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  Learning with Passion and Enthusiasm releases dopamine, which means it works better and is more fun Learning happens inside our brain when new information connects with existing memory. When we are excited or enthusiastic our brain happens to do that much better. In a famous experiment American psychologist, Hans Breiter put cocaine addicts into an MRI. The effect of the drug excited the addicts and the researcher saw a lot of activity in what’s called the Nucleus Accumbent. German scientists did the same experiment with young men and pictures of Porsche cars, which caused the same area to light up. When they did it with pictures of a Daihatsu.. it didn’t. What’s going on here? As soon as we expect something nice to happen, the brain releases it's happiness chemicals dopamine and endorphin as well as other neurotransmitters. While dopamine and endorphin delight us, the other neurotransmitters send information from A to B. This connects new information from outside the brain with ...

  A growing number of parents believe in unschooling — the process of learning through life, outside classrooms. Similar to homeschooling it usually happens at home or within the community. But while homeschooling usually follows a formal curriculum, unschooling doesn’t. So how does it work, and why do parents advocate for it?

Educator: A Calling, not a Job      Educators are leaving schools at a rapid rate and the national academic scores are decreasing just as fast. One of the Universities I had the pleasure of teaching at shut down suddenly because less students are pursuing undergraduate degrees. The government has allocated funds to entice people to pursue a career in teaching, but they are immediately deterred by the state of public education, treatment of teachers in the classroom, and the rise in behavioral disorders. We need to change the way we approach education and reevaluate what it means to be a teacher. What It Means to be An Educator      The term "educator" has changed in recent years from an individual who teaches children skills to become lifelong learners to a person who watches kids learn from a Chromebook. In an attempt to hire more "teachers" public education systems have created a suboptimal and counterproductive way for learning to be automated; t...