There, I said it. He's only 13, so we have a few years before we even have to consider it, but I need to say it now. Learning should be a joy, not a stress-filled struggle.
You high school seniors, applying to or waiting to hear from colleges, ignore all the nonsense about top tier schools. And especially ignore the ridiculous notion that your SAT score or grade point average defines who you are.
The deficit doves featured by the media don't understand actual monetary operations and reserve accounting, and so they take the same 'fundamentally wrong' positions as the deficit hawks.