First, we need ditch the “business model” for education, because it is only going to produce sociopaths. We need to get over the idea that public schools are for producing an obedient proletariat for Yalies to exploit when they become CEOs. We need to put up a big poster that says question authority next to every photo of a president in a classroom. We need to get over the idea that educations must be either liberal or conservative. Education needs to be based on teaching kids to be constantly curious and vigilant about what humanity thinks it knows. Revise the proverbial “3 R’s” (readin,’ writin’, and ‘rithemetic) to reading, writing, and reasoning. I would like to see a return to some of the “classical” (Greek) methods that train students to recognize various types of logical fallacies, incomplete or dishonest “evidence,” and how to marshal the facts to support what it is they think they believe, how to recognize propaganda when they see it.