Passage 68
A caring and responsible society should do something important and meaningful to improve the lives of its children.// The most obvious way of doing this is to free childhood from the unacceptable burden of examinations and selection created by our educational system.// At the tender age of 13 or14, children are selected and pushed into examination classes which will effectively decide their future.// Then, at the age when they are least receptive to learning, they are forced to sit exams where the penalties for failure are as final as death sentence.//