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Playing with LEGO can lead to a professorship at Cambridge.

(The Oregonian/1999)

If your son or daughter loves to play with LEGO, be encouraged: the tyke might one day end up a professor at England's prestigious Cambridge University.

If, that is, your little one is willing to study the plastic building toy for decades.

Cambridge is looking for a "professor of LEGO to work as part of the Faculty of Education," writes Mental Floss. The new professor will head up the Research Centre on Play in Education, Development and Learning.

The professorship was funded, you might not be surprised to learn, by the LEGO Foundation, whose mission is "challenging the status quo by redefining play and reimaging learning."

Cambridge's rival, Oxford University, is going to have to do something big to keep up. May we suggest a Ph.D. program in Hot Wheels?