Changing the Educational Paradigm
Changing the Educational Paradigm
– The education for the new generation of children and new born babies that increasingly show higher holistic intelligence rate which leaves parents , teachers and society unprepared to unprecedented levels
Article by Irina E . Childs
“ The ignorant man is not the unlearned , but he who does not know himself , and the learned man is stupid when he relies on books , on knowledge and on authority to give him understanding . Understanding comes only through self- knowledge , which is awareness of one ' s total psychological process . Thus education , in the true sense , is the understanding of oneself , for it is within each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered ”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti : Education and the Significance of Life
It is not that holistic education is new , or that the genius children are a new phenomena . The topic is around the fact that more and more parents are increasingly aware and also doing as much as possible to raise the intelligence in their new born babies . From mother ’ s preoccupations on diet and the capacity of having a healthy and brain boosting diet , to listening to classical music and other preoccupations , as yoga for pregnancy – all of these have resulted in a baby boom like no other in the history of human kind . In addition the technological advancements which millennia babies and children come in contact with , from very early ages , support the fast learning and manifestations of multiple talents .
Selecting holistic schools like Steiner , Waldorf education or Montessori education and most recently home schooling are pertinent available choices that more and more parents are happy to make on behalf of their children . According to Data drawn from Helmut Zander , Anthroposophie in Deutschland , Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht Verlag , Göttingen 2007 the Waldorf schools have grown from none to 200 between 1920 and 1980 , over a span of 60 years , but they will continue to grow exponentially with 1,000 more schools over the next 60 years – from 1960 to 2020 .
This simple fact reflects our first point here , so not only the babies are being born more clever , but the parents are willing to support their gifts and creativity .
Up to here all sounds great . Yet , having met and spoken with parents of genius children , the challenge they face is considerable . Many of these children learn faster – with breath-taking information processing abilities , they understand life in a more complex way , use clairvoyance easier than the parents can grasp the concept , are emotionally wiser than the parents and do not respond to any guiltinducing discipline techniques in school , at home or in society .
The list of gifted child behaviors , according to Mensa website , includes :
• An unusual memory
• Passing intellectual milestones early
• Reading early , An awareness of world events
• Unusual hobbies or interests or an in-depth knowledge of certain subjects
• Set themselves impossibly high standards
• May be a high achiever
• Prefers to spend time with adults or in solitary pursuits
• Loves to talk , Asks questions all the time
• Learns easily , Developed sense of humor
• Musical , Likes to be in control
• Makes up additional rules for games
This doesn ’ t include any guidelines on extraordinary intuition , clairvoyance , telepathy , memory of previous lives , knowledge of plants and nature that has not been learnt from books , the capacity to speak many languages without the effort to learn them . To support all of these traits as well as the
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