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Born to Unlearn By Prabal Mall Ph.D.

Have you had look at the starry bright eyes of a new born baby? Don’t they sparkle with knowledge and intelligence? Yes they do. But the baby is born with a few temporary challenges, it cannot speak, it cannot walk and is dependent for several mundane activities on near and dear ones.

But those eyes convey everything which goes on in the superb brain. We out of our ignorance feel that the baby does not know anything and start training or rather untraining it from scratch. Just because it cannot express we feel that the baby is dumb. The baby makes attempts to speak but is incoherent and we instead of teaching the correct pronunciations and sounds end up imitating the gaga and gogoos.Can you imagine the baby’s frustration?

That is how a typical learning phase of the baby starts. But there are some exceptions, there may be a few stray cases where the parents or relatives realize the intelligent being that the baby is. These babies generally grow up as the few famous ones.

Recall your early childhood days; don’t you remember each and every small detail of your life even when you were a toddler? But then you were treated as an ignorant being and finally you started unlearning what you already knew!

The idea is to treat and train babies as intelligent beings who have a few challenges to overcome.