"Osmosis" is a great way for many children (and adults) to learn. That's how I learn the best. Had I been able to learn that way when growing up, I would have been in far better shape when I reached adulthood than I was. And let's just say that by the time the government run schools in the US were finished with me, I was totally fucked up. It took decades for me to discover that I wasn't stupid and lazy, as I had been taught to believe. When I graduated at the age of 17, I couldn't even do fifth grade level math. (Fifth grade is ten year olds.) So clearly, the schools didn't know a thing about educating someone like me.