¶ Genius: Children Are Born Geniuses (1)
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Genius: Children Are Born Geniuses:
"All children are born geniuses. Out of every 1,000 some 999 are swiftly and inadvertently degeniused by the grown-ups. Because millions of human beings in all the years of their history have always been born naked, helpless, and though superbly equipped cerebrally, utterly lacking in experience, ergo utterly ignorant. Their delicate sensing equipment is as yet untried.
"Born with built-in hunger, thirst, curiosity, and procreative urge, they could only learn what humanity has earned by trial and error–by billions upon billions of errors. Lest humanity be utterly dismayed by these errors, humans were also endowed with easily self-deceiving pride by all those witnessing their errors–proclaimed to themselves and others that they (the witnesses) knew the answers all the time. Motivated entirely by love, but also by fear for the future of the children they love, parents in their ignorance act as though they know all the answers and curtail the spontaneous exploratory acts of the genius of their children.
“Genius does its own thinking-- has confidence in its own exploratory finding, has confidence in its own intuitions.”
¶ Citations
- RBF draft preface for Mrs. John S. Lillard, Lake Forest,
