Great Question - What's more important: being able to shoot a 25 foot jump shot or...

...being able to solve a quadratic equation? Which is going to strengthen our country more.

Dr. Ben Carson writes:

"Many teachers have told us that when we put a Carson Scholar in their classroom, the GPA of the whole class goes up by as much as a whole point over the next year, because now the kids have something else to focus on. They begin to realize they can get just as much attention for solving a quadratic equation as they can for shooting a 25-foot jump shot. Those are the kinds of things that will strengthen our nation."

Dr. Carson has a book out which may be worth reading: America the Beautiful.