This is just hyperbole to pry more tax dollars for education and I appreciate the sentiment behind it. However, US is the driving engine of innovation and crea

This is just hyperbole to pry more tax dollars for education and I appreciate the sentiment behind it. However, US is the driving engine of innovation and creativity and will continue being so. Asian societies prize conformity over creative thinking ; they are good at Math/whatever-subject because they are forced to be good at those subjects because proficiency in those subjects is seen as the ticket into middle class. In America, every kid has a choice to do whatever with his/her life. The American society nurtures its rebel thinker and lone wolf ; it prizes creativity over conformity. This choice gives us Beyonce, Vint Cerf ,Steve Jobs / Bill Gates , etc. etc.