Student Question
Why do OASIS teachers enjoy their job in Ready Player One?
Quick answer:
Teachers in the OASIS, a virtual reality setting in Ready Player One, enjoy their jobs because their primary focus is solely on educating students without the added responsibilities of enforcing discipline or managing students' personal lives. This allows them to remain calm and relaxed, fostering an environment where teaching is the central task, free from traditional classroom challenges.
Ready Player One is 2011 science fiction novel written by American writer Ernest Cline. In it, a young man named Wade Owen Watts (a.k.a Parzival) plays a virtual reality game named the OASIS, in which he goes on a quest to find an Easter egg planted by the creator of the game, James Halliday. Whoever finds the egg will become the owner of the game and will inherit Halliday's fortune.
In OASIS, there is a planet called Ludus which has a lot of schools and educational facilities, as well as the Tomb of Horrors. The teachers who teach on this planet all seem to enjoy their jobs, because their only task is to educate the children and the teenagers, not discipline and train them to obey certain rules. They are calm and relaxed, and they do not necessarily care about the personal lives of their students, nor what will happen to their avatars.
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