Re: Breakfast at Borders

From: Jim Thompson (thegreatone_at_example.com)
Date: 07/04/04 

Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:16:07 -0700

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 16:02:00 +0000 (UTC), Ken Smith
<kensmith@rahul.net> wrote:

[snip]
>
>Humans are born scientists. Children ask why is the sky blue. Some
>stupid adult will say "Don't ask such stupid questions" and eventually the
>kid will stop asking. As a result mankind loses another Einstein and
>gains another burger flipper.
>
>I think the curiosity never really dies however. If you give a person
>permision to ask the questions they would have asked as a kid, they will
>still do it. If we can just get society to start letting the questions be
>asked, there will be a quantum leap in all the sciences.
>

I lived for 25 years just down the street from Cocopah Elementary
School in Scottsdale, Arizona.

It always troubled me to watch out my window at the children trooping
to school... the kindergartners would have smiles on their faces and a
kick to their step, first graders less so, by third grade the kids all
looked glum. Our "educational" system impedes intellectual
development.

                                        ...Jim Thompson 

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