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The Gazette: Boredom begins at school

Published: 25 April 2010

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. ā€œTeachers havenā€™t made it boring,ā€ he said. ā€œPoliticians have made it boring. Every time thereā€™s a crisis in education, we engage in a kind of fundamentalism. We say: ā€˜Weā€™ve 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: ā€˜What 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.

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