KIDS CAN LEARN WITHOUT INSTRUCTION
May 20, 2022
3 minutes
LENORE SKENAZY
DON’T SHOW THIS to your kids, because they might cry. But guess how much time children in “traditional societies”—indigenous groups pretty much off the grid—spend in direct instruction, the way American kids do in school? About 90 seconds a day.
University of Utah anthropologist Karen Leslie Kramer, who has spent 30 years studying Maya villagers in the Yucatan and Pume hunter-gatherers in South America, came up with that estimate. “The
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