Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.