Very thought provoking and somewhat heart breaking. Two key paragraphs and devastating conclusion:

When we talk about learning, we really mean two quite different things, the process of discovery and of mastering what one discovers. All children are naturally driven to create an accurate picture of the world and, with the help of adults to use that picture to make predictions, formulate explanations, imagine alternatives and design plans. Call it "guided discovery."

In guided discovery - figuring out how the world works or unraveling the structure of making tortillas - children learn to solve new problems. But what is expected in school, at least in part, involves a very different process: call it "routinized learning." Something already learned is made to be second nature, so as to perform a skill effortlessly and quickly.

Schools don't teach the way children learn.