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A mom writes that her son is bored in preschool. John Holt replies, "… My feeling is that E, like all bright and happy little children, is strongly pulled in the direction of adults and their understanding, competence, and skill, and may find it boring or frustrating to have to spend so much time with little folks who don’t know any more and can’t do any more than himself. I take it that this is close to what you have in mind when you say he needs more structure. I tend to avoid that term, since almost all who use it mean by it only one thing—some adult standing over the child telling him what to do and making sure he does it." John then goes into detail about the value of even just watching people perform real work.