John Medina Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• 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 to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.

  John Medina

  Starting Over, Design, Brain

  "Education 2020 — An Emerging Consensus About Learning" By Paula Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2011.

• 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 learning environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was naturally good at doing, you would design the education system we currently have, not only in America, but all over the world!

  John Medina

  America, Design, Brain

  Source: bobmorris.biz

• There are estimates that we daily walked for 10 - 20 kilometers for hundreds of thousands of years. The world's best problem solving machinery grew up under conditions of consistent, strenuous physical activity. It makes sense that when we don't recreate the environments in which the organ was forged, we get a loss of function. And that when we do restore those environments, we get that function back. The effects of aerobic exercise on executive function skills is a powerful empirical example of this idea.

  John Medina

  Powerful, Loss, Exercise

  Source: bobmorris.biz

• Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful trait in an unstable, unpredictable living environment.

  John Medina

  Style, Environment, States

  Source: bobmorris.biz

• If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

  John Medina

  Design, Brain, Doing You

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.14, Pear Press

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