Why Mind, Brain and Education? Why Now? Hello EAF Leaders! I am using this digital format of a blog to provide additional forms of communication and content sharing. Here I will provide you with links to talks and resources, as well as a bit of content that is not available in our books. Much of what I share here, and in the class is my personal perspective, developed over many years of research and practice. Class goes quickly and I do not expect you to recall everything we cover on a first exposure. I think of much of what I present in the class as "priming" the brain. When you prime something, you prepare it to run. First exposures to these concepts and new content is a way to create the questions that will lead to self-directed learning. I have a deep-seated belief that all learning is self-motivated! From a neuroscience perspective this is related to a basic principle of how the nervous system works. We may ask ourselves: "What does the brain care ab