Glenn Doman's Method in Practice

To risk a new educational approach, a "Challenge to Literacy" was the least that I could do to contribute to the modifications of our antiquated educational system. To challenge the present day process of eliminating illiteracy is an obligation for all serious educators. Perhaps it was because of this conviction that I did not hesitate to teach my babies to read. What damage could be done? None whatsoever!

There is much controversy among specialists over the best methods to facilitate learning in infancy. While these controversies continue, we parents and educators, who are in contact with our children since birth, must not prevent the appearance of solutions.

We must struggle and find the solutions. We need to see the possibility of a new educational approach. Is it utopian to imagine 4 year old children entering school already literate? How much time and effort would be saved in society and in the educational system as a whole?

In the world of stimuli that they are exposed, the ability to read is a tangible concept, among others, that they manipulate (with their eyes) and as a concept is assimilated, absorbed. The experiences that follow from this are accommodated, resulting in a growing necessity to acquire always more of the concept, the ability to read. The activity of reading, which began as a game, becomes itself a game all the time. As the game is played more and more, more does the child wish to dominate the game itself. The fact that reading is a spontaneous game, made real by the child