Mayor Bloomberg's plan to publish the "ratings" of teachers is one more example of the public humiliation many of New York City's best teachers have to endure for "educational reform." What if doctors were treated like this?

No disrespect to Ms. Cathie Black, but just as I would not want a sociology student to examine my prostate, I feel that there is a minimal level of knowledge necessary to run the New York Public School system.

I am basing this premise -- absurd as it might seem to educational bureaucrats -- on a conversation I remember my father had many years ago with a Soviet teacher.

I have been considering for several years what Mayor Bloomberg really believes when it comes to public education. Here is what I think he'd say if he could publically reveal what he really believes.

Unless we as a nation "grow up" emotionally and intellectually and deal with our serious problems rather than through "denihilism," future generations will look back at us and curse us for our ignorance.