There is a well-known quote that resonates with my motto as an Education practitioner "If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid". The quote meaning is that individuals learn and grow in different ways, at different paces. There are people who learn best by observing, talking, doing, or drawing etc. Therefore, in the Education picture, teachers' role is understanding this mindset and helping students discover their own strengths and weaknesses in learning, then create space for them to cultivate their own potentials and preferences. Also, in this picture, the learning environment is supposed to support students to feel encouraged to walk out of their comfort zone for trial and error for their personal development. In short, learning how to learn should be the goal of education. This is exactly when "educational psychology" plays and performs its role to help understand and make sense out of the whole learning process comprehensively, then guide the practitioners to apply proper intervention and assessment framework (expectation).

Why is this important? This question was clearly answered in some of the lectures about how the brain works. A benefit of focusing on how people learn is that it helps bring order to a seeming cacophony of choices. There is no universal best teaching practice. Focusing on how people learn will also help teachers move beyond either-or dichotomies that have plagued the field of education. Students’ abilities to acquire organized sets of facts and skills are actually enhanced when they are connected to meaningful problem-solving activi­ties, and when students are helped to understand why, when, and how those facts and skills are relevant.

The example showing the significance and application of psychology in education is Jean Piaget's theory on child cognitive development, which was presented in the lecture. By understanding this development, Education practitioners can apply one of his key ideas about readiness in curriculum design, lesson delivery, pedagogy, assessment framework etc which better supports students instead of unrealistic expectations and false evaluation.