Children are SUPERB Learners
If you teach a tiny kid the laws he cannot asa result discover the facts.
We adults tend to divide all information into two kids, which call concrete and abstract. By concrete we mean what we understand and what is easily explained. By abstract we mean what we don’t understand and what is therefore difficult if not imposible to explain.
Then we insist on teaching children avstractions.
The tiny child has a huge ability to discover the laws if we teach him the facts.
It is not possible to discover the facts, which are concrete, if we are taught only the rules, which are often abstractions.
The definition of science which appeals most to me is the one that says, “A branc of knowledge dealing with a body of facts systematically arranged to show the operation of laws.
That is a perfect explanation of how tiny kids approach all learning. First they absorb a huge number of facts, without the slightest effort, and then they arrange them systematically to discover the laws that govern them.
Tiny children use exactly the same method of solving problem as do scientists.
If I were forced to describe every genius that I have been privileged to know in a single word, the word I would use is curious.
I would dislike having to do so since all of the very brilliant people I have ever known are very different from each other. It is my chowderhead friends who are as alike as peas in a pod.
Children are “Scientists”
Scientists and geniuses are intensely curious.
Intense curiosity is a characteristic shared by true scientists, geniuses and all tiny children.
Tiny children are scientists.
Tiny children learn more fact for fact before three years of age than they learn in the rest of their lives.
The Institutes staff and , to our knowledge, one other group of people were saying that thirty years ago. Most people 
thought it to be silly
Now everybody seems to be saying that.
It is true despite the fact that everybody says it.
Children could be learning three times as much during the first six years of life as they presently will learn in the rest of their lives.
Some children are, and what appealing children it makes them.
The word “learning” is not synonymous with the word”education”.
Education begins at six – learning begins at birth.
Children are superb learners. They are limited only by how much materials they have to learn about and how it is presented.
- Glenn Doman
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