A successful education system lies at the heart of a functioning democracy. If we want our citizens, from the privileged to the poor, to be equipped to improve our society, they are going to need to be educated in a way that is more likely to bring that about. The current debate on “education reform” narrows the issue to an argument over matters that miss the reasons why our educational system is deficient, and offers unconstructive proposal for change. We need to adopt an approach to education where we are equipping our citizens with the skills of analytic reasoning, challenging, questioning, and the tools for persuasive advocacy. These are the non-legal teachings of a law school education that can be uncoupled from the “law talk” of a law school curriculum and devised to apply more broadly. It should not take 20 years of education for anyone, like me, to get rebuttal comments of this magnitude on a paper toward the goal of forcing one to analyze, challenge, persuade.