Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A
Guide for Teachers and Parents by
Michael Gurian
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In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian synthesizes this
current knowledge and clearly demonstrates how this distinction in hard-
wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn.
Gurian presents a new way to educate our children based on brain
science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal
disparities.
Personal Review: Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for
Teachers and Parents by Michael Gurian
This book's title should win an award for obviousness. Of COURSE boys
and girls learn differently, that is part of what makes them boys and girls. I
think Gurian's book is addressing the educational fetish that all children are
blobs of goo, entirely shaped by their upbringings. It is clearly not so...
kids are hard-wired at birth and a one-size-fits-all education isn't going to

work. It will frustrate the children, confound the teachers, and impart little
actual learning.
The first section of the book is a rehashing of the brain research
associated with early childhood development. This was spelled out better
in Gurian's book The Minds of Boys. I suspect it was included in this book
assert the author's theories' credibility. The second section of the book, on
designing classrooms to meet the needs of boys AND girls, is extremely
valuable.
A 25-year veteran teacher and I were talking about it. She says school is
designed by women, taught by women, and geared toward women. Sit
down, sit still, raise your hand. As a result, boyishness is becoming a
pathology. There is nothing wrong with most boys, other than being
biologically unsuited for an environment of "sit down, sit still, and raise your
hand."
I teach 3-year old Sunday School, and boys and girls DO learn differently.
It might not be a bad idea to sex-segregate preschoolers in Sunday school,
rather than divide them by age. Most three-year-old girls can turn out a
prettily colored picture or cutting craft; most three year old boys simply do
not. However, when it comes to acting out a Bible Story, the boys are as
engaged as the girls. And when you can put the kids INTO the lesson, the
learning sticks.
The entire second section of this book is devoted to how to build inclusive
lesson plans that meet the needs of all kids, and how to incentivize
learning for boys and girls. It has been extremely helpful to me; I think this
is the most helpful book I have read about reaching and training children
since Karen Pryor's book "Don't Shoot the Dog."
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