I’ve heard it said that the ability to learn new things diminishes with age, and that children are vastly more ‘skilled’ at learning than adults.
Well I propose an idea that disagrees with that…
Adults are equally, if not more skilled at learning than children.
I believe that humans are extremely good at learning a new thing if they are genuinely interested in it. I hypothesise that the reason why children seem to be good at learning is simply due to the fact that they are interested in just about everything (due to them being new to the world, and the world being new to them). And I hypothesise that the reason why adults seem unable to learn new things is that they are not really interested in them (due to the fact that they are used to the world and most of the world has become ‘boring’). In the rare case that an adult is interested in learning something - He/she might actually be very good at learning it. Possibly better than a child interested in the same thing.
I am probably wrong (I can think of reasons that contradict my ideas) but there is no harm in wondering is there?
