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A few days ago, I read a piece by Joshua Rothman in The New Yorker called Do We Think Too Much About the Future? Rothman’s argument is that modern life has become increasingly organized around anticipation. We predict, prepare, optimize, forecast, and rehearse tomorrow constantly. The future no longer sits somewhere ahead of us. In many ways, we already live inside it psychologically. The more I thought about this in relation to schools, the more I wondered whether education