Learning is also assisted by how much 'fun' it can be when the idea is presented to children.

Getting a kid to 'learn' is all dependent on how much that child is geared to the topic/subject.

When I was a kid, I had a knack for science and how things worked.

My dad, who had a very limited school experience, would go to flea markets and buy books-mostly incomplete encyclopedia sets- bring them home and let us go thru them.

That stopped when Ma put her foot down because we had run out of room, but I do remember picking them off the shelves and reading about things that made me wonder and want to learn more.

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I just saw an article in the daily fish wrapper that says schools are going to stop teaching cursive handwriting, instead focusing on keyboard skills.

I thnk tht tht wll b a HUGE mstke and wll mke ppl, speshly kds, seem mre ignrnt as tme goes by.