Jack Kingston: “Outside of my district but in the district of the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), there is a little town called…”

“Outside of my district but in the district of the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), there is a little town called Gray, Georgia. Gray, incidentally is the home of Otis Redding. There was a teacher there who was one of these classic institution teachers that used to be filled in all of the school systems throughout the country. This teacher had about 30 years experience and she was the one that taught your big brother, maybe your big cousin and maybe in some cases your mom and dad, but she taught you and she taught you well. Everybody loved her. They had an expert from the Department of Education come in. The expert was about 24 years old and she told this teacher, this 30-year veteran teacher, she said, you need to start teaching kids on the left-hand side of the chalk board because you write on the right-hand side of the chalk board and the kids' brains, the intuitive part of the cognitive dissidence of the brain, or some such garbage, it makes it easier for kids to learn if it is on one side of the chalk board because that is the learning side of their brain. Here is this teacher, who has an army of success stories, just a thick fan of followers, and so this young whippersnapper from the Department of Education came in here and wanted her to change the way she did business and the teacher was wise enough to say, well, thank you for your suggestions, and I will certainly put it under consideration. We will start doing that.”