Grounding Tenet for Learning

As we engage in this discussion today, I want to move beyond the questions posed and offer a thought for us all to consider when responding/engaging/grounding our dialogue today.

Any and every approach to education necessarily depends upon the foundation of our belief regarding (1) the nature of the student (be it child or adult) (2) her/his pre/disposition toward learning.  Now that research documents that a human child arrives in this world 'wired for learning' (cf 'From Neurons to Neighborhoods' report http://www.nap.edu/books/0309069882/html/index.html), it utterly upends and subverts all our top-down traditional hierarchical approaches to instruction, in favor of a whole new approach committed and designed to inspire each student's innate instinct for learning.  

How can we ground this master plan in this basic tenet that research documents - students arrive 'wired for learning'?  This is crucial to moving us toward 'a learning society,' and 'California becoming the learning state' supporting student learning for all. 

What say you?  I welcome all input.