A compliant workforce facilitates this. And that's what I saw very clearly in the Certificates of Mastery. Our children are not spending 50 minutes a day, as we did, in math class. I'll give you an illustration. In Oregon, a math requirement is to learn how to cut down trees in a quarter section.
Students spend the first three weeks learning how to feel about cutting down trees.
Then they spend a week weighing a number of trees and subtracting this and that, and now you've got your math. But what they have done is hone the attitude and behavior. This process is absolutely essential because a student can't go beyond his Certificate of Mastery until he's demonstrated that he has assimilated the philosophy of the outcomes. The first Certificate of Initial Mastery ever issued in this country was in Cottage Grove, Oregon. This was the jewel in the Oregon Department of Education's crown.