Article Overview:
In this article, Nick Heap considers the way children learn, and the implications this has for trainers.

Opening Words:
It is clearly observable that very young people learn extremely effectively if given half a chance. We almost all learned how to walk, talk, handle tools, control our bodily functions and get our needs met in complex social situations, by the time we were three years old. This is an astonishing achievement.

It is also observable that our ability and willingness to learn new things tends to fall off dramatically as we get older, certainly when compared to that of our earliest years. This learning 'gap' has been assumed to be inevitable and biological, therefore unchangeable. This seems a pessimistic point of view. This article explains why and gives some directions for bridging the 'gap'.

Useful Reading For:
All trainers.