The Boston Marathon

When I saw that the fastest runners in the Boston Marathon were from Kenya, all I could think was, “Wow, I wonder why Swedes and Italians don’t find out what kind of a training program they have for their runners in Kenya so they’d be able to run fast, too?” And wouldn’t you think that American educators in charge of physical education programs would want to incorporate as much as they could of the Kenyan system, too? Any educator in America today will tell you that genes have nothing to do with a young person’s performance in the classroom or on the playing field. When we get rid of the teachers who are incompetent dubbers, when our school system stops failing, when we finally implement the right kind of magic program, no child will be left behind. Imagine what chaos will reign when every country implements the training program they use in Kenya, and 10,000 runners all show up at...
Read the full transcript