"To suffer fools gladly" is an interesting way to put it, but it crystalizes what I've observed about the missing piece of understanding in how "smart-ass" chil

"To suffer fools gladly" is an interesting way to put it, but it crystalizes what I've observed about the missing piece of understanding in how "smart-ass" children behave. It's hard to blame the kid for not knowing how to maturely handle actually being right when the adult/teacher is wrong and being punished for it, because we expect the process of growing up to teach that. But when does the kid actually get taught that? By the time they're in middle school (I have one specific kid in mind who I observed as a math coach), everyone else just hates them for being that annoying kid nobody likes.