The fictitious interview with the authors of Rationed Learning: …’Yes, but … ‘ Report received another edit. The page includes the addition of benchmark books listed under Related Reading that addressed the same problem decades ago. These books generated national discussion that lasted for years. Together, the fictitious and the actual discussions address the recognition of differences between what the most accomplished people in civilization have and can do and what most other people do in schools. Probably educators have read these books, or are at least aware of them as part of the “ancient” (before most of them were born) history of schooling.