“Childhood, after all, has to be an age of discovery. These are days you'll remember vividly all your life, even when you're old and forget why you came into a room. It must never be allowed to become the age of anxiety.
The anxiety has been greatly increased by this government's multiplication of exams and emphasis on starting training as a middle manager in a computer company from the age of six. Parents have made things worse by worrying unduly about exam results and seeing that their children work a great deal harder than most middle managers in computer companies.”

—  John Mortimer

Source: Where There's a Will: Thoughts on the Good Life (2003), Ch. 14 : Living with Children

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English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author 1923–2009

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