The Gazette: Boredom begins at school
Is there a place where boring people is deliberate? That would be our schools, says The Boring Institute's Alan Caruba, where we train young people to be bored and to bore othersā¦ ŗ«¹śĀćĪč University professor of education Jon Bradley puts the blame squarely on political oversight of the education system. āTeachers havenāt made it boring,ā he said. āPoliticians have made it boring. Every time thereās a crisis in education, we engage in a kind of fundamentalism. We say: āWeāve got to get back to basics.ā In every other profession we rely heavily on new research. Education is the only profession where we go: āWhat happened 50 years go is better.ā ā As a result, said Bradley, educators often move in the opposite direction of what research is telling us about learning, particularly the young science of play.