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This is not to suggest, though, that the human brain has been completely investigated and is now thoroughly understood. To the contrary, the human brain can be likened to the bottom of the world's oceans where less than 10% of the area has been explored at all, and much more remains to be done. In fact, it would seem incredible that scientists have accomplished what they have been able to do thus far, given that the human brain is so enormously complex and every individual is unique. Despite these constraints, though, researchers continue to gain ground and new discoveries are being made every day. It may well be just a matter of time before the individual evaluation plans mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act are replaced with truly individual educational approaches that take into account how different people learn at the molecular level and a fundamental paradigm shift in education will take place as a result.
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