Education is a key part of the BBC's mission to inform, educate, and entertain, and education is changing.
Television like this is about entertaining rather than education.
Making education entertaining led Zahirah abdul-Wakil, a graphic designer in Largo, Md., to create the Bingo-style Know Islam Know Peace for home-schooling her children.
However, the distinctions become blurred when education seeks to be more "entertaining" and entertainment or marketing seek to be more "educational".
And for all its playfulness, it's very grown-up, very adult in its issues: the sophistications of going to good restaurants or entertaining at home, the education in seeing other cultures on holiday and knowing that common objects like plates or pillows can make the world personal for anyone.
But recently, games have been doing a lot more than just entertaining: They promote health, education and human rights, and bring about social change, among other things.
The primary goal of any type of zoological organization should be conservation, using the species under their care to entertain guests through education about the species and what guest can do to ensure that they continue to exist in the wild.
Equally important, he added, was being able to dovetail Silk Road's mission — using music to unite disparate cultures, build community and provide education that is "entertaining but not preachy" — with the festival's similar cornerstone.
Unfortunately, without proper education about what's actually entertaining to users, I fear it will be the latter.
I contacted the president of the main department for education, who told me that the government was already entertaining such plans.
