Volunteered daily at my kids school and homeschooled them after school. They had Algebra down by the end of the 3rd grade. (Now one is an MD and the other a PhD in AI.
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The o.p. and that testimony brings to mind something that occurred to me recently
The curiosity of a child knows no bounds ,,, till they attend .gov schools
.gov schools kill curiosity by usurping it.
They don’t teach so much as they leash and bore silly on purpose
Give a child free rein to learn
and it’s like a dog chasing a ball
They never want to stop,
and they pursue it with gusto.
RE: “...and bore silly on purpose.”
I’ve been writing about education more than 30 years and want to say that this is a great summary of everything I keep discovering.
Normal people don’t want to bore others. But our Education Establishment uses it as a weapon, a drug, a killer.