Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?
The New Yorker · 19 Sep 2026

Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?

It is not especially pleasant. It is not supposed to be. We have chosen, quite deliberately, to subject ourselves to forty-five minutes of physical discomfort for benefits accrued down the road: better health, greater strength, a future version of ourselves that will justify the soreness tomorrow mo


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