If you can go way ahead of even Asian-Americans then:
1. how did you do it, i.e. where did you get those values or whatever was required from?
My wife is Asian. I am a semi-retired professor. When my wife was pregnant, I just started reading peer-reviewed published literature on early infant learning. I had access through my university. You have to either pay for them, be a university student/professor, or possibly get them through a county library if they pay for subscriptions. These are science papers, not popular fluff. Experimental research.
We discovered that brain development started before birth so I sang the ABC song through her womb every day. Wow, when the first one came out his head snapped to look at me because I started singing that song in the delivery room.
After birth the literature said locomotor development was the key to explosive intellectual development. They call it the "Dawn of Active Thought". So it was a bunch of different physical exercises to get them in shape for sitting up on their own and getting ready for locomotion.
Then we did these walking exercises so that at just a few months old they were already capable of walking all over the place holding onto our fingers. Then they start mapping out the house, thinking about where they want to go and what they want to do, evaluating risk, etc. instead of staring stupidly up from a bassinette. They're already feeding themselves from a baby bottle months before other infants can, and manipulating objects in mature ways.
On the one hand it blew people away to see what they could do, but a lot would think that they can walk at 9-12 months anyway so what difference does it make by the time they are 18 years old graduating high school.
Well, the difference is that you keep on working instead of quitting, and the gap goes from five months to a year to two years and just by the time they are in kindergarten they are many, many years ahead of their cohorts in both intellectual and physical development.
Nothing new with the alphabet, but you just start it way earlier. As you start teaching reading, you make everything pertinent to their own environment because that is what their interests are. Once they have developed the capacity for phonics reading then just treat them as mini-adults and don't talk down to them like babies. They can handle much more mature content than we give them credit for. So our first can read the periodic table of elements and knows what it all means before kindergarten but he has never read a nursery rhyme with me. Probably with my wife, but not me.
Since they are ahead physically, the writing development can also occur much earlier. We dropped the ball a little bit in writing but he'll still be several years ahead by kindergarten. He is writing his own stories already. The younger child is further ahead in writing than the first was, but behind him in reading. Years ahead of his cohorts, but a little behind his brother at the same age.
2. If anyone can get there in theory, then it makes me very angry to think of just how much human potential the entire world is wasting right now. We talk about wanting to cybernetically, genetically enhance our species with technology when we haven't even managed to extract all the potential we have with our species as it is right now... Then even China, Japan, Korea, etc.'s education systems are defective, merely less defective than the US... But is this right, that anyone could do it, if they really wanted to?
Yes, anyone can do it. But people in the USA especially are absolutely fixated on making sure they don't grow up. I think it selfishness personally. Sure, it is fun to keep them as babies longer.
We had all kinds of malicious comments about how we were "ruining their childhood", "pushing them too hard", making them do things "before they were ready" and calls to Child Protective Services, hoping to have them taken away from us and have me put in jail.
Not from people who knew us directly - family, friends, neighbors, our pediatrician, and the authors of these papers. We wrote them directly and they were so warm and encouraging with us. They reviewed videos we sent and gave us more papers to read.
It was malicious people who saw the blog, or internet discussion board dolts, and they were happy to make ludicrous false statements to CPS to gin things up more, like saying I bought my wife from her parents against her will. When we were being interrogated we learned what kinds of idiotic statements people were making. They put us in separate rooms and interrogated us individually - a female state trooper with my wife and an absolute prick with IQ = 20 from CPS interrogating me.
When they left our house they were a little disappointed that my wife hadn't stated she disagreed with what we were doing so they didn't have me in handcuffs in the back of the police van. But as they left they said we were going to be required to have our first son evaluated for developmental delay. He was so far ahead of his peers that they wanted to see how far behind he was! The facility they were going to make us go to was a "private partner" of the state that profited off such things so it struck terror into us realizing we might be in the clutches of idiots with a conflict of interest.
So we immediately bought tickets for the first flights we could get out of the country and hid in a friend's house before our flight left. We didn't know that they had barged into our pediatrician's office thinking they were going to spring on her all this horrible stuff we were doing. She told them she knew all about it and there was nothing wrong with it - but by then we were already out of the country. They also called family members and people who knew us - and discovered that another CPS worker was actually a friend of ours, knew exactly what we were doing, and was by law required to report us if he thought it constituted abuse. Everyone backed us, but we were taking no chances when they left our house, so we fled the country.
When we knew the coast was clear and returned, I called the state early infant learning program to look for more resources. The woman on the phone told me flatly that she disagreed with what we were doing. They are accustomed to dealing with public assistance cases that have disabilities, not kids that are advanced. You would think that early infant learning personnel would be excited about advanced learning but instead they recoiled in contempt.
Looking back, maybe we should have known better than to make anything public because Karen Adolph at NYU and Phil Zelazo at McGill learned professionally how malicious people can be when they see children being raised differently from cultural norms and we were actively corresponding with them at the time. Dr. Adolph published a book chapter on that very thing and Dr. Zelazo had some very malicious things said about his early walking research work.
So this cultural bias against earlier development in children is a very serious thing - not something I made up or am whining about. Children are much more confident about themselves, accomplished, and satisfied when they are in so much better command of their faculties and know so much more about the world. We dumb them down as infants, toddlers, and pre-schoolers and then put them in these factories where having them sit still is the highest priority.
There isn't any need to genetically enhance them - holy Toledo they can be years more advanced just as they are, and all it takes is removing the desire to keep them retarded.
