What Cal Newport thinks about education

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Computer science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity. He has written the blog Study Hacks since 2007 and contributes to The New Yorker.

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1. 27 Aug 2010

   Our readingTreating school as a trial to be survived leaves a person unable to say what the postponed life was ever supposed to be.

   Their wordsIn other words, when you go through life thinking “if I can make it through this, things will be better later,” you eventually forget what “better” means.

   ↗An Open Letter to Students on the Danger of Seeing School as a Trial to Survivecalnewport.com 1st of 3 in this piece