Victor of Aveyron (c. 1788-1828)
Matryoshka form in the learning process
The learning process is like a matryoshka, a doll where is an always smaller doll inside it. The thing is that in the beginning are the basic skills, and then the other special skills are created around those special skills. Everything that we are learning in our life is coming from one single skill, and then that thing would grow.
Accumulation of the skills are beginning in the first seconds of the person's life, and the thing is that process continues through life. The thing that is the first skill of the human is not sure. In the beginning, people are touching things like spoons and they are learning to walk. Bur witch one comes first, walking or touch? And are those skills spontaneous or are they cognitive?
If walking and touching are cognitive skills. That means that things are learned from parents or other people. But how to test those skills? Or how to test are skills formed spontaneously or are some skills result of the model learning? The thing that makes those tests very difficult is that the researchers must remove the human effect from the life of the person.
And this kind of thing makes those tests so inhumane, that they cannot be accepted. So the only thing that gives information about the origin of skills and are they cognitive or spontaneous is the feral child. And in that kind of case, the child must grow without human contact. So the street child is not suitable for that kind of psychological test. And in modern times children like Victor of Aveyron are extremely unusual. But they are very huge humanitarian tragedies for those people.
When we are looking at the image, what is portraying the Victor of Aveyron, we must realize that it is drawn after hair is cut after capturing. But the thing that might interesting researchers is the possible clothes and other things like tools, what the poor child used in the forest. Or how did he managed to survive in that area?
Or in this case, we must remember that we are thinking about those things from our position. The thing is that those feral children are fascinated researchers like an anthropologist. And they are thinking about the possibility to use feral children as the gate to the world of animals. They thought that those children can tell what animals are talking together. But the thing is that those cases are extremely abnormal in the modern world.
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