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Posted: 16 Dec 2021

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Man is a story-telling animal -- we remember stories better than facts, and often misremember facts to fit a favored story. The vagaries of our memories have been extensively catalogued: we attend more to facts that conform to our expectations and prejudices, recall them selectively and imperfectly, and, when forced to acknowledge inconvenient facts we strive to interpret them in a way that fits our preconceptions. ~ Page 16

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Exactly how to portray the human mind has preoccupied philosophers for centuries and more recently psychologists, educationalists and physiologists have contributed to the debate. [technology creates new metaphors, tools to manipulate our experience that create our stance towards the world]. With the advent of information and communications technology, the brain has been compared to a computer that processes in a logical, consistent and systematic way. Sylvester (quoted in MacBeath, 1997) prefers the metaphor of the brain as a jungle and argues that the learning environment of the classroom should mirror this by inviting challenge and discovery across different domains. More recently we have seen the advent of quantum computing which neatly fits the metaphor of the brain/mind having the qualities of a quantum device itself.
So how do you think about your brain/Mind? How do you think about thinking? The way we think about the brain has a lot to do with how the brain works. Some researchers have spoken about the brain being like a coral reef, a jungle, a telephone exchange a machine and even a television. Clearly, the way we think about the brain has a lot to do with our experience of life and clearly influences the functioning and even the physical structures of the brain.
The concept of teaching thinking is not new. From the ancient Greeks onwards improving the intellect was perceived to be a prime aim of education. For Plato this entailed engaging in the Socratic dialogue and traditional logic.
If cognition (thinking) is to be improved, then it is argued that teachers must make the learners’ thinking processes explicit by using methods which perturbate and intervene directly on the ‘thinking processes’. Part of this involves making learners aware of themselves as thinkers and how they process/create knowledge by ‘learning how to learn’ and ‘thinking about how to think’.
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It’s like the root of a tree. All a tree’s fruit and flowers, brances and leaves depend on its root. If you nourish its root, a tree multiplies. If you cut its root, it dies. Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort. Those who don’t understand the mind practice in vain. Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible. Bodhidharma

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