[Praxeologue]

I’ve just finished the book. I was astounded that a New Yorker staffer could write 295 pages while only revealing socialist viewpoints obliquely a couple of times. It is an excellent book. I plan to read his earlier works.

[A'elian' nation]

I’m an outlier.
I didn’t start first grade till I was just three months shy of turning 7.

I also didn’t speak much English having arrived in America the summer before starting school. Nor had I had any preschool or kindergarten attendance.

School studies and its regimen came effortlessly for me while younger kids struggled.

Later, as a teacher myself, I have noticed this outlier effect again and again.
Simply put, children start school at too early an age.
Allowing maturational development is preferable to the frustrating pressures of early academics. Montessori and Piaget were correct. Certain intellectual understanding must be preceded by maturational growth.

[jazusamo]

Thanks, Kennard.