The most vital learning experience a young child could have would be the moment his parents leave him for the first time. (Still need a better hook) It allows him to experience what it’s like to not be coddled all the time. Similar to Ender’s experience after he gets sent to a school for the highly intelligent, in hopes to one day be able to save the human race from Aliens. In Ender’s Game, author Orson Scott Card uses Ender’s growing up in the battle school to illustrate how general isolation often times creates a loss of a childhood innocence and vulnerability to one's own thoughts. In Card’s novel, Colonel Graff, the ‘principal’ of the battle school, manipulates children into isolation in order to meet his own selfish goals. “Isolation
