Hacker School and How we Learn (2014)

And I managed to get through high school because I was in a place where there was a lot of free time built into the schedule — which I spent fiddling around in the computer room or lying on the floor in the library alcove where the Loeb Classics were kept, almost untouched. Also, I have never been a very good student — I was always ineffective at studying for exams, and in my first bout of college I cut classes all the time and then did badly when my skills failed to meet my grand expectations for myself. Professor was my career, not my identity — I committed myself to study and teaching because I enjoy it; it’s not the case that I became good at study and teaching because I “am” a professor — quite the contrary!

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