Children’s schooling is changing very fast today. In the past, teachers k    1    children sitting still for hours. They made them remember d    2    kinds of things. In other w    3    , The children had to go on repeating things until they knew them “by heart”. Today, many teachers want to know if it is p    4    to make children learn at all. They say you can o    5    help them learn. They say you must let children learn and find out things for t    6    .
But for these children, school is a kind of prison. They are there only because their p    7    make them go. They get out of the classroom as soon as the teacher lets them l    8    . Many of them want to find work, but the law will not let them work until they reach a certain a    9    . And so, they have to stay in school. Often they do not learn anything at all and h    10    every moment in class.