一些负面信息

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各位父母，我的儿子现在快六个月了，我也一心希望好好培养他成才，所以在网上找了很多早教的资料，尤其是现在大家都在推崇的杜曼和七田真。可是我就觉得少了一些什么，好像所有的人都在宣传和推崇，怎么没有任何负面的信息呢？所以我就搜了一下英文网站，发现了一篇我个人认为相当详细的文章 http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2006/05/13/a-review-of-glenn-doman-and-his-institutes-for-the-achievement-of-human-potential/ 希望各位能读一下，真正做到知己知彼，也好因材施教。

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Part I Introduction to Glenn Doman
In summary then, facts are the base on which intelligence is built. Without facts there can be no intelligence. Individual facts then are bits of intelligence.

对杜曼和他的研究院的批评
In the 1960s, psychomotor patterning was proposed as a new treatment modality for people with mental retardation, brain injury, learning disabilities, and other cognitive maladies. The method was subjected to controlled trials and found to be of no value. It was debated in the scientific literature up until the early 1970s, when the scientific medical community arrived at the consensus that is should be discarded as a false concept with no therapeutic role. Its use, however, has not stopped

这个是一个homeschooling父母写的关于杜曼学习的感受，并不是很有效果
As the book directed, I made up large flash cards with vocabulary words printed on them: mommy, daddy, house, school, etc., and I drilled Nathaniel several times each day. Yes, he learned to “read” those words on the flash cards, but I found that if I skipped a day’s instruction, then he forgot all the words, so I had to begin all over again. My sister suggested that I teach him the alphabet first. I simply parroted the instructions of Mr. Doman by replying, “Oh, no, teaching the alphabet would just confuse him.” I think I lasted about three months with this method. It was an exercise in futility not unlike pouring water into a bucket full of holes. As long as I spent large and precious amounts of time each day drilling him with the flash cards, he continued to “read” them back to me. But if I failed to keep filling his bucket by drilling him with the cards, then his level of reading ability would keep dropping as his vocabulary would be draining out the holes.

这是Amazon上的一个读者对杜曼的书的评价，相当负面
Doman’s techniques may work to some extent, but his view on what constitutes “knowledge” is rubbish. Like many simpletons, Doman believes trivia is true knowledge. “Bit of intelligence” is his label for a piece of trivia, implying that the human being who has memorized the most trivia has accumulated the most intelligence. If you want your child to be a Jeopardy contestant, read this book immediately. If you want your child to be a thinker, don’t waste your time and money. Albert Einstein, one of the greatest thinkers of all time, despised trivia. Do you want your child to be an Einstein or a Trabek? — Amazon reviewer

这是作者的总结
Doman’s view is to expose children to a wide range of topics and information. We would agree. We would just disagree on how to do that exposing. Like Doman, we encourage parents to help children learn in the early ages — the earlier the better. We would just disagree on how to do that helping.

看完这个帖子和其他相关连接（英文的），总体感觉是杜曼的方法比较适合于名词记忆，比如各种花草，鸟，动物等等，对某种语言（包括汉语）的单字记忆，数字，等等，而且最好是小孩有机会看到或听到的。就我个人而言，把各种纲目的昆虫，动物等等统统做成ppt给孩子看，我不认为会有多大帮助。

小豌豆苗

要是能翻译一下就好了,这样就能方便大家了,毕竟这样看有点吃亏.