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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Part of that is teaching people how to control their impulses and stay on task.

Your workspace isn't going to have you hang your phone up on the wall somewhere when you come into work and have someone tell you "now is the time to use your phone."

College isn't going to do it either.

We also could take some cues that maybe this isn't all as serious as we make it out to be. My high school back in the 2010s gave us a ton of busy work, insisted on making it effectively mandatory if you wanted a decent grade, didn't let people go to the bathroom without asking permission and using a sign out sheet, insisted every second of every lesson was crucial, and was very strict about not pulling out your cell phone basically ever (kids still snuck texts here and there).

I see more merits for small children, but in general I'm strongly in favor of radical changes to how we approach education ... because learning should be fun but is not for so many people ... and we forget so much of what we've been "taught" anyways.