Why Don't Students Like School?

Daniel Willingham, via a kind reader's email:

trange as it may sound, the mind is not designed for thinking--it's designed to save us from having to think. Because thinking is slow, effortful, and uncertain, we rely on memory, not thought, to guide us whenever possible. Nonetheless, we are curious and we do like to think, so long as the issue or problem at hand is neither too easy nor too hard.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 23, 2009 1:18 PM
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