Re: Smart kids, (was Hapworth)
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 24 May 1999 20:31:41 +1000
Thor 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";
Be that as it may I think that is the *real* subject here (if we want to be
pedantic and link it back to Salinger). Nevertheless I think that the two
aren't as mutually exclusive as you make out. I *do* think that Smart is
merely a dream marriage of Intelligent and Wise. Or perhaps I'm thinking of
Genius. No, let's not go *that* far (:
> 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?
A lot smarter than we're willing to admit, I believe. I used to teach drama
to children, whereupon I discovered how unencumbered small children are by
the hangups that so greatly hinder adults in expressing themselves - and
given that expressing ourselves is a fundamental part of being human we're
breeding an awful lot of emotional cripples, it seems. Hey, a lot of the
time I think we'd *all* be a lot better off if we hit our best friends for
getting the green glass. Or, to put it another way - better than bombing
foreign countries when our wives and nations find out about our
girlfriends.
Camille
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