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I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7. 5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency. )

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Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

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Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.

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We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.

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That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

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We need to develop people rather than process them.

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It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.

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