Do you know that all babies are geniuses?
For growth of children, the most important
issue is education, not nature. The fact that children eventually become
geniuses or normal people is not up to intelligence, but the key point is
education for children from birth to 5-6 years old.
Children
are taught at an early age will be smarter.
Understanding and being aware clearly this
problem, Makoto Shichida has shared experience about methods of teaching
children effectively in the book “Developing mentality and talent of children”.
This book is renowned and has large effect on teaching children of many parents
in the world.
To introduce to readers, we would select
and give the best parts in the book. Hopefully they will help parents broaden
horizon, understand influence, mutual support of all aspects in grown process
of children.
The younger children are, the smarter they get
The newer-born babies are, the smarter they
get. Newborn babies have ability of learning amazingly. For this ability, Ms.
Montessori, a renowned Italian educator, called it fetal reception, and said
that ‘It disappeared at adults, but this is magical power can compare with the
creative energy of gods; since born, children have absorbed irritation from
surrounding environment and adapted with them, but this ability quickly
disappears.’
The nearer to the time when babies are
born, the bigger this ability is. Compared
with 0-2-year-old babies, adults cannot compete with this ability. However, if
parents do not know that period of their babies and do not create any
educational stimulation for children, their brain will not develop excellently,
and this ability will be removed quickly. Then, when children grow, even if how
much excellent education is stimulated, the ability of magical reception cannot
activate again. It’s difficult to teach children to become intelligent.
All
babies are geniuses.
We can say receptive ability of babies from
birth to 3 years old is very talented. No matter how difficult or easy
education stimulation is, children can easily absorb. It is only just a simple
knowledge and memory, but children also have capability of winning the most
advanced computers. All
information which loaded in this period totally entered into potential
intellectual area, the same as computers are loaded carefully, they have
capable of independent thinking and inference. Babies remember words and sentences that they hear from around; when
saying, they do not just rely on remembering word by word. The ability of
processing information is only in children (cannot in adults) makes them become
experts on any thorny words. This genius ability is in all babies.
The brain is formed basically in the first 6 months after
birth
Up to then, there is a special department
to learn language naturally in brain of children. It is not related to the operation
of surrounding environment, but it pop out the voice itself. Exactly, there is an innate part in
children’s brain which absorbs excellently language, unlike apes or other
animals that do not have this part. However, there is a misunderstanding that this part is not related
to environment around children. You
have to understand that brain’s operation grows up gradually together with
reacting stimulation from outside.
For babies, since they are born, teach them
a plenty of words to create a rich treasure of words. Thus, the brain with good
ability of reception will absorb these words, collect them, and pop out when
talking.
Babies do not need to explain the meaning
of new words so as to remember them. Initially, just simple sound and words
enter potential knowledge area in their brain. Children’s ability in explaining improves gradually; potential
knowledge is accumulated more and more until the words that children do not
understand are in potential knowledge area and become meaningful. With the capability of processing
information that adults do not have, all 2-year-old children can become
language experts in front of thorny issues of grammar. However, many people do
not know and they think language and speaking are babies' natural ability.
Babies
do not need to explain the meaning of new words so as to remember them.
Initially, just simple sound and words enter potential knowledge area in their
brain
When having obedient children, parents are
very happy because of not having to take care of them too much. But if they do
not know how to make children active, just let them sleep in half of year after
birth, until babies are 2 or 3 years old, they do not know how to say and
become retarded children. Children, from geniuses, become normal ones, and
there are no ways to make them turn into geniuses again.
Depending on the mother's actions,
6-month-old babies will have different changes. If mother's actions during this
period make mistakes, nature of innate genius will be destroyed. People say that the basic pattern of
children's brain is formed within the first 6 months after birth. And until 3
years old, 60% wrinkles which connect brain cells are completed. During this period, don’t let children grow
without any activation. The better activation is in this period, the more
surprising excellent capability children have when growing up.
