Ha! Perhaps Kyle will grow up to be a games programmer like his "old man".
Compulsory schooling doesn't make kids stupid, it's just slowly become completely ineffective at helping them learn. All kids want to learn in the beginning but, like all humans, when something becomes 'too hard' they back off, resist it and start hating it or fearing it. Because of our lack of respect for teachers, our disdain for providing proper funding and materials for education, turning schools into a glorified day care and leaving our children in from of the TV, it's no wonder it's 'hard' for them, and they aren't learning.
Learning starts in the home, and kids will learn all the time, from their parents, their friends, and their siblings. You don't even need to teach kids how to learn, it's built in, we just have to teach them how to use their own power to overcome obstacles and challenges. We have to have compassion and forgiveness for children, and help them not turn failures into blocks. If we instilled a passion for overcoming any obstacle and taught our kids that they can literally do *ANYTHING*, we would have less learning problems. It's the idea that kids are limited in some way, any way, that prevents them from being all they can be, and prevents them from learning.
Of course, I'm neither a parent or an educator, so feel free to ignore me.
