It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

You see it in education a lot. If you do your homework, you get to pick out something from the class treasure chest.

I've noticed something today, I actually don't mind doing homework. In a way, I kind of like it. Something about expanding my imagination outside of the classroom makes me feel so happy and complete.

Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.

eople—even good, impressive people—always want something simple and unimpressive. Everything good and impressive that they do in their lives is a result of the impressive path they take to get what they want—not a result of wanting an impressive thing.