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

Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful trait in an unstable, unpredictable living environment.

A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.

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

The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass of water. And the brain likes hierarchy. Starting with general concepts naturally leads to explaining information in a hierarchical fashion. You have to do the general idea first. And then you will see that 40 percent improvement in understanding.

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

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