Re: wise kids

Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Sun, 23 May 1999 22:37:03 -0700 (PDT)

Jordie:
thanks for the post.  I'll quit nit-picking now.

Oh, one more thing about smart kids.  I think we all know or have known a 
child like Teddy, well, maybe not THAT hip, but you know what I mean.  
Anyway, the cool thing about sharp kids and wise kids is that they are just 
as rare as hip adults.  Like Rumi's poem, "The Many Wines", I've come to the 
conclusion that I need to be careful whose wines I drink.  My life is too 
short to spend on Chardonays or woody merlots when I realize that the White 
Zinfandels are where I am home.  I can't hold race, age, religion, 
sexuality, or any other silly factors stand in my way.  When I see "family", 
I need to recognize them as one of my own and rejoice in finding them.
If you're interested in The Many Wines, I'll post it.  Otherwise, I STRONGLY 
urge you all to seek out Rumi in your nearest library or bookstore.  13th 
Century poet.

Thor

>Hi all, this is interesting.  I haven't read Hapworth, but
>I know about intelligence.  My brother was born a genius,
>though I'm simply average.  I went to the same engineering
>school as my brother did.  I ask for his advice and he'll
>give me more options than I would have thought of at first
>glance.  He says that if they had twice as long to write
>an IQ test, they would surely score in the genius range.
>Things an IQ test will not measure are creativity, memory,
>musical ability, artistic ability and capability of love.
>There is so much more to an individual than intelligence,
>but to define intelligence:  the tool used by all
>individuals to create ideas using logical reasoning and
>comparisons to knowledge.  Intelligent people don't
>necessarily have a harder time adjusting to the suffering
>in life than dumber people, at least not because they can
>accrue so much information at a younger age than most.
>All adjustments are up to the individual, and strength of
>character is ten times the reason why successful people
>and historic icons are so amazing to us.
>
>
>
>
>
>---Thor Cameron <my_colours@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > OK, Camille, you've changed the subject.  You're
>equating wise with smart.
> > The concept was not "are there wise or old souls in some
>children"; the
> > statement was made that a man's small children WERE
>smater than him.
> > I bow to your definition of wisdom and its appropriate
>assignation to
> > certain children, yet I stand by my statement that
>"smart" denotes
> > accumulation of information & ability to use it.  C'mon,
>get real, a child
> > hitting his best frind because HE got the green glass,
>or shoving a bean up
> > his nose, or.... etc.  How "smart" is that?
> > Thor
> >
> >
> > >Thor wrote:
> > > > Be serious.  CAPABLE of being smarter, yes.  CAPABLE
>of learning more,
> > > > faster, yes.  But smarter denotes accumulation of
>information & ability
> > >to
> > > > use it.
> > >
> > >Well, I guess that drives a stake between your opinion
>on intelligence and
> > >mine (and MW's). If intelligence is how many dates of
>famous battles you
> > >can recite off by heart, how many times tables you can
>regurgitate, how
> > >many A's you can get on your report card - then
>obviously the person who
> > >has lived longer has the more information at his or her
>disposal. However,
> > >true wisdom - that is, the state of being Wise (heck,
>`It's a Wise Child'!)
> > >is something that I believe certain people are born
>with, an intangible
> > >which cannot be eroded or changed from birth but just
>covered or uncovered.
> > >I think this is the sort of intelligence Salinger
>intended us to believe
> > >Seymour has - however, the innate difficulty in
>portraying such a hazy
> > >value seems to have led him to plump for a more
>`worldly' wiseness for
> > >Seymour.
> > >
> > >Camille
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> >
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