Why this title?

Hi...my inaugural post. Actually, feels momentous. I decided to create this blog to start a conversation and I invite anyone to join in. I happen to have spent a great deal of my life being educated or educating others (sometimes I was really good at it and then there were other times...). I am 53 and was educated in parochial schools until college - I admit this so that you have some sense of me, but hope too you won't hold it against me. I am a fan of the triple dot ending to thoughts... (and full disclosure) and the occasional emoticon ;) just to stay friendly.
So, why this title? Our national debate on public education (of which I am a fan) is backwards in my estimation. It is much about what can we (government, public, administration) do to "fix" it. So we test and we evaluate and we test some more. Rarely do we ask or consider what the professionals at the center of this debate - teachers - think and even rarer is what our students think. If we reframe our approach, if we put the kids and teachers front and center in our thinking/talking and invite both into the decision making process then we might just find a new way. And a way that works.
I don't have the answer. But I am hungry for the conversation. If this is a new world (read Daniel Pink and Ken Robinson) than maybe those who know no other world might just have a few ideas for us to consider. Kids might just make it easy for us to do this.