What are you especially sensitive to, the way the princess was sensitive to the pea?
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- Losing the capacity for/developing an aversion to non-procedural problem-solving - Losing the ability to enter/maintain flow states (due to frequent forceful disruptions) - Erosion of internal motivation to external systems, e.g. tokens or gold stars
To clarify the first one: kids trained to expect that (1) every problem has a correct answer or a known set of correct answers + (2) the adults know what it is (and how to correctly find it) tend to become very anxious about reasoning from first principles or experimenting freely
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There's another important loss when kids become procedural worksheet-fillers and discrete task-doers: they never develop intuitions for what sometimes works, what might have worked, what deceptively *seems* to work — and consequently, they never really build out a model
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For example, a "good" student might well be able to solve a sheet of square root equations *and* give a perfectly reasonable description of what a square root is **without** being able to tell you why such a thing is called a SQUARE root.
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