>> lenora: you know teaching is a cultural activity. education is a cultural activity, and it struck me being an american in china, that the chinese very mucham look at schooling as a way to shape a proper chinese citizen. and it's all really about the collective. what's good for the classroom, what's goodll for the school and the country by extension. and what we in america do so well is these value of the individual, individual rights, individual interests and when you put that societal value in the classroom, we're so good at here is cultivating the curiosity of students, an elective. think about this. this is something that doesn't exist in china. for one period a day you can select something you're interested in, whether it's rock climb, or debate or going further in math. this is something the 250 million students in china don't have the opportunity to do and i think that's something we should be thankful for here. >> justin: i'm in agreement that the public school is the reflector of the larger society that they are contained in,