quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

“Today we’re going to do something
about this problem—together,” says the
teacher.
She divides the class into three
groups of seven kids each: a legislative
group, tasked with enacting a law to
regulate lunchtime behavior; an executive
group, which must decide how to
enforce the law; and a judicial branch,
which has to come up with a system for
adjudicating messy eaters.
The kids break excitedly into their
groups, seating themselves in three
large clusters. There’s no need to move
any furniture. Since so much of the curriculum
is designed for group work, the
classroom desks are already arranged in
pods of seven desks each. The room
erupts in a merry din. Some of the kids
who’d looked deathly bored during the
ten-minute lecture are now chattering
with their peers.
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