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Pg 259, “What Alexander’s work suggests is that the way in which education has been discussed in the United States is backwards. An enormous amount of time is spent talking about reducing class size, rewriting curricula, buying every student a shiny new laptop, and increasing school funding—all of which assumes that there is something fundamentally wrong with the jobs schools are doing.”
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Sophie Waszkelewicz
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Pg 259, “Schools work. The only problem with school, for the kids who aren’t achieving, is that there isn’t enough of it.”
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Pg 150, “Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does have meaning.”
Pg 149-150, “Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying…Work that fulfills those three criteria is meaningful.”
— Aug 11, 2026 09:38AM
Pg 149-150, “Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying…Work that fulfills those three criteria is meaningful.”