I feel the only thing the experiment proves is that children respond better when taught in small groups! It's an indictment of the way they're raised and the inadequacy of modern teaching methods to deal with the resultant atrocious behaviour. It's a complete fallacy that the old "talk-and-chalk" methods stifled childrens' creativity, and it certainly gave far better results in basic subjects than those obtained today. Because of a shortage of books just after WWII, at 6 years of age we were given Dickens to read. We didn't understand too much of it but we were certainly capable of reading the words. I wonder how many children of twice that age could cope with it now?

Only just joined here.

As far as genius is concerned it is the ability to get the answer without doing all the work.

All normal functioning brains are the same and capable, what a person decides to store in their own brain takes just as much no matter if it is the names of soap stars or the most difficult mathematics.

If you are not interested in something then you are hardly likely to find it easy to learn.

Lateral thinking is a process that allows for far greater scope for coming up with original ideas although most will not be worth much it is the odd one that is worth the effort.

john