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...Just last week, in the U.S. alone, some 77,000 newborns began the miraculous process of wiring their brains for a lifetime of learning. If parents and policymakers don't pay attention to the conditions under which this delicate process takes place, we will all suffer the consequences--starting around the year...
...research offers hope as well. Scientists have found that the brain during the first years of life is so malleable that very young children who suffer strokes or injuries that wipe out an entire hemisphere can still mature into highly functional adults. Moreover, it is becoming increasingly clear that well-designed preschool programs can help many children overcome glaring deficits in their home environment. With appropriate therapy, say researchers, even serious disorders like dyslexia may be treatable. While inherited problems may place certain children at greater risk than others, says Dr. Harry Chugani, a pediatric neurologist at Wayne State University...
...also depends on the stimuli, as the scientists call them, that a baby receives. It depends on what the baby sees, hears and touches and on the emotions he or she repeatedly experiences. But if environment matters, we are faced with a question: At a time when children suffer from perhaps the gravest social problems of any group in the U.S., how do we ensure that they grow up in the best environment possible...
...poor fail willingly because all people have and have enjoyed equal opportunity, have entered this world with equal freedoms to flex equal minds. They believe that every wealthy and successful individual is so because of his or her "productivity," that the uncreative and less intelligent and less talented should suffer for their fruitlessness, and ultimately, that our civil society should feel no obligation to them...
...should Harvard go to extra pains to foster a competitive atmosphere before students ever set foot on its campus? Many Harvard students, who by any other standard are quite stellar, suffer from believing they are not good enough or accomplished enough simply because simply because some of theirs peers are summa cum everything. Such harsh self-criticism is not a positive by-product of being surrounded by 6,400 talented people. It may drive students even harder to succeed, but this, too has its negative aspects...