If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced for thousands of hours.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

Based on research into the Picture Superiority Effect, when we read text alone, we are likely to remember only 10 percent of the information 3 days later. If that information is presented to us as text combined with a relevant image, we are likely to remember 65 percent of the information 3 days later.