Sure – I’m not expecting today’s 10 year olds to magically fix everything. But it really annoys me when there’s so much potential there and people blather on about “the children are our future” but cut school budgets right and left in favor of crazy, ill-conceived wars and tax rebates whose value is roughly that of a toaster oven. All bass-ackwards IMHO.

Remember that we were once someone’s “our children” and were their future. It’s certainly true in a literal sense, but I suspect the best we can hope for is improving gradually over generations.