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[quote=Anonymous]Several good points already.  I’d like to add that kids did more self-learning.  Letting kids have the chance to be bored, not scheduling every minute of the lives with structured activities helped a lot.  I think it helped keep anxiety down.  I also think people realized that a lot of learning happened outside of school.  School also taught kids more about interacting with each other because kids were allowed to resolve more themselves.

Things weren’t perfect back then, but we threw out a lot of what was good.

Also, I think today there is too much coddling of poor or immigrant kids.  By that I mean, there’s built in assumption that they can’t before they’ve been a chance to try.  Clearly supports are needed but the kids suffer from lowered expectations for too long. I came from a working class, multi-racial, urban community next to “the projects” with many households speaking English plus a second language.  I can’t imagine getting out of that situation And having the ability to succeed in college with our current education system.

We were also blessed to be allowed to fail and learn from mistakes.  Too many kids suffer from a fear of failure.[/quote]

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