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I'm Jill underly Wisconsin State superintendent of Public Instruction and I'm going to begin my speech today with a story a beloved story a story by Eric Carl that I know so many of us have read or still read to our kids in our early in our early learning classrooms The Very Hungry Caterpillar is such a well-loved picture book and you might think it a rather odd place to start a major address on education but I beg to differ the caterpillar is hungry very hungry in fact and also curious and intent on growing and in addition to being a sweet story about stomach aches it's one about metamorphosis and change and it conveniently skips the messiest part of that change in the book The Caterpillar builds a cocoon Waits 2 weeks and then emerges at a as a butterfly but the messy part those two weeks is the best most important part of the story because the messy part is what carries the important lesson so let me tell you about that lesson It's Kind of Perfect that the first time that I heard th