John abbott born to learn

Profound truths are often so unsettling that people lose themselves in lengthy explanations that ultimately confuse, rather than clarify.

Born to Learn - http://www.born-to-learn.org/blog/john-abbo.

This is a very human trait which starts as the youngest children begin to form straightforward explanations as to how they see ideas fitting together. But unless they replace such earlier 'naive' explanations as they grow older, youngsters can't develop the more robust frameworks needed to handle complex thinking. It has been well noted that, "it is not people's ignorance you need to fear, it's what they know which darned well ain't true any longer that causes all the difficulties."

How humans learn, and consequently how children should be brought up, has long troubled our ancestors.

Most of today's schools are based on the assumption that children are born to be taught, rather than to learn. The findings from recent research have started to clarify the essential distinction between "learning" and "being taught". With this better understa