A misnomer is that when a parent teaches a kid new stuffs, the kid does not
learn the problem-solving skills. This might NOT be the case. Problem solving
skills could be learned through analyzing conditions given, theories learned
, and prior experiences accumulated when solving similar problems.
Once a kid grasps the essence of problem-solving skills, he or she will
become confident in dealing with unknown problems.
Mother's love is not enough for problem-solving abilities in a child, who
has to gain it the hard way by failing and falling, licking the blood on the
cut and bruises suffered during the journey, and, sometime, by waiting for the
light bulb moment. However, solely depending on the arrival of the light bulb
moment to teach a kid new stuffs would be a waste of time. None of us would become
either Newton or Einstein. But we do not need to reinvent the wheels when learning
knowledge.
A winner is not born after the victory. But a winner will rise right at the
lowest point of failure he or she suffers. That is confidence.
Further, the more a kid learns about the outside world, knows about the
enormous scope of human knowledge and its limitation, a kid would be
motivated to invent the way out. To equal learning prior knowledge with the
death of innovation is, to say the least, shortsighted, if not unfounded.
