Our Special Report this week, 'Brain waves' (see pages 10-11), looks at the work of Professor Colin Blakemore, the eminent neuroscientist, whose research has led him to believe that not only could the 'worksheet culture' damage children's later academic study, it could also meant that the window of opportunity when vital social skills can be acquired is missed. Perhaps in the future, as more is discovered about how the brain works, the concept of hot-housing children's intellectual development will come to be seen as a turn-of-the-century aberration.
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