There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant percentages, not on some absolute value. That's one of the reasons behavioral scientists have to be really good… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me. — John Medina Copy Share Image
Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. — John Medina Copy Share Image
“The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The… — John Medina Copy Share Image
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted… — John Medina Copy Share
“Every time I lectured to a group of parents-to-be about baby brain development,” — John Medina Copy Share Image
“reasoning is a uniquely human talent. It may have arisen from our need to understand one another’s intentions and motivations. This allowed us to… — John Medina Copy Share Image
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design… — John Medina Copy Share Image
“Emotionally arousing events tend to be better remembered than neutral events. While” — John Medina Copy Share Image
Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning in some… — John Medina Copy Share Image
“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become” — John Medina Copy Share Image
Even though we don't know squat about how the brain works, the little we do know suggests that if you wanted to design a… — John Medina Copy Share Image
