Now we're seeing what's wrong with the system for millions of boys. Beginning in very early grades, the sit-still, read-your-book, raise-your-hand-quietly, don't-learn-by-doing-but-by-taking-notes classroom is a worse fit for more boys than it is for most girls.

It's funny to see all this in an editorial in the Post; I've been thinking it in relationship to boys (now men) I went to elementary and high school with for years.