This is one of the reasons I'm planning to home-school my children: encouraging them to do real work as early as possible. 13+ years of fake, unimportant projects is a very efficient way to generate apathy.
Recommended Reading: John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education (http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm) Interesting tidbit from Chapter 1: Admiral David Farragut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut) entered the US Navy at the age of 9, and received his first command when he was 12 years old. Kids are capable of far more than we currently give them credit for.
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This is one of the reasons I'm planning to home-school my children: encouraging them to do real work as early as possible. 13+ years of fake, unimportant projects is a very efficient way to generate apathy.
Recommended Reading: John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education (http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm) Interesting tidbit from Chapter 1: Admiral David Farragut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut) entered the US Navy at the age of 9, and received his first command when he was 12 years old. Kids are capable of far more than we currently give them credit for.