Neither parents nor schools are very effective at teaching the young to find pleasure in the right things. Adults, themselves often deluded by infatuation with fatuous models, conspire in the deception. They make serious tasks seem dull and hard, and frivolous ones exciting and easy. Schools generally phial to teach how exciting, how mesmerizing beautiful science or mathematics can be; they teach the routine of literature or history rather than the adventure.

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