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 others鈥� 不良研究所 University professor of education Jon Bradley puts the blame squarely on political oversight of the education system. 鈥淭eachers haven鈥檛 made it boring,鈥� he said. 鈥淧oliticians have made it boring. Every time there鈥檚 a crisis in education, we engage in a kind of fundamentalism. We say: 鈥榃e鈥檝e got to get back to basics.鈥� In every other profession we rely heavily on new research. Education is the only profession where we go: 鈥榃hat happened 50 years go is better.鈥� 鈥� 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.