Sunday 24 July 2011

The radiant intelligence of the child

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“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”   Sigmund Freud. 




Not all children. He met only the children of intelligent parents. Some children are dull little people alas though at puberty the dull ones get infinitely worse. Still on the whole he is right. Children ask searching questions which is a good definition of intelligence.


But thank God I am no longer surrounded by 17 year-olds as I was at 17.

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