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Thank you for seeing me at such short notice. Of course, and who are we hoping to contact today? Ideally, Piaget, or if I got Skinner, if he's free. Anyone who was heavily quoted during my PGCE and might have some updated behaviour advice. Updated advice? Yeah, because no offence to them, but when they did their studies, TikTok wasn't really a thing.

Right. And I'm just wondering whether the stages of cognitive development accounted for a child shouting Sigma during a maths input. I'm getting something. Is it Piaget? He says children construct knowledge through experience. Lovely. Could you be more specific about what to do when that experience is three boys under a table accusing each other of being sus?

He's gone quiet. Typical. Wait, I'm getting Vygotsky now. Brilliant. Ask him about scaffolding. He says learning happens with the help of a more knowledgeable other. Okay, what if the more knowledgeable other is an eight-year-old who's developed his entire vocabulary from YouTube shots? He says that wasn't the type of peer support he meant.

No, I didn't think so. Skinner is coming through. Excellent. Behaviorism, rewards, consequences, reinforcement. Go on. He says you should reinforce positive behavior. And, okay, with what? Stickers. It's 2026. They want V-books, Prime, maybe. I don't know. Probably not anymore. Robux. He says stickers worked in his day. Yes. Well, Skinner wasn't competing with Mr. Beast, was he?