I'd Love to See More Recess, Not Less?

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Forsure: It's so wrong headed to assume that if you want children to perform better academically, what they need is more seat time. What kids need is to replenish their ability to pay attention and to control their impulses by blowing off steamn in the courtyard or the playground. So i'd love to see more recess, not less y. And here i was thinking about the evolutionary psychology debate,. about to how extent things like dancing, music, aesthetic appreciation and so on, are adaptive. In other words, a they evolve for adaptive reasons.

In this conversation about her new book, the acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul explodes the myth that the brain is an all-powerful, all-purpose thinking machine that works best in silence and isolation. We are often told that the human brain is an awe-inspiring wonder, but its capacities are remarkably limited and specific. Humanity has achieved its most impressive feats only by thinking outside the brain: by “extending” the brain’s power with resources borrowed from the body, other people, and the material world. The Extended Mind tells the stories of scientists and artists, authors and inventors, leaders and entrepreneurs — Jackson Pollock, Charles Darwin, Jonas Salk, Friedrich Nietzsche, Watson and Crick, among others — who have mastered the art of thinking outside the brain. It also explains how every one of us can do the same, tapping the intelligence that exists beyond our heads — in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationships.