoming victims of kidnappings for the profit Transparency is fundamental for Carney in which is currently ranked 21st in the world. a knowledgeable conversation with another of adoption agencies. Carney does believe that order to be able to significantly alter the way These statistics are not the only indicator of student without having to revert to gossip. at some level there is a rational argument to in which the human organ market operates. our country’s dropping education ranking, As an immigrant to the United States, I was be made that if a person is allowed to sell “The first thing that we need to do is not as College Board also reports the country brought up with the idea that if I work hard their kidneys, the kidney problem will go play with the economics of this issue and experiencing its greatest drop in SAT scores and am accepted to a prestigious college, I away. However, he personally believes that we really just need transparency--we need in over 40 years. This news should be a can make it anywhere in the world and do if two people who are social equals are to to know where your kidney comes from,” shock to people who would want to invest the things I want. I have lived to this notion discuss the selling and buying of a kidney, Carney said. “We cannot allow anonymity. in America’s long-term growth. regardless of the United States’ current these two individuals will reach an agreement If you’re buying a kidney from an Indian In past centuries, the United States ran education ranking. But what I found interesting that is acceptable to both parties. slum dweller, you have to know that it is on innovation. The country is cemented in was how such a large amount of students have “Let’s say instead we just built up and ran from an Indian slum dweller. You cannot history as making monumental inventions taken education for granted and aren’t taking this industry with all the horrible exploitation and we should not buy and sell organs like like the airplane, light bulb and the iPhone. full advantage of our country’s free world- that can occur through industrial capitalism--we you do my book. We have to think about Inventions such as these were mainly due class resource. In the Philippines, a majority globalize the market,” Carney said. “Kidneys the human body and where it comes from. to their inventors’ knowledge of the world of students are enrolled in private schools will not be coming from people like you and Everything is an interpersonal relationship and around them. This extraordinary understanding and pay top peso to acquire an education me. They will be coming from the most destitute you cannot erase that. When you do erase of the world could never have been gained similar to their American counterparts. In my and desperate people of the world. Why should that, you allow inhumanity to begin. My first without their prior education from their homeland, some families struggle to make we take advantage of human desperation? We recommendation is absolute transparency in teachers. For centuries, the innovations that ends meet just to pay off their children’s do it all the time. We put people down in coal the supply chain for our human body parts.” drove the country attracted knowledgeable See Student, page 12 mines and we throw people into war. We take See Author, page 13 Looking for the Torrance Tribune? You can find us at all the following locations as well as our Web site: www.heraldpublications.com Want a subscription? For $95 a year, we will mail a newspaper to your home. Just mail us a check. We will use the address on the check for your subscription address, unless instructions state otherwise. Mail the check to Herald Publications, 312 E. Imperial Ave., El Segundo, 90245. Please add “Torrance Subscription” in the memo line. 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