The launching of the kids thing has been exercising me, and no doubt you and everyone in that situation for years...this fledging business is a long one, innit?
Add: really good interview. No-one was eviscerated. The pacing was tremendous, not a beat missed. She's right about the idea and value of empty space, empty time, right about lost attention spans, wrong I think to diss the cultural value of fairy tales, which were originally written for adults and which deal in enduring archetypes.
I agree with her about on-going value and applications of classics. I did thicko Latin at O level (my comp offered it in sixth form) Thicko because I only had to translate one way, Latin into English, even so, it's been useful.
I wasn't too great at science at school; the experience of immune illness and the reading this motivated got me really interested in biological science.
I don't even know how to play these games but I did see this and think, oh of only they could bring something like this into the classroom...in moderated doses of course. What is dull about history, for instance? It's only bad presentation that could make it dull, or Geography or ..