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I Am Relieved That, In My Own Teaching, I Don't Have To Moderate Between High Stake Teaching And Education For The Virtues. If I Did, I Would Give Students The Tools To Take The Tests But Not Spend An Inordinate Amount Of Time On Test Prep Nor On 'teaching To The Test.' If The Students, Or Their Parents, Want Drill In Testing, They'd Have To Go Elsewhere. As A Professional, My Most Important Obligation Is To Teach The Topic, Skills, And Methods In Ways That I Feel Are Intellectually Legitimate.

My Belief In Why America Has Been Doing So Well Up To Now Is That We Have Been Propelled By Our Immigrants And Our Encouragement Of Technical Innovation And, Indeed, Creativity Across The Board.

A Lot Of Knowledge In Any Kind Of An Organization Is What We Call Task Knowledge. These Are Things That People Who Have Been There A Long Time Understand Are Important, But They May Not Know How To Talk About Them. It's Often Called The Culture Of The Organization.

If You Are Not Prepared To Resign Or Be Fired For What You Believe In, Then You Are Not A Worker, Let Alone A Professional. You Are A Slave.

Twenty-five Years Ago, The Notion Was You Could Create A General Problem-solver Software That Could Solve Problems In Many Different Domains. That Just Turned Out To Be Totally Wrong.