In 1955, the nation was still largely industrialized, and South Dakota was an agricultural state. A high-school education was a good level of attainment. Now, to be a player in an information economy, people need more education.

I'll be glad to get back home (Franklin) to my elementary school-aged sons, Cooper and Grady by Sept. 24,

Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.

I picked special needs because I was in special education growing up at Boca Elementary School and Boca Raton Middle School. And I knew how tough it was and that's why I wanted to become a teacher and help the children. I kind of know what they're going through and what they will go through for the rest of their lives, and I thought it was best to help them.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.