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she had noticed that the kids there were being diagnosed as having attention problems at a staggering rate—dramatically higher than in wealthier neighborhoods—and

had made the year before. In 2016, after working for

I cannot ensure that Quarterlifers graduate from high school with at least the basics of financial literacy, the foundations of cooking and nutrition, an introduction to healthy communication, boundary setting, and the dangers of abuse in dating, as well as some fundamentals around healthcare and self-care that could quickly improve quality of life

“get it/do it gap.”

On Education and Teaching Kids “Sooner or later, parents have to take responsibility for putting their kids into a system that is indebting them and teaching them to be cogs in an economy that doesn’t want cogs anymore. Parents get to decide . . . [and] from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., those kids are getting homeschooled. And they’re either getting home-sch

“that sheer amount of lesson or practice time is not a good indicator of exceptionality.”

“Do not try to make the brilliant pupil a replica of yourself,” Gilbert Highet wrote in The Art of Teaching. “If you can send him into the world with frames of reference suggested by you and tricks of craftsmanship which he could get only from you, you will have made him your pupil, as much as he will ever be, and earned a right to his permanent gr

...the only way you get on as an administrator is by understanding grown-ups better than you do children. You make a show of understanding children, but it's a show for the grown-ups. If Shauna actually got kids, she would have known that the three bullies weren't smart enough to appreciate the good sense of rules of tolerance and acceptance, they