Thu, 03 Sep 2009

Pressure Cooker Kindergarten

This is nothing short of horrifying, the end result of our obsession with measurement and testing of everything and everyone. A couple of generations of this, and it's all over for American civilization.

It’s been more than two decades since Robert Fulghum published the oft-quoted (and oft-mocked) essay “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” The piece describes a bucolic world of wonder, a place for cookies and afternoon naps.

That world is long gone.

(link) [Boston.com]

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On 9/4/2009 08:38:20
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