Learning Paths

I have been thinking a LOT about how learning happens recently. I wrote this as a Facebook status:

Just as a child learns to crawl before they learn to walk, children learn all kinds of ways of doing things that may seem to have less value before they do things that have a similarity to how adults do things. But we know crawling has lots of value, value we barely have tapped the understanding of, value "experts" see better than the average layperson.

I don't think children are meant to do things like a miniature adult right off the bat. Part of the fun of learning is the path it takes, not just the destination, and we learn SOOOOOO much from the journey. In fact, is there REALLY even such thing as a destination? Aren't we constantly changing? And isn't there a reason people have different opinions on things (to allow for personalization for one's own truth)? Sometimes people learn through contrast: something will stand out because of a way that we previously understood it. I think we get stuck on valuing the new things we learned, instead of valuing the process of learning, and so we want our children to take our "results" rather than find their own or "waste time" figuring stuff out, so they can get advanced on their path. We are so well-meaning <3