Small wonder why every time I walk by a park on weekends I see a large number of minivans parked there and children playing in the park with parents tagging along nearly.
"Bored school pupils should perhaps alert us to the need for a different kind of educational engagement. "
School is school. It's traditionally boring, there's nothing to be done to fix that. Trust me, I'm still IN school! :)
But, with this "different kind of educational engagement", are they proposing more student-interactive cirricula involving groupwork and projects to catch students' interests? Believe me, this doesn't work. In fact, it is responsible for the downfall of the quality of education in America. In my sophomore and junior-year English classes, I had this communist for a teacher and all we did was groupwork, groupwork, make posters, and more groupwork. I learned absolutely nothing at all about English. It was all "how do you feel about this?" and crap like that. And as for groupwork, the slackers let the industrious students do all the work yet everyone gets the same good grade. Hence, the communism at work.