But for many occupations and tasks, imagination leads to creative thinking and solutions that may be beyond the ken of someone with years of experience in that particular field.

China may just leave them in the dust.

On the contrary, hack-work is above you, so far above you that you can never hope to rise to it.

So they’re way behind. They get discouraged, and go into law or medicine.

Much of the ability to teach is innate— an ability to inspire young minds as well as control unruly classrooms that some people instinctively possess and some people definitely do not.