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The idea of hot housing is to improve a child's mind by challenging the way they think.
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The idea of hot housing is to improve a child's mind by challenging the way they think. This could be done in numerous ways but the main idea was to start teaching a child from a very young age, using flash cards. A man called Glen Doman introduced these cards, and they were simple with a particular word or picture on them. People working with these believed they could change a person who is: A Poor-performer, into an average An average, into a superior A superior, into a Nobel Prize winner. I don't think these people believed in genetics and nature being the only things to determine a person's intelligence. They asked questions such as Is life expectancy genetically determined, or can you extend it? Can you improve IQ, systematically? At one point in the video, Glen Doman proclaimed that genetics are rubbish. He thought geniuses could...
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