A little while ago, I stumbled onto a video from Malcolm Gladwell about relativity.  It wasn't Einstein, but it was genius.  In it, he was discussing how we have a perception of ourselves based on the group we are surrounded by.  In a crowd of musicians, I am the worst at playing an instrument.  In a daycare, I am the best (I hope) baseball player in the room.  This got me thinking.  We compare ourselves to the people in our cohort, no matter who the cohort is.  

Oh, and I strongly encourage setting aside the 19:14 it takes to watch this video.

As I mentioned earlier, there was a plan in place to have a meeting with a small group of high school students about what we could be doing better as an educational system.  It was meant to be a group of four, but one of my most important panel members, a junior (I'll get to him later), didn't show to the meeting.  Even still, we had a good conversation with three of the students.