Delphi Chief Steve Miller Talks About Job Skills for the Future

Originally published here on May 14, 2008.

I heard this three minute interview this morning on NPR and thought that the 21st Century Learning advocates out there would just love it.

Steve Miller recently took over Delphi Corp., a giant auto parts manufacturer, with a view towards pulling it out of bankruptcy. NPR asks him how he's doing with that, and along the way he says this:

The main thing in the U.S. that we have to keep in mind is that people are going to get paid for the global value of what they do. And the way that we can keep the U.S. economy strong is to do a better job of educating our people so that they will have the technical skills that are needed to compete in the future.

Talk about hitting the 21st Century nail on the head...

You can listen to the whole interview here.