Why does a six-year old want to be a lawyer?

Malcolm Gladwell...

I really enjoyed Malcolm's creative avenue for encouraging diversity and linking it to happiness, I think there is a lot to take away from his discourse besides how to have/manufacture an utopian world. I would say that is implausible or cliche but that would be an unjust quick packaged summarization of Malcolm.

What I did take away from Malcolm Gladewell is: that people don't know what they want and they can't explain what they want, make them reach out for something higher and better, as a science people are still trying to explain or discover the universal ways humans behave and the key to business is understanding human variability.

Applying these to anything in life in the 21st century could help you be successful especially in America but what I find disturbing about this discourse is, America is just fine. We have food, shelter, hopitals, clean water etc.. the necesseties for a people group to survive and extremely understated, survive well. Where I fault America is why are we continually trying to make better technology, spending billions of dollars on faster internet and cable "the big switch", spending billions of dollars helping out mortgage companies that broke their own policies "don't lend to high risk individuals" and making education astronomically expensive for the common American, all the while the rest of the world is in cataclysmic dissarray. If Malcolm wants to talk Utopia, lets look at Uganda what is utopia for them. Clean water, shelter, food and clothing AIDS vaccination or prevntion that is utopia to them, that is embracing diversity or adversity.

If Amercia wants to once again be the greatest country on this planet lets focus our education on helping other helpless people groups, not democratic wars but clean water to all humans. It seems impossible as long as our most brilliant minds are developing the next i-phone and smaller computer or cars that drive themselves with automatic warmers in the head rest.

How about education? Where are we in that deal. The cost of education is consistently going up, lets take a lesson from our Asian counterparts who graduate more college graduates than we in America do and find out how the so many poor families still manage to graduate their children from college.

America used to be the leader in all of these areas, aid to impoverished countries, education, etc..
It seems there is no time for helping others as we climb our ladders which seems to be the goal in America and of our education.

Last week I was told that a first grade class was given the age old American assignment to draw what they want to be when they grow up, kids were drawing lawyers and doctors, why does a six year old want to be a lawyer?