Children must not be deprived of real learning in the process of trying to make education fun
But engagement is not the same as effortlessness and joy is not the same as endless pleasantness. Anyone who has actually learnt anything worth learning—a language, a concept, use of an instrument or a craft—knows what the process entails: effort, fatigue, confusion, failure, a plateau where nothing seems to move, frustration that precedes the light of understanding.
