Caleb

“They would learn to evaluate a decision not by its outcomes--whether it turned out to be right or wrong--but by the process that led to it. The job of the decision maker wasn't to be right but to figure out the odds in any decision and play them well.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“For example, the fact that school is boring, arduous, and full of busywork might hinder students’ ability to learn. But to the extent that school is primarily about credentialing, its goal is to separate the wheat (good future worker bees) from the chaff (slackers, daydreamers, etc.). And if school were easy or fun, it wouldn’t serve this function very well. If there were a way to fast-forward all the learning (and retention) that actually takes place in school—for example, by giving students a magic pill that taught them everything in an instant—we would still need to subject them to boring lectures and nitpicky tests in order to credential them.”
― Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

“we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Forty years ago two-thirds of children walked or biked to school; today 10 percent do. A generation ago 70 percent of children played outside; today the rate is down to 30 percent.209”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined