Time management is more important than intelligence(actually) because executive functioning is more important than intelligence. Teaching people better time management if it actually works “at the point of performance”[1] is a massive societal benefit.

Adderall, Vyvansse, Dexedrine, actually fix the underlying issues related to this, and if schools have increased their total student body they must contain these people.

ADHD is a straightforward manifestation of this, that is lack of time management. Alongside a host of other acute executive dysfunctions are related all to a cluster of important things, such as organization, time preferences, time myopia, impulsiveness/violence , and being able to conduct property relations across time.

You also mean emphasizing rote learning vs competencies. Rote Learning emphasizes those with extremely good memories/non-verbal memories*, and that’s fine and all but that is one of the easiest things that can be supplemented with ecologically and unfairly penalizes those who do not do well on rote-learning tasks but would be fine ecologically. Notebooks/References are ‘extended memories’ that cannot be used in such settings and don’t really make sense to not allow them.

From Jonathon Baron

“There are two general ways of finding any object: recall from our own memory, and the use of external aids, such as other people, written sources, and computers. External aids can help us overcome the limitations of our own memories, including time and effort requires to get information into them. As I write this book, for example, I rely extensively on a file cabinet full of reprints of articles & my own library… Moreover, libraries, computers, and file cabinets make us truly more effective thinkers. ” -Thinking and Deciding 4th edition.

Otherwise good article as usual.

[1] – In Barkley’s language/Barkley 2012 “Executive Functions, What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved” (A magisterial book. Unbelievable his eliteness)

Our job in the reaction is to build something that lasts – things of real quality and value – that our loved ones can turn to in those moments of existential weakness and say “This is what I’m living for – take your adverts and stuff it.”

You are what you do.

Tally ho.

I always appreciate your comments, though. They’re worth attending to even when they’re a countervailing opinion to my own.

But . . .

There seems to be a general feeling that companies owe the public something other than providing goods and services. Why this has developed I’m not sure but I see this atitude in many self-identifying conservatives and traditionalists. Maybe, people who are good writers and thinkers have not taken a business 101 course?

There’s a group of Seasteading advocates who want governments to compete just like corporations. If you don’t like your monopolistic government you can literally float to another more amiable one. Far out, I know, but they are not fools and are apparently quite serious. Worth a look.

http://www.seasteading.org/2014/12/celebrating-one-year-waiting-fda-answer-question-part-1/