Henan school trains child prodigies that can memorise their textbooks backwards
The principal of the 150-student Henan Child Prodigy School (河南神童学校), Zhang Xuexin (张学新) says he has devised a revolutionary method of training the right brain of children to make them child prodigies. His students can not only memorise their textbooks and ancient poetry, they can actually recite them backwards. Throughout the school and around classrooms, one sees banners such as “China's first school that teaches education of the total brain" (中国第一所全脑教育学校), “Today's child prodigy, tomorrow's talent" (今日东方神童,明日世纪天才) and "I am a child prodigy, I am a memory expert" (我是神童,我是记忆天才).
According to the principal,
“这些神童右脑得到开发,在看电视的时候,将整个电视屏幕上的内容同步印在右脑中,眼睛在看电视,注意力却集中在右脑。电视关闭后,右脑就像完全受到控制的录像机一样,可以按照顺序倒序完整回放,把电视剧中人物对白、面貌特征、瞬间表情,甚至举手投足都可以复述、表演出来,这就是录音录像。”
After these students have had their right brain trained, whenever they watch television, they can actually both watch the programme and simultaneously "write" the programme on their right brain. While their eyes are on the television, their focus is on the right brain. When you switch off the television, their right brain is like a tape recorder that is fully under control, and it can play back to you everything in order. They will be able to remember all details such as the dialogue, facial features, expressions, body language and be able to act all of these out. This is photographic memory.
Nevertheless, some of his unorthodox training methods such as getting children to absorb the sun's energy by staring into the sun and visualising other people's hearts, bones and veins, etc., have raised the eyebrows of educationists in the province who have lambasted him for his unscientific approach.
Despite some of the kids interviewed on this clip testifying otherwise, Shanghaiist thinks that all the children featured here look MISERABLE. To begin with, we don't really buy into the idea that the ability to recite any text forwards and backwards makes a kid a "child prodigy". Unfortunately, like so many other schools with suspicious methodologies around in China, we think this school will be around for a long time to come.
Related link
Zhejiang Online: 河南民办“神童学校”:沽名钓誉还是教育创新
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