KICKSTARTING OUR HEARTS ~ Thought #67 on Ending Terrorism ~ Developing Our Students' Higher Brain ~ Violence is the First Refuge of the Incompetent

Of the three brains that make up our total brain, the highest is the neocortex which makes up 5/6ths of the total organ. 

Yet we still rarely access it in education, falling back on the lesser limbic and still lower reptilian brains because these brains resist change. 

That's why I think Eleanor Roosevelt said, "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." — Eleanor Roosevelt

In a reptile-eat-reptile world where we use the lowest part of our brain we react emotionally to each other who we see as different and dangerous, and must “kill them all”. This is the place in the brain where terrorists are doing their "higher-level" thinking and making their conclusions on what action must be taken to solve their problems.  

We develop the higher competence of the higher neocortex in their kids and our kids and yes, education changes the world as its people come to truly higher-level and less reptilian conclusions on how to resolve conflict.