"I didn't know kids are that smart." Yes!! I wish more people recognized this. There's a "Free Range Kids"[0] movement growing out of this fact. A lot of people

"I didn't know kids are that smart." Yes!! I wish more people recognized this. There's a "Free Range Kids"[0] movement growing out of this fact. A lot of people have ended up in a place where unstructured/unsupervised time is seen as a "waste" for kids, but I think this is the wrong direction. I think Khan Academy's new experimental high school[1] is also built around this fact (that kids are smart & just need access to resources & meaningful work) [0] https://www.freerangekids.com/ https://www.freerangekids.com/ [1] https://khanlabschool.org/About-Khan-Lab-School https://khanlabschool.org/About-Khan-Lab-School