Quality does not mean Quantity

An article from the Washington Post my friend posted on a home school site:

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/wrong-question-wrong-answer/2011/05/22/AFZ5hS9G_blog.html#pagebreak

It is very important to encourage children's curiousity but how is it best encouraged? If a school is mired down with testing results, constant exams and academic requirements, it is producing students who know how to answer questions but not necessarily ones who know how to think. An elastic mind is moulded and affected by the world in which it lives; a child who lives with standards and requirements is going to know how live by them but not necessarily whether they are legitimate or realistic. In way, a child is being taught to think inside the box; unfortunately for them, we live in a world that admires people who think outside the box. They are being strangled by convention in way....