Why do we push children beyond what is developmentally appropriate for them?
Here’s one answer:
“School systems, driven by ill-informed ideologues and federal mandate, are becoming obsessed with testing knowledge at the expense of training kids to develop better capacity for acquiring knowledge.” -- William Klemm, D.V.M., Ph.D., is a Professor of Neuroscience at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University