Yeaaaaah... I don't think you have to give 4-year-olds lifelong recollections of their own inadequacy in order to have top-notch programmers
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Kids have unpleasant emotions all the time. Growing up is super hard, and they'll run into terrible constraints all the time. That's not the problem; the problem is that forcing kids to "learn" runs a high risk of generating aversions that we don't actually know how to correct
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Replying to @spakhm @KevinSimler
I think it's a terrible idea to force a kid to read — ever. Nearly all kids love stories & if read to will eventually demand some control by forcing The Adult to reveal what's going on there. The risk of brute-forcing it is creating a lifelong non-reader. Horrifying.
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Do you think that if you hadn't been forced, you wouldn't have wanted to keep at something that was hard? Maybe, but kids attempt difficult things over and over all the time, *against* the advice of adults —it's the force that makes failure sting.
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The literature delineates extrinsic & intrinsic motivators: rewards for good performance or behavior may actually diminish long-run progress. What doesn't seem well-studied is whether the teacher-student relationship matters... which seems a pretty dense blind spot, IMO
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Great teachers love their field of study, and they also want *you* to love it. To them, it's a toy, and they think you're worthy of sharing it with. It seems super likely to me that that really matters
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