The central point is this:
"We're raising a generation of students who equate learning with rote memorization and instant gratification.
They are never given the time or space to struggle with a problem or to think deeply."
The kids are not the problem. We are the problem. We (collectively, as a society) have created this monstrous system where the only way to survive is to chase a good grade doesn't matter what, at the cost of skipping all the learning and understanding.