Do you believe that your child will indeed DO BETTER than you in his or her adult life?
If so, then would you also agree that in order to do significantly better than you, your child MUST NOT retrace your same educational path?
Think for a moment the implications of the hope you carry: if your child has the same reading list, and has the same math classes, the same history courses, etc. then it stands to follow that your child will not be able to rise above your own current accomplishments if he starts his adult life with the stock knowledge and experience you had. Your child’s knowledge and experience would not be different enough to change his life that much more than yours. So this means you need to take a hard cold look at somehow making your child’s experience significantly different enough to yours for your hope to become a reality.
Pop Quiz:
Is your child’s educational content different enough to be better than the content you learned as a child?
Are your child’s learning methods and techniques better than the ones you used as a child?
Is your child apportioning his time between different subjects in a much more judicious way than the way you did it as a child?
Is the strategy for choosing one set of classes over another set different enough from the one your parents used in determining what you should study?
