Aside from all the boring stuff about fertility, hormonal background and dance attractiveness, there’s a fascinating bit at the beginning—Peter Lovatt, the presenter, was close to illiterate. However, he was a very good dancer, and by the time he was 22, he figured out how to apply the sort of memory he needed for dancing to be able to focus on reading. Later, he got a masters in mathematical modelling of brain functioning.
I wonder how much can be accomplished by encouraging people to build on their strengths rather than trying to remedy deficits by using the same methods people who don’t have those deficits use for learning.
Aside from all the boring stuff about fertility, hormonal background and dance attractiveness, there’s a fascinating bit at the beginning—Peter Lovatt, the presenter, was close to illiterate. However, he was a very good dancer, and by the time he was 22, he figured out how to apply the sort of memory he needed for dancing to be able to focus on reading. Later, he got a masters in mathematical modelling of brain functioning.
I wonder how much can be accomplished by encouraging people to build on their strengths rather than trying to remedy deficits by using the same methods people who don’t have those deficits use for learning.