[unread]

"Yes. And part of the problem is parents. They can't stand it when their kids are smarter than them. So they keep em down."

Well, I don't believe that. But I do think that younger parents are making a big mistake by sending their kids off to school too young. Pre-kindergarten, or even kindergarten might be just the thing for a hippie Mom who wants to set about and smoke pot all day, but it's a dirty rotten way to treat your kid... :(

[aspasia]

I don't believe that.

Hmmm. Maybe you have humility? It is a phenomenon that perhaps you aren't familiar with, but believe me, it happens. Many many parents don't respect their children and it will come back to hurt them in their "golden" years.

[aspasia]

Or to put it another way, the very thing that makes anyone dumb kids down is to establish a master - slave arrangement. That happens in families just because both teachers and parents are composed of something called human nature.

There's another part of human nature that desires freedom. But it is a freedom to do the right thing. Parents set the better parameters for kids to be at liberty to flourish.