As summer vacation draws near, elementary schools around the country are handing out their reading lists for summer homework. ... Instead of our children being free to wander and dream and invent at their own oace, and to read about children doing such things, we assign them the task of reading about weary children who are spending their childhoods trying to cope with the mess that their parents left behind.
――津田塾大学 英文学科(2月6日実施)――2005年