Wow. You'd think a Master Scientist would be smarter than that!
Something just happened that made me wish I could record a video. I've started a new game where I'm trying to do the puzzles in the order they appear. Right now I'm waiting for the builders to clear the last rocks from the stream, but it's going to be a long wait for the graveyard as my oldest villager is only thirty something.
Anyway getting the school was a bit funny. I kept waiting for my adept scientist to improve his skill. Fortunately a random event had given me a child prodigy who had been trained to top level in science, so plan B was to wait for the kid to grow old enough. I followed him around a while muttering things like "Grow up already, stop goofing around!" Then nature called, and he went to sit down in the garden. When he got to his feet again he was a Master.
So basically you can say he spent his birthday taking a dump...