but their education system is almost totally rote learning. particularly those people on the course to university, it's all taught, rote, it's all boring. but that's true with most education. but most education systems in the world. we've got -- we have all over the world we are teaching, we are doing the education yesterday as we are trying to get through today. and we should be really at least teaching education for today if not for tomorrow. the chinese are working on that. i remember remember -- remember that television show dialogue. we had a big audience and television show in china. the government has just announced that mandatory education for nationwide eight years was going to go to 12 years by 2020. i said wait a minute, wait a minute, you're talking about keeping kids in school for four more years but giving them the same kind of education, same kind of rote education that doesn't address to the creativity. and i said the point is what are they doing when they are sitting in school or 8 years or contour 12 years? what are they lear

but the problem is that given what you have said is the rote learning that we think is the most corrupting thing in that system. . . and only speak when you're asked. this mindset, you have to start with the teacher. but that's very difficult to change the thinking of the teacher. and what they of course try to do is get people into china, who bring a different spirit. that cannot be done overnight. that -- >> one interesting new direct to and this is not responsive of what you have been saying, but in every primary and secondary school, you have to take science and math. and these have been taught by anybody. but now the new direct it is for those teachers who teach science and math, do teachers have to have a degree in the subject everywhere before they can teach it. and i might even push harder for more rote learning and feedback, but it's part of really trying to be responsive to its engraved flux. we think this is good rather than being frozen in some position that they're going to keep. there are lots of issues, lots of push there. and you want to contribute to that, too. to that dia

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because i'm slow and how i have to process things and routine and rote is how i learn. it's how i train to go to war. physical training. i study weapon systems. all those kinds of things so i can be prepared as best i can. so a few years ago i was sent to iraq on very short notice, like a few days. like i had to go to iraq right away. i didn't have time to prepare physically the way i normally do. the training i have. i wear a 40 pound backpack or vest that i run in so i can carry the weight. no time to train. i was a little nervous going. and so there was a sunday i got to go to church before i went away. and lynn knew that i was a bit nervous so i tried to, you know, man the family and try to be calm. so lynn let some of the folk at church know that i was anxious about this particular trip and things were going bad in iraq. so after church, a group of ministers and deacons from the church formed a prayer circle around me. i've seen prayer circles but i've never been in the center of one before. the deacon sent men and women -- they put hands on me and reverend andrews

same kind of rote education that doesn't address to the creativity. and i said, the point is what are they doing when they're sitting in school for eight years our soon-to-be 12 years. what are they learning. how are they learning? and we got a great ovation for that. recognition that that's what's got to be addressed. so we talked about crossing the river, trial and error, a lot of experimentation going on in china to figure out what kind of education system, what kind of education for today's world, no one in the world has really mastered that except the united states in higher education. because such primary and secondary, except here. we have got a great higher education system because of competition. for decades and decades and decades, the universities have competed for students, competed for competition for customers. maybe the school is better for customers and we're trying to introduce, say, look you've learned so much from the marketplace about economics, wider israeli marketplace, economic system, or at least change from the road education.

so students can at least understand the rationale and it is not just a rote exercise. >> we're drawing towards the close. i see a number of hands still up. if we can get a few rapid-fire questions, and maybe just one answer from up here. we can take three or four more. right by the corner of the wall. right there. yeah. >> good afternoon. i was interested in what dr. tatum said about the letter that you read. i did not hear anything from the other presidents about supporting the role of activism in grassroots movements within your student body or bring that into curriculum. the other quick thing was in terms of experiential learning, i was wondering if you were thinking at all about opportunities that are not necessarily ethnocentric? looking at ecological terms in world affairs? and global affairs? >> that's question on the table. maybe we have others. mary, can we -- >> hi. and here with my colleagues from the harvard higher education school. i was wondering if you could speak briefly on the role of women's college in higher education when most developed countries including the unite

so students can at least understand the rationale and it is not just a rote exercise. >> i see a numberhands still up. if we can get a few rapid-fire questions, and maybe just one answer from up here. we can take three or four more. right by the corner of the wall. right there. >> good afternoon. i was interested in what dr. tatum said, the letter that you read. i did not hear anything from the other presidents about supporting the role of activism in grass-roots movements within your student body or bring that into curriculum. the other quick thing was in terms of experiential learning, i was wondering if you were thinking at all about opportunities that are not necessarily ethnocentric? looking at ecological terms in world affairs? >> [unintelligible] >> are we going to take a bunch of them? >> that is the question on the table. maybe we have others. mary, can we -- >> hi. and here with my colleagues from the harvard higher education school. i was wondering if you could speak briefly on the role of women's college in higher education when most developed countries have not only near th

rote to confirm craig becker. i yield the floor. mr. sessions: mr. predent?he presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: i want to share a few thoughts 0 on the nomination of judge joseph a. greenaway to the third circuit court of appeals which i think we'll be voting on later today. i look forward to supporting his nomination. he has a good record as a district court judge, and i think almost all of my colleagues, if not all, will support him. but i would like to take a moment to correct the record regarding some allegations that have been made by my democratic colleagues regarding the processing of this nomination. sometimes we have controversial nominees like mr. becker, and if anyone would care to listen to senator enzi's comments, you'll see why there are legitimate concerns about that nomination. some of the nominees are not controversial and should move forward on a steady pace for confirmation in the senate. most of the nominations that have been submitted for positions within the government in the department of justice, at the federal