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:tourist: An open letter to Brian Butterworth

AND ALL HUMANITY.
[COLOR="Red"]every teacher or parent needs to start here

this the best research available

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcb8nT0QC6o[/COLOR]

Long before the earliest written records, there are drawings that indicate a knowledge of mathematics and of measurement of time based on the stars. For example, paleontologists have discovered ochre rocks in a cave in South Africa adorned with scratched geometric patterns dating back to c. 70,000 BC.[1] Also prehistoric artifacts discovered in Africa and France, dated between 35,000 BC and 20,000 BC,[2] indicate early attempts to quantify time.[3]:

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Dear Brian
How simple was it for me to find this on the net, and post it here.

72,000 YEARS and what have we learnt, not very much in comparison to knowledge itself.

Consider my statement

“we do not know what we do not know”

The decimal system is our greatest single asset, without it I very much doubt that I could have found those five lines and clearly identified the concept of time.

Your profession is that of a scientist, your politics indicate that you believe all men are created equal, though obviously in far from equal circumstances.

My thesis is simple improving education at a stroke.

The decimal system is from where the possibility of human equality springs.

THE ANSWEAR IS WITHIN OUR OWN GRASP

Within our two hands and their message and meaning and that ability those two hand bestow on humanity, the direct evolutionary link between the human brain and reality is our salvation .
Is it four million years since we split from the chimpanzee or four million and ten years.

We are capable of thinking and doing, probably we will only ever be the only thinking and doing life form within the entire universe or entirety itself.

Our frail humanity has to share knowledge and part of that knowledge as to be with the possibility and speed of knowledge acquisition, my concentrated thinking relates to the two vital human developments that make a tolerable future for humanity possible, the development of standard formula as simple as the decimal system itself, to build our neurological pathways in order that we humanity shall survive, and prosper.

Our children have the natural right to the best possible education,
only by acquiring perfect arithmetic and adequate reading ability as early and as quickly as possible, will it ever be possible.

The mission of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) is to facilitate cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaboration in all fields that are relevant to connecting mind, brain, and education in research, theory, and/or practice. We invite applications for membership from scientists, clinicians, educators and other educational professionals. Please visit our website at http://www.imbes.org or contact Juliana Pare-Blagoev (juliana.pareblagoev@gmail.com) for more information about membership.

A new study published in the scientific journal Child Development shows that teaching children how the brain learns can support a growth mindset that boosts grades:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...21&sc=emaf

Cheers,
Christina Hinton

There is no doubt the learning at different ages seems to occur in qualitatively different ways. Scientists may be beginning to uncover neural underpinnings of these differences: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6172048.stm

Cheers,
Christina