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That seems like a geek fantasy to me. Just because you like to learn, it does not mean other people are like you. Through my school years, I never saw evidence

by TriinT 17y ago

That seems like a geek fantasy to me. Just because you like to learn, it does not mean other people are like you. Through my school years, I never saw evidence to back the claim that most kids like to learn. Maybe in early grade school when kids want to know why stars twinkle, why the sky is blue, and where babies come from. After a certain age, their curiosity dies. That may be sad, but let's face it: the world also need doers, not just thinkers. For each, his own.

dgordon 17y ago
"After a certain age, their curiosity dies." Dies, or is killed?
- TriinT 17y ago
  Being curious is easy. Acting on it is harder. You may wonder why the world is the way it is, but then you realize that reading about it takes a lot of time and effort. Most people are lazy. It happens that school is a great curiosity-killer, but people kill their own curiosity as well as soon as they discover that the answers to their endless questions affect their daily lives very little.
jamesbritt 17y ago
"That seems like a geek fantasy to me. Just because you like to learn, it does not mean other people are like you." Sure. I never claimed that. I'm basing this on experience with people I knew growing up (some of whom were geeky, most not), plus the children of friends and family. Kids want to learn to play guitar, hot-wire cars, assemble weapons, throw strike-outs, pick up girls (or boys), pick locks, cheat on tests, tape up their hockey sticks; the list is near endless. It may be that, once they became adults, that passion fades (or, more likely, gets stifled), but that's a different matter. My experience is that, up until people enter the workforce, they are generally interested in learning about things of value in their world. "That may be sad, but let's face it: the world also need doers, not just thinkers" Doing without thinking is a nightmare. If you find someone doing that, slap them. (So to speak.)

by TriinT 17y ago

dgordon 17y ago

"After a certain age, their curiosity dies." Dies, or is killed?

TriinT 17y ago
Being curious is easy. Acting on it is harder. You may wonder why the world is the way it is, but then you realize that reading about it takes a lot of time and effort. Most people are lazy. It happens that school is a great curiosity-killer, but people kill their own curiosity as well as soon as they discover that the answers to their endless questions affect their daily lives very little.

jamesbritt 17y ago

"That seems like a geek fantasy to me. Just because you like to learn, it does not mean other people are like you." Sure. I never claimed that. I'm basing this on experience with people I knew growing up (some of whom were geeky, most not), plus the children of friends and family. Kids want to learn to play guitar, hot-wire cars, assemble weapons, throw strike-outs, pick up girls (or boys), pick locks, cheat on tests, tape up their hockey sticks; the list is near endless. It may be that, once they became adults, that passion fades (or, more likely, gets stifled), but that's a different matter. My experience is that, up until people enter the workforce, they are generally interested in learning about things of value in their world. "That may be sad, but let's face it: the world also need doers, not just thinkers" Doing without thinking is a nightmare. If you find someone doing that, slap them. (So to speak.)