Which sadly says something about school.

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I suppose that it makes sense that "home" in the adult world can find a child-centered counterpart in "play". After all, returning home from work at least suggested, if not promised, leisure time. But a correspondence between "work" and "school"? True, too many teachers and principals (and parents) thought, and still think, that going to school is the "job" that children have to perform, but aren't we ordinarily told that learning should be fun? That's not the logical conclusion that we might reach from the comparison that gets made between the "work" of the adult world and the "school" of the child's. But of course we already knew all this - children come home from school with "homework" - from a young age we teach them that there really isn't a clear distinction between when one stops and the other starts.

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Go to: Making Jack dull.