I'd love to isolate a kids in separate rooms and do stuff to them from baby to teenager. Maybe one gets pens and paper throughout their life. See what a life in a jail cell will evoke in them. Maybe have a computer programmed voice teach them how to read, then give them certain books to read. Let them only read the Bible, or Attack on Titan. Then I'd let them into the real world and see what they think of it. Maybe they'll think that giant human things are trying to eat all of the humans. Teach them to read, but not speak. See how they communicate with people when they get out. Maybe wait until they're 10 and let them have a mirror and let them see themselves for the first time. Maybe get 2 kids and teach them to read, then put them in a room together and watch them develop. Maybe do a partners of the same sex, and one with a different sex. Do they fight? Do they fall in love? Just observe them. I think at the end of it, we would learn about how society works. We will find definite learned and genetic traits. We will see how a parent helps them develop. We will see how starting them from literally nothing affects them when they go into the real world. I think it would be interesting.
How would this work? As far as I can tell, reading is derived from speech. In fact, I'm not even sure how you'd go about teaching someone to read without speaking to them at some point. And if you did, you'd probably see imitation pretty quickly.Teach them to read, but not speak.
To be honest, I really don't know what I was thinking with that one.
Eh, that's cool. Given the unlimited resources, maybe you could develop a technology for implanting reading ability into people's minds?