In reality, Glenn Doman bothered the tutorial world again within the 70s since he broke with paradigms that established and predetermined that studying was promoted by “that which is taught, and never by who learns”. Importantly, he innovated when he demonstrated that the child, as soon as assisted by the mom, may have entry to information a lot sooner than what had been accepted up to now. Some preconceived notions, resembling the next, have been damaged with to permit early studying and literacy and we’ll talk about right here how this was achieved, by dad and mom, for the nice of their infants.
Preconceived notion #1 – Mother and father shouldn’t stimulate their infants.
o How has this been damaged with?
When the kid arrives in school, s/he has already been by means of an entire world of experiences, of being uncovered to technological and informational society (visible air pollution). The dad and mom are educating their infants to talk, to watch, to stroll and to pay attention. The mind be taught what it sees, hears, smells and feels. With every passing day, the child builds information of the tradition wherein s/he is immersed.
As we speak’s society offers stimuli by means of colours, and the scale of ads, by means of tv and the urge to promote merchandise for income’ sake. Households have entry to technique of communication, and nearly each dwelling has a pc, a TV, and telephones amongst different merchandise that talk with out asking whoever it’s the communication goals to succeed in whether or not or not it has been licensed to take action. Inside this context, infants are stimulated. It’s the dad and mom’ position to manage that which will be proven to them. If dad and mom don’t look after what stimuli the child will be uncovered to, then society trespasses the intimacy of the house, figuring out that which should be realized. It’s thus the dad and mom’ preliminary accountability to resolve the difficulty. It’s neither as much as the State, nor the establishments with educating attributions to resolve who and what’s stimulating the mind.
Preconceived notion #2 – Mother and father shouldn’t drive their infants, stealing their childhood away as they educate them as in the event that they had been academics
o How has this been damaged with?
Instructing infants to learn will not be nor has it ever been a purpose for “dropping” childhood. Studying time consists of high quality moments of pleasure, play, and delight between mother or father and child. The child learns by way of affection, and thus for eager to play the studying recreation. To steal a childhood away is, for instance, to depart youngsters in entrance of the TV with out actions that develop the creativeness, that’s, with out giving them the chance to have interaction in inventive video games.
Preconceived notion #3 – It isn’t the dad and mom who educate, however the colleges
o How has this been damaged with?
Colleges are not with the ability to educate our youngsters. There are difficulties in bringing information, improvements and knowledge from the neighborhood to the classroom on the similar tempo wherein they occur outdoors of the varsity system. It’s a query of updating the amount of data that happens in actual life, in actual time.
Moreover, the works of identification of gifted/youngsters with particular inclinations present that the stimuli within the dwelling atmosphere present for the presents in ‘gifted’. Kids already arrive in school with skills and inclinations developed in environments made wealthy for inhabited by the dad and mom. Instructing at dwelling exhibits that’s attainable to develop educating outdoors of college. In spite of everything, there exist many dad and mom in several nations with extra time and higher coaching than most of the academics inserted in each private and non-private college methods. With such a realization and inside the want to offer them with the perfect alternatives as early as attainable, dad and mom can certainly educate their infants tips on how to learn.
Preconceived notion #4 – The kid ought to be taught solely when s/he is prepared. Each precocious stimulus is dangerous.
o How has this been damaged with?
As soon as once more, a preconceived notion underestimated the child’s capabilities. Why is it that solely those that present expertise in music or sport will be stimulated early? When is it, then, that the kid is prepared? What attainable reference pointing by way of social ranges, nations, communities? Who determines when to show? Solely the kid’s curiosity. The dad and mom should keep alert as to when; the moments. However way more than this, they should try to see how straightforward it’s to show a child to learn.
As soon as the preconceived notion are overcome, we begin to witness that the child can and does do way more than out small capability to grasp the human mind, in addition to what it will likely be capable of do sooner or later. In spite of everything, can we imagine or not in evolution?
Glen Doman was a visionary. We pay him our respects. If the miracle of studying as a child has been witnessed by me by means of the event of my very own youngsters, I imagine that each one infants born within the final century – and who can be born on this one – can do the identical.
This is to the child revolution! Within the seek for peace and options for the world’s issues, and in favor of all man and womankind, could this be the top of the Jurassic illiteracy period.
After exposing these 4 key preconceived notions, and the dialogue above, we are able to affirm that:
1 – The child can be taught at dwelling with the dad and mom;
2 – The child learns with out the understanding of studying guidelines as a result of s/he learns as s/he performs; and he mind is open to the educational of the phrase for s/he already is aware of the idea;
3 – The phrases are proven and the mind learns by means of the constructing of psychological schemes, constructions that can be used all through his/her life;
4 – On this course of, there isn’t any coaching, as a result of it isn’t attainable to “practice” a child. It’s s/he who learns.
5 – The child understands and identifies that which s/he sees. His/her information of the world is relative to the information of the world s/he constructed. It isn’t ours!;
6 – A child, when s/he reads a phrase, s/he identifies and acknowledges it;
7 – The dad and mom ought to stimulate their infants earlier than the neighborhood with out accountability does so;
8 – On this course of, they aren’t stealing away the child’s childhood; they’re, as an alternative, guaranteeing that the latter is being preserved by means of play, within the growth of creativity, and the enjoyment in a educating and studying relationship;
9 – Sure, dad and mom do educate. They will educate. It’s the primordial responsibility. To have a toddler will not be merely to feed, shelter, and look after. It’s to help in order that s/he could construct a wholesome information of the world. For the longer term. Colleges come to assist us socialize the kid and promote the updating of all content material wanted for all times inside society; and
10 – Allow us to not underestimate infants’ capability to construct a information of the world, in their very own manner, and as quickly as they’ll.
Translation by: Inessa Leao Figueiredo, MS.
