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Re: Bel Marshall,
That seems to be the necessary process of maturity: checking back on what we were taught/programmed in childhood and either updating, discarding, or re-affirming those things.
posted by
Ciel
on August 29, 2014 at 7:05 AM
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Re: FormerStudentIntern.
Yes, it really is!
posted by
Ciel
on August 29, 2014 at 7:04 AM
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Re: BC-A
Children start out savage and pure. The very long childhood of human children is for the learning of social/emotional skills, as well as those needed to survive and thrive physically. Not just how to get food and shelter, but how to live among our own kind. Of course, how a society defines "our own kind" is also a measure of civilization.
posted by
Ciel
on August 29, 2014 at 7:03 AM
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Re: Kabu,
Fear of falling is considered one of the few 'hard-wired' elements. Pretty much all the rest are learned. Learning of fears and hatreds and expectations of people, these are not genetic. Even some that are evidently the Great Ape family heritage, like territoriality, like violence and brutality, are things that can be modified, even un-learned.
posted by
Ciel
on August 29, 2014 at 6:59 AM
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I am working on UNLEARNING
Some of the the things I was taught in childhood.
posted by
Bel_Marshall
on August 28, 2014 at 7:20 PM
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It is fascinating how we learn.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 26, 2014 at 5:23 PM
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An awesome beginning for children love.
posted by
BC-A
on August 26, 2014 at 2:38 PM
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I wonder if some of our survival beliefs and techniques are already in our DNA from conception.
posted by
Kabu
on August 26, 2014 at 2:13 PM
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