Endnote 89 — The point of E.T.A.'s hardest question

Schacht's view is that the maddening puzzle of how to care passionately and not care at all — which consumes enormous psychic energy in players aged roughly 16 to 18 — is deliberate pedagogy, not a flaw. Many students dismiss Schtitt as batty and steer instead by deLint's clipboard and statistics, which at least tell them exactly where they stand.