Revolutionary idea triumphs over skeptics

Let's say, hypothetically, that you were someone with a potentially revolutionary idea. Let's also say that there are more than a few skeptics out there, and that you work in a field where...umm...the skeptics win more battles than the revolutionaries. If all that were true, then the headline above would draw you in, as it did me.

Nemitz' column rightly celebrates former Governor King's vision. Though that word can be sorely overused, at a simple level it means imagining the world as it going to be, not only as it is now. I was at the table as a Maine teacher during some of those early conversations, and heard many of the "give kids a chain saw" type comments, as well as all sorts of other dire predictions and accusations.

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