Objectivists like Ayn Rand and Stephen Hicks believe that humans naturally are curious and desire to know and learn, and they agree with Aristotle who claims this. Hicks refers to humans as having big brains, and, if people, as individuals aspire to think, observe, reflect, and learn, then humans can make progress. In part I agree with these three, and in part I doubt that it is so simple. If humans individual-live and are brought up to self-realize, then they will come to enjoy being amateur intellectuals in many arenas and perhaps a specialized expert in several areas.
We are naturally depraved, and this entails that we are fatalistic, that we run in packs, that we are emotional more than rational, that we love comforting lies over bracing truth, that we do not seek tirelessly and effortlessly after knowledge and wisdom.
If we are well brought up as maverizers, then as critical thinkers and endlessly curious seekers after knowledge, wisdom, and skill then we unnaturally and culturally have grown to love learning and seeking after knowledge, but this personal habit and orientation must be cultivated and long reinforced so most of the young receiving such training come to love learning.
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