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Be Afraid:

She’s huddled in a corner of the room behind a table, locks of brown hair plastered to her moist cheeks and brow, rhythmically sucking her thumb while her eyes are squeezed shut. Knees gripped with one spindly arm to her chest, she rocks slowly making no noise except for the wet sound of the thumb in her mouth.
Minutes earlier she had been dancing for an audience of one, tapping her feet and singing; earlier still, she had been playing the piano: Bach, Mozart, and had been discussing music.

She acts like a child.

The Brain and Education
Below are some interesting links about the brain and its structure in relation to education and the classroom.

Until quite recently, understanding the mind--and the thinking and learning that the mind makes possible--has remained an elusive quest, in part because of a lack of powerful research tools.  Today, the world is in the midst of an extraordinary outpouring of scientific work on the mind and brain, on the processes of thinking and learning, on the neural processes that occur during thought and learning, and on the development of competence.(Bold font added)

Digital art done by me with a Bamboo Fun tablet in Corel Painter Essentials 4.

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Links to Additional Websites about Inquiry Based Education and Co-Constructive Dialogue

 Here are some interesting links that we found on the Internet about Inquiry Based Education and Co-Constructive Dialogue:

Teaching Teachers

Reaction to “Building a Better Teacher”