ABSTRACT
The author's all time favourite educational quote is from the great Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. Apart from putting forward a view on children's develop ment that the neuroscience has finally caught up with, he is also quoted as saying: Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. In other words, in the classroom, intelligence is what people use when they know exactly what to do. Research in Scotland also shows that P4C improved intelligence quotient (IQ) scores of a group of five- to eleven-year-olds by 6.5 points and that this improvement was maintained into their secondary education, despite the fact that they were no longer doing it. The most surprising aspect is that it continued after the lessons stopped at secondary school. Neurologically speaking, some people are 'fast processors' and some are 'slow processors' based on the way that electricity cycles through their brains.
