No doubt most of us, including myself, an admitted introvert, are craving an end to our pandemic isolation.

For our children, we desperately want to open our schools. We want to bring them back to a classroom, learning under the physical presence of a teacher. We want them to interact with other children. Indeed, one of our most pressing needs, whenever classrooms do return, is dedicated help for those children who lacked the resources for learning away from the classroom.

I suspect, though, that a few children may have learned a bit better at home, with remote supervision. These are the decided introverts, who tend to be distracted in the presence of others.

Even as some workers would like to continue at least some working from home when the pandemic ends, so perhaps would a few children.

This is not a plea for either children or workers to always learn or work in isolation. Children, even inward turning ones, benefit from social interaction.

However, one gain out of this deadly time may be an understanding that we work and learn and grow in different ways with different surroundings.

Perhaps we can encourage varieties of both working and learning.