>>26
Control over my environment keeps being delayed, so I haven't yet implemented this policy. I've done it before I just need to be in flow, and my environment is preventing that annoyingly. My hope is that things will start to work out by the end of the week.
>>29
I've said this before elsewhere, but I honestly doubt any country actually has a quality education system. On most rating the US system isn't even that bad, and yet if you're American you've experienced the mediocrity, and the literacy figure given in the first post for example is indicative. If I had kids they would almost certainly be home-schooled (assuming I could financially support such a thing).
I figured I'd add an additional statistic to the pile. I don't even really understand how this is possible, but supposedly the average American spends ten hours and thirty nine minutes consuming media a day. Included in this is for example an hour and a half of radio presumably while traveling, so much of this is likely "multitasking", but even still.
I feel like kids especially, but really just about everyone would particularly benefit if their only electronic device was a sort of unlocked e-reader with a nice keyboard and without internet access. Maybe if they're good a only-calls-and-text phone as well.