Could your Child Be A Genius?

Een praktische uitleg in het engels over de methodiek en het handelen op de schoolprojecten.

“Many children have the potential of developing genius”

Most of us believe that geniuses are a very rare breed and only a few children are born with that potential. Not according to the Raghavans! “Many children have the potential of developing genius,” according to them. “Every child has far more potential than comes to the surface under normal circumstances. The secret is to create conditions that enable the child to discover and express their full potential.”
“Young children have an incredible capacity for learning,” says Aruna Raghavan. “They can learn to read multiple languages with ease at a very young age, even before entering school. They can imbibe a wide range of general knowledge just as a form of recreation.” Her husband Raghavan adds, “Children can learn at least twice as fast as they normally do in traditional schools without homework, cramming or strain of any type. Learning can be fun for the kids and a way for parents to relate to them positively.”

The birth of their daughter, Niru, made them search for new methods. They stumbled on the techniques developed by Dr Glenn Doman in the USA, combined them with ideas on education taught by The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, and found they worked miraculously with their own child, who began reading voraciously and learning on her own at a very young age.

Domans conclusions

Doman concluded that the first six years of life are a time when children learn naturally, spontaneously, effortlessly and joyously – as a form of play – and that the more opportunities the child has for learning during this period, the more rapidly he learns and the greater his capacities for learning. The younger the child, the greater the capacity to learn. Every child’s natural ability to learn far exceeds what we are tapping, because of the deficiency in our teaching methods. Our present educational methods tap and develop only a very small portion (at best 5%) of human capacity. Each child is a potential genius, with unique capacities. The system should be capable of recognizing this and drawing it out. The programmes are propagated to begin with three week babies and go on till the child is five years. By then, the child was well into reading books beyond his level. But it is understood that the figures may vary.

The Raghavans are not just talking through their hats. They are working practically applying advanced methods of early childhood education to help normal children develop their fully innate potential. Aruna and her husband first became interested in early childhood education in the late 1980s while living in Mumbai. She was a secondary school teacher. He was a Chartered Accountant with a highly successful computer software consulting business.

Eight years ago the Raghavans left Mumbai to set up their own school at Arasavanangkadu village near Tiruvarur, Tamil Nadu. Three years ago Aruna guided the launch of Primrose School in Pondicherry and several others since then. All the schools are applying the same basic approach. “The methods we apply in our schools enable even average children to perform way above average, to acquire self-confidence and individuality.”

12 practical articles about the Glenn Doman method in schools.

Glenn Doman – Education 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...

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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...

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Glenn Doman – Teaching Science to your child

Teaching Science to your child by Aruna Raghavan One of the best things in life have been given the impossible title 'physics'; and having given them that, we assiduously try to forget they exist. Yet, children discover most of the laws of nature and with great joy....

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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...

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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 we...

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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 few months she...

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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...

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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...

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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 and...

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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...

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Glenn Doman – Reading: How Your Child Progresses

How Your Child Progresses by Aruna Raghavan Last week we began with a very simple reading program. We continue with it this week. But first : When we found that Nirupama could read effortlessly, we began with her writing. We found a miracle : she made no mistakes in...

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Glenn Doman – Reading without being taught

Reading without Being Taught by Aruna Raghavan "And please bring Nirupama with you." That was an invitation to meet Shri C. Subramaniam when he was the Governor of Maharashtra. Nirupama was our three and a half year old who was taught by us at home : to read and to do...

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