You are right, what we do in school... and also in work... is typically as unnatural as "technology" and has to be drilled in. What fun? No puppy sits in a clas

You are right, what we do in school... and also in work... is typically as unnatural as "technology" and has to be drilled in. What fun? No puppy sits in a classroom all day long without being allowed to move. I find it amusing that on one side there is always this complaint about not enough playing outside, not enough social interaction blah blah, at the same time we force our kids to sit in a classroom 5-10h a day, quietly listening and writing. When I was in school 30 years ago we spent hours just transcribing stuff from books to paper. Yanking that C64 joystick was more activity than that. And the grown-ups? Sit in their offices and meeting rooms all day. My daughter is extremely active, but in daycare the drill already starts. I already dread the time when this curious drive for exploration is more and more extinguished by this system. Technology didn't hinder me - I learned programming at age 12 by this type of curious exploration of that thing on the table. By experimentation and breaking things. I was able to write my first game in QBasic after a few weeks. Yet I'm unable to read sheet music or play an instrument after more than 8 years of music in school, transcribing stuff from books. Nowadays I got a PhD in CS and feel that I'm quite successful. Even with all that evil fun and technology... Mindless consumption can also happen in school with books, creativity also with fun and technology.