The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

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

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

Even though we don't know squat about how the brain works, the little we do know suggests that if you wanted to design a learning environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was naturally good at doing, you would design the education system we currently have, not only in America, but all over the world!

People try to apply directly results from the cognitive neurosciences directly to classroom practice and I have to tell you I am very skeptical about the exercise. We don't know very much about how the brain works - we don't even know how you remember to write your name.

The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.