[goodnesswins]

I stopped reading his "speech" when he said the schools "needed more money."

I would have been VERY happy if he had talked about DISCIPLINE in learning....but I guess that's too much to ask!

[liberty2004]

I would have been VERY happy if he had talked about DISCIPLINE in learning.

The ONLY solution to the schooling problem is to removing it COMPLETELY from government. Anything short of that will never work. Education is a service and anyone who thinks government bureaucrats and create an adequate system is delusional. Yes, there are a few cases where public schools "work" but in time the government leaders will make sure they are dumbed down too. The solution is simple, the political will to accomplish it is....

[Richard Kimball]

I think you have to look at Gates' history. He is incredibly intelligent, but he would never have become successful by following the rules. Gates became successful by breaking them. Had Gates been a rule-follower, he would have sold MS DOS to IBM, accepted a position with them, and become a department head.

Most people, myself included, are not smart enough to break the rules and get away with it like Gates does. Gates also lives in a fairly cloistered world. He's surrounded by people who have their degrees, and jump when he says jump. Discipline isn't a problem in his world.