This book summarizes over 250 research studies of child development and distills those studies plus the authors' experiences in over 60 cultures to recommend 50 practices that create genius babies and adults.
About the Author: Biographical Sketch William Maxwell was born in Arkansas, grew-up in Arizona and studied at Howard, Oregon State, Maryland, California and Oxford Universities. He earned his master's and doctorate at Harvard University. He was student body president of his high school in Phoenix, Arizona; and elected vice president of the student council at Oregon State University. In 1957, as pictured, at age 28, William was elected to chair an international educational council in Northeast Asia, with headquarters in Tokyo. At the time he was the education advisor, 7th Infantry Division of the Eighth U.S. Army in Korea, where he studied all 142 U.S. soldiers in Korea with an IQ over 142, and published the results in the Phi Delta Kappan. Professor Maxwell's most important research concerned how to improve the thinking skills (IQ's) of children which involved 60 of his students at the University of the South Pacific over a four-year period and repeatedly demonstrated IQ gains of 19 or more points by skilled tutoring. In another demonstration in Fiji, for 90 minutes a day he coached for two months four students from Fiji's poorest performing high school (#43, Vunimono) to challenge students from Fiji's most prestigious high schools (Queen Victoria and Suva Grammar) in a Mental Abilities Tournament. In an all-day public competition in Suva, including an IQ test prepared by a professor at Waikato University in New Zealand, the four students from Fiji's poorest school outperformed the top four students from each of Fiji's most prestigious high schools. He mentored the first Korean to win Germany's most prestigious research prize in medicine, Dr. Kim Jeh-Hyub, M.D., 1991; The first Nigerian to earn the Ph.D. in petroleum engineering at the University of Texas, Dr. David Okoye, was among his first students where he headed the first post-secondary school in southeastern Nigeria, now named the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt. Three of his former students were sitting vice chancellors of universities in 2014, thought to be a world record. Some of Professor Maxwell's television interviews and public lectures can be found on YouTube. See Education Talk Professor William Maxwell in London.