Regular Doses.

13 years of school embeds in us an assumption that learning is linear and progressive.

That growth is made up of equal chunks of time called period, day, week, term, year.

That we graduate from one to the next; our mental maturing matched and affirmed by our physical and emotional growth.

Celebrated by assemblies, tests, certificates, grades, reports, graduations.

Applauded by teachers, principals, and parents.

Continuing on to university for some.

And at the end of our education:

Silence.

Days are the same, punctuated and marked perhaps by weekends and holidays and birthdays and marriage and travel.

Gone are the affirmations in assessments and awards and progress and the nod and smile of a teacher saying ‘Correct’.

Learning is no longer linear and assessed by others.

More failure and inertia than the regular and predictable doses of ‘success’ of school days.

Which is why so many seek a return to those days in their own children’s schooling.