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League degrees and mbas and law degrees than i can count. you have a very smart son. is it overdone? do you think the president has a point or there is an agenda going on here? >> i think there are several things going on. one, the unions are throwing their weight around. two, there is an astounding, horrifying, terrifying racial gap in achievement on the nation's standardized testing. i think the obama administration wants to try to cover that up. three, there is a complete misunderstanding about the value of memorization and teaching to the test. memorization and teaching to the tests have b...

Question to you, we're constantly comparing ourselves to civilizations and societies that were not based on capitalism and creativity like we are in the united states. we're just not about memorization. it is about entrepreneurship and keeping spirit of creativity alive. programs like common core kill that. what you you think? >> i think that is a great point. make false comparison with us and chinese and us and indians. these are the not societies a the least based on historically equal opportunity. the education system in this country is equalizer for everybody. it is supposed to provide a c...

You've said in the past it's a ponzi scheme. >> i like to take a look at some of the best moments in previous debates, learn from my colleagues, see how they handled it. i think that's a useful experience. >> a lot of that stuff gets changed at the last second or even during the debate, the ebb and flow of it you can never really quite predict. that's what makes it exciting. >> your goal is to help make the voter out there a little bit smarter on where these candidates stand. >> your preparations should include almost memorization. prepare but don't become hostage to your preparations. it wi...

Have you ever watched a 3-year-old do aputer? they go right to it. play with it. that's problem solving. that's creative thinking. the other is wrote memorization. we are actually quite good at the problem solving stuff. there is some evidence that the brains are being recircuited. >> so kasey thinks old people are dumb and young people are smart. what do you think? do you agree? >> i would go with that. >> how old are you? >> 40. >> the world is a more affluent place. you are much less likely to die young and much more likely to have a reasonably nutritious diet unless you live in the souther...

A writer who has the same effect as huff glue has a list of skills your grand parents had that you don't. cooking from scratch, ironing really well, haggling, meeting people without the internet and not letting women vote. i added that last one. but it is the truth. when jfk said we could get to the moon we got to the moon even though will ron doesn't believe it happened. is a similar effect happening? we focus on abstract thinking and on the internet and get better at things like that. >> we get better at things like that. the brain things in two ways. mit has studied this. >> the left and th...