Date: 2009-06-29 03:26 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] siderea
Children the world over enjoy pouring water from one cup to another, but who the heck tells them it's a good idea? HOW DO THEY KNOW THEY SHOULD DO THIS?

Learning is intrinsically pleasurable (it's being taught which is so unpleasant). Like sex and eating, learning feels good because it's so very useful to us at a raw, biological level. She didn't need a person to tell her that it was a good thing to do, because she has a part of her brain, as do we all, that rewards her with delight for doing such useful, developmentally stimulating things.

Really, if you haven't read Holt, you might want to.
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