I find her final thesis statement interesting though completely unrelated to her argument in the rest of the article: "Until we teach both teachers and student

I find her final thesis statement interesting though completely unrelated to her argument in the rest of the article: "Until we teach both teachers and students to value knowledge and to love learning, we cannot expect them to use their minds well." Nowhere in her article does she mention that students need to value knowledge and love learning. She talks about possessing knowledge - these two things are VERY different. I believe the methods to teach a kid to love learning, and the method to spoon-feed knowledge down a kid's throat, are two completely separate things. A child won't gain knowledge unless he/she has the DESIRE to do so. Finding that desire is then key. A second thing, she argues that knowledge helps a person think of better alternatives to a situation. This is not necessarily true. Often, solutions are found by those who are not clouded by a million existing alternatives, but are able to use their own reasoning to come up with a superior solution.