It’s been proven time and again that like with any muscle, using your brain more makes it more powerful. Should mental techniques be taught in school from elementary to high school? I think so.
Speed reading can be quite effective, getting up to 1000-2000 words per minute with 100% comprehension. Memory tricks that anyone can learn, such as the Asian man who memorized Pi to 85,000+ places, would help students amazingly.
There are people who have mastered techniques for memorizing entire books at rapid paces and so forth; couple this with intuitive calculation and have a school full of Mentats. Not to mention hypnosis/self-hypnosis and the VAST benefits it allows for would be amazingly beneficial to kids, hell to everyone.
Emotional Freedom Techniques, EFT, can be used to remove all kinds of emotional hangups on everyone, and significantly aid in healing and removing chronic illness. These tools are all readily available to anyone with a net connection, and IMHO they should be taught in schools K-12. They could start out as imagination games and whatnot and be full on self hypnosis and EFT classes by high school.
Some FREE resources online:
http://grasshopperx.com/cyborg-101/
http://www.freewebs.com/syvak/teachings/TheBeneGesseritTrainingManual.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/doc/11959148/The-100-Brain-Course-Master-Manual
All have some useful ideas and training exercises to boost brainpower. Cyborg 101 even has sections on nootropics and smart-nutrients for the brain-booster fans among us. Check them out and see if you agree that we should make this stuff a part of schooling from the get go. Teaching effective time management also couldn’t hurt, heck Steve Pavlina used it to get 2 Bachelor’s Degrees in 3 semesters:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/do-it-now.htm
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