Systems need to have built into them the mechanisms by which they can evolve in response to the naturally occurring stresses of a learning community. Facilitating that evolution demands that we respect the custodians of that system enough to empower them to shape the system. This was a status to which we had not yet been exalted as teachers at Brick. But to be fair, I rarely see teachers exalted to that status anywhere. This, incidentally, is the kind of evolving, self-perfecting system that we are working to build at Project GENIUS.