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My sense is you have to see the politicians come together including the republicans to drive the issue forward. when you look at the numbers, it's not sustainable right now. >> let's talk about the public school system for a minute. how well are public schools -- how good of a job are they doing to prepare students for the modern work force? it seems like they were designed when we were a manufacturing-based economy and the most important thing kids could learn was discipline, obey orders, memorization. how well are he doing to prepare kids for a modern work force. >> today when you look at jo...

>> well, part of the problem that the challenger has in this instance is we already have a sense of the president as president. the challenger has to come across as presidential in a moment in which he's being pushed to do something dramatic and powerful. i think always the problem of, for governor romney in those moments, has been a tendency to try too hard. that's why i think people are saying relax, calm down, take it easy. you're in the going to do it all at once if you do it you're going to build momentum in this debate and add to it in subsequent stages of the campaign. >> we know at lea...

The voices that they need. and so what you saw last night was a speech that, in terms of chris christie, not ann romney's speech, was a speech that just tried to tear down. was a speech that was full of anger and not full of answers. but at the end of the day, what's happened in american education is that we have the best scores we've ever had. yet it can't be about memorization anymore. it has to be about how we help all kids get to the quality instruction they need so they can be -- have the choices they need for the future. and we're trying to do that at a period of time where 46 out of 50 ...

plumbers. all kidding aside, it's not the same job requirement. so, it's totally legitimate for the president to point this out. >> this comes as a new ad from president obama highlights the, quote, real people who were affected by bain capital, that private equity company that mitt romney ran for 15 years. take a look at that ad. >> makes me angry. those guys were all rich. they all had more money that they'll ever spend, yet they didn't have the money to take care of the very people that made the money for them. >> the other side former managing director at bain capital makes his c...

Voracious and focused on the sci-tech field. we did a survey a few years ago which for middle and high school students 4 in 10 say they would be very unhappy in a job that requires a lot of math. that says a lot about the way we teach math and our perspective. we really need to get geared up to focus on these issues. >> that's what you get when you go from a culture of memorization to a culture of experimentation because experiments are fun. memorization is not. jonathan, go ahead. >> in the president's state of the union address he made a big deal about in sourcing and changing the tax code a...