[the invisib1e hand]

hurry up, science, baptise common sense so that this idiot generation can think it’s ok to use it.

[americanophile]

...so wait, kids that eat twice as much sugar are better students?

/sarc

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

The New Yorker essay is well worth reading in its entirety. (I let my NYer sub lapse because of Seymour Hirsch ... but I may have to reconsider!) Thanks for posting! Great info for parents.

[GOP Poet]

My Lord. They do everything to chase this sort of education away and find these spiritual and religious principles make for better SAT scores and want to put in back in the ‘curriculum’ absent God of course. What a mass delusion we live in with these folks. Evil has them by the stones.

[TChad]

ping for reading later

[Desron13]

My guess is that the “researchers” that conducted this study couldn’t wait ten nanoseconds to spend the money to make these idiotic claims.

[R. Scott]

Obviously in an ideal world children would have picked this skill up at home but that is, sadly, not going to have happened in lots of cases.

No, it won't happen soon. We live in an Instant Gratification society.

[fightinJAG]

At a certain level, self-control can be taught. But self-control is a manifestation of intelligence, b/c it is based on advanced thought processes and the ability to foresee consequences, strategize and plan ahead.

[Quix]

Excellent article.

Thx.

[ConservativeMind]

Ping for later.

[Kevmo]

bmflr