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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> 
> 
> > >Is this something children will automatically
> learn
> > growing up in an environment where nobody values
> > learning?
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> Is walking something children automatically learn
> growing up in an 
> evnironment where nobody particularly values
> walking?
> 
> I believe that would be a 'yes'.

That might be true if there were such a world, but we
know there is such a thing.  
Walking is a basic natural need, reading is not.

> 
> Unschoolers hold that all human beings want to learn
> and are predisposed to 
> learn unless that proclivity is actively beaten out
> of them.

Children want to learn, but they are indiscriminate
about what they want to learn. 

Van Dell