PAPUNTA SA DAANG MATUWID

Teditorial: Smart as a Baby- The baby brain seems better than the media in handling the facts. It does not make up facts when it cannot understand them. This is known: a baby learns more and faster than at any other time of its adult life. From the mass of impressions crowding its little head, it makes a template of the mind, space, time, causality with which it will sort out those impressions. Imagine that. The little head makes an architectural plan of the world. Through this template, it filters impressions then carves out the perceptions making up the universe of her life. But a baby's brain does not just absorb like a sponge, nor arrange and make sense, it also selects what is interesting to understand and what is too boring to bother with.
Celeste Kidd, a doctoral candidate at the Univ of Rochester, discovered that babies discriminate between what seem useful and useless, what is worth while knowing, what is not worth the bother. The baby brain also knows what is too hard to get the first time and what is best left for later and another try. It is a very efficient thinking machine, able to set correct priorities in learning, in sifting opinion from fact, in reserving rather than rushing to judgement and when finally to decide. The baby brain seems better than the media in handling the facts. It does not make up facts when it cannot understand time. It waits  for another time. Are we saying the media handling been infantile? Of course not. Do not insult the baby mind. Keep well.