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People look at getting into the best schools. >> whats the libertarian point of view on this? >> you should have the best people --ç >> what about -- >> in this day and age, its grades, its extracurricular activity. >> thats the whole person. >> its hard work. >> did you get -- is it 1600? >> something impossible. >> they bumped it up to 24. >> if you are a good test taker and that happens to be the metric schools use to allow people entrance, then the good test takers are going to get in. at ...

To go to further school. others are put through other things, vocational, which is not bad thing. i dont think we need to determine these things in the fourth grade. that is the problem with things like common core. >> the problem with this we become a nation of good test takers then what? there is no independent thought. when kids get to college, look what is happening on college campuses? theyre force fed very narrow ideas and no discourse on college campuses. there is no independent thought. ...

>> so this is like the home loan thing and greeting as -- and getting as many people involved? you cant get rid of the college debt. >> the debt? >> like what you owe. >> the whole machine. from the s.a.t. to the colleges and the grad schools. >> the s.a.t. measures how good of a test taker you are. i crushed the s.a.t.s. people who did a lot worse on them did better than me in college. i dont think it means anything. i agree some kids can be tutored on top of s.a.t. prep and destroys any notion...

I was a bad test taker. >> they got it reversed. >> i think joanne is a little worried about you. >> just a little. >> is this a generational thing or is this just -- i dont know. >> i think part of the problem in school today people dont memorize anything. >> true. >> you say mercury, venus, earth, mars. how do you remember that? you had to meme -- memorize it. memorizing is bad. the children are simply wasting their time. they are not thinking creatively and this and that. memorization is very...

To new york to wisconsin? >> look at their high school transcripts. >> but different high schools have different demands and you dont know if theres an inflation of grades from here to there. >> my son is a senior in classroom too. >> and youre going to put it on dudes outside of princeton that decide this. >> are you telling me its a bunch of guys smoking pot. >> no, its been unattack for years and for good reason. >> i also know that three of the ten schools he is applying to dont want them. >...

All a sudden, you kick butt on the s.a.t.s and catapult yourself into a university you normally couldnt get into. >> i had good grades but i was not the greatest test taker. the writing portion, the essay portion, helped balance out the math portion. i do see your point, bob. i think if they just make the panel decide based on diversity purposes, i think thats probably not very fair. >> how did you do on your s.a.t.s? >> i did well. why would we take tools away from the admissions office for any...

From oklahoma to new york to wisconsin? >> look at their high school transcripts. >> different high schools have different demands. you wont know if theres an inflation of grades from here to there. >> based on a bunch of dudes outside of princeton -- >> youre going to tell me its just three guys -- >> this things been under attack for years and for good reason. >> the a.c.t. too. my sons taken both. one of those facts of life. i also know three of the ten schools hes applying to dont want him. ...

Comfortably keep this product, just below the knee. so with a soft-knitted band. and ill have something for not only myself, but for many, many women. >> and so whats going on in your life at this point? where are you? >> how rock-bottom was i? >> at that point in my life, i had always wanted to be a lawyer and had failed the l-sat, im not a good test-taker. that led me to try out to be goofy at disney world, but you have to be 58", and im only at 56", so i worked at disney world for three month...

Always wanted to be a lawyer and had failed the lsat. im not a good test taker. so then that led me to try out to be goofy at disney world, but you have to be 58" and im only 56". so i worked at disney world for three months and then i sold fax machines door to door for seven years. thats what was going on in my life. i had never taken a business class, ive never worked in fashion or retail, but i knew that i wanted to be self-employed. i had really been visualizing that. i had been manifesting ...

ne whos next? ill introduce you to a man famous for predicting political change. and in oslo court, well analyze what breivik said. and can europe survive? should the u.s. government slash its budgets the way european governments are? i was in london earlier this week and sat down with a star-studded panel to sort things out. first, heres my take. watching the apec summit in hawaii last week, i had a feeling we were entering a new phase of global geopolitics. for decades now, tho...