The great thing, then, in all education, is to…

Page 64. The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally, instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fun. For this, we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful Actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague. The more of the details of our daily life, we can handover to the effort, cut, effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher power of mind will be set free for their own proper work

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Pragmatism edited by Louis menand

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