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Bill, I certainly found the commentary interesting, perhaps a little more contextual with the agenda, here. For me, Richard DeLorenzo's philosophy and subsequent success is typified by this perspective on learning. We go to school for so many hours a day, so many days a week, and so many weeks a year… Time is the constant, learning is the variable. What we want to do is flip that around. Once you create a real clear system, then learning becomes the constant and we can actually measure the rate at which students are learning. Learning can happen 24/7, 365 days a year… and if we want to unleash the power of students, learning has be very clear, in what students are expected to know and be able to do, but they can learn in any context to meet those objectives. This left me with the reflection 'Are our schools permitting our students to learn what is important to them? Are schools creating a synthetic, constraint to students' learning? Rather, if not schools, curriculum?'