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We really do believe four score and seven years ago thomas jefferson said all men were created equal. but oops, he owned other human beings. so this is the 2.0 version. the version we're still using. on the first anniversary of 9/11, that's what was read outloud, the only english words besides the sad list of the dead. and then at the school, the greenwood school, these kids with learning differences, like dyslexia, adhd, a whole alphabet soup of stuff, for 35 years the school has said you need to memorize this but also publicly recite it. that's the thing. it's a difficult task for anybody to...

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 don't know. >> i think part of the problem in school today people don't 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 important. it doesn't matter if you understand the space time continuum as long as you know the e...

To lift expectations in the hopes of stemming that slide, but not everyone agrees there's this crisis in our public schools. diane ravitch, one of america's leading education historians, she says the real crisis in american schools is poverty. she says teachers have been demonized and common core is not the answer. >> common core is harder, but nobody knows if it's better. ten solid years of tests, tests, tests, and arne duncan's strategies have not worked. when you see tenures in which there is stagnation, you change your policy, and what he's recommending is do more of the same. >> but secre...

I've worked with education with newt gingrich. we don't great with anything, we don't agree on the westerly, but we dealt with that. your father, meghan, in '04 bush got 40% of the latino vote, your father 31% of the latino, down to 27%. mean just -- i don't understand why this hostility and this denial of the changing demographics of this country. >> all you have to say is i grew up in politician. my dad ran for the first time when i was 14 years old. i groo you to love politics, hearing him talking about reaching across the aisle. if at this point as republicans we're not going to learn to c...

Pre-existing conditions. all of which we know, and knew that weren't true. and look, if all we did was try to keep mitt romney from walking away from his positions and keeping him honest tonight, it would be a full-time job, but it's part of what the president will do. >> i want to talk to you as someone who used to work in the white house, as you did. there's no one i know who has worked with the president in the white house thinks that presidential debates reveal presidential skills. presidential debates reward memorization, which is utterly meaningless in the presidency. it rewards your abi...