Let a child suddenly become interested in pursuing a subject that strikes his or her fancy, and a teacher should be able to seize that opportunity.... Instead, the bell rings, and the little inmates are expected to turn off that spark of curiosity that fires constantly in six-year-olds, but which is progressively extinguished by a 19th century factory model of education that only considers such outbursts inconvenient, as they shuffle off to their next planned activity like spiritless drones.