Have your children ever run out of the house in the morning jumping with joy because they could hardly wait to get to school, and were then sad at having to leave school in the afternoon?

That is exactly how researchers predict the future of schools! One thing is clear to them: just as the lungs will go on breathing, so the brain will go on learning.


But when presented with Sponge Bob, the Simpsons, Wii, Playstation, etc, this voracious will to learn becomes so completely satiated that it doesn’t need anything else. In the brain there’s a strict school inspector, ruthlessly making his selections, and only admitting the most exciting, interesting, pretty, witty, gruesome etc. things into his classroom.
In short:
anything exciting will find admittance into the brain.
He pushes everything else aside as “irrelevant”.
That’s just how he is. He has had thousands of years to get used to this, as in the Stone Age what was more relevant than anything else, was what could cost you your life.

Perhaps we should offer prospective teachers a drama school first, so that they can compete again here!