I think our goal is to make credit available.

I think maybe one way to think about that is there is a difference between giving people the flexibility to do something and giving people the flexibility to do nothing, which has been the outcome in too many places I think.

On the human capital question that you were raising at the end about finding administrators, finding teachers in rural areas, we face this in my State of Colorado as well.

The problem with that is that kids end up in institutions where they are not learning anything year after year after year, and they just fall farther and farther behind.

I think that is such an important point because when I was superintendent, if you blindfolded me, I didn't know whether I was talking to a university president or somebody that was running the apprentice shop for the trades, I would hear…

Teaching has a much different level of public support and stature in those countries than what we have had in ours.

I simply can't imagine a better person for this job than Jeff Lane.

I think part of this is going to be solved by all of us kind of getting out of our own way here and creating politics that will allow us to make revolutionary change, not just evolutionary change.

It is time to make some bold moves.

If we don't take full advantage of this opportunity, if we don't think creatively and boldly, as you said, we will condemn not just our current students, but a generation of students to a lack of opportunity.

We have to have some bold changes here and some bold innovations.