Arthur Brooks

I mean, bad stuff happens to you.

So the phone should be in a different floor, in a closet, plugged in someplace, from an hour before you go to bed until after an hour after you get up.

That's number one.

It's a phone-free zone.

Second is that, I mean, this is just basic public policy.

There shouldn't be a...

a phone in any classroom in any school in the world between kindergarten and PhD.

It is complete insanity because it interrupts everything that we're actually trying to do.

And it's child abuse.

There's phones in classrooms.

And the most important hour they shouldn't have phones is during lunch, by the way.

because they need to- So it's even worse.

It's even worse.

I mean, most of what's going on in the classroom is not that interesting to begin with.

I mean, I don't think I ever learned anything in public school.

I think it was mostly babysitting, but at least I had friends and they don't have friends.

And then, and then people need phone fasts.

They need technology fasts.

I recommend 96 hours a year is kind of when this is, and there's a little bit of research on this that shows that this actually can break the relationship that you have.

So you prove to yourself that you actually don't need it.