Two Brains: A Non-Brainer by Alvin M. Saperstein There has been
much popular discussion, in recent years, of a two-brain basis
for human intelligence: a left-brain and a right-brain, one
responsible for analytical behavior, the other for holistic and
language activity. I am in no position to comment on the
usefulness or validity of this basis set. But, as a result of
many years of teaching physics and astronomy at the introductory
college levels, I am convinced of an alternative two-brain basis
for student behavior: an “in-school brain”, and an “out-of-
school life brain”, with very little, if any, connection between
the two. The scientific knowledge so expensively obtained and
imparted “in-school”, apparently plays very little role in the
foundations of our individual and social lives. As a result,
contemporary private and public policy shows very little
evidence of application of the constraints of the thermodynamic
laws, or the finiteness of resources and environment; in spite
of the fact that –as measured