Bruce W Hasenyager

The 21st-Century Mind Bruce W Hasenyager

The 21st-Century Mind Learn and teach a path to better thinking is an owner's manual for the human mind. A concise, readable, and entertaining description of minds and how they work, this book salutes the work of brain science but focuses the reader's attention instead on the experience of having a mind and on a description of the mind's parts and functions - a mental model of our human superpower.

Along with the 21st Century Mind model, the author uses dialogs between a tutor and students to animate, illustrate, and extend the discussions of the model. A five-year-old learns, "my mind is the part that makes me me" and a middle-schooler learns about thoughts, memories, and thinking. A high school student studies perceptions, biases, and consciousness. Students discover the central importance of the human mind and explore the reasons for education.

The book sounds a warning. It argues that clear thinking is more important now than ever before. Teaching children the mind's strengths and limitations is essential to improving their thinking An absence of a suitable mental model of mind is a handicap.

Chapter after chapter builds the case and calls us to action. We can't teach thinking if we can't talk clearly about the mind. Now is the time to adopt a suitable description of the parts and functions of the human mind, so we have the words and ideas to Teach the 21st Century Mind!