Academia in a nutshell
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Parents who encourage their children to read as early as possible also indirectly encourage them to be autodidacts. We learn to like reading early on and enjoy spending lots of time alone doing it. Libraries become second homes and university libraries hearken back to the days when learning was restricted to monasteries and libraries were like cathedrals.
90% of my time spent pursuing an MA in English was in libraries.
I'm ready for the jokes about choosing English literature as a college major. I took my degree in '93, when the total capitulation of universities to critical social justice was not a fait accompli and I was assigned Friere in one course but was able to ignore it without consequence.
Not everything is nurture. Natural extroverts aren't going to develop like that.
Sure. By "we" I mean autodidacts. I taught myself how to read before going to Headstart. My mother just gave me access to books. I was also pretty extroverted as a kid--I was class clown in 2nd grade--until the public school system nearly bored the humor out of me. Luckily, I discovered LSD as a high school Freshman.