These are the best of times and the worst of times.  Kids are yearning to learn what they believe is valuable, teachers are trying to interest them in what they are required to learn, and the times they are a changin'. 

In other parts of the world people are trying to live and to come up to the standards of the U.S. when, if they all did that, we would need another three planets. Times, they are a changin'.

Population is increasing.  The end of cheap oil is over as our new…