On an airplane trip, I sat next to a woman and her five-year-old grandson.
When I mentioned that I was a teacher, she asked him to count backward.
He started: “20, 19 , 18 , 17 …”
“That was wonderful”, I said. “Did you learn that in school?”
“No, at home. From the microwave”, he answered.
(Reader’sDigest, July 1994).