We have noticed that in India, parents are more partial to games than libraries. The logic doesn’t seem to hold the fact that they stress so much on education and marks and yet shun the concept of library.
If you ask any parent, the percentage of those who favour libraries or equal importance to both is very less compared to those favouring games all the time. For a child to develop holistically, games and library reading both are important.
We put a premium on intelligence but we also need to factor in other aspects to boost it. Another concept – intelligence, we might think of intelligence as having a lot of knowledge about certain subjects. But we also might consider quick thinking and the ability to reason. Such factors as first proposed by psychologist Raymond Cattell refer to fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence. Fluid intelligence is “the ability to perceive relationships independent of previous specific practice or instruction concerning those relationships.”
While crystallized intelligence involves knowledge that comes from prior learning and past experiences.
The Cattell-Horn theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence suggests that intelligence is composed of different abilities that interact and work together to produce overall individual intelligence.
Fluid intelligence along with crystallized intelligence, are both factors of what Cattell refers to as general intelligence. Both factors of intelligence are equally important in everyday life. While everyone acknowledges that Crystallized intelligence can be improved through learning. Only recent studies found that it is possible to improve fluid intelligence with brain training.
Both types of intelligence increase throughout childhood and adolescence. Many aspects of fluid intelligence peak in adolescence and begin to decline progressively beginning around age 30 or 40. Crystallized intelligence continues to grow throughout adulthood.
Kendra Cherry suggests “Gains in intelligence don’t come from sticking to the same old routines. Keep exploring new things in life and keep learning new things. Tackle learning a new language. Take piano lessons. Visit a new country and learn about the people and culture.”
Taking the psychological studies, researches and notes, it therefore implies that variegated actions and stimuli improve the brain functions and therefore compartmentalizing one activity to the exclusivity of the other doesn’t make sense.
The point here is – Let the kids indulge in games as much as library experience. Both have their advantages for the child’s intelligence, smartness, sociability and cognition.
