That was the basic tenet that Professor Reuven Feuerstein challenged. He taught youth from displacement camps how to take the IQ tests so that their scores increased. He devised his own programme to teach them how to be intelligent. He was a catalyst for change. Their futures changed.

This was how Instrumental Enrichment began, in the late 1940s. His work was, and still is, totally child centred. He believed that the system he was instructed to use by the government of his day did not suit the children in front of him.

He taught the children that they could change. He showed them how to be in charge of their own developing cognitive processes.

And in doing so, he began, ever so slowly, to change a system.