Sorry, but the educational visionaries who built the public school system could not have imagined a world where the public school system has not been working very well in many places. Systemic change as the result of feedback has not resulted in the ways education is organized, structured and functioning. Look at the data, the results. Too many wed to the status quo for too long has produced a stagnant pool of resistance to new delivery systems. Change is finally coming, because the public is demanding it, not because those in charge are particularly visionary.