I’ve been making the backpacks gradually bigger as my statement on how kids today are being overloaded. Too much is dumped on them too early, and yet, they’re not coming out demonstrably better educated. I had only enough books to carry by my side, with one hand. Backpacks were for hiking and camping, not school. Many of my friends became very successful without the kind of homework that today’s kids get.
Of course, I became an artist and writer, so I’m still starving… but that’s beside the point…………..
I’ve been making the backpacks gradually bigger as my statement on how kids today are being overloaded. Too much is dumped on them too early, and yet, they’re not coming out demonstrably better educated. I had only enough books to carry by my side, with one hand. Backpacks were for hiking and camping, not school. Many of my friends became very successful without the kind of homework that today’s kids get.
Of course, I became an artist and writer, so I’m still starving… but that’s beside the point…………..