When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.
The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.