This is great. Surprisingly educational. Would be interesting to see how school kids react to it.

they'll appreciate if for the sheer hokeyness of it, which is a whole interesting aesthetic itself (look at many of the shows that Adult swim puts out).

Not when they realize that it's actually educational.

the question then is whether or not it is possible to learn to enjoy learning, or is that a personality trait?

I think it's definitely possible but it seems that most things that you are required to do (go to school) end up being perceived as chores by the students and so they end up disliking them.

If you are having fun while learning, you'll enjoy it. Having control over the experience makes it more fun as well as having good teachers.

It just seems that these days most parents consider going to school a requirement and it's no wonder kids don't like doing it.

At the same time, various personality traits can overcome these. Someone will like learning no matter what and others may not like learning no matter what but for the most part I think it's due to the perception of learning being a chore.

One of the interesting teaching methods I had the pleasure of seeing in action in a High School environment, was a teacher who would let his students learn organically when it came to physics.

Essentially what he did was find out what his students wanted to learn about, and then teach that. Eventually what was happening was the students became more involved in what he was teaching - even to the point where they were going out and learning about things on their own.

I'm not sure if this was an experiment in teaching, or an actual teaching method. This was a school for students who failed to achieve their goals in their last years of high school (yr 12 here) but still wanted to achieve university entry.

That's a cool idea but I think most people would be hesitant to let the students decide what to learn since they might fear the students just want to relax. It would never fly in a standard curriculum here (US) due to the focus on standardized test scores.

It seems a lot of these new ideas and processes can only be implemented in these types of fringe schools, like the one you mentioned.

Well I think that this method only really could have worked in that environment - given the students already had some exposure to the material in the previous year.

I suppose this only really would have worked for the more difficult subjects aswell.

Informative, well rhymed, but very dorky :-)

I agree it is very dorky. But having worked with CERN before, I find it rather cute and hilarious.

At first, I read the title wrong...

I'm speechless...