Awesome! I'll have to check it out.

Confucius is always awesome.

I figured you out of all people would appreciate that one. Everyone should check out Kyle's site (www.selfmadeu.com), which will soon dive head first into this topic.

Wallace Wattles talks a lot about this! He states that every truly happy and successful person did not compete with others but created value where it was not there before, boosting everyone in the process. Thanks for the comment!

I could totally see you doing this

An update to the story:

John Mongan ended up going Stanford instead of MIT. He says, "I never went to MIT, although I would have considered it if they had sent me that full scholarship and guaranteed admission."

I think that is a great point. If more people grasped this concept we could rid the world of a lot of violence and hatred. We all came from one source and we are an outgrowth of that unknown source. In that respect we are all connected in some way, even though we tend to see the world as a lot of different "nations".

This video is awesome! It's definitely one of my favorites. Do you watch a lot of TED talks?

Thanks for this great note! I had no idea that standardization was taking place to that extent so close to home. I do agree with you that we need to see our school system evolve to include better metrics for evaluating teachers. It cannot be as simple as just a multiple choice test.

Roger was also happy the recent Florida Education bill was vetoed (although he was pretty sure it was for political reasons). What are your thoughts on that?

I think this strikes the nail on the head. Ask a person on the street what his interests are and chances are he cannot answer you. Most people tend to think of their interests as "subjects" or "majors". This is complete nonsense and has little practical use.

Action is the only measure of intelligence. Students need to take on more projects within their community and focus less on memorizing words out of books.