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.

Women tend to recall the details of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their left hemisphere to do the processing. Men tend to recall the gist aspects of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their right hemisphere to do the processing.

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

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

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.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about the rote memorization of facts. That's a discipline issue. You need the rote skill in order to have something to improvise off of, otherwise you are simply playing air guitar.