The hope is that schools will instead find the elusive happymedium and that, in 30 years' time, the pendulum will not have swung so far back that they need another Plowden.
Yet these modern trappings provide the Brossiers with a happymedium between the Arctic wilderness the family so adores, suitable schooling facilities and viable long-term research work.
Hopefully in the coming year, the Federal Reserve can find a happymedium between stimulating growth and not keeping rates too low for too long, and lenders will again open up credit lines but also hold borrowers to a higher standard.
And what we're trying to do is to encourage them to get that happymedium where they're not taking such exorbitant risks that they threaten the entire system, but they're also open to enough risk that America's dynamic free enterprise system is actually able to work.