If You Do What You've Always Done, You'll Get What You've Always Gotten!

SEE HERE The standard recipes of smaller classrooms and more money have exactly nothing to do with quality education. It begins with not tolerating anything less than excellence. Make it tough and competitive and reward excellence and penalize indolence and sloth. No-one ever got an education by being lazy. There is no royal, pain-free, simple, easy, effortless way to knowledge. By the same token, a love of learning can make the path an exciting adventure. We have demonized work in this country and confused it with toil. Work is mind expanding, exciting, and fulfilling. Toil is mindless labor, repetitive and stultifying. We should be encouraging a positive view of work before we have China and the rest totally eating our lunch.