Almosteverychild,onthefirstdayhesetsfootintheschoolbuilding,issmarter,more(36)curious,lessafraidofwhathedoesn’tknow,betteratfindingand(37)figuringthingsout,moreconfident,resourceful,persistent,and(38)independentthanhewilleverbeagaininhisschooling--or,unlessheisvery(39)unusualandverylucky,fortherestofhislife.Already,bypayingcloseattentiontoand(40)interactingwiththeworldandpeoplearoundhim,andwithoutanyschool-type(41)formalinstruction,hehasdoneataskfarmoredifficult,complicatedand(42)abstractthananythinghewillbeaskedtodoinschoolorthananyofhisteachershasdoneforyears.Hehassolvedthe(43)mysteryoflanguage.Hehasdiscoveredit.Babiesdon’tevenknowthatlanguageexists--(44)andhehasfoundouthowitworksandlearnedtouseitappropriately.Hehasdoneitbyexploring,byexperimenting,bydevelopinghisownmodelofthegrammaroflanguage,(45)bytryingitoutandseeingwhetheritworksbygraduallychangingitandrefiningituntilitdoeswork.Andwhilehehasbeendoingthis,hehasbeenlearningotherthingsaswell,(46)includingmanyoftheconceptsthattheschoolsthinkonlytheycanteachhim,andmanythataremorecomplicatedthantheonestheydotrytoteachhim。
