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Be a Picnic  In my home province of Quebec, an 11-year-old boy
is building children’s picnic tables in his garage (using jigs
his father built for him) and selling them at a very reasonable
price at local home stores. You won’t need to speak French to
get the gist of it. What he’s learning is surely invaluable, and
it seems as though, in a sane world, this sort of activity would
be readily available to all children who enjoy working with
their hands.  Thanks to the rapid productivity growth enjoyed by
earlier generations of North Americans, families in this part of
the world no longer have to rely on the income generating
capacity of their children for survival. But does it make any
sense to divorce work and entrepreneurship from education as
thoroughly as we currently do? In the places where co-op work
experiences are being offered to high school students, the
practice seems popular. And in a truly free education
marketplace, there would be an in