Downloaded the book yesterday after hearing you mention the author on your podcast a while ago!
I have primary school age kids and have just started down the education rabbit hole.
Today across the UK teenagers are being degraded with alphabetic letters.
It's an inhumane eugenic psyop that has only existed for a few generations.
Start here.
https://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Compulsory-Anniversary/dp/0865714487
Discussion
I was an avid reader until I went to secondary school. Under the bedcovers with a torch kind of fanatical reader. I don't bear grudges but I make an exception with a school system that squeezed my love of books out of me.
So many studies show that kids' creativity diminishes in state systems. What can you make with a paper clip is the classic benchmark.