> We’re ready to try the policies that education schools don’t like. Direct instruction works. Acceleration works. Ability grouping works. Aristocratic tutoring

> We’re ready to try the policies that education schools don’t like. Direct instruction works. Acceleration works. Ability grouping works. Aristocratic tutoring works. The pursuit of excellence is not only possible, it is pleading to be tried. We already know what changes to start with—the failure to implement is one of will. We’re ready to do the work. [...] > But defense isn’t enough. We need to be proactive in building a new corpus and community: a new institution studying the transmission and production of knowledge, skills, and character that education schools have neglected. Ordinarily I'd support a stance like this but it really feels like this is just the build-up for someone to say public education is the issue and we need to privatize it further to fix it.