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 if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
 — [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786)
 
+Constructionism can't scale in school because of the prohibitive nature of narrow curriculum standards and even more narrow assessments. \\
+Since funding to schools is dependent on high scores, the schools will only ever teach to the test. \\
+A radical undoing of the current education system and funding mechanisms must be overhauled in order for constructionism to flourish. \\
+— Mark Barnett
 
 == On Epistemology ==
 
@@ -72,22 +76,21 @@ if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
 "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\
 — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] \\
 "Facts are stubborn things." \\
-— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams | John Adams]]
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams | John Adams]] \\
 "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." \\
 — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor | Christopher Hitchens' razor]] \\
 
 "You don’t get to say you’ve proved something if you haven’t explained it. \\
 A proof is a social construct. If the community doesn’t understand it, \\
 you haven’t done your job.” \\
-— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture
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+— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture ]] \\
 “At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\
 When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\
 In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. \\
 Imagination is more important than knowledge. \\
 For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. \\
 It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\
-— [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929
+— [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929 \\
 
 == On Living a Good Life ==