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For the better part of a few hundred thousand years, educational practices were limited to experiential learning and the "oook" method. However, better and brighter times were on the horizon, wrapped in the sparkling and exciting packaging of language.

While fairly useless in educating others about tigers, the "oook" method was fairly useful in educational situations dealing with fruit, rain, and small amounts of fire, as can be seen in the following educational example:

Scene fades in as Zook is starting to reach towards a burning fire with his bare hand.
"Oook!" points out Gook.
"Oook?" Zook asks, looking back at Gook.
"Oook!" confirms Gook.
Zook sticks his hand in the fire for a second, then pulls it out and runs away screaming.
Gook shakes his head and mutters, "Oook."

Obviously, in this example, Zook is able to connect his experiential learning to the utterance of "oook" by Gook. At the same time, due to the non-lethality of this experiential learning experience, Zook is able to add this to his danger-pain schema for future use and modification. As seen in this next educational example:

Scene fades in as Zook is starting to reach towards a nice apple.
"Oook oook." notes Gook, eating another apple.
"Oook?" Zook asks, looking back at Gook, wide-eyed.
"Oook!" confirms Gook.
Zook backs away from the apple and runs away screaming.
Gook shakes his head and mutters, "Oook."

As we can see here, Zook has been able to modify his danger-pain schema based on a combination of auditory and experiential learning. Obviously this event represents a great leap in educational technique, as Gook has just experienced the joys of educating the youth of today. Or of yesterday. Or of the Pleistocene epoch.

Obviously, the "oook" method is somewhat limited in the educational information that it is able to convey. Yet Gook is working on the subtle nuances of language, most easily seen in his body language and heard in the inflection of his "oook"s. Were this to come to fruition, education would take a sizable leap forward, like it did circa the beginning of the Holocene epoch:

Scene fades in as Zook is starting to reach towards a burning fire with his bare hand.
"Oook!" points out Gook.
"Oook?" Zook asks, looking back at Gook.
"Oook!" confirms Gook, smacking him upside the head.
Zook sticks tongue out at Gook, and sticks his hand in the fire anyway.
As Zook runs away screaming, Gook shakes his head and mutters, "Dumbass"

Here we can see how the advent of language exponentially increases the educational opportunities once solely available under experiential and "oook" methods. With such important groundwork laid, education was primed for rapid upward expansion, to be slowed only by bureaucracy and apathy.

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Harzakc, MD
Minister of Education