Stop Telling your Kids that School Will Prepare them for Life

My oldest son, Joseph, is very extroverted. Gabriel, his younger brother by two years, is the opposite. On any aptitude or intelligence test, I would bet that the older one scores higher.

Joseph is creative and bright. Very bright. At nine, he asks questions like, “If atoms are the smallest things, what are they made of?” He gets enthralled by documentary series on human life and wonders if babies in the uterus have consciousness at 20 weeks. At age four, he reasoned that if he could only have one half of a frosted pink…