Monday, July 20, 2009

"I wasn't sure I could pass it."--Warren Buffett

"There was also a rule that because I was an officer of a securities firm
I had to take the Series 7 exam [for stockbrokers]. I kept delaying it until I left
because I wasn't sure I could pass it."

[ Source: "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett, 2009 WOODSTOCK EDITION," by Andy Kilpatrick, Chapter 6: WHO'S WARREN BUFFETT?, pages 35-36.
In the 2008 COSMIC EDITION, page 29.
In the 2007 INTERNATIONAL EDITION, page 39.
In the 2006 LITERARY EDITION, page 41.]

Let's include this in our campaign here in NYC to attenuate the
OUT-OF-CONTROL TESTING (OOCT) going on. [OOCT is a direct result of policy emanating from the brain of a death penalty litigation expert.]

OOCT continues to deprive children of play time and access to arts, music and dance programs.

Along with Warren's children's names -- Susan and Peter, whose foundations helped fund the
Alliance for Childhood report "Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School" --
let's use it to persuade Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein to ease up on testing, testing, testing and teaching to the test hypermania.