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...Readings by K. Bernardo The first question many parents ask at the dinner table is, "What did you learn in school today?" Many people assume that the process of becoming educated involves little more than sitting at a desk and allowing the teacher's infinite knowledge to pour out over the class like rain. The little absorbent minds, if they are not actively resistant to the entire enterprise, will naturally soak up this knowledge; the success of this venture can easily be proven, people assume, by giving exams to see whether the children can parrot it all back. In the latter half of this century, however, it has increasingly come to the attention of writers and scholars that this is not only NOT how children learn, but it isn't even how they SHOULD learn. For example, Walker Percy feels that learning about something before one is either able to see it in person or before one is emotionally ready to integrate it into one's core of knowledge actually precludes the learner ever being able to understand it for himself. In his...