Boredom Begins at School

This is a pretty interesting Gazette article about why school is so often boring. I learned a few new things and didn't fall asleep; which is how school should be in the first place. But we all know we've yawned more than once in class—or is it just me? Nah that can't be it...It's the system alright...

It seems that today's education model in North America is actually based on some 19th-century militaristic Prussian model of standardized education, which is...Actually designed to be boring! Whose bright idea was it to keep that system in place?