Sublime

harnessing his individuality,

Voilà, we have an informational cascade, where an initial mistaken inference based on an extremely small sample is propagated in generation after generation of education.

It’s a cultural advantage.

the goal of education is not merely to cram a bunch of facts into students’ heads; it’s to lead them to understand those facts.

But it is certainly true that modern life requires range, making connections across far-flung domains and ideas. Luria

perceptual narrowing.

ask yourself this: In the last several millennia of recorded human endeavor, can you name one writer, one artist, one thinker, one remotely interesting, original, or memorable person who, as a young adult, wanted to know less about the world?

“My best kids are farm-kids who didn’t even know that they liked to read until I persuaded them they did.”