The Seduction of Destruction
Creation is difficult, slow and boring.
Destruction is easy, fast and exhilarating.
This asymmetry poses a profound risk to education.
Creation does not offer the much-sought dopamine hit, it doesn’t get the most retweets (or whatever they are called since Twitter ceased to exist) and it rarely brings pleasing calls of celebration or applause. Rather, creation is, more often than not, an act of quiet devotion; think of the architect who knows he will never see the cathedral he has envisioned and the countless brick layers who understand they are building greatness for generations who will follow even though they will long since have died.
