A young child’s untuned senses may take in elements that, to mature observers, have become blurred by time and the filters of experience. Could it be that young children are alive to a sensibility that lies outside the educational march to competence? What does knowing matter to an infant laughing with joyous abandon as he splashes the spilled juice on the tray of his high chair? Learning is not always about knowing.

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