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“The modern institution of education, which grew out of those vestigial ways of learning, has produced generations of people with dazzling skills, skills that would look nothing less than magical to our foraging ancestors. Yet its language, customs, and schedules—dividing the day into chunks (classes, practices) and off-hours into “study time” (homework)—has come to define how we think the brain works, or should work. That definition is so well known that it’s taken for granted, never questioned.”
― Benedict Carey, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

“studies show that “deep sleep,” which is concentrated in the first half of the night, is most valuable for retaining hard facts—names, dates, formulas, concepts. If you’re preparing for a test that’s heavy on retention (foreign vocabulary, names and dates, chemical structures), it’s better to hit the sack at your usual time, get that full dose of deep sleep, and roll out of bed early for a quick review.”
― Benedict Carey, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

“Studies in animals have found direct evidence of “crosstalk” between distinct memory-related organs (the hippocampus and the neocortex, described in chapter 1) during sleep, as if the brain is reviewing, and storing, details of the most important events of the day—and integrating the new material with the old.”
― Benedict Carey, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

“people don’t benefit from an incubation break unless they have reached an impasse.”
― Benedict Carey, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens