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.

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

I have great confidence in human curiosity - even though I don't know what curiosity is from a biological point of view. One of its characteristics has got to be the willingness to explore.

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.

A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way.