And yet these same people never had a clear, simple and easy-to-understand basic message on the topic.

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This may seem an odd topic, as we watch basic commodity prices decline.

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The central challenge we face in education is, as Steve Denning, my fellow Forbes contributor who wrote on this topic recently, said the basic factory model of education.

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