It’s too late.  Business as usual is leading us to disaster, and claims that U.S. society actually wants to reform schools in the name of fairness and intelligence for all is a dangerous sort of naivety.  Current research on brains, bodies, and societies, as well a plethora of interesting new stuff going on outside of schools, can give us hints as to where to start, but not how to finish.  Since the end is near, let’s all try to go out with dignity, a denial of self-deception, and rage—and that just might be enough to save us all.  Dylan Thomas said “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light”.  And that is what I believe us old academics ought to be doing as we prepare to leave the stage.  But what about the young?