The real problem with modern education in the US is that children are taught from a young age that their value can be quantified into a value from 0-100 and that the work they do should be done solely for the acquirement of this numerical value.
Not only is it the case that happy people are more willing to help others, but as I generally point out, helping others is the best way to help yourself, the best way to promote your own happiness. It is you, yourself, who will receive the benefit.
If you’re ever feeling stupid, just remember that one time Sir Isaac Newton was presented with a mathematical problem by Johann Bernoulli with a 1.5 year deadline... he then invented a new branch of calculus overnight and sent in the solution to the problem the next morning
Two kinds of people in this great wide world: kids whose hamsters lived in modest socialist housing projects, and kids whose hamsters lived in a lavish network of palaces and multicolored tubes.