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Anyone know of a school district that teaches neuroscience from a young age? Basically a user’s guide to the brain? There’s so much emphasis on mental health, shocked schools aren’t teaching how brains work best. The neurosciences have been clear on that topic for at least 30 years.

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I believe in a breadth-first education. First, teach the broad strokes across multiple areas, including softer sciences, so kids know the basics of all the interrelated disciplines. This interrelated web of knowledge of different concepts and tools will then help them actually understand specific narrow domains like neuroscience. Without it, they will lack the capability to understand, and will learn lists of data in their textbook by rote in order to pass the class.

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