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To: Gary Mohilner who wrote (301118)	6/1/2016 9:05:09 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540683

I totally agree. We also need to make education fun and have nice teachers in place. The Lady Jane Grey (cousin of Elizabeth) loved education more than anything else because her teacher was so kind to her (and no one else was). People will make amazing efforts for affection- they will go far beyond what you can expect normally.

To: Gary Mohilner who wrote (301118)	6/1/2016 1:38:38 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 540683

I agree with much of what you posted about education. Especially the importance of tailoring education to the individual. I also think we need to understand how our brain is hardwired through evolution, and what it can learn and how it can learn. I don't think we have a clear understanding of that, and there is a lot of recent research that indicates as such. Like the importance of early childhood development. I have posted many times about one of my best friends who went on to become the most famous academic of all of us, but had to go into cultural anthropology instead of physical anthropology because he had trouble with a basic statistics course, but could write like Hemingway and think like Mark Twain. With regard to myself, I had the grades to go to UC Berkeley, and wanted to, but I have a lot of trouble with language. My brother is dyslexic and I can't hear languages. In fact when I watch British films on Netflix I have to put on subtitles. And I have always been a terrible writer and I've never been able to spell. Which makes it even more confusing to me because I am a big reader. But I never had any trouble in college, and I did exceptionally well at math. I would like to see the Department of Education take the new studies and research on what people can learn and how, and try to educate the teachers across the country. One of the first things I think we really need to diagram and is as important as diagramming the human genome, is how our brain is hardwired e.g. we know some of the basics like we know that we are hardwired for pattern recognition and we are hardwired to be able to speak; but we find probability and learning to read and write and actually do math something that is quite difficult and takes a long time to learn. Once we know what we are i.e. how we are hard wired through evolution and how we learn e.g. what exactly happens with different types of educational stimulus from birth to say five years old. For example, should we be teaching foreign languages to children practically from birth? We've known for my entire lifetime that young people can learn languages better than old people, yet they still start foreign languages in grade 8. That makes no sense to me at all.