What Jon Haidt thinks about education

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Social psychologist at NYU Stern, author of The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind and The Anxious Generation. He writes at After Babel.

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   Our readingStudents have lost the capacity for sustained attention over the past decade, and they report the difficulty themselves.

   Their wordsSo many of us in the education world have seen this precise change in our students over the past decade: They have more difficulty reading books, sitting through a 75-minute class, or doing their homework.

   ↗The Devil's Plan to Ruin the Next Generationafterbabel.com 3rd of 3 in this piece