Thus, if you are a knowledge worker, simply planning, reading, writing, working on your computer, and studying in your field won't help you as much as would tackling something you are completely unfamiliar with. And, as many of those among the 1.5 million adults going back for graduate degrees each year would probably admit, learning something new at an older age is not stressfree.
Babies have it a little easier.
Implications of this research for education are not crystal clear, but many of the new facts seem to back up what progressive educators say about creating optimum conditions for learning. We learn from one another. Third, every brain is unique in organization. That we are intelligent in many ways and learn through many different styles underscores the need to reorganize our classrooms, many teaching strategies, and appreciate the role emotion plays in learning, instead of merely labeling kids and ourselves analytical or global, verbal or kinesthetic, practical or creative. Lionni, like Paley's protagonist, is partial to the color brown and shows particular insight into characters who think differently and feel separate from their companions.