How We Learn

An interesting insight into how children learn, neuroscience, AI and pedagogy. The final sections on teaching techniques, memory consolidation and how being bilingual, learning an instrument or becoming proficient in maths was my favourite.

Great review of the current state of the neuroscience and psychology around learning. Dehaene initially spends a considerable amount of time making comparisons of the brain to modern AI, which might put some readers off. There are lots of valuable insights in the book about the impacts of various factors on learning and retention - some I already knew from previous reading and a long academic journey, but some novel. 

Just four out of five stars because, even if the book is really well written, interesting and inspirational I don't understand how this research could already be so mature to address children education and teacher training. Either I am missing some important link or it seems to me that the research reported is still too basics to really be used to address education problems with confidence.

Furthermore, the answer to the title of the book is not actually answered which, however, was kind of expected considering that he's a neuroscientist and not a programmer. But still...the title is misleading.