I feel sorry for teacher Stella Nwadigbo, 45, and baby Adebayo Michael, three years, her pupil at Mito Nursery and Primary School in Ikorodu, Lagos State. They are victims of brain crippled parents, teachers, school owners, education officials and the rest of us. Their anti-child policies allow children to start school too early in life and, by the age of three years, to have been able to learn, recite and to write numerials up to number 100. Isn’t this child abuse par excellence?Please follow me patiently as I explain why. My explanations will touch on the Hereditary Sin which led to the Fall of Man. Some biologists and researchers who recognise the human brain has become crippled,but do not know why,erroneously describe this phenomenon as “The Biological Misconstruction of Man”,blaming Mother Nature for the abnormality.
Only parents with “misconstructed” brains will send a three year-old boy or girl to school, and only a teacher with a “misconstructed” brain would beat him or her red and blue because he or she could not write number 1-65. They were probably taught how to write number 1-100. The time was about 11a.m, say report. It was about break time, and the teacher, was anxious to attend to other children, and was probably agitated that baby Michael was a slow boy.The government is undertaking a multi-lateral investigation into this incident, but I doubt if its findings and decision would be groundbreaking. For they may scratch the surface of the event. Teacher Nwadigbo may be sent to a psychiatrist. The school may be shut, its owner sanctioned by law, and baby Michael may receive handsome compensation for the ordeal he went through in the hands of his frustrated teacher.That may be the end of the story. No one may reason that many of us have crippled brains!
Crippled brains
Who are brain crippled, and what are crippled brains? Almost all of us are brain crippled. That is why we are no longer getting anything right or doing anything well. The few exceptions among humanity are probably new persons being born in California and Australia. Most of us in Africa, which belongs to the abnormal zone of the earth in terms of inner life light, are brain crippled in serious degrees. The crippled brain is the lopsided overgrowth of the frontal brain, the cerebrum,and the atrophised back brain, the cerebellum, both of which, due to this disconfiguration, can no longer function co-opetatively or harmoniously. The insightful biologists and reearchers, indeed, recognised a “MISCONSTRUCTION”, but did not understand the origin and of how it has unbalanced, and is still unbalancing every human function.
Fossil records of human ancestors 4-5 million years ago suggest that the frontal brain was much smaller than today’s, was of about the size of the back brain of those days,and compares with the brain structure and size of today’s Chimpanzees. From these reports, it was about 2- 3 million years ago that the frontal brain began to abnormally outgrow the back brain in physical size, due to the cultivation of cognitive abilities in language development and social behaviour.
Will investigators of what transpired between teacher Nwadigbo and baby Michael be able to link “Biological misconstruction” of the brains of the boy’s parents to his being sent to school at the age of three years?
Would they be able to recognise, also, that “biological misconstruction” of teacher Nwadigbo’s brain made her to smack a three-year-old pupil who could not write numbers 1-65?
I will delay a fuller explaination of “ Biological Miscontruction” till I have examinned some of the factors which are easier to observe as the causes of what transpired between teacher Nwadigbo and baby Michael.
Pre-pregnancy
Many women take getting pregnant as one of those events of everyday life. They do not recognise that a woman, figuratively speaking, is like a garden or a crops farm. I did not study agriculture at school. I, also, did not grow up in the village. So, l knew next to nothing about farming until I joined the Anchor Borrowers Programme to cultivate maize in a co-operative known as The Golden Farmers. There was nothing so “golden” about us beyond our honesty of purpose,our sound reputations and zeal to participate in Nigeria’s agrarian re-birth. Literally speaking, the government sent us to school on this project. We learned in the classroom that, prior to planting, we had to clear the farm, using tractors, make heaps,using machines, manure the heaps or planting beds, again using technology, and then,before sowing, applying a chemical substance called Aflasafe. Much as I had thought that Nigerian corn was pesticide free and relished eating it,this part of the exercise taught me all over that we live in a world of poisons, as I always say in this column. For the Aflasafe is designed against pests and fungi which attack the corn sown in the soil and diminish its output and nutritional values. Pregnancy is not different from all of these, in my view. If a woman and her spouse wish to have brilliant children, they must work for it at pre-pregnancy stage and other stages after the baby has been born.Many women are ignorant about this as I tell young women who ask me for guidance when they wish to get pregnant. A boy in England named Best whose story appeared under newspaper banner headlines over there is a popular example I illustrate my guidance with. I will soon come to his story.
Before then, let me mention that many women preparing to get pregnant do not rid their bodies of micro-organisms, such as bacteria, viruses and fungi, or of parasites before they do, let alone suffuse their bodies with bioactive diets with nutrients for themselves and the growth of the brain especially of the coming baby. Here is where the story of Best comes in….
Best is best
In England at that time, many school boys and girls hated school and home work.A boy named Best was one of them. He was always falling to the bottom of the class. Some scientists suggest that these children were finding school work difficult because their brains did not have enough Omega-3, an essential fatty acids. The government decided to try out the suggestion. During a long holiday,they gave free Omega-3 food suppliments to poor pupils. When school resumed, their academic work improved. Best,for example, moved from class bottom position to digit position. The newspaper headlines creamed …Best is Best!
For want of space, I cannot extol here many values of Omefga-3 in pregnancy. Suffice it to say, however, that medicines and nutrition have established some facts, such as that children whose mother’s consumed Omega-3 during their pregnancies had more nuerons( brain cells) than children whose mother did not.This made them more intelligent.
The neurons grow more dendrites. They make information travel faster while more neurons store more information. So, those children could be sharper and smarter. Those children were less likely to have eye challenges. There are many children who read back and forth, unable to capture in one sighting a simple word as university or proanthocyanidins. Children who consume Omega-3 when they are growing may help their brains fill some of the gaps in them. This was what happened to Best and his generation of dullards. From then on, producers of infant formulas were complelled to factor Omega-3 into them. How much of Omega-3 did the mother of baby Michael take for his pregnancy or give to him as food supplement after his birth? His hair is matted, suggesting Zinc defficiency. The body needs Zinc for about 200 purposes including cognition, brain acuity, learning, vision e.t.c. I have no space to talk about other nutrients here. I only wish to explain that baby Michael and his teacher Nwadigbo, may be victms of sub-nuturing by his parents.
Competing parent
Another problem baby Michael and his teacher Nwadigbo may have faced from his parents is the knack for parents to parade their children as intellectually superior to other children. That is why those children are sent to school too early when they should be chasing lizards and chickens around, wondering why birds are able to fly, or enjoying the flow of water in streams and rivers. At this stage of their lives, they are still closely related to Mother Nature, to the world of animism. Do we not see how easily excited they are by the animation of cartoons on television? The spirit have not become ready to sally into the material world because their bodies have not matured enough to provide them with the generative power draw bridge. Thus, while they should still be walled- in, we prematurely and forcibly pull them out, gratify to our egos in competitions with siblings, friends or neighbours. Isn’t it sinful when we do not “Let Children be Children”? We make of them intellectual hot house plants who can fly aeroplanes at 17or 18 but cannot resolve simple life problems and are easily worn out by a storm,like an outwardly mature fruits with an immature kernel, blown down from the mother tree during a storm and must become rotten instead of growing into a plant and tree, to fulfill the promise of its creation.
Attention deficit…
Wash many children in the classroom and elsewhere. They often suffer from Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Teachers are taught this in teachers colleges. Some children cannot be attentive for more than five minutes at a time.They turn and twist in their seats,pinch or disturb other children. They may have inherited pathogens which caused it in the womb if the microbes crossed from their mother into their brains. The problem may also be becoming from their lunch bags. Watch their snacks. They are filled with -sugar…additives and preservatives,all with brain disturbance capabilities. Watch the school environment. There are many women who sell sugar embalmed foods and drinks. Watch. The children are dullards or scatter brains.
This leads to another problem in the school system to which teacher Nwadigbo may have responded.
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School owners
School is big business competing for business. When a child is dull for whatever reason,the parent is the last person to accept responsibility. The teacher is the first target for blame. The school proprietor does not wish that the child be withdrawn to another school. This may have a run on the school like a bank losing customer accounts to others. The school owner threatens to fire the teacher. It is forgotten that the teacher may earn no more than N30,000 a month, or that the teacher may have between 15-30 children to attend to with no assistant teacher to help. Three- year-old are tough to handle. Some still pooh-pooh or wewe on their bodies. A class teacher teaches a lesson for about 30 minutes. Teacher Nwadigbo may have spent some of the 30 minutes to attend to some three -year-old who may have wishED to wee or to pooh. She may have settled quarels among ADHD children. She may have spent some more time to teach on the white board.She may have spent more time to write numbers on the white board which she wanted the children to read and then copy into their books. How much time of the 30 minutes would she have left for each child to bring his or her book for marking and correct? If baby Michael was slow, she may feel frustrated that she may not have enough time to attend to about a quarter or a half of the class. This is not to mention a series of home work she has to mark or new ones she has to give. She would read more than one minute on the average to attend to a child. Where is the time in 30 minutes? I can see the frustration in teacher Nwadigbo as baby Michael got stock on the way.Would his parents not complain to the proprietor that his teacher is not up to par? Would this boy cause her job to be taken away in an economy that may have no other for her so soon, or at all? Who knows if teacher Nwadigbo had other underlying annoyances which led to her frustration by baby Michael?
Biological misconstruction
This takes us back to the conception of some biologists and researchers I earlier promise to explain. Actually, the notion of a “misconstruction” is a misconception. Mother Nature makes no mistake.There is no big hand or small hand or big eye and small eye or big breast and small breast in her constructions. They may be variations in sizes, though, due to use, underuse, overuse or disuse of a part of the body. The muscles of my right hand are bigger than those of the left beacuse I use them more. As for the brain, the front or big brain ( cerebrum) and the back or small brain ( cerebellum) can be explained as well in terms of their use and overdevelopment and disuse or atrophy.
In the new knowledge of Creation on Earth today, which extends understanding of the creature called man and or that pertains to him for a special purpose, we are advised of the original construction of the brain and its real purpose or function in the human body. In that original construction or model, both parts of the brain are the same in size. The body itself, to wish the brain belongs, is a precious gift given to the human spirit by his creator as a cloark or housing during his sojourn on earth.
Imagine yourself living in this earth body to achieve the purpose(s) of your earth-life. It is this body which runs your errands. You are connected with your home. When you receive guidance from there, either through what we called FLASHES OF INSPIRATION or in dreams, these messages are passed on-to the body to effect. For this purpose, the spirit makes the body during pregnancy. An elaboration on this would require another article. Suffice it to say that some evidence of these are (1) the blood of the foetus does not begin to circulate untill the spirit, standing by all the while, enter the growing body mid-way through pregnancy, and signals this to its would- be mother in the “first kicks of pregnancy!.(2) when the spirit leaves the body, the blood stops to circulate and to exist during what we call “death” of the body. (3) For doubting Thomases, the composition of animal blood is never the same as that of human blood.This is beacuse their inner cores are different creatures,one a human spirit, the other, animal soul.
The blood produces a radiation bridge, like a magnetic field, on which the spirit transports its messages. If the blood radiation is fine and healthy, the communication is smooth and successful. The blood radiation may have problems through poor diet, disease, old age, unfavourable Cosmic radiations, environmental and earth aradiations, negative emotions.
I am looking at healthy blood radiation. The spirit sends its messages in picture forms to the Back Brain. This is the spiritually- receptive brain. And that is why we often receive guidance in pictorial alert. We say something strike us or occurs to us. No spoken words are involved. The back brain uploads the picture(s) on the blood radiation to the frontal brain, the cerebrum. This is The Intellectua Brain, the frontal brain. This brain decodes the pictures from the spirit into thought, words and necessary actions. This is why dreams in which words are spoken are not real dreams. Real dreams are experiences of the spirit pictorially transmitted to the back brain. Real dreams, in which words are not spoken and colours are distinct, are experiences of the spirit for warnings or guidance. Man is not meant to be a THINKER but a RECEIVER. The back brain or cerebrum receives. When man began to use his frontal brain to think out solutions to his challenges on earth, he began to abandon the back brain and to overcultivate the frontal brain Thus, the frontal brain became bigger than the back brain which athrophied. The loss of Spiritual receptive capacity cut man from his home, Paradise, and from GOD and became the hereditary sin which led to The Fall of Man.
With the back brain crippled and the two brains unable to connect and to work ammoniously, man became brain cripple who cannot get anything right as God Will it. Only a brain cripple will send a three-year-old to school for intellectual work. Only a brain cripple will attempt to force down the throat of a child what God does not Will for his age. Only a brain cripple will set up a school for this endeavour, push children forward from class to class even when they do not merit the promotion, get teachers to teach them to cheat early in life by teaching them to cheat in external examinations. Brain cripples will not see anything wrong in all of these. And that is why I said earlier that teacher Nwadigbo and baby Michael are victims of their cripple brain society.