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We need to ask: What if school is a confidence factory for our sons, but only a competence factory for our daughters?

First, parents and teachers can stop praising inefficient overwork, even if it results in good grades.

In what job, for instance, would 20 to 30 workers have to sit in neat rows listening to their foreman or manager drone on for 40 minutes at a time before getting to work? In what industry does that work end up in heaps of unread papers — or worse — papers marked in some color to indicate failure, intended only to cause shame and worry before they are forgotten.

But I often wonder how many brilliant minds have been wasted because they didn’t conform during the critical years of adolescent education.

Still, with all of the advances in society, our conception of what an education system should be remains what is was when we were kids. And when our parents were kids.A system where introverts are often praised and extroverts are managed.And it looks nothing like real life.