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The Renaissance Children
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MODERN THOUGHT
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1 / 1992 |
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Glenn Doman
Glenn Doman is chairman of the board of the Institutes for
the Achievement of Human Potential, Philadelphia,
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"All children are born geniuses and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them."
--Buckminster Fuller
Twenty-five years ago, at the time How to Teach Your Baby To Read was first published in Britain. I was being interviewed on BBC television by a very prominent talk show host. He was intelligent, well mannered, and articulate but clearly disturbed as I described how easy it was for a mother to teach her baby to read and as a consequence to sharply increase her baby's intelligence and physically grow the baby's brain in the process.
As I continued to enthuse, he became very obviously concerned and interrupted me to say, "But it sounds as if you are talking about creating some sort of children's elite!"
"Of course I am. Elite means the best of any group."
"Do you admit it?" he asked, as if I were admitting to being a devotee of Nazism.
"I am boasting about it," I admitted.
"How many children do you want in this elite of yours?"
"About a billion."
"But how many children are there in the world?"
"About a billion."
"Oh, I see. But then, who do you want them to be superior to?"
"I want them to be superior to themselves."
And to this day, that has been the objective of the staff of the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia: That and making brain-injured children well.
The proof that both the genius Buckminster Fuller and virtually every mother in history are right in their intuitive judgment about the innate genius of newborn babies has very strong scientific support in both laboratory animals and in very real human children, ranging from
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