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We worry about our children in school. We think about how school can help our children to learn, and we trust teachers to do their best so that our children can gain the best grades when they leave school. This is what we focus upon. We do not focus upon and most do not know what the real purpose of school is, and so why it processes rather than develops our children. Every society requires citizens who will comply with its moral guidelines and who are able to work with the level of technology that drives their society. The real purpose of school is purely and solely to meet these two criteria. This is why education is funded by its government, and so the real reason why it exists. It is upon this basis that teachers are trained, and then conditioned in the efficiency of their job as they present information to their students and assess the performance their students make. By this manner the students of education, from those just entering the infant school to those leaving university, will struggle by their personal opportunities and the disadvantages and distractions they can overcome to succeed in their grades. This is the strategy of education. Our greatest error in reading this is to assume the world that our children will grow up into will be the same as ours. It will not. Most of us have heard of nanotechnology. When we think of this, we tend to think of machines that use nano parts, such as nano-cables. Very few people outside this highly specialized field have any conception of what nanotechnology is really about. The aim, and it is rapidly becoming a reality, is for nanomachines to construct every item we use and need for our lives. In effect, this means that computerised models controlled by a very advanced level of artificial intelligence will run our world. This book discusses and explains the probable reality of nanotechnology, and how it may ultimately force dramatic changes in the availability for work and how this could change the social structuring of every country. It is to this world that education must now prepare our children, because such a technology suggests a serious breakdown of all our people infrastructures, with serious consequences to the ways people live in a society. While education today focuses upon children being taught through computer programmes, it walks blindly into the serious social problems they are not now being prepared to handle for the time when they become citizens.

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"""These are six very important books that should be read by every parent and educator in the world. They represent a real breakthrough in our understanding of what intelligence is and how it develops, and the importance of changing the ways students are both parented and educated. Roy is doing for learning the work that is as significant as was that done in the past by such figures as John Dewey. These are must-reads for both parents and educators alike."" Prof / Dean Emeritus David Martin Ph.D Gallaudet University Washington, D.C. USA ""The most important books I have ever read about a child's intelligence."" Prof. Tatyana Oleinik. Pedagogical University. Ukraine. ""These books should be in the library of each school in every corner of the world. They should also be part of the syllabus in the institutions who are offer child psychology, and teacher training diplomas and degree programs, or at least they should be the part of a refresher course."" M.Imran Khan. CEO AIMMS Universities. Middle East. ""Your observations on the way ""education"" is delivered, and all the things that are wrong with the current model of public education, are an eye-opener. It's plain to me that many of your proposals are not only well-reasoned, but absolutely necessary if we are to achieve any semblance of an egalitarian society in which every child can develop to his or her full potential."" Ms Sara Lappi. Educator. USA. ""Roy, your writing is beautiful. It is as if I read a novel by Jane Austin. I am fascinated and very much impressed. These books should be the ""BIBLE "" of every educator. I learnt so much from your books. I have read many, many books and articles about education and these four books are the BEST !!! You are so profound. The books answer many questions that every educator asks ."" Helen Hadar-Hen. Principal. Israel. ""These are very important and interesting books, with lots of valuable points for parents and teachers. They bring learning and education to a whole new level. Well done!"" Prof. Mads Hermansen. Educational Psychologist Denmark. ""I could not imagine the existence of such a completely different perspective for education, and the way it could be offered to new generations. The book kept my attention from the first to the very last page. Highly recommended not only for teachers, but essential for all parents."" Elias Aloupoyiannis. Attorney at Law. Ministry of Administrative Reform. Athen. Greece Roy Andersen's deep understanding of children's behavior gives a new perspective to parents and educators in directing and re-directing student potentials -- where their unique individualities can be given proper attention to shape their creative ideas into reality. Andersen's books are really a heart touching narration of his experiences in dealing with children who need empathy and understanding. Educators and parents alike may use these books as the basis for learning -- to create a genuine culture of assisting children in the optimum development of their full potential. Prof. Marinel Dayawon Ph.D. Assoc.Dean of Education. Isabela State Univ. Philippines. These books are never dull, not even for a moment. Beautifully written! Roy has written in such a way that anyone can pick up his books and understand where he is coming from and where he is going in his thoughts, that offer profound insight into what is wrong with school, and why we need to change the ways we are preparing our children for the world they will live in. Rachel Wong. Principal. Malaysia"

These are six very important books that should be read by every parent and educator in the world. They represent a real breakthrough in our understanding of what intelligence is and how it develops, and the importance of changing the ways students are both parented and educated. Roy is doing for learning the work that is as significant as was that done in the past by such figures as John Dewey. These are must-reads for both parents and educators alike. Prof / Dean Emeritus David Martin Ph.D Gallaudet University Washington, D.C. USA The most important books I have ever read about a child's intelligence. Prof. Tatyana Oleinik. Pedagogical University. Ukraine. These books should be in the library of each school in every corner of the world. They should also be part of the syllabus in the institutions who are offer child psychology, and teacher training diplomas and degree programs, or at least they should be the part of a refresher course. M.Imran Khan. CEO AIMMS Universities. Middle East. Your observations on the way education is delivered, and all the things that are wrong with the current model of public education, are an eye-opener. It's plain to me that many of your proposals are not only well-reasoned, but absolutely necessary if we are to achieve any semblance of an egalitarian society in which every child can develop to his or her full potential. Ms Sara Lappi. Educator. USA. Roy, your writing is beautiful. It is as if I read a novel by Jane Austin. I am fascinated and very much impressed. These books should be the BIBLE of every educator. I learnt so much from your books. I have read many, many books and articles about education and these four books are the BEST !!! You are so profound. The books answer many questions that every educator asks . Helen Hadar-Hen. Principal. Israel. These are very important and interesting books, with lots of valuable points for parents and teachers. They bring learning and education to a whole new level. Well done! Prof. Mads Hermansen. Educational Psychologist Denmark. I could not imagine the existence of such a completely different perspective for education, and the way it could be offered to new generations. The book kept my attention from the first to the very last page. Highly recommended not only for teachers, but essential for all parents. Elias Aloupoyiannis. Attorney at Law. Ministry of Administrative Reform. Athen. Greece Roy Andersen's deep understanding of children's behavior gives a new perspective to parents and educators in directing and re-directing student potentials -- where their unique individualities can be given proper attention to shape their creative ideas into reality. Andersen's books are really a heart touching narration of his experiences in dealing with children who need empathy and understanding. Educators and parents alike may use these books as the basis for learning -- to create a genuine culture of assisting children in the optimum development of their full potential. Prof. Marinel Dayawon Ph.D. Assoc.Dean of Education. Isabela State Univ. Philippines. These books are never dull, not even for a moment. Beautifully written! Roy has written in such a way that anyone can pick up his books and understand where he is coming from and where he is going in his thoughts, that offer profound insight into what is wrong with school, and why we need to change the ways we are preparing our children for the world they will live in. Rachel Wong. Principal. Malaysia

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"Roy Andersen has been devoutly committed to improving education for over 30 years. He has experience of numerous and diverse work situations, and has travelled to over 40 countries and lived in 4. He is deeply interested in how children learn, and equally concerned with the striking changes of this century, which he believes will redesign not only our thoughts upon people and work, but also our social patterns. Both of which, he believes, are totally ignored by educational planners in their preparation of the future citizen. In general terms, he is interested in the stabilization mechanics of a civilization: The role of past-religion and current-media. The geographical, cultural, economic, military and social forces that give each people their identity. How our identity has been shaped by past technologies and how it may be shaped by futuristic ones. At school, Roy did very badly and completely failed all his final examinations. He left school at 17, with no qualifications. However, 3 years later, he went back into education and this time passed the same examinations, but all now with distinction. He went on to marine college and was recognized as the top student, qualifying with near 100% passes in all his examinations. For many years, these differences in his ability puzzled him. Yet, it was only in moving to Denmark that a chance arose for him set aside all other considerations and in reflecting upon his own experiences, try to understand how children learn and how they could be better taught. To this end, he embarked upon academic studies in genetics, neuro-psychology, bio-chemistry, social anthropology, social and cultural behavioral skills, intellectual, mental, nervous and muscular disorders, principles of learning, the management and teaching of education, the planning and employment of human resource, political science and molecular technology. In the course of which, he studied under Professor Reuven Feuerstein, at his world famous academy for teaching and learning principles in Israel and qualified as a specialist in this methodology. The culmination of these efforts, spanning over 20 years, are represented in the five books he has written about how children learn and how education works. Roy has been a teacher for over 30 years in Europe and Japan. In the later case, he taught widely from infants to scientists, as well as working as a lecturer in the renowned Ibaraki Medical University for 8 years. Since 1995, he has lectured widely on his theories and findings in Denmark, Sweden, England, Russia, Israel, Italy, Hungary and Japan. He is a qualified teacher in the Feuerstein Cognitive Training System and to the blind. He is a specialist in dyslexia and teacher to children and adults with learning problems. He lectures and has written articles on: Pre-natal Development, Infant and Child Learning, Educational Systems and Procedures, The Importance of Feedback in Learning, The Child, The Teacher and Their Systems, Human Resource in Society and The Effect of Technology on Social and Educational Polices. In 1998, his first book ""Can Children Learn Better?"" was published by Ungtryk in Denmark. ""The Illusion of Education"", ""The Hidden Secrets of Intelligence"", ""The Brain Environment Complex' and ""Preparing Education to Serve a New World: The Global Citizen"" represents nearly half a century of a personal struggle to understand the purpose of the citizen in the society in which they live."

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