Thomas L. Friedman Quote

What makes America unique is not that it built MIT, or that its grads are generating economic growth and innovation, but that every state in the country has universities trying to do the same. America has 4,000 colleges and universities, said Allan E. Goodman, president of the Institute of International Education. The rest of the world combined has 7,768 institutions of higher education.

Thomas L. Friedman

What makes America unique is not that it built MIT, or that its grads are generating economic growth and innovation, but that every state in the country has universities trying to do the same. America has 4,000 colleges and universities, said Allan E. Goodman, president of the Institute of International Education. The rest of the world combined has 7,768 institutions of higher education.

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About Thomas L. Friedman

Thomas Loren Friedman ( FREED-mən; born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues.
Friedman began his career as a reporter and won two Pulitzer Prizes in the 1980s for his coverage on conflict in Lebanon and politics in Israel, followed by a further prize in 2002 for commentary on the war on terror.