This week I assigned my undergrads to spend at least twenty minutes either lying on the floor or going for a walk. They could do neither I told them, and also, of course, there was no way for me to check. They could do anything that held the spirit of this idea; it just had to be quiet. They just had to be alone and without phones.
One of them had asked …
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