“If children started school at six months old and their teachers gave them walking lessons…”

Many people believe that they can’t exist without government schools—rather than home schooling—just because things have long been this way. This was posted on X/Twitter by Geoff Graham on February 12, 2018, and it received over 19,000 likes:
 
“If children started school at six months old and their teachers gave them walking lessons, within a single generation people would come to believe that humans couldn’t learn to walk without going to school.”
 
The tweet has been frequently cited.
   
 
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Geoff Graham
@geoffreydgraham
If children started school at six months old and their teachers gave them walking lessons, within a single generation people would come to believe that humans couldn’t learn to walk without going to school.
6:16 PM · Feb 12, 2018
 
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Unschooling School
@UnschoolingS
If children started school at six months old and their teachers gave them walking lessons, within a single generation people would come to believe that humans couldn’t learn to walk without going to school.” - Geoff Graham
Find out about Free Learners: https://unschoolingschool.com/free-learner.html
8:45 AM · Sep 7, 2020
 
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Lewis McKeever
@Mckeever89
“If children started school at six months old and their teachers gave them walking lessons, within a single generation people would come to believe that humans couldn’t learn to walk without going to school”. - Geoff Graham
Children are natural autodidacts.
10:51 AM · Mar 29, 2021
 
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WealthSquad Chris 🌴
@CJ_Johnson17th
“If children started school at six months old and their teachers gave them walking lessons, within a single generation people would come to believe that humans couldn’t learn to walk without going to school”
10:05 PM · Dec 19, 2024