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An idea from Four Weeks, Not Four Years

The primer belongs in childhood

The ability to focus, carry a project through, and teach yourself should be built by about age ten, not purchased at twenty-two.

This idea is shared between Four Weeks, Not Four Years and Sui Learning, Trenton Rich's book on teaching children at home. The full entry, with the evidence and sources, lives with the homeschooling method at suilearn.ing.

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In Four Weeks, Not Four Years: Chapters 2 and 9.

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Cite this idea. Trenton Rich, "The primer belongs in childhood," in Four Weeks, Not Four Years (2026), maxwellrich.com/idea-the-primer-belongs-in-childhood.html. Free to quote, copy and reuse with credit under CC BY 4.0. The book itself is under normal copyright.