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It is estimated that within the brain there are 10 billion nerve cells, each of which conducts impulses on to the other nerve cells. These impulses, which depend on chemical and electrical energy, travel from neuron to neuron along, connecting branches of fibres called axons and dendrites. There are up to 10,000 connection points for each neuron. The child’s brain is programmed by means of stimuli sent along the nervous pathways, from his senses or from his own thinking. These make connections within the cerebral cortex, which is the information part of the brain, the seat of thinking and consciousness. When the nerve cells repeat patterns of information –processing activity, learning takes place. On the basis of these simple patterns more elaborate patterns can be built, so the child move in stage from novice to apprentice towards expert .The more stimulus the child experiences to activate his patterns of learning the greater will be be the capacity of his brain to function intelligently. The brain is divided into two inter linked hemispheres .It has been accepted for sometime that one Hemisphere is dominant. The dominant hemisphere, normally the ‘logical left’is largely responsible for language, logic, number sequence and analysis while the ‘creative right’ deals with space, color, music rhythm, daydreams and imagination. These priorities are also called the ‘artistic right’and the ‘scientific left’are reversed in those (normally left handed) people whose right hemisphere rather than the left hemisphere is dominant. This orthodox view of the 2 hemispheres has been challenged by research that suggests that the division is not as clear –cut as was once supposed. Most types of thinking involve both hemispheres indeed ;one of the keys of successful thinking lies in linking the faculties of the hemisphere, The period from birth to puberty is the time of most rapid growth of the brain and the time when human beings are willing to learn. At the age of 5 the brain will 90% of its adult weight .The child’s sensory organs, her eyes, ears sense of touch, taste and smell are highly developed, ready for absorbing the experiences that will be the raw materials for thinking and learning .The quality of the thinking in these years is therefore vital. It is a quick process. The long period of childhood is not necessary for the patterning of the thought processes to be established nor will progress be steady .The pattern of growth tends to come in fits and starts. And children cannot learn alone. They need the mediation, the necessary help of others (peers and friends). Together with appropriate stimulation, if they are to be given the chance of developing to there full potential. Our examination of intelligence cannot take account of all those qualities –attention, will, popularity, perseverance, teachableness and courage-which play so important a part in the school work, and also in the after life, for life is not so much conflict of intelligence as a struggle between characters
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