How does the right brain learn?
The right brain understands the world by seeing it in whole pictures and concepts. The left brain reads about it through letters and numbers that it sequencing the parts and can process for thinking about the world. This means the right brain learns everything in wholes: whole words, whole sentences, whole stories, whole lessons. If any of these are left incomplete during learning, the right brain discards them. It does not understand incomplete images or concepts. Fortunately, the right brain is able to fill in the blanks in many cases as the brain matures. However, it does not always mean the student as a adult will be able to read the words or work with mathematical concepts because these skills use abstract letters and numbers. Thinking in pictures also means the brain cannot see or work with the parts separate from the whole picture. The skills they need must be taught in whole images such as spelling words without breaking them up into letters or sounding out the letters if they
