Month: April 2011

"A 'good' brain for learning develops strong and widespread neural highways that can quickly and efficiently assign different aspects of a task to the most efficient system… Such efficiency is developed only by active practice in thinking and learning which, in turn, builds increasingly stronger connections. A growing suspicion among brain researchers is that excessive television viewing may...

Excessive TV watching can also lead to a wide range of physical, psychological and social problems. Here are 17 more arguments for the elimination of television. HYPERACTIVITY INDUCER THERE is mounting evidence that the rapid movements of sounds and images on TV is a major cause of hyperactivity. The worst thing one can do for a hyperactive child is to put him in front of the TV set. The physical...

Any knowledge system that does not build on the collective wisdom of the past is bound to fall short of the demands placed upon it. By Korah Mathen Let me state at the very outset, in no uncertain terms, that I am all in favour of achieving literacy but not unquestioningly and not without some concerns and reservations. I neither subscribe to the kinds of ghastly horror story that are associated...

CAP is disturbed at the wide range of additional school fees that are permitted to be charged at individual schools — even going over RM100 and more. It is very well for the Education Minister to say that parents do not have to comply or that they can take their money back. But in reality, can the Minister actually guarantee that the children whose parents have not paid these additional fees...

Human beings are being used as the principal raw material for the growth and expansion of industrial society, says the writer. Thus, education for example has come to mean the production of workers with skills demanded by industry. By Jeremy Seabrook The perception that we live in a "post-indusrial society" could scarcely be more false. Simply because in Britain the old sites of industrial...

Television can be an important learning tool for your children, but it must be used with the greatest care. As part of the television "picture", advertising can provide your children with a great deal of information about the world around them. But, it must always be remembered that children need close parental guidance when it comes to advertising. It is useful with very young children to start...