It isn’t that if you were merely to increase the salaries of schoolteachers, you would solve the problem. The problem is endemic. It works at every level. It works in the culture of children themselves. It works in the federal, state, and local government. It works in the media. It works in the school boards and taxpayers with school bond issues. There’s not just one point of attack. And it’s very hard to imagine a serious change unless there’s a change of behavior at many levels by many different people. That involves rethinking, it involves changes in values, it involves money—not out of cynicism, but out of understanding how the real world works. It’s going to be very difficult to make this change unless, as happened with Sputnik, there’s an apparent threat to national security that requires us to learn more science.