It also gives me an image of the myth of Sisyphus (see Albert Camus). Sisyphus is a mythological character who was doomed for all eternity to forever roll a giant boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down every time it reached the top. It’s the eternal repetition, the inability to enact on lessons learned from the past, that is so tormenting…and now I see that certain education reformers have willingly subjected themselves to a similar fate. hmmm.