Social Development – 394 principles

Laws or Principles of Social Development (Definitions and Concise Expressions) 1. Social Evolution Social evolution is subconscious in the collective. – Collective is subconscious, the individual is conscious. – Subconscious collective, conscious...

Uncommon Opportunities – Food for All

The production of more food to meet the needs of a burgeoning population has been one of the outstanding global achievements of the post-war period. It has demonstrated the extraordinary capacity of humankind to meet a collective challenge of monumental proportions....

Glenn Doman – Evaluation without exams

Evaluation without exams by Aruna Raghavan In our schools we have no exams. And every one I meet asks the same questions. How do you mark your children? By percentage? By grades? Do you have unit tests? How do you average at the end of the year? And when I say we have...

Glenn Doman – Emotional Growth

Emotional Growth by Aruna Raghavan They could each write only 5 sentences on each child. The first two should contain what they like best about the friend. The second two should contain one quality they would like to see changed or modified. The last any special...

Glenn Doman – Poetry and your child

Poetry and your child by Aruna Raghavan We are all Pygmalions. We like to make, remake, put our heads to a side, shake it and re remake our children. The perfect child is always the neighbour’s until it lives with us for a week! If our child loves the rain, then...

Glenn Doman – Integrate learning

Integrate learning by Aruna Raghavan At school here we had Kanimozhi, a precocious child of four and a first generation literate. She learnt with her whole being’, giving her a unique prodigious ‘memory’. She was like a bird, eager and chirpy. In a...

Glenn Doman – The beauty of words

The Beauty of Words by Aruna Raghavan Every language is rich because man is constantly amazed by what he sees around him. It is a hard task to coin words to match the beauty in front. Yet, has man found words. And those words are the adjectives. To teach a child to...

Glenn Doman – Reading to your child

Reading to your child by Aruna Raghavan If reading is a pleasure, reading out aloud is an art. First, there is the choice of material. It should be of great interest to the listener. But more so the book should interest the person who reads aloud. Reading aloud to a...

Glenn Doman – Teaching the Five Senses

Teaching the Five Senses by Aruna Raghavan On his own, without interference from the adults around. A lady told him with great pride that she had not taught her 5 year old anything. The philosopher said, “Madam, you have wasted five years; go home immediately...

Glenn Doman – Teaching Babies to Read

Teaching Babies to Read by Aruna Raghavan For two weeks now, I have been talking about our personal experience with teaching our own child and how we use the method with other children. The question that the reader has is: can I teach mine? So, here is an easy step by...