And in order for that school to succeed, you have to compete with the established school in town. You've got to take some of its students away. That established school not only already has the students enrolled, but it has the schoolhouse, the buses, the teachers, the gyms, the cafeterias, the football fields, the libraries, the labs and the drivers' ed cars. The established school has all the advantages, and if it's doing its job to the satisfaction of the community, it has absolutely nothing to fear from competition. It can't lose.
Competition means that there are winners and losers.
If that established school I just mentioned isn't doing its job in spite of all those unfair advantages it has, then it's going to fail. It will be replaced by something better. And that's a wholly good thing. I see a lot of parallels between American education and the American auto industry, and I want to share a few of them this afternoon. The first one is failure.