Children are born with genius, and the so-called genius is not a talent that a few people will have. In fact, everyone has unlimited genius potential.
Although a child's talents vary widely, whether he will eventually become a genius or a mediocrity does not depend on the number of talents, but on the way the child is educated after birth. Even those children who are very ordinary can become extraordinary talents as long as they are properly educated.
More than 40 years ago, my father summed up the popular educational methods at that time. At that time, education thought that educating children too early would make them lose their childhood happiness, which was an inhuman education method;
A person's talent and personality are innate, and there is no way to change them. Father thinks these educational ideas are not scientific at all. He learned the concept of "early education" from the Athenians, and through his own arrangement and exploration, he came up with a brand-new and innovative educational method, which was verified by me. At that time, those people were more willing to regard me as a genius or a child prodigy.
Professor Hoie and I have also been committed to the research of "early education". In the past few years, we have investigated and studied thousands of children. Experiments have proved time and again that children with early education have higher intelligence than other children 15? 30 points. The vast majority of children have a high level of intelligence, both in academic performance and life performance.
Our research objects include not only normal children, but also children with birth defects and children in orphanages, and the results are the same. Therefore, it is necessary for parents to educate their children early after they are born, which is related to whether their children can have a good life in the future.
Some parents object to this view because they still adhere to the old educational model. They think that educating children too early will make them lose the happiness of childhood.
When we teach children simple words, we don't want to train them into linguists: letting children enjoy music doesn't necessarily make them musicians. Early education should be based on interests and needs, so that children's potential can be fully exerted, which lays the foundation for cultivating children's physical health, developed intelligence, good quality and personality. Every activity in children's life is a part of the curriculum, and children's interaction with others, dining, sports activities, regional activities and so on are all learning.
A child will use his sensory organs to recognize things. First, he will unconsciously store his cognition in his brain, and at the same time absorb the language to prepare for the next step. Only through their own efforts can children turn their knowledge of the world into personal knowledge. Parents' early education for their children should not only be limited to learning knowledge, but also cultivate their psychology, personality, personal behavior mode, thinking mode, enthusiasm for things and love for the world. These are the fulcrums of life, that is, the fulcrums of spirit.
In early education, parents should carefully observe their children's personality characteristics and explore their hobbies. A harmonious family is a good environment for children to study, and it is also very important for the formation of children's good character.
Parents must remember that the purpose of early education is not to impart knowledge to children in a boring way, but to activate children's brain nerve cells, expand his brain nerve network and develop his brain potential.
If we can't correctly understand the meaning of early education, blindly instill all kinds of knowledge into children, force them to recite, draw, learn and listen, and ignore their interests, hobbies and specialties, parents will interfere with their children too much, which will slow down their intellectual development, especially the development of creative intelligence, which is not conducive to their growth.
The experimental results of Professor Hoie Foster and I show that the main reason for the success of many successful people lies in their parents' early education. When they were young, they learned knowledge and skills, exercised their physical fitness, willpower, imagination, creativity and courage, and made them have great enthusiasm for their cause and courage to overcome difficulties. These are all very important for a person's success.
Many successful people have said that the education their parents gave them when they were young was mainly enlightenment, not the "cramming education" forced by many parents. In the process of learning, they mainly adopt "interest incentive method", "reward rule" and "flexible choice rule" On the premise of respecting them, parents' encouragement, reward, help and guidance are their learning methods. The purpose of their study is not only to become talents, but also to live a happy life. They also believe that this kind of teaching makes them feel the joy of life in their study, and they have not lost the joy of childhood.
I was just a premature baby, with poor health and mental retardation, but my father didn't give up on me. He believes: "An ordinary child will become an extraordinary person as long as he is properly educated from infancy."