"Whole brain education" is a critical period for children's development, aiming at fully developing children's potential during the critical period. Many scientific studies have confirmed that in the first few years of a baby's life, the brain has a series of key development stages or sensitive stages. This series of critical stages is also called the critical period of learning. In the critical period of learning, children can learn better or develop special abilities. After the critical period of learning, related learning will become very difficult or even impossible. The best example is the development of language ability.
The critical period of learning is a new concept, which has been paid more and more attention by the scientific community. In a critical period, the related functional parts of the brain developed rapidly, and a large number of neurons began to organize organically, forming the basic framework of specific functions of the brain. If we miss this period, it will be difficult to establish the corresponding functions. At different critical periods, the brain needs some kind of external input information to establish and stabilize the brain structure. For example, suppose a newborn baby has a cataract in his left eye. If the cataract is not removed in the critical period of the development of the visual system, this eye will never be seen even if it is successfully treated when it grows up. This is because the visual center of the brain is not stimulated by external light input during the critical period of its development. Judging from the above situation, the visual nervous system related to the left eye has missed the critical period of development and it is difficult to recover in the future. Similarly, if a newborn is blindfolded for a few days, his vision will be seriously damaged, and he will even be blind in the future. The connection of neurons is formed by external stimuli. In the critical period of learning, children must be effectively stimulated by the environment.
The biggest difference between whole brain education and traditional education is that it pays more attention to the balanced development of children's left and right brains. All along, our traditional way of education is to let children ride bicycles on one foot, and 80% of children use only half of their brains (left brain) to learn. In fact, the potential of the right brain is extremely huge. It is understood that the information storage capacity of the right brain is 1 10,000 times that of the left brain, the memory of the right brain is 1 10,000 times that of the left brain, and the reaction speed of the right brain is four thousandths of a second faster than that of the left brain. Then this huge potential has been developed, which plays an extremely important role in improving children's learning and living ability.