Every person is born with a brain that functions as an immensely powerful processor. Traditional schooling, however, often inhibits learning by discouraging, ignoring, or punishing the brain's natural learning processes. Learning engages the whole physiology. The search for meaning is innate. The search for meaning comes through patterning.
Emotions are critical to patterning.
The brain processes wholes and parts simultaneously. Learning involves both focused attention and peripheral perception. Learning involves both conscious and unconscious processes. We understand best when facts are embedded in natural, spatial memory. Learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat.