Kids are mostly being "dumbed" in school not educated. E.g.: "Squeak Etoys, Children & Learning", Alan Kay > The projects developed in Squeak use a different

Kids are mostly being "dumbed" in school not educated. E.g.: "Squeak Etoys, Children & Learning", Alan Kay > The projects developed in Squeak use a different and simpler kind of incremental mathematics that allows very young children to understand some of the key ideas in calculus. We have found that more than 90% of 5th graders not only understand “Galilean gravity” but are able to derive the mathematical “formulas” (actually 2nd order differential equations) using this alternative mathematics, and author a simulation that matches up very well with the experimental data. http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2005001_learning.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2005001_learning.pdf (Also, something about infants and sign language... And László Polgár and his three daughters, whom he raised to be chess prodigies...) We are barely scratching the surface of human potential...