A Child's Garden of Worries

"In the 100 years since we really got serious about education as a universally good idea, we’ve managed to take the 15 years of children’s lives that should be the most carefree, inquisitive, and memorable and fill them with a motley collection of stress and a neurotic fear of failure." So says A.A. Gill, a father of four, two at each end of the schooling spectrum: http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2012/12/aa-gill-schools-ruining-our-kids