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“The secret to getting smarter is really not a big secret: Engage in intellectual activities. Read the newspaper, watch informative documentaries, find well-written books that make intellectual content engaging. Perhaps most important: Watch less television. It’s rarely enriching and it’s an enormous time-sink.”

—UVA cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham in a USA Today interview about his new book, Why Don’t Students Like School?