we seem to be talking alot about teaching, be it through example or through persuasion or through "education" of appropriate judgemental abilities. and it seems that much of what drove salinger's literature (perhaps the preachier of it) was his views of education, or rather non-education. Don't "Teddy" and Catcher atest to the beauty and pertinance of innocence. All his talk about biting from the apple? doesn't that tell us his approach on the education of children? The problem i have with this, or perhaps a possible solution is that inevitably kids when faced with the standards of society are going to be taught, they simply do not have the chance to experience and understand but only to be taught and semi/not-understand. So then taking this into account, intelectualism can be justified because once we have bitten from the apple the only thing to do is to eat as many apples as we can. -stephen