[walterbell]

What about the unidentified high school kid who will be the next Gates or Jobs? Let's not repeat La Serrata of Venice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serrata_del_Maggior_Consiglio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Council_of_Venice

[gone35]

Perhaps it's already too late --with US inequality having risen up to gilded-age levels, as it has, for over a generation now.

[walterbell]

As long as parents and teachers are free to invest their resources into one vision over another, it's never too late to measure competing visions of measurement.

[theworst]

Assuming we can meaningfully measure competing visions of measurement.

The turtles, all the way down, they burn!