Shared Knowledge and the Ratchet Effect: Child-centered individualism started the slide in American education. A recommitment to shared knowledge can ratchet it up again

Infants are prepared to learn shared cultural knowledge from nonverbal communicative demonstrations addressed to them at a remarkably early age. --Katalin Egyed, Ildiko Kiraly, and Gyorgy Gergely, 'Communicating Shared Knowledge [...]