I don't feel guilty; I feel conflicted. Big difference. I'd like to think that I can teach my kids to just be good people and pursue that which interests them intellectually and the rest will fall into place. But I'm just unsure that that's a viable path anymore. That's entirely due to our continual obsession with "fixing" education. As a teenager I worked all the hours at a restaurant that my boss would let me work, which put me over the legal limit almost every week. That's a type of education, but it's not the type of education that counts for anything that will get you into college, but it's proved invaluable to me personally. I don't want my kids doing 3 hours of homework a night or whatever. I want them out learning how to be humans. But the competitive landscape of education today may make that infeasible. And maybe that's fine. Times change. But it sure doesn't seem like young people are any happier these days.