Yeaaaaah... I don't think you have to give 4-year-olds lifelong recollections of their own inadequacy in order to have top-notch programmers
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Replying to @spakhm @KevinSimler
Kids have unpleasant emotions all the time. Growing up is super hard, and they'll run into terrible constraints all the time. That's not the problem; the problem is that forcing kids to "learn" runs a high risk of generating aversions that we don't actually know how to correct
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Replying to @spakhm @KevinSimler
I think it's a terrible idea to force a kid to read — ever. Nearly all kids love stories & if read to will eventually demand some control by forcing The Adult to reveal what's going on there. The risk of brute-forcing it is creating a lifelong non-reader. Horrifying.
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Do you think that if you hadn't been forced, you wouldn't have wanted to keep at something that was hard? Maybe, but kids attempt difficult things over and over all the time, *against* the advice of adults —it's the force that makes failure sting.
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Replying to @webdevMason @KingofHype and
The typical school lumps a bunch of similarly-aged kids together and tells them what they ought to be able to do if they're not lazy and stupid. Did you go undiagnosed for 20 years without the slightest idea you could use some support? Of course not. You had to try to hide it.
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Kids are naturally "lumpy" — they're stronger in some areas than others, they don't all intuit the same way, and they do depth-first searches if they're given any opportunity at all to purse their own interests. It's why most end up thinking they're dumb, at one time or another.
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