In a mentally literate school, all children will be taught the nature of knowledge management in the context of what has been known as study skills. In the mentally literate school, all children will be taught Artistic Literacy. They will be given the fundamental drawing and painting skills which are, like verbal and numerical literacy, basic alphabets that are natural to any normal brain and which can be learned in a similar manner and similar facility. Studies have shown that children taught the basics of art do better in all other subjects and are more relaxed and self-confident. In the Century of the Brain, artistic literacy will become a new norm as the global renaissance accelerates.
Music is a natural expression of the human body, mind and soul.
In the mentally literate school, all children will be taught a number of musical instruments - including that most complex and important of all, the human voice. In the mentally literate school, children will undergo complete physical training, with emphasis on flexibility aerobic health, muscular strength, physical poise and movement and both individual and team sports. Whereas in many education systems around the world the physical is being diminished, in the mentally literate school, it will be integrated and emphasised. In the mentally literate school, children will be taught major mind sports from the four areas of board games, card games, mental skills games and computer games. They will be, while playing such games, consciously and unconsciously developing the Muscles of their Mind.