These students are made to understand that they have to be perfect, that they have to do everything perfectly, but they haven’t turned to themselves to ask why they’re doing it. It’s almost like a cruel experiment with animals that we’re performing—every time the red light goes on, you have to push the bar. Of course they’re stressed.Read more of the interview with William in the Atlantic. It's a follow-up to this article from last month.
It also reminds me of one of my all time favorite pieces of work on the inverse power of praise.
