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

--- Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> 
> > >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.
> 
> But learning is.  In a society where everyone
> meditates, children naturally 
> learn to meditate without being "taught".  In a
> society where reading is the 
> norm, reading is necessary to participate in the
> adult world, children learn to 
> read without being taught.

Reality check reading is necissary in this society and
there are plenty who aren't learning.  

  I am not being
> theoretical here, this is an 
> observed fact.  

Observed by who.  By anyone who is objective?  How
many thousand examples, if you haven't observed a
sizable population you can't be sure.  

 
> > >Children want to learn, but they are
> indiscriminate
> > about what they want to learn. 
> 
> You have, VanDell, the artifical paradigm of
> "subjects" in mind.  

That paradigm may be in your mind but it isn't in
mine.  Please confine yourself to the truth.

Van Dell