The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

They explicitly reject a one-size-fits-all, cookie-cutter approach.

The Northwest Forest Plan was a one-size-fits-all approach. But an ecosystem in Southern Oregon is much different than a forest in Northern Washington. Here we have an opportunity to use local knowledge and local input that really reflects the needs of the environment there.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.