&gt; ... children who’d been subjected to the same insipid tasks year after year after year were understandably losing their enthusiasm for learning.<p>And yet we pretend this isn&#x27;t by design! The US system is based on 18th-19th century&#x27;s Prussian system which was used in their military to create more obedient soldiers. That&#x27;s why school is soul crushing and so many children suffer in school. We are teaching them obedience above all else.<p>The system stinks.