An important part of designing a curriculum that seems often overlooked is how likely it is that a student will enjoy it, and consequently whether they will even go through with it. Sure, we could speculate at what the optimal training regime would be to force upon a child, but schools unfortunately are not allowed to do that.

Too often, good teachers find themselves working as hype-men rather than educators. I've often said that if a student doesn't want to learn a subject, you basically can't teach them anything about it. And on the flip side, if a student really wants to learn something, you almost can't stop them.