Toddlers are already culturally shaped but lack formal education

Evidence

Admittedly, toddlers are already highly cultural beings, but they have had much less time to acquire additional cognitive endowments (e.g., knowing right vs. left, subtraction, etc.) and have had no formal education. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 77

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultural tradition outside school, not the subject itself, does the educating — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 362; Cultural learning machinery must activate early in development — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 187; Human childhood and adolescence are specialized periods for cultural learning that other primates lack. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 216 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Human childhood and adolescence are specialized periods for cultural learning that other primates lack. #expands (0.85) — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 216
• Cultural learning machinery must activate early in development #corroborates (0.82) — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 187
• Education is a struggle against nature that forms each new generation #complicates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2031
• Cultural tradition outside school, not the subject itself, does the educating #qualifies (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 362