1. Parents whine and bitch every time their precious little baby is expected to do any actual work.

2. Governments dumb down education programs. Some do it to massage the statistics and make education look good, others do it because they honestly think that's how you help teachers give more attention to low-performing students.

The effect is the widening "education gap" - the difference between kids whose parents sign them up for extracurricular activities, and the ipad kids.