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Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun. Children may be innately motivated to make friends, acquire status, hone motor skills, and explore the physical world, but they are not necessarily motivated to adapt their cognitive faculties to unnatural tasks like formal mathematics. A family, peer group, and culture that ascribe high status to school achievement may be needed to give a child the motive to persevere toward effortful feats of learning whose rewards are apparent only over the long term.
Steven Pinker The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Hu… education learning pedagogy

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Unscramble STEVEN6-letter words that start with S6-letter words that end in N6-letter words containing TE6-letter words containing EN6-letter words with S and T
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
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EARA
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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