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Premise: learning is fun. Premise: school children are bored. Conclusion: learning is not taking place in schools.

This seems as true now as it has ever been. The belief that schools can be fixed is one of the main reasons people become teachers and why the existence of schools will drag on for at least another half century.

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I worked with a teacher a few years back who would repeat the mantra "Learning is not fun. Learning is never fun. The only time you can have fun is after you are done learning."

But you're right; honest engagement with a discipline is a brilliant combination of fun and frustrating (and more importantly: the right kind of frustrating).

I beg to differ: struggling to learn is not fun, practice and homework are not fun, learning something that seems pointless is not fun.

Learning without the above constraints is fun.

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