Episode 4.44: The way infants learn to read as a paradigm for all positive learning-experiences.

The way infants learn to read by sitting on their parents’ laps and following books repeatedly in a safe environment until they can do read for themselves is a paradigm for the way all the learning should occur. By contrast for many of us the experience of learning is threatening, alienating and potentially damaging, and destroys any incentive we might have to become lifelong learners.