I was astounded yesterday watching a YouTube video whish had over 7 million views and depicted a little Russian girl who is just 4 years old interacting with 7 people all speaking different languages to her.
They asked her to read French out loud, to sing in Spanish, to answer cosmological questions in Chinese. Then there's German, Arabic, English and of course her native Russian.
Her parents simply began teaching her English along side her home language and then added a lanuage here and there and are now at seven
It is a remarkable thing that the sacred texts predicted many thousands of years ago that little children would provide leadership in the latter days and that we see that the more we learn about learning, the closer we get to achieving an important, possibly unintentional yet devinely inspired objective, which is to filter the vast knowledge of humanity and combine the best features with the unfathomable creativity of little children.
Some believe this to be the only hope for our planet in as much as we are clearly making little progress without the radical latteral thinking we have filtered out of our thinking and thereby stiffled our creativity.
There are some brilliant TED talks on the creativity of children and its importance to the future of humanity as well as the destructive nature of the educational systems we have employed over the centuries and especially the last two.
A little research into the amazing tallent found in young children today will quickly confirm that although there have always been exceptionally tallented children, there is a stark contrast bewteen the past and the present in this regard.
One important note is that genius is taught today and parents intent on nuturing a genius mind have succeeded in doing so.
Once again, there are TED talks which elaborate and parents have produced genius musicians, chess players and more.
Besides the video, TED talks and the Bible are the primary source for ideas expressed here.
TED talks include those given by Sir Ken Robbinson.
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