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Many peole beleive that teenage is the most important time in one's life for developing intellectual ability for some reasons. Although I admit its advantages, I strongly beleive that childhood is more important for inhancing intellectual capability than any other period. The reasons are that it is easy to acquire knowledge and one's habit and characters are formed in childhood.
To begin with, childrens are very easily obtain new information. That is, they are curious about what they see aroud them and ready to acquire information directly. For instance, children learn foreign language much faster than their parents or teenagers when they live in foreing country. They just accept the foreing language without being interfered with their mother tungue unlikely to elders. That is why nowadays many people send their children to English spoken countries, such as USA and Canada, to learn second language and improve their intelligence by exploiting their brain.
In addition, habits and characters are formed in childhood. Thus when childrens are used to studying and enjoy concentrating on some subject, it is more likely that they will keep their preference and lifestyle even when they grow up. We can see that people who have high intelligence and study well usually spent childhood very meaningfully as I explained above. On the contrary, people who didn't study when they were very young have hard time to concentrate on reading books or study. For instance, my friend was a baseball player in elementary school and he spent most of his time playing sports instead of attending class. After he quited to play baseball and chose to study hard in highschool, he could not even seat on the desk for long time and concentrate because he was not used to it.
To conclusion, I wholheartedly beleive that childhohood is the most precious time to develop one's intellectual ability. The rational behind this is that this period is well known for easy acquisition of the knowledge. Moreover characters and habits are fixed in childhood and it will affect one's lifetime intelligence. All in all, we should pay more attention to childhood and provide better education for children.
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