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Four natural drives in children
Children are naturally very curious, playful, and sociable soon after birth. Planfulness - the drive to think about and make plans for the future - emerges in the early months and develops as children grow older.
Conventional and coercive schools suppress these drives in the interest of promoting conformity and keeping children fixed to the school's curriculum. But self-directed education allows these natural drives to flourish.
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Sociability
Children are born with an instinctive knowledge that their survival and wellbeing depend on their ability to connect with and learn from other people. As soon as they can communicate, they will inquire about their world, for the connection and information.
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Play is not recess from education; play IS education
Playfulness motivates children to practice new skills.
Children play:
- In physical ways - climb, chase, tumble: It develops strong bodies and movement.
- In risky ways: They learn to manage fear and develop ...
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Planfullness
We have the capacity to think ahead if we are driven to do so. This is the most consciously cognitive of our basic educative drives and develops slower than the other drives. This drive to motivate and plan ahead leads self-directed learners to think about life goals, and...
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Curiosity
Soon after birth, infants begin to look longer at unfamiliar objects than those they are familiar with. Within months, they can recognize patterns, problem solve and make cause-and-effect connections about how the world around them works. They are always getting into things, expl...
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