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Smaller class size doesn't necessarily matter in the ways that we think. i was hoping you would weigh in on that as an administrator and a school founder. >> yeah, so i think that usually, the answers to these questions are more nuanced. and so for example, i think it depends on the subject. of course, if you could dramatically reduce class size across the country from 30 to 12, it would matter. but that's not practical. if you reduce it slightly from let's say 26 to 24, not much is going to happen. what we do is, we make the classes as small as possible for reading. in reading, it matters a l...

>> i am not sure that is real. you must like this. >> i love it. this is like bill's saturday night. build it now and pay later. we try to make these kids feel good about themselves. when they get out into the real world -- don't roll your eyes at me. >> please stop picking on bill. it is the dumbest idea because when they get out in the real world eventually they will pay for it. it is one of those ideas across the pond i hope never learns to swim. >> can i call you bernie? >> by all means. or better niece. >> that was my grandmother's name and she was a doll. is her desire to kill self-estee...

>> not correcting spelling mistakes. >> it is getting better and better. >> you said if it is a math class, spelling doesn't matter. but it also leads to a good point and why not stop correcting math problems after three mistakes. i don't think they would ever do that. >> isn't there a group about who thinks that the absolutes of math are too masculine and too patriacal like two plus two is four and it is a structure and there should be a fuzzier math? >> it is too rigid. >> one plus one may not always equal two. there is an actual movement. >> my brain just shutdown. >> am i the only one who ...

Yesterday, that was kind of. but the real problem is we have all this, quote, unquote, breaking news coming at us, and we're glued to it, and we sort of wind up miss ag ling a lot o breaking news in our own lives. your kid gets a c-minus in a math class, all right? unfortunately, it comes in a report card. it doesn't come with flashy graphics, it doesn't come with dylan ratigan. >> i could volunteer. i could read you your child's grades. >> you would be very good. but i'm much more interested in people's real news, their world, more so than the world. we want to be informed citizens, of course...