Ted Dintersmith

You know, like, okay, so that would be my second one.

And then the third is, I think, investing a lot more money in our teaching force.

You know, a good friend of mine is a guy named Pasi Solberg.

He wrote Finnish lessons.

He architected all the changes in Finland.

And interestingly, you ask Pasi, what made all the progress in Finland possible?

It was a budget crisis.

You know, the oil revenue tanked.

They were under the gun.

And they had to make a choice.

You know, we could do everything sort of half-assed.

Or we could put our dollars on data.

Or we could put our dollars on teacher training.

We can either have more data tracking how our kids are failing on goals that don't make sense, or we could put it into making our teachers amazing.

They shut down a bunch of the colleges of education.

There's a joke in Finland, you know, three people go into the bar, a doctor, a lawyer, and a teacher.

And the bartender asks the doctor, why are you a doctor?

And he said, I didn't get into the school of education.

And ask the lawyer, why are you a lawyer?

They turn me down, so I'm a lawyer.