Brittany Gambrell’s Reviews > Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling > Status Update

Network does not equal community. A network is only interested in what you can do for them. There is no curiosity about you or your life.

Each child will eventually be intrinsically motivated to learn to read. It doesn’t really matter when you learn to read whether 4 or 7 or 10 because you will learn eventually like how a baby learns that crawling will let them explore further. However, in a school setting that’s obviously impossible because how could you have a student in that setting in 3rd grade not know how to read? It would be detrimental