How We Learn

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How Lincoln Learned to Read: 12 Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them
(Daniel Wolff)

Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count
(Richard E. Nisbett)

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
(Maryanne Wolf)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians
(Rick Riordan)

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, A History
(Lewis Buzbee)

Steinbeck's Ghost
(Lewis Buzbee)

Incidental Music:

Prelude from English Suite
(John Duarte, Performed by Robert Bluestone)
Round Dance from English Suite
(John Duarte, performed by Robert Bluestone)
Nils Revkes Halling
(Edvard Grieg, Stefan Jeschko, piano)
Rigandon from Holberg Suite
(Edvard Grieg, L. Pesek)
Gavotte from Holberg Suite
(Edvard Grieg, L. Pesek)
Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count
04.25.2010
 (was 06.07.2009)

Ben Franklin, Henry Ford, Abigail Adams, Elvis Presley. Know what they have in common? They're all on Daniel Wolff's list of great Americans. Wolff explains the unique ways those people learned what they had to know. We'll also take a hard look at IQ and its relationship to race and class, and consider why dyslexia can be a gift.

  1. Daniel Wolff on How Famous Americans Learned

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    Daniel Wolff tells Anne Strainchamps that most Americans learn what they really need to know outside of school and that, as a society, we believe contradictory things about the value of public education.

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  2. Richard Nisbett on IQ

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    Richard Nisbett argues that parenting styles have an enormous impact on the IQ of children and so does simply telling middle-school children that influencing their IQ is within their control.

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  3. Maryanne Wolf on Dyslexia as a Gift

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    Maryanne Wolf thinks the dyslexia brain ought to be considered a gift that characterized some of history's leading figures.

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  4. Rick Riordan on the Percy Jackson Books

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    Rick Riordan is the author of the wildly popular series of children's books featuring Percy Jackson - the dyslexic son of the god Poseidon.

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  5. Lewis Buzbee on Loving & Selling Books

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    Lewis Buzbee has spent his life besotted with books. He's sold them, and now he writes them.

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