The Genesis of Genius
 We should have known a long time ago that every human infant has within her or him the seeds of genius.
We should have known, in time long past, that:
- We are members of that group called Homo Sapiens, and because we are members of this group we each inherit the genius that provide us with the unique human cortex;
- We are born into an environment which either provides stimulation or it does not;
- Every time a baby is born, the potential for genius is born again with that baby.
He arrives with the great genetic gift of the human cortex. The only question is what kind of environment will we provide for that human cortex to grow and develop?
Genius is available to every human infant. We should have known this in our bellies, by our experience, and in our minds, by our knowledge. The genesis of genius lies, not alone in our ancient common ancestral genes, but as a seed that may be brought to full fruit in each tiny human infant.
We should have known full well, years ago, that genius is not a gift endowed on a few by a God who, through wishing some very small number of his children to be vastly superior, wished the vast majority of his children to be inferior.
Even less is genius a blind accident occurring once in a hundred, a thousand, or a million years without rhyme or reason.
 We should have known - twenty, twenty-five, perhaps fifty years ago - that what we call genius, a uniquely human capacity of the uniquely human cortex, is no gift at all.
Instead it is a human birthright common to all, out of which we have been cheated by our lack of knowledge. It is a superb opportunity which has been stolen from a family of creatures who have genius as their birthright.
We should have known because we have dealt with children and parents for so many years:
Wonderful children who have benefited hugely from the knowledge, love, and respect of their parents.
Potentially wonderful kids, presently average, whose parents and we are determined will not stay average.
Potentially wonderful brain-injured kids whose parents and we are determined will not stay incapacitated and many of whom are already functioning in an intellectually superior way.
Nose to nose, eye to eye, hand to hand, heart to heart, love to love, worry to worry, joy to joy, success to success, thrill to thrill, and sometimes defeat to defeat, but always with determination to determination.
For more than fifty years for the most senior of us.
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