The real question, to me, is what sort of education can actually change the brain’s connectivity. This is the test you want at the end of the school year.
The trouble is, there may not be any way to affect this within our current technology.
That is at the core of most of this worlds dissatisfactions.
The root of “inequality”.
The stuff that is hard changed the brains wiring. Studying logic, practicing rotating objects three dimensionally, mathematics, abstract thinking like classical philosophy, sophistry and politics, and even day to day social interaction with people with diverse personalities would be a good start I should think.
That’s what I’d like to know. My daughter didn’t talk until she was 5 and then didn’t read until 4th/5th grade.
We just kept on working on speech and reading for years.
Her speech still isn’t great, but it hasn’t hampered her academically. She even got an A in public speaking in college.
I remember teachers wanting to dumb down things like spelling with her. She got mad because even though she wasn’t good at sounding out words, she was excellent at memorizing words. She always got 100% on spelling.
I remember during some testing when she was little, the tester kept on asking her the color of blocks. She couldn’t talk.
I was furious. I told him she knew all her colors, and I proceeded to ask her to hand me the different colored blocks. She got them all correct.
The main reason I didn’t home school was that I did feel like she needed to be away from me to work on her speech. I still don’t know if that was the coerect decision.