Very good! Thank you. So right about the boredom piece. And the text-book-to-test garbage. My youngest son homeschooled for 8 good years of learning...

Before then I completed a useless bachelor of education in my mid-40s. An eye-opener, that time. Over and over, I saw humiliation as a pedagogical fall-back. And yes, "laziness" touted as the reason for all sorts of student behaviour.

Teaching used to be a vocation, a calling.