Whatever you believe about social equality, it cannot be denied that education is a major factor.
A recent report from The Economist shows the effect education has on life. Better brains get better jobs. A better job means more money. More money means the ability to send your children to a better school, and the cycle continues.
Even among people who appear to “beat” the odds—folks who rise from humble beginnings to the highest eschalon of society—brain power is often a factor. As The Economist points out, “People from humble origins sometimes rise to the top. Barack Obama was raised by a single mother. Lloyd Blankfein, the boss of Goldman Sachs, is the son of a clerk. What such people usually have in common is uncommon intelligence.”
Is an expensive education the only way to get a better brain? Or are there alternatives?
The vision of Dr. Ken Gibson, founder of LearningRx, is to make cognitive training available to everyone. The one-on-one training offered by 70 LearningRx brain training centers across the country not only strengthens cognitive skills such as attention, focus and mental processing, it also increases intelligence. In fact, students who receive LearningRx brain training increase their IQ by an average of 15-20 points. In an effort to help as many people as possible experience the benefits of a better brain, LearningRx is pursuing a partnership with the National Science Foundation and Virginia State University to study innovative approaches to improve the academic performance of minority students at selected inner-city schools. In an address to our congress (read it here) the Principal Investigator for the case, Dr. Oliver Hill, says this:
We have been using the procedures developed by an educational firm called LearningRx, which runs cognitive learning centers around the country. The data collected in these centers over the last few years Read the rest of this entry »
Why increase brain power? Because if your brain’s processing abilities are weak, it affects your entire life – academic, work, social, athletic, leisure… well, everything! Did you know that it only takes one weak skill to cause a serious learning problem that can adversely affect performance at work and school?
