Only through developing our fullest potential in mind, body, and spirit can we take an active part in helping to create communities of wiser, self-actualizing human beings who will facilitate the ongoing transformation of our world into a healthier, more peaceful, happier place to live. It is apparent that enriched environments that are positive, nurturing, stimulating, and that encourage action and interaction stimulate the growth of better neural equipment. Diamond and other neuroscientists stress the critical role of emotion on learning and human development, and she does not hesitate to point out the critical need that human beings have, from the very beginning of life, for love. What was originally a theory of plasticity based on observations of animal and human behavior and information from surgery is now substantiated through the use of advanced, non-invasive technologies that allow us to see changes in the human brain as a result of learning and experience. Through action MRI's we can now actually watch the human brain while it is in the process of thinking and learning, and we can see changes taking place.
Intelligence is modifiable at every age and ability level.
The modifiability of intelligence has been demonstrated by thousands of research studies on Feuerstein's work, including a recent study of a youngster who at the age of nine, because of uncontrollable seizures had his left hemisphere removed, after which he learned to talk, read, and learn for the first time. This young man was a presenter at the 1999 Teaching for Intelligence conference in San Francisco, and plans to become a teacher of students with disabilities. Programs teaching intelligence are being applied in every setting from homes to schools to board rooms, at every ability level, and at every age. Motorola is working with all three of the above theories in developing the intelligence of their employees worldwide. Intelligence is not all in our heads.