Jonah Lehrer published this blog post further discussing (in part) his article from the Wall Street Journal about the relationship between peak creativity and specific fields of knowledge. Take a moment to consider these excerpts and their implication on education: Those fields with a logically consistent set of principles, such as physics and chess, tend [...]

I hope all educators agree that there is a difference between memorizing and learning, and I really hope that ALL educators are striving for learning rather than memorizing. I think the bigger issue at hand though is many people’s inability to tell the difference between the two and to identify when one or the other [...]

In Jonah Lehrer’s most recent post on “The Frontal Cortex” he discusses the topic of “Attention & Intelligence” in relation to Walter Mischel’s marshmallow task and a recent Rutgers study on general intelligence and selective attention. Lehrer argues that the key is “controlling the spotlight” and developing our ability to control our focus. Much of [...]