8 Comments
User's avatar
Rikard's avatar

In other news, when you stop "stimming" the senses, the brain can level out the dopamine, epinephrine, cortisol and so on and actually start to function.

You gotta be some kind of eggspurt not to understand that. . .

Expand full comment
epimetheus's avatar

Or an ideologue, perhaps?

Expand full comment
Maxgrau's avatar

Let's wait for the next experiment: what happens when a school bans the actual state education program and obliges the students to receive only the "limited functionality" education that was available in the 1950s?

Expand full comment
epimetheus's avatar

Hear, hear--let me know where that is, please, for I have primary schoolers.

Expand full comment
Hele's avatar

Another great point made by die fackel!

Expand full comment
epimetheus's avatar

You're very kind, thanks for reading!

Expand full comment
Candy's avatar

It can only be done on a small scale basis, but it can be done and this is a start. Many “small scale” successes will add up

Expand full comment
epimetheus's avatar

Even the longest journey starts with the first step, or so a children's book held that I recall (Momo, by Michael Ende, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_(novel)).

Expand full comment