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RHITG BRIAN OR LTEF BRIAN? WHAT A NO-BRAINER!
If yeou’r rignead tish Nelswetter yeou’r prolbaby an accatnount, therefore a left-brainer. If, however, you successfully decipher these first few lines, you have something of the
right-brainer. So contagrulantios, you’re moving towards being a whole-brainer! In general, education overplays the left side characteristics and underplays the right, so devaluing feeling and creativity. Worse, it’s Happily, cognitive science has made huge strides, and has resurrected wisdom that we’d managed to forget *. Whole brain learning is actually the way children learn best, although to most of our generation, unaware of different learning styles, that means nothing. We simply followed the curriculum along pathways which suited the lucky ones! We worked IN learning rather than ON it. Just ask your kids about the Mind Maps they prepare in school to let the right brain creatively enhance the left brain’s logic. Mind Maps So we oldies have to keep up with our children in the 21st Century! And by smart skills leveraging, we can. All our mental skills, right across the cerebral cortex, are available to all of us. Our brain is Treasure Trove, glistening with untapped talents and delighting us with our own dextrousness in creative problem solving. Its two sides together far exceed the sum of their parts: they empower us to a measure once beyond our imaginations!
Should we quote Obama? Yes we can! (*Unconvinced? Read Richard Holmes’ The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, and see how poetry, music and science in Britain were once passionate bedfellows!) Need
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