Parents soon learn that it is safe and appropriate to trust this knowledge. If left alone, children will know instinctively what method is best for them. School is not a place that gives much time, or opportunity, or reward,įor this kind of thinking and learning." 1 Children know best how to go about learning something. He can tolerate an extraordinary amount of uncertainty, confusion, To find out how reality works, he works on it. Shut himself off from the strange, complicated world around him, but tastes it, touches it, hefts it,īends it, breaks it. He does not merely observe the world around him. He is open, perceptive, and experimental. He wants to make sense out of things, find out how things work, gainĬompetence and control over himself and his environment, and do what he can see other people doing.
John Holt, in his book How Children Learn,ĭescribes the natural learning style of young children: These one- and two-year-oldĮxperts teach us several principles of learning: Children are naturally curious and have a built-in desire to learn first-hand about the world around To know in order to understand and to participate in the world around him. To learn these things it is simply assumed that every baby is born wanting to learn the things he needs
No one worries that a baby will be too lazy, uncooperative, or unmotivated When he is learning to stand, walk, talk, and to perform many other important and difficult things, Parents commonly take this view of learning during the child's first two years, Know when they are ready to learn and what they are interested in learning. Nurturing a child's love for learning begins with trust.
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