NASA Study on Education and Child IQ

Kids Are Born as Geniuses... then they go to school.

NASA (North American Space Agency) developed a creativity test to use as a search tool for scientists and engineers for their agency. NASA scientists wondered, where does creativity come from? Is it learned, or does it come from experience, or are people born with it? Scientists, Dr. George Land and Beth Jarman, were contracted to develop and administer the testing. Their results caused them to dig deeper to discover how to identify children with high potential to become creative geniuses. They subsequently studied 1600 school children in the USA, using the same test.

The test looks at the ability to come up with new, different, and innovative ideas to problems.

They discovered that our natural creative genius is stifled from the time we are born!

Testing on the same children at various age intervals revealed the following results.

·      age 4-5 – 98% classified as geniuses

·      age 10 – 30% classified as geniuses

·      age 15 – 12% classified as geniuses

·      adult – 2% classified as geniuses

The test has been replicated over a million times with approximately the same results, eliminating any skepticism and inaccuracy.

These scientists concluded that; the school system, in its current format, robs us of our creative genius.

The Industrial Revolution; a need for compliant & obedient workers

During the Industrial Revolution (1760-1820), which began in Europe, and where the world transitioned from a human economy to factories that mass produced goods. It opened a path for big business and shut down many family run businesses because products could be made cheaper in factories.

Big business owners now needed workers that were compliant and did not question the status quo, or come up with ideas and solutions. They decided that the school system could groom children and prepare them by eliminating critical thinking, creativity and problem solving abilities. Text books, standardized testing, desks lined up in rows inside school houses became the newest and greatest form of learning and parents were convinced that this would provide opportunities for their children when they graduated. Children were graded and catagorized according to how they fit into the standardizes system. There were right answers and wrong answers, and children were labelled “good boys/girls or bad boys/girls”. This education system became known as “the public education system”.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, formal education was accessible only to the elite and rich.

Others learned practical skills to work the farm or run the family business such as a bakery, construction company, butcher shop, tannery or blacksmith shop. They learned entrepreneurship skills like profit margins, customer service, and practical trade skills. Indirectly they learned math and language skills, but it was only in the context of the family business, or based on the parents’ literary skills. But where they excelled was in creativity, problem solving and critical thinking – the very traits of genius!

HESED Villages

In HESED villages, the once victimized but now victorious children, experience a hybrid of the very best in education.

The blueprint for the Education Mountain is a return to practical and experiential teaching, but also includes holistic elements of math, languages, history, geography and so on.

·      Education is experiential as the children learn math and engineering as they build houses and run enterprises. They learn sciences as they plant and harvest crops, develop energy and water systems, and understand the effects of weather.

·      Education is relational as they interact with experts in each of the mountains and are mentored so wisdom and knowledge is not only passed on, but expanded.

·      Education is situational and relevant rather than hypothetical or removed from the environment.  

Studies say that we only use 10-15% of our brain. Furthermore, we have been told we are either left-brained or right-brained thinkers. Left brained people are logical, orderly and administrative. They become engineers, accountants and administrators. Right brained people are the creatives, such as artists, musicians and dancers. The truth is that we were all created with and given a whole brain with both a left and right side! This means that we were always intended to use both sides together in an integrated way. This is where creativity, problem solving and critical thinking come together… in other words genius thinking! The Education Mountain is designed to do just that.

This means that the classroom is a gathering point and a place to organize from. Teaching is done interactively and relationally from mentor/teacher to student rather than from text books. Presentations, group work and discussions are a constant activity rather than sitting in desks listening to lectures from a teacher. Discovery is an exciting part of the day and rote memorization is unheard of.

A generation of brilliant, passionate and creative thinkers is about to enter the world and take leadership. Thank God!

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