Read an interesting article that a friend of mine posted on Facebook a little while back about how kids lives today (as far as I am concerned, it started 45 years ago when I started school) are so structured that they have no time to do anything but what they are told to do. Article link is posted below.
http://globalpublicsquare.blog
s.cnn.com/2011/06/05/rebellion
-of-the-innovation-mom/
Worse yet is that they are also taught not "how" to think but "what" to think.
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