uniform who provide it. [ applause ] >> i've got a good friend and this good friend is named martha coughlina wanted to give her students a lesson on freedom they would never forget. so with the permission of her principal, she removed all the desks from her classroom. when the students came for first period and said, where are our desks, martha said, you're not going to get a desk until you tell us how you earn one. students suggested, well, good grades or good behavior. martha told them while those were very important, it wouldn't earn them a desk. as each period came and went, students were stumped as to how to earn a desk, and word started spreading around the campus about this teacher who had lost her mind and taken the desks out. students started calling their parents, some called the media and local television crews showed up to try to find out what in the world was going on. at the last period of the school day when no student had correctly answered how to earn a desk, martha coughlin went to the classroom door and opened it and welcomed a parade of veterans who walked in carrying sc

uniform who provide it. [ applause ] >> i've got a good friend and this good friend is named martha coughlinstudents a lesson on freedom they would never forget. so with the permission of her principal, she removed all the desks from her classroom. when the students came for first period and said, where are our desks, martha said, you're not going to get a desk until you tell us how you earn one. students suggested, well, good grades or good behavior. martha told them while those were very important, it wouldn't earn them a desk. as each period came and went, students were stumped as to how to earn a desk, and word started spreading around the campus about this teacher who had lost her mind and taken the desks out. students started calling their parents, some called the media and local television crews showed up to try to find out what in the world was going on. at the last period of the school day when no student had correctly answered how to earn a desk, martha coughlin went to the classroom door and opened it and welcomed a parade of veterans who walked in carrying school desks. and as th