Singapore's prime minister got in trouble with the highly competetive mothers in his country. [Source] What did he say that was so comtroversial?
"Please let your children have their childhood…Instead of growing up balanced and happy, he grows up narrow and neurotic. No homework is not a bad thing. It’s good for young children to play, and to learn through play."
But as I found out the other day, Albert Einstein felt the same way.
"Overemphasis on the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.
It is also vital to a valuable education that independent critical thinking be developed in the young human being, a development that is greatly jeopardized by overburdening him with too much and with too varied subjects. Overburdening necessarily leads to superficiality." — Albert Einstein, in Ideas and Opinions, p. 66-67 [Source]
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