Understand the Child’s Brain

admin June 25th, 2009

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Mr Ilchi Lee writes in his book about brain education and kids he says the number of academic articles on this topic is staggering, offering research on almost every possible topic, from learning disabilities to gender differences to brain development. The underlying message of all this research is very simple: to understand the child’s brain is to understand the child.

I developed the Brain Education method in South Korea in the 1980s as an updating of traditional Korean mind-body health training systems. The principles and practices of the method were then combined with knowledge about the brain gained from neuroscience, psychology, and other fields. Its essential goal, however, remains very straightforward and practical—the physical, emotional, social, and academic betterment of human beings.

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 especially successful in teaching the English language to Korean schoolchildren 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.

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