It stimulates and restores learning power, and, as it turns out, many of our children are getting precious little of it. From the earliest days of the republic, education was never intended to be merely the efficient transfer of information. As two middle school children explained this month in an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, it gives students the opportunity to "refresh themselves." They could even become America’s World Cup soccer stars. Kelly McKenna is CEO of End Chronic Disease, former captain of Stanford's varsity sailing team and a three-time All-American.