Education
Our mission is to implement global stewardship student training programs that provide long-term solutions in
the areas of:
the areas of:
| Every Parent Born a Teacher * Every Child Born a Student * Every Home a School |
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Roger W. Sperry Cal. Tech, Professor of Psychobiology writing on
Lateral Specialization of Cerebral Function in Surgically Separated Hemispheres. 1973
“The main theme to emerge…is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and non-
verbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemi-spheres of the brain, respectively, and
that our educational system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the non-verbal form of
intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere”
“The verbal half of the brain, the left half, dominates most of the time in individuals with intact
brains as well as in split-brain patients.”
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Despite that warning made more than a generation ago, neither the government nor private
education institutions have paid much attention to it. The same public school policy that was
implemented nationally more than a century ago continues unaltered today.
For six hours each week day, children are bundled off to school and incarcerated inside crowded
classrooms. There, for the next twelve years and more, the left side of their brains are
systematically indoctrinated with analytical knowledge – leaving the intuitive right side of the
brain, with its infinite inspirational potential, to more or less atrophy. Its ostensible purpose – to
place as many literate workers as possible on the mass production lines, with little attention paid to
the cultivation of individual ethics or the artistic development of their full creative potential.
What has never been analyzed in terms of evaluating the mass psychology of an entire population
that has been systematically drilled from early childhood in textbook knowledge, with all trained to
obey technical instructions from superiors, is that they tend to remain in a pre-adult stage that
relies on supervision from cradle to grave. Very few mature into a self-policed sense of personal
responsibility and creative assertion.
Thus the nation becomes mired in bureaucratic administration, requiring the endless legislation of
laws, legal interpretation and the massive expense of policing a more or less robotic and potentially
rebellious citizenry.
In developmental psychology, the mass mentality remains locked into their teens.
BASIC OUTLINE OF THE HEARTSTART DUAL-BRAIN HOME SCHOOL METHOD
Head-start programs that artificially accelerate the learning curve by taking the child out of the
home at increasingly younger ages and teaching them to read, are putting the cart before the
horse.
What seems to be over-looked in the haste towards early literacy is that family values and the
attendant emotional intelligence and social intelligence that define those basic moral standards,
tend to deteriorate.
The HeartStart method focuses all its primary education attention on childhood character
development. The artificial distractions of textbook lessons are reserved until after puberty.
Focusing the child’s full attention on the practical exigencies of home life via a combination of oral-
based reasoning and emotional enticement is a more holistic method for engaging both sides of the
brain.
There are endless practical lessons in physical, verbal and mathematical skills to be found in play
and by participating in the work and care of the home, garden and workshop, for parents to
encourage the sharing ethic and for seating a chore-based work ethic. Field trips into Nature and
community facilities broaden the natural learning curve.
It is only when the child has gained a heart-felt appreciation for the basic family values of sharing
and caring in all aspects of home life, do we believe that the young psyche is properly prepared and
ready to assimilate more advanced technical knowledge.
In any learning environment, heart motivation, prior to mental reasoning, is always the preferable
sequence of encouragement. There is no fast track in instilling a self-policed understanding of the
need for personal and social disciplines. Long-term patience is the door into the childish mind and
heart. Only parents truly have that key.
Learning to share gradually brings on a caring sense of awareness and appreciation of the needs of
others. That ethic separates the caring human from the greedy ape. It takes all of the first seven
years of a child’s life to break down the original primate instincts of grabbing and holding and get
the budding young psyche to appreciate the intelligence and long-term value of meticulous sharing
Once sharing intelligence is seated, usually by age seven; instilling a willing work ethic, via the
tedium of daily chore assignments, takes up all of the next seven years. These two basic social
ethics lay a solid foundation of intellectual astuteness and shape the kindly and helpful character of
the future adult.
To sum up; it takes careful parental preparation all the way from birth through puberty, before the
future academic student has learned to fully appreciate the emotional and social intelligence that
underlies the sharing ethic as well as the self-policed responsibility and attentiveness to detail that
comes from a good work ethic..
Short-tracking those two foundations of human intelligence, by tying the child to a desk or a table
for hours on end each day, in order to instill early literacy, is seen as more of as an artificial
distraction than a motivational or intellectual advantage.
The argument that late exposure to literature may stunt future adult intelligence has been proven
by us to be entirely erroneous. Our research and practical developmental study has shown that the
vocabulary of oral-trained children, as well as their memory retention, and their ability at puberty,
after a few basic academic lessons, to translate their thoughts into written compositions, is less
stilted and almost three times greater than that of children who have been prematurely restricted
to classroom-based grade school instruction. Their mathematical skills are also significantly higher.
After twenty years of research and application we have found that HeartStart’s basic pre-literate
training translates into a more mature, well-focused, well-motivated, teenage student, who quickly
grasps the basic rationale of grammar and the mechanics of mathematics and within months
surpasses the grades of other scholars of their own peer group. The delay in textbook study ends
up as a triple play - for student, parents and nation. Ethical behavior, academic performance and
responsible community relationships all get top marks.
Lateral Specialization of Cerebral Function in Surgically Separated Hemispheres. 1973
“The main theme to emerge…is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and non-
verbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemi-spheres of the brain, respectively, and
that our educational system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the non-verbal form of
intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere”
“The verbal half of the brain, the left half, dominates most of the time in individuals with intact
brains as well as in split-brain patients.”
-----------------------------------
Despite that warning made more than a generation ago, neither the government nor private
education institutions have paid much attention to it. The same public school policy that was
implemented nationally more than a century ago continues unaltered today.
For six hours each week day, children are bundled off to school and incarcerated inside crowded
classrooms. There, for the next twelve years and more, the left side of their brains are
systematically indoctrinated with analytical knowledge – leaving the intuitive right side of the
brain, with its infinite inspirational potential, to more or less atrophy. Its ostensible purpose – to
place as many literate workers as possible on the mass production lines, with little attention paid to
the cultivation of individual ethics or the artistic development of their full creative potential.
What has never been analyzed in terms of evaluating the mass psychology of an entire population
that has been systematically drilled from early childhood in textbook knowledge, with all trained to
obey technical instructions from superiors, is that they tend to remain in a pre-adult stage that
relies on supervision from cradle to grave. Very few mature into a self-policed sense of personal
responsibility and creative assertion.
Thus the nation becomes mired in bureaucratic administration, requiring the endless legislation of
laws, legal interpretation and the massive expense of policing a more or less robotic and potentially
rebellious citizenry.
In developmental psychology, the mass mentality remains locked into their teens.
BASIC OUTLINE OF THE HEARTSTART DUAL-BRAIN HOME SCHOOL METHOD
Head-start programs that artificially accelerate the learning curve by taking the child out of the
home at increasingly younger ages and teaching them to read, are putting the cart before the
horse.
What seems to be over-looked in the haste towards early literacy is that family values and the
attendant emotional intelligence and social intelligence that define those basic moral standards,
tend to deteriorate.
The HeartStart method focuses all its primary education attention on childhood character
development. The artificial distractions of textbook lessons are reserved until after puberty.
Focusing the child’s full attention on the practical exigencies of home life via a combination of oral-
based reasoning and emotional enticement is a more holistic method for engaging both sides of the
brain.
There are endless practical lessons in physical, verbal and mathematical skills to be found in play
and by participating in the work and care of the home, garden and workshop, for parents to
encourage the sharing ethic and for seating a chore-based work ethic. Field trips into Nature and
community facilities broaden the natural learning curve.
It is only when the child has gained a heart-felt appreciation for the basic family values of sharing
and caring in all aspects of home life, do we believe that the young psyche is properly prepared and
ready to assimilate more advanced technical knowledge.
In any learning environment, heart motivation, prior to mental reasoning, is always the preferable
sequence of encouragement. There is no fast track in instilling a self-policed understanding of the
need for personal and social disciplines. Long-term patience is the door into the childish mind and
heart. Only parents truly have that key.
Learning to share gradually brings on a caring sense of awareness and appreciation of the needs of
others. That ethic separates the caring human from the greedy ape. It takes all of the first seven
years of a child’s life to break down the original primate instincts of grabbing and holding and get
the budding young psyche to appreciate the intelligence and long-term value of meticulous sharing
Once sharing intelligence is seated, usually by age seven; instilling a willing work ethic, via the
tedium of daily chore assignments, takes up all of the next seven years. These two basic social
ethics lay a solid foundation of intellectual astuteness and shape the kindly and helpful character of
the future adult.
To sum up; it takes careful parental preparation all the way from birth through puberty, before the
future academic student has learned to fully appreciate the emotional and social intelligence that
underlies the sharing ethic as well as the self-policed responsibility and attentiveness to detail that
comes from a good work ethic..
Short-tracking those two foundations of human intelligence, by tying the child to a desk or a table
for hours on end each day, in order to instill early literacy, is seen as more of as an artificial
distraction than a motivational or intellectual advantage.
The argument that late exposure to literature may stunt future adult intelligence has been proven
by us to be entirely erroneous. Our research and practical developmental study has shown that the
vocabulary of oral-trained children, as well as their memory retention, and their ability at puberty,
after a few basic academic lessons, to translate their thoughts into written compositions, is less
stilted and almost three times greater than that of children who have been prematurely restricted
to classroom-based grade school instruction. Their mathematical skills are also significantly higher.
After twenty years of research and application we have found that HeartStart’s basic pre-literate
training translates into a more mature, well-focused, well-motivated, teenage student, who quickly
grasps the basic rationale of grammar and the mechanics of mathematics and within months
surpasses the grades of other scholars of their own peer group. The delay in textbook study ends
up as a triple play - for student, parents and nation. Ethical behavior, academic performance and
responsible community relationships all get top marks.