When people see that schools aren't performing well, often their first inclination is to go back to basics. But the best learning situations aren't where you're drilling some facts into the learner. The most obvious example is the way children learn to talk. No one is drilling them on conjugating their verbs. They live in an environment where communication is important to them. I remember one Clubhouse kid who was creating a Director animation. To make objects meet at exactly the right time, he had to do some calculations about relative speed. He said that when he was learning about speed and time and distance in