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> it’s bonkers to me that kids today aren’t being taught about their brains as performance muscles. k12 education is incredibly poor for our ROI. We get some a

> it’s bonkers to me that kids today aren’t being taught about their brains as performance muscles. k12 education is incredibly poor for our ROI. We get some algebra skills and reading skills. Hearing people say the words 'trust the science' means they didn't 'get' the scientific method. I cannot imagine why we don't have a 'health' class that teaches about the human body scientifically works. Teach about how addictions are formed, teach about how hormones/various neurochemicals impact our brains, when we experience them, etc... I currently am learning about these and there are all sorts of LPTs you get when you realize how the brain actually works.

giantg2 3y ago
I think that varies by the school and the student's track. I was taught many of those things in stuff like DARE, biology, and physiology classes in grades 5-12.
- hospitalJail 3y ago
  No you didn't. Seeing you include DARE in that list means you are talking about something completely different than neurobiology.
  - giantg2 3y ago
    Lol, how do you teach neurobiology to 5th graders? The answer is you teach it at a conceptual level they can understand, generally focusing on outcomes or other observable results. I remember being taught the basics of chemical dependence, how it changes your thought patterns, how it affect your brain, etc, in DARE around that level. You aren't teaching kids PhD level neurobiology. You're teaching them the applied concepts. Even in high school when you're learning about dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, etc, it's not at a PhD level, but focuses on how those changes impact different systems, especially any observable behavioral changes. So please don't tell me what I did or didn't learn. Please realize that neurobiology is not only available as PhD level content, but rather, like all other subjects, has content for lower education levels as well.

giantg2 3y ago

I think that varies by the school and the student's track. I was taught many of those things in stuff like DARE, biology, and physiology classes in grades 5-12.

hospitalJail 3y ago
No you didn't. Seeing you include DARE in that list means you are talking about something completely different than neurobiology.
- giantg2 3y ago
  Lol, how do you teach neurobiology to 5th graders? The answer is you teach it at a conceptual level they can understand, generally focusing on outcomes or other observable results. I remember being taught the basics of chemical dependence, how it changes your thought patterns, how it affect your brain, etc, in DARE around that level. You aren't teaching kids PhD level neurobiology. You're teaching them the applied concepts. Even in high school when you're learning about dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, etc, it's not at a PhD level, but focuses on how those changes impact different systems, especially any observable behavioral changes. So please don't tell me what I did or didn't learn. Please realize that neurobiology is not only available as PhD level content, but rather, like all other subjects, has content for lower education levels as well.