In the first three years of this cycle (0–3 years) the child absorbs this information completely unconsciously and without effort—i.e., with an unconscious absorbent mind. In the second three years (3–6 years) the child becomes a conscious learner, the conscious absorbent mind. What does this mean in practice? The child moves from simply accepting and adapting to the world around him (0–3 years) to a child asking why and how (3–6 years).
