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It's important for educators to understand how the human brain works. The human brain is constantly learning, acquiring, and thirsting for knowledge. Why, then, do so many children "hate" school? Could it be that educators don't understand the brain? When people learn, they are changing the structure and chemistry of their brains. To make connections, dendrites--threadlike fibers that extend from the neuron--reach out and grow together. If information can be processed in many different ways, …

…as many connections in as many different ways as possible. They should make the classroom a happy place, without too much stress. They have to look for patterns in their lessons and show those patterns to their students and they must realize that a pattern is hard to break. It's not that it's easy to make a "brain-compatible" classroom. It's that it's worth it. Students are the future, and teachers control that future every day.