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A summary of Why Don’t StudentsLike School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How The Mind Works And What It Means For The Classroom By Daniel Willingham Summarized by Bud Nye, R.N., M.S.  Contents Why do we find it difficult to make school enjoyable for students? 3 How useful or useless should we consider fact learning? 7 What makes something stick in memory and what will likely slip away? 12 Why do we find abstract ideas so difficult to understand, and so difficult to apply when expressed in new ways? 19 Does the cognitive benefit of drill make it worth the potential