Memoirs of an Amnesiac

"When a force is exerted outside an egg, life ends. When a force is exerted inside, life begins, " so goes my opening lines for motivation in a fable that my class and I were waiting to dissect, like a frog carefully pinned on a morbid dissecting pan.

To a class of beaming sixth graders who probably only saw a hatchling come off its shell through Youtube unlike the children before who really experienced it first hand (how to wait with much chagrin), the whole concept of a ...