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“Daily immersion in a discipline, even a difficult one, involves representations being repeated until certain sets of synapses have been stabilized. The complex has become familiar. New students, even those with academic potential and good will, simply lack the brain circuitry that their teachers bring to the classroom. There is little danger in overestimating the intellectual potential of our students, but there is serious danger in overestimating the condition of their brains. If they do not catch on quickly to what appears to us obvious, it may be that we have confused the obvious with the familiar” (15).
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