The Source of All Knowledge

Lev Vigotsky was a Russian founder of social interaction. Everything that we will be discussing today is from his works in this field. Of course, we have developed his theories far further than anyone imagined, but in the end his basic theory is infallible.
Social interaction is indispensable for learning. His theory deviates out of the box and looks at the entire subject of development and what he finds is extraordinary. He tells us that without social contact we will not learn. And I might have to agree. For instance if we were to be born and abandoned at like age 3 in the wilderness, we would eventually die of starvation, thirst, prey, or plain and simple ignorance. We must have that interaction with people in order to learn from birth on. It is just as important when we are children and babies to have contact as when we age in longevity. We must have that association. It is inevitable to survive without the help of an accomplice. Thus social interaction is a mechanism for promoting assimilation and accommodation.

Assimilation is the merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups, not involving biological amalgamation. It is where we as a people merge all of our knowledge together to grow. We assimilate knowledge into the minds of children. If you think about it a child will know more about the world and social variety than any man in his grey, by the time he graduates. This is true because the child is the source for which all this knowledge is implemented. We must embrace this idea and encourage it. It is not the time to be social intolerable. What I mean is now or ever is not the time to be putting information into storage containers, like hard drives, and not passing them on to children. It must be our inner most desire to pass on from generation to generation anything that can benefit the next; whether negative or positive. Learning takes place when children interact with older adults. The reason for this is the basic of all learning. Assimilation.

Besides assimilation we have accommodation. Accommodation is a process of mutual adaptation between persons or groups, usually achieved by eliminating or reducing hostility, as by compromise or arbitration. With accommodation we are enabling the growth of knowledge. Accommodation is an instinct with learners. When ever there is someone that learns a great deal, there is also a much adjusted person who can tell grand stories. His journeys may not be that amazing but there is a sense of sacrifice and discomfort on there walk through knowledge and life. We must allow our minds to step through the comfort boundary into the unknown so that we may learn and then teach. If this was the way that every person acted, there would be an entirely different world that we are looking at.