Magic tricks should be taught at every school to all students, researchers have just found out. Researcher have concluded that teaching Magic Tricks to children boosts their self confidence, and social skills while enhancing the logical, analytic and problem solving part of the brain.  These results come at a time where Children’s BBC television programme Sorcerers Apprentice is becoming very popular with Children.

The change in the Children invovled in the test were so amazing that Richard Wiseman from the University of Herfordshire asked for magic tricks to be added to the national curriculum.  Professor  Wiseman concluded that teaching children even simple easy tricks helped them in  a number of ways.

Magic forces the Children in a fun and interactive way to master the magic tricks, problem solving skills in working out how tricks works and helps them create a likable behaviour needed to entertain your audience successfully.

The outcome of the classes where they have to master and demonstrate one magic trick in front of other pupils was  to enhance their emotional intelligence skills, their confidence and self- esteem.

60 students aged between 10 to 12 from from two Hertfordshire schools took part in the experiments.  They were taught magi tricks during personal social and health PSHW

Professor Richard Wiseman told the British Association conference in Liverpool that learning magic tricks at magic school was far more effective than the self-esteem and confidece lessons that already exists in schools.

Professor Wiseman said magic pushed children to look at important issues from other people’s perspectives, which he argued could reduce bullying. Because magicians have to know what an audience will look for as they try to work out how the magic is done, children have to look at a trick from the spectators viewpoint.

Magic is fun and so it is well known that kids consume information much quicker and easier when they are enjoying what they are doing! Professor Wiseman said that magic should be included in the PSHE curriculum: “The improvements we saw were great. Kids love the idea of going to magic school like Harry Potter.”

“This is an interesting way of moti-vating children to think. Solving magic tricks is all about critical thinking. Learning magic requires self-discipline, an understanding of how other people think, and an ability to entertain.

“Unlike playing computer games, it encourages children to interact with their friends and family.

“Because of this, we thought it might be a unique and effective way of developing an important set of psychological skills.”

Magic Tricks included one called the cut and restored rope and others were Derren Brown type mind reading magic tricks.