Historically, our education system is designed for left brain logic thinking and those that go through easily and well were usually left dominant people, who went on to professions and jobs that were logic oriented and organized etc.
The intuitive right hemisphere has only been recognized in the recent past (mid '90's) and the "open" classrooms were designed in response to the shift. Unfortunately, "they" discovered that "open" wasn't for everyone and the shift went back to more traditional styles with some attention to multisensory input. This still does not encourage "intuitive" messages and so those who express their intuitive ideas as kids are generally discredited by logic and learn to bury their intuitive feelings.
If you have any grand kids that show any signs of intuitive "feeling" based skills, please don't discourage them from expressing themselves. The world needs more input from those sources and less from lock/step thinking. That is what thinking outside the box is about and in this age of cyber space it is now being utilized in the work place and in many young developing coumpanies.
Hopefully in time it will be recognized that whole-brain thinking is the best way to go in education. But that's a whole other discussion!
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