A critique of Inside the Brain
A critique of Inside the BrainA critique of the book:
Inside The Brain
The first thing that must be said for the book Inside The Brain, is that it made for very easy reading. Even though the book concerns itself with some topics that, easily, can be confusing due to their technical or medical nature, the text flows easily. The book was written to be read, not to be a reference or textbook. The content of this well written book was also first rate. The sources quoted in the book were quite impressive, and the research that went into the project was apparently quite exhaustive as well.
There is information contained in this book that should be had by all. If all prospective parents were to be given a copy of this book, and if they were to actually read it, the future of our country, and our world for that matter, would be a much brighter one. Some of the points made, including the need for children to be stimulated mentally beginning at an early age, are crucial. Armed with this information, any parent would be likely to spend more time with their children in an effort to ensure their ultimate success in life. It is a parent's responsibility and obligation to provide their children with the strongest mental armament available in order to enter the intellectual battlefield that will be their future. Those who are not properly intellectually prepared for life will fall to the bottom of the socioeconomic strata. They will live a life of strife including substandard education, substandard health, substandard wealth, and substandard children. This will perpetuate a cycle of this type of person from generation to generation. The author of the book seems to focus on the immediacy of the problem through the use of some very startling statistics. His implication is that if something is not done to make parents better at the way they prepare their children for the future, we, as a society, will need to be building many more prisons in order to handle the overwhelming amount of societal misfits that we will be producing.
The book does go on to provide some hope for tomorrow as well as fear. The latter chapters focus more on the body's abilities to repair and heal the brain and mind. Much attention is given to potential treatments and therapies for those suffering from debilitating injuries and diseases. Along with explaining how the brain and associated tissue can heal themselves, many new avenues of treatment are discussed. Again these issues can be, due to their very technical and scientific nature, very obfuscated with technical jargon....
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