It’s at least a little evidence that training people to endure boredom is a bad idea, since boredom is part of inefficient learning.
School has enough prestige that I think a lot of people come out of it believing that if they can’t learn in a school like environment, they can’t learn at all. Sometimes they just apply it to one subject, sometimes to all subjects commonly taught in school, sometimes they give up on learning.
It’s at least a little evidence that training people to endure boredom is a bad idea, since boredom is part of inefficient learning.
School has enough prestige that I think a lot of people come out of it believing that if they can’t learn in a school like environment, they can’t learn at all. Sometimes they just apply it to one subject, sometimes to all subjects commonly taught in school, sometimes they give up on learning.