Last night, I ran into an amazing graduation speech delivered by the Australian comedian Tim Minchin. Not only was his talk full bon mots, but it also was motivating. I almost ended up befuddled by his intellect. However, what impressed me the most was his endless capacity to make you laugh. Far from tugging at your heartstrings after mentioning depressing topics, he managed to get a smile out of you. Besides, Tim was able to give great advice to this generation of college graduates too. He in fact numbered each piece of advice he gave, and spiced them up with a few jokes. Even though he did not bristle his talk them, still these jokes were kind of crude. Nonetheless, he pulled everything off perfectly. Tim´s approach could in fact be applied to teaching. For instance, still do many think that learning should take place in lockstep with games. Especially for kids. Moreover, I get the whole thing about teaching them values. I mean they all say that you should inculcate your offspring with this principle: ¨Do not let your children mooch off you all the time¨. Of course the aforesaid statement is more of a problem in Latin America than it is in the 1st world. Anyhow, back to teaching. Due to making the learning process more meaningful, lots of high school dropouts could be pre-empted. For instance, by applying theories such as ¨cognitivism¨ into the classroom, we could change people´s perspective towards  learning. I do remember, back when I was in elementary school. There was this math teacher who used to teach us each lesson in a different way. You see he was a comedian as well as a teacher. Ergo, he always carried a clown nose and a puppet with him. Notwithstanding he was fired after a while out of an act of crass stupidity. The school principal was so ignorant about innovative teaching methods, she could not understand change. Bawling her employee out for nothing was uncalled for. Then again, I seems that her capacious mind did not have enough info on non-traditional teaching techniques. If that school´s parents had not been as stupid as the principal was, maybe something different would have happened. Perhaps, she would have rehired this awesome teacher to save face.