The Brain Is Highly Structured,

Teaching Is A Very Effective Way To Get Children To Learn Something Specific - This Tube Squeaks, Say, Or A Squish Then A Press Then A Pull Causes The Music To Play. But It Also Makes Children Less Likely To Discover Unexpected Information And To Draw Unexpected Conclusions.

What Teenagers Want Most Of All Are Social Rewards, Especially The Respect Of Their Peers.

We Don't Measure The Quality Of Our Other Relationships By How Well The Other Person Turns Out, For Instance Whether My Husband Is A Better Person After 10 Years Than He Was When I First Met Him.

We Know That Kids Who Grow Up In An Environment Of Warmth And Support Will Thrive And Function In Whatever Environment They Find Themselves. What We Need To Do Is To Do More To Help Poor Kids Have Such An Environment.

Preschool Kids Learn Best When Exploring, But Kids In School Learn Best When They Do Things, Interacting With A Master. Unfortunately, Our Schools Don't Do Much Of Either. Also, Kids Do Need To Learn How To Deal With Technology, And Online Education And Otherwise Using Electronic Devices As Learning Tools Facilitates That.