EARLY EDUCATION
Method of intellectual development of the child is not something new. This topic disturbed minds of many people. There are so many talks about such methodics. It is interesting that such approach was promoted by specialists who were not the educators by their speciality. Anyway they succeded due their "open mind" methods that we can profit today. What I noticed also, there are innovators of early development methodics among specialists of educational profile, but not all of them are real professionals. Non-specialist cannot guess if they promote fake infoproducts or plagiary.
I know there are people who do not share the approach of early education. They say that the child will not have his childhood but will have psycologic problems.
For thousands of years (!) caring parents were engaged with children from a very early age. Now people are taught that learning is not necessary. Illiterate is easier to manage with. Illiterate people think that this doctrine - is a hard work, a burden and load for our children. Isn't knowledge a higher pleasure? Does this path is only valid for the elite? No!
ALL our children are talented. Let's give them the opportunity on the ability and desire. Parents! READ the original source! There is no need to trust blindly the opinion of sceptics.
What I see in this approach is devotion to children (the right ways of spending time with the newborns and babies). We live in times of lack of such devotion. Russians, Americans, Japanese and Chinese keep eye on that. Others are not ready yet...or...ready? What about Europe?
But let us return to those who really helped children and left something valuable.
Masari Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist. He co-founded what is now Sony. He died in 1997. The fact that he is not into psychology or pedagogy makes his thinking about early development even more of a border braker. It's not genius orientated education, it's about completing the people's possibilities. Masaru Ibuka wrote a book "Kindergarten Is Too Late!" This surprisingly good book does not make stunning statements. The author simply assumes that young children have the ability to learn anything. He believes that what they learn without any effort at 2, 3 or 4 years in the future is given to them with difficulty or not at all given. According to him, the fact that adults learn with difficulty, children learn effortlessly. What adults learn at a snail’s rate children learn almost immediately. He said that adults sometimes are too lazy to study while the children are ready to learn at all times. And he says it gently and tactfully. His book is simple, straightforward and crystal clear.
Masaru Ibuka
The american military doctor Glenn Doman began to treat children with brain injuries in the late forties. His institute in Philadelphia (The Institute for the Achievment of Human Potential) came to conclusions that can be schematically described as follows: stimulating one of the senses makes possible to achieve an effective increase of the brain activity as a whole.
Thus, on the basis of his experiments, he concluded that any (even the healthy) baby needs to be occupied with from its birth. That is why he created his own Institute of accelerated development of babies "Better Baby Institute" (BBI), even now there are many of his followers engaged by this method of early development. In his books he points out that every baby is born a genius and we, the parents, just need time to discover and to send its capabilities in the right direction.
Glenn Doman