Stumbled on this video at James Joyner’s digs, and both the lecture and the animation are quite extraordinary. I was nodding along throughout. We do need to go in the exact opposite direction than we’re headed – away from the industrialized model of public education, away from standardized tests, away from unthinking conformity and mind-numbing medication. ADHD is a fictitious epidemic (Peter Gray has a lot of good stuff on this topic, as well here, here, and here). And so on and so forth.
Now on to the main attraction: