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What’s strange about all this is how sleep, a third of our lives, takes up so little of our thinking. Medical schools dedicate almost no teaching to it; our education system worries about so much else, but not about the very simple and obvious fact that sleep deprivation ruins children’s ability to learn. “This school in Liverpool was amazing,” says Foster. “The teachers were fantastic, it had all the books and equipment, but the kids were falling asleep in class, because they’re not getting guidance on how important sleep is. No one’s telling them, absolutely no one’s telling them. We’re educating our kids in so many areas – sex, hygiene, drugs – but nobody gives us any guidance about the single most important behaviour we experience. It’s bordering on the criminal, frankly.”