This TED talk suggests that children can actually just teach themselves if you leave them with computers, which seems to directly contradict a lot of the reading we've done. Perhaps the difference here is the use of mediators and the kids teaching each other?

This article is a year old, but it came to mind when Carla mentioned her sole astronomer friend.

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