Alli Rising - "New Rules"

The article “New Rules” that was published in the New York Times, mainly discusses an extraordinary program that is established in Estonia which teaches students how to do computer programming. Children are being given the opportunity to learn how to code in their schools. The pathos within the article relates to many things that are currently happening in the United States. The quote “work hard and play by the rules” that was stated by President Obama was said because he believes in order to live a decent life one must have a decent job. It has become more difficult for Americans to get jobs because most of country is fueled by technology. The logos in the articles shows the statics that it has   difficult for Americans to get jobs such as the unemployment rate is 4.1 with four years of college, 6.6 with 2 years of college, 8.8 with a high school diploma and 12.0 for dropouts.  It America unfortunately does not have to opportunities to teach their kids computer programming starting at the age of 7 as they do in Estonia. In an exam that was given out globally to only 15 year olds through PISA, Shanghai public school system in 2010 beat the rest of the world in math, science and reading.  A quote by Alvin Toffler that states “illiteracy will not be defined by those who cannot read and write, but by those who cannot lean and relearn,” really made me think that in the future it will not matter if one is able to read that well but if one  able to fix or work on the modern day technology.