[General] culture acquired spontaneously

[njt2009]

Could you please explain the sentence "culture acquired spontaneously?

I read from the book of Ms. Maria Montessori (Absorbent mind) which is the book about Montessori method of teaching :roll:

 

[bhaisahab]

What do you understand by each of the words?

 

[njt2009]

culture means development?
acquired means obtained or learn?
spontaneously means naturally

 

[njt2009]

Does it means human intellectual development occured naturally?

 

[Matthew Wai]

I take it to mean culture that is learned naturally.

 

[Raymott]

A sentence with that phrase in it would help.
"It is something that culture acquired spontaneously." means something different.

 

[teechar]

@njt2009: Can you provide a bit more of the text in which you found it?

 

[njt2009]

The press began to speak of "culture acquired spontaneously." Psychologists wondered if these children were somehow different from others, and we ourselves puzzled over it for a long time. Only after repeated experiments did we conclude with certainty that all children are endowed with this capacity to "absorb" culture. If this be true - we then argued - if culture can be acquired without effort, let us provide the children with other elements of culture. And then we saw them "absorb" far more than reading and writing...

I also wondered the meaning of culture in this sentence.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I found the full text at http://montessoriteacherscollective.com/abcclio/absorb.html
Scroll down to '1. THE CHILD'S PART IN WORLD RECONSTRUCTION'.

 

[Tdol]

Education is not simply a matter for them of teaching reading and writing but involves more important things that are included in the concept of culture.

 

[Raymott]

It seems that education is not so much a matter of teaching anything, but rather providing stimuli for the child's absorptive capacity to work upon.