by Reed E. Hundt

About the author: Reed E. Hundt is the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Before I was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, I had a respectable job. I was a school teacher.

Unfortunately, I was not a particularly good school teacher. I say that not with any sense of false modesty. It was definitely not something that I had a gift for, and it takes a gift.

Schools Lack Resources

In addition to my lack of the gift for teaching, I was put in an impossible situation, the type of situation that so many teachers face every day.

This was before the communications revolution and we suffered a major deficit in information technology—we had only books.

Before my first class on the first day, someone came by and gave me 35 textbooks...