Hard Lessons Like the graduates it turns out, the Ministry of Education has memorized all the right answers. But will officials ever learn how to apply them to fix the system? Its a miracle that curiosity survives formal education, Albert Einstein once said. You know, the kind of curiosity that made Isaac Newton wonder what forces were at play instead of simply picking up and munching on the apple that fell on his head. Many students, my 13-year-old niece assures me, would have rather seen him enjoy his stupid apple than find themselves studying the brilliant theory that arose from it.