Ilchi Lee on Power Brain Kids: Introduction 5
By Phil on Jul. 13, 2008.
From Power Brain Kids by Ilchi Lee
Brain Education is currently thriving in hundreds of schools in Korea, and it has recently been successfully introduced in several K-8 schools in the United States. BE curriculum has been successful in teaching the English language to korean shcoolchildren in after-school programs, allowing kids to quickly and easily absorb a language very different from their own. Also the Korean Institute of Brain Science has hosted two International Brain HSP Olympiads, in which BE-trained children and adults have demonstrated a wide range of advanced mental skills, including information processing, memory, and even extrasensory ability.
Brain Education is especially appropriate for today’s children because it offers tools to cope with issues that are unique to the young generation. Children today are sometimes referred to as “Generation M” because media dominate their lives in so many ways. Media technology, such as cable television and the Internet, provides a constant and unlimited flow of information. Youngers must choose which ideas to accept and which to reject. Their choices in this regard will affect their patterns of thinking about themselves and the world around them. The job of the educator and the parent is to help guide children in making these important decisions, which is a difficult task in a media culture more interested in selling jeans and cola than in creating well-rounded, confident individuals. Brain Education, in its essence, offers simple tools that provide children with the power to choose and use information more effectively.
Category: Brain Education