Let kids be kids, for their sakes


Amazing memory: Katherine named the cards before they were laid out on a table on ‘Child Genius’.

Those As are important. But they are not everything. What we need is wholesome education for all. 

If geniuses weep in the face of a minor defeat, what of children driven to succeed by parents and a system that requires a string of As? The education system is changing, hopefully for the better. But more needs to be done to stop the money-making cheats.

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