Originally posting every week, I now post a new quote each month.
This post will be edited each month as sort of an "archive" of past quotes of the month. Enjoy!
November 2010: "At this moment there is a world - a world of great beauty, of great truth, an enchanting, beguiling, thrilling, bewitching, and enriching world of facts - out there in fact land. It is a land of great riches. There are riches for the soul, there are riches for the spirit, there are riches for science. It is a land beyond imagining, but strangely it is very uncrowded. It is crowded only in spots. There are lots of artists looking at great paintings, and there are lots of musicians listening to orchestras, and there are lots of scientists looking at space shuttles, and there are lots of doctors looking at hearts, and there are lots of mathematicians looking at numbers, but very, very few people are seeing it all... They're a group called 'Genius'... True geniuses have always been few in number and immensely curious about everything."
-Glenn Doman
July 4, 2010: "It is a magical instrument, the brain."
-Glenn Doman
June 27, 2010: "Never forget that when you are giving a child visual, auditory, and tactile stimulation with increased frequency, intensity, and duration that you are actually physically growing his brain. We have never met a neurophysiologist who didn'tknow that - as we have rarely met a professional person who actually deals with kids who did."
-Glenn Doman
June 20, 2010: "If mother decides that [these programs] are not for her, she should not do one iota of it. In such a case no one will support her decision more than we will… If mother decides that she wishes to teach her baby for 10 minutes a day, then she should do so and not have to explain herself to anyone. If she decides she wants to use 30 minutes a day teaching her baby, then she should teach her baby 30 minutes a day and she surely does not need to justify that to anyone. If she decides to teach her baby and finds along the way that she derives honest pleasure in so doing, and therefore wishes to do more, then she should do whatever it is she wishes to do. Parents should do exactly and precisely what the think is best and not one jot more or less."
-Glenn Doman
June 13, 2010: "Is having a huge number of facts, then, all there is to it? Of course not. We all have met somebody in our lives who has a head full of facts and doesn't have enough sense to come in out of the rain. But that doesn't alter the fact that the degree of intelligence we have will be limited to the things which can be determined from the number of facts we have."
-Glenn Doman
June 6, 2010: "There are three major areas concerned with the intellectual as compared with the physical side of human intelligence. The first is reading and of all things reading is the most important. Reading is the very basis of all those things that are considered the liberal arts... The second is general knowledge and all human intelligence is based upon the facts that constitute human knowledge. Without facts there can be no intelligence. The third is mathematics and is the basis for all science."
-Glenn Doman
May 30, 2010: "It's you, Mother, who decides what success or failure is. If you want to win in raising your child to be superb then look at the difference between where she is and where you want her to be, don't pound the child's ear about that. That is your problem and mine. Pointing out how far the child has yet to go makes it sound as if how far to go were her fault... If you want your kid to be highly motivated, all you do is arrange for him always to win. You do this by telling him how much he has succeeded by (how far he has moved towards perfection, rather than how far he still has to go.)"
-Glenn Doman
May 23, 2010: "High motivation is a product of success. Low motivation is a product of failure... I continue to avoid the things at which I fail. It's a weakness that I intend to keep. On the other hand there are some things I do well and a few things that I do extremely well, and I know it. Try as I may to avoid it, I find myself doing those things over and over and over again."
-Glenn Doman
May 16, 2010: "How sad it is that we put information into a computer with great skill and great precision and put information into our children's brains in a hit-or-miss, slip-shod, and often untruthful way."
-Glenn Doman
May 9, 2010: "Every child born has a curiosity so intense that he has an absolute rage to learn all there is to know, and he wants to learn it right now. The problem is that he wants to learn about everything on earth with fine impartiality. He has a rage to learn that will never be equaled again in his life, but he has almost no taste or judgment at all. He is prepared to learn what a fly tastes like, or what Gainsborough's painting Blue Boy looks like. He will learn both of those things with equal ease, speed, and enthusiasm. Your job will be to guide him to all the marvelous, true, beautiful, exciting, wise, enduring, human, and scientific things that are in that beguiling land of encyclopedic knowledge."
-Glenn Doman
May 2, 2010: "Once your child's free and running, you will have a thinker on your hands and there will be no stopping him. It seems a little silly to say at this point that math, like reading, is basic to all education, to virtually all learning in the world we know. You will have opened the doors to learning, the greatest treasury that life has to offer except, perhaps, love and respect (that is, emotional response and responsibility), without which nothing is really worthwhile. In the process of teaching your baby math, both of you will have learned more about love and respect."
-Glenn Doman
April 25, 2010: "If indeed knowledge leads to good, surely this world will be a better place when its children are more capable and as a consequence more confident of their own superb abilities and more able to use those abilities to solve the problems that beset us. This is, after all, what the gentle revolution is all about."
-Glenn Doman
April 18, 2010: "Little children do not need other little children to become socialized - they need mother and father. Civilized behavior is learned at home from mother and father. Children learn right from wrong from mother and father and grandmother and grandfather, or they do not learn it at all. The longer a small child spends with his mother each day, the more civilized he will be. The less time he spends with mother each day, the less civilized he will be. All mothers know that."
-Glenn Doman
April 11, 2010: "The means to accomplish this gentle revolution are simple, straightforward, and clear. Parents. Parents are not the problem in the world of kids, they are the answer."
-Glenn Doman
April 4, 2010: "Always stop before he wants to stop. Always stop before he wants to stop. Always stop before he wants to stop. This principle is true for all teaching of all human beings at all stages of development and at any age."
-Glenn Doman
March 28, 2010: "You must at all times be sensitive to your child’s attention, interest, and enthusiasm. These elements when carefully observed by you will be invaluable tools in shaping and reshaping your child’s daily program to suit his needs as he changes and develops."
-Glenn Doman
March 21, 2010: "[Teaching encyclopedic knowledge] should be amusing where it is appropriate. Humor is the most undervalued, underrated, underestimated teaching device that exists... The world is full of amusing facts - use them."
-Glenn Doman
March 14, 2010: "Your child will quickly come to the conclusion that you have all the answers. He will see you as a source of information. He is right. You are the source of information for him. When he trusts you with one of his endless, brilliant, and usually quite difficult-to-answer questions, rise to the occasion. If you know the answer - give it to him on the spot. Don't put him off if you can possibly avoid it. If you do not know the answer, tell him you don't know. Then take the time to find the answer."
-Glenn Doman
March 7, 2010: "When parents take honest pleasure in the company of their children they become the best teachers their children will ever have."
-Glenn Doman
February 28, 2010: "Every child born has, at the instant of birth, an inherent right to be highly intelligent. It is not a right granted by the state, or the law, but is instead granted by the Highest Authority... Besides the right to be intelligent, all other rights fade into insignificance and can be exercised in only a limited way."
-Glenn Doman
February 21, 2010: "When in doubt, bet on your kid. You will always be a winner and, even more important, so will he. The whole world is betting against the little kid; betting he doesn't understand, betting he doesn't remember, betting he doesn't 'get it'. Your child doesn't need one more member on that team!"
-Glenn Doman
February 14, 2010: "Do facts themselves constitute intelligence? No, of course they don't. But they do constitute the base on which all intelligence is built. With no facts there can be no intelligence."
-Glenn Doman
February 7, 2010: "Tiny kids can learn anything that you can present to them in an honest, factual way. If you give them the facts they'll deduce the laws that govern them. That is exactly the same method that scientists use to discover laws. So don't give them theories and abstractions, give them facts, give them reality. From the facts little children are brilliantly able to intuit the laws."
-Glenn Doman
January 31, 2010: "[Children] are learning every minute of every day and we're teaching them - whether we know it or not. The problem is that it may be bad to be teaching them if we don't know we are. We may be teaching them things we don't actually intend to teach them. Most often we are unintentionally teaching them things that aren't worth learning - or at least aren't as worth learning as the things they could be learning and learning much more quickly and easily."
-Glenn Doman
January 24, 2010: "How does the brain grow? The brain grows by use. There are very few sentences composed of only five words that contain more power to change the world than this one... Just like the biceps, the brain grows by use. Those who use their biceps very little have small, undeveloped, weak biceps. Those who use their biceps an extraordinary amount have extraordinary biceps. There is no other possibility. The same is true of the brain, because the brain grows by use."
-Glenn Doman
January 17, 2010: "We have assumed that children hate to learn essentially because most of us have disliked or even despised school. Again we have mistaken schooling for learning. Not all children in school are learning—just as not all children who are learning are doing so in school... The process of learning should be fun of the highest order, for it is indeed the greatest game in life. Sooner or later all bright people come to this conclusion."
-Glenn Doman
January 10, 2010: "Consider the three-year-old who asks, 'Daddy, why is the sun hot?' 'How did the little man get into the TV set?' 'What makes the flowers grow, Mommy?' While the child is displaying an electronic, astronomical, and biological curiosity, we too often tell him to run along and play with his toys... It is ironic that when the child is older we will tell him repeatedly how foolish he is for not wanting to learn about astronomy, physics, and biology. Learning, we will tell him, is the most important thing in life, and indeed it is. We have, however, overlooked the other side of the coin. Learning is also the greatest game in life, and the most fun."
-Glenn Doman
January 3, 2010: "The purpose of giving a child encyclopedic knowledge is not to make Nobel Prize winners, or concert violinists, or Olympic stars, or geniuses of any sort. It is to give them unlimited options in life. So few of us have had unlimited options. The purpose of giving a child every possible ability (and the possibilities are endless) is to give him unlimited horizons, to open all possible doors. It is so that he can choose what he is to be, from an endless list of possibilities."
-Glenn Doman
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