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The point is that the expertise and experience comes outside of school when you apply the P word. I practiced my music as much as my baseball. The discipline to do so comes from inside.



Both of my kids were exposed to things in school but never grew passionate about them. My wife and I tried to direct them in various extracurricular pursuits, and as soon as we stopped pushing, they stopped going.

Yet somehow as young adults they have both identified and pursued things that interest them as much as (or maybe more than) music interests me. Most of them are things I would never have thought to suggest or promote... but they intuitively knew what they want.

My point is that passion has to be identified by the individual, not by the parents or the school system.

Classic literature is full of stories about parents who tried to perpetuate their own dreams through their kids; and in most of those stories, the kid is not happy about it.

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