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"Everyone is a natural learner." - Rita Smilkstein
The message of the book is that when we know what the brain's natural learning process is, we know how to help our students, our children, and ourselves be the motivated, successful, natural learners we are born to be. Dr. Smilkstein, in classrooms and faculty seminars here and in other countries, has asked over 8,000 people - students from the second grade through graduate school and faculty in many different disciplines - how they learn to be good at something outside school. Their answers, amazingly, are the same across age, gender, culture, and educational level. Moreover, this natural learning processs converges exactly with how the brain physiologically learns. This convergence finally gives us the link that has been missing between brain research and the development of complete curriculum for any subject at any level. |