Introduction

Daniel willingham is a harvard educated cognitive scientist who writes books and articles about how to learn and teach better. The title of his book, why don't students like school? Is a tat unfortunate, i think, because the book isn't really about board students. Instead, the book is divided into principles of learning that need to fulfil a strict set of scientific criteria. Each principle is based on a great deal of data, not just one or two studies. If any of these principles is wrong, something close to it is right. These are facts about how human brains learn, so they don't change whether you're learning spanish or mathematics. Using the principles versus not using them