I went perusing the education literature a few days back, and once again, I was struck with the thing. The thing I always forget about between jaunts into the education literature world: The assertion that kids learn differently, than adults, and must therefore be especially catered to. I don’t believe that assertion to be true, but there it was again. An article asked me to accept that different age groups should be exposed to different aspects of nature—endangered species, activism, animals themselves—differently. I got the gist of what they meant, and they didn’t have a bad message: Research has substantiated that an empathy with and love of nature, along with later positive environmental behaviors and attitudes, grow out of children’s regular contact with and play in the natural world. But that fact that I had to decode aro...