I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.
I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

