i was in a globalizing world and when i use the word multi-cultural i think back in the school in nairobi where we came from different cultures and all in search of a better life and economic progress, but to move from a to be from language to language from hemisphere to hemisphere seemed so much easier and we took it more for granted and my grandmother's generation, and then i come of age and the information age of the rocket modernization that i think generations like my mother and grandmother somehow got a taste of that. i am not just a child of globalization but also a child that is intellectually comes of age after 1989 and the fall of the soviet union. >> why was that the case? how did that impact your life directly? >> it impacted directly if we accept there is a clash of civilizations and between the west and islam in the sense i was born into the muslim civilization as defined by and lived it and breveted and plus committed to it with loyalty, believed in it and left it and came to the west and did the same thing, lived it, breveted, made friends, made my future here and was able

what really humbles me whether i'm in nairobi or mumbai, i don't meet a child in the world that doesn't speak english. they all start -- they didn't just start speaking english, they speak four or five other languages. and they're beginning to understand they know they're going to be compete anything a global world. in fact, i'll tell you, there was a horrible little thing that they have in africa that if someone speaks two languages, you're considered polylingual. i mean, multilingual. if you speak several, you're considered polylingual. if you only speak one language, you're considered an american. [laughter] now, that was funny 15 years ago. i'm telling you, in a world in which every one of our children is going to be competing in a global environment, that's just not acceptable anymore. these kids are studying languages, they're studying math and science, and because of technology they've got access to the best information anywhere they can get it. let me make my point, and i'll move on. i want you to consider one thing. we all know what our dropout rates are for our kids. if india,