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Walk upstairs, open the door gently, and look in the
crib. What do you see?
Most of us see a picture of innocence and
helplessness, a clean slate. But, in fact, what we see
in the crib is the greatest mind that has ever existed,
the most powerful learning machine in the
universe.”
F rom “The Scientist in the Crib”
(Alison Gobnik, Ph.D., Andrew N. Meltzoff, Ph.D.,
Patricia K..Kuhl, Ph. D.)
Such minds should be exposed to enchanted learning
experiences where learning becomes the magical natural
process nature intended it to be.
The more we discover about the universe around us the
more we realize how little we really know.
What is true of outer space is also true of inner space –
our minds.
At birth we stand like Lucy before the magic Wardrobe
prepared to enter a world where enchanted learning
experiences become the air we breathe.
The latter part of the twentieth century has seen more
discoveries about the human brain than in all previous
history of mankind.
It is as though we have been paddling in the shallows of a
vast ocean hitherto unaware of its existence.
Enchanted learning experiences beckon us out into the
deep oceans of discovery and no ocean is more wondrous
or mysterious than our brains.
The brain contains a vast number of cells or neurons.
It is connections made between these neurons that
constitute learning.
Robert Ornstein has estimated that there are more
possible links between the neurons in our brains than there
are atoms in the known universe.
“We are only now on the threshold of knowing the
range of the educability of man . . . We have never
addressed ourselves to this problem before.”
Dr Jerome Bruner, Harvard University
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