" I think that a lot of the drive to have overachieving children is defensive—the idea of making sure your child is fully armed against all the other kids, whose parents are busy packing their little brains with facts so they can claw their way into the Ivy League over the broken bodies of their classmates. While "

― John Scalzi , Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008