"It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder about the world."
I agree with what Albert Knox is saying, but i do not agree completely. I agree with Albert Knox because as we grow up, our time is occupied more with things like personal problems, work, sports, etc. that we don't have that much time to wonder about the world. As we grow up, we tend to wonder less since we get educated, which gives us answers lots of questions to things we used to wonder alot about as a child. While we were children we would also believe almost anything adults would tell us and the thirst for knowledge will slowly decrease. Wondering doesnt help much. What if we know about how earth was created? what difference will it make? how will it affect how we are living? As i think about these questions i begin to wonder the whole purpose of wondering. As we grow older, we would think about things like, what would happen after we die? These questions can never be answered properly with facts to back the answer up. which would keep us wondering about life beyond death.
To conclude, people will start to wonder less and less until death approches, then we would wonder once more about the world.
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You mention how children always believe everything that adults say, which is a valid point.
But at what point does a child stop believing what adults say?
In some way, I do agree with what you say. For example, how children almost always believe what adults say. Agreeing with Gary, when do children stop believing?
Also, you state how we get "educated" which answers a lot of our questions. Sure, it can answer why the sea is blue or why do apples fall off of trees, but we were never really answered by anyone the major questions in life. For example, "Why are we here?", "How did we get here?" Sure, we can answer it through science but it all ends up to God created everything. Relating back to the book, in chapter 1, page 7, Sophie wonders if God created everything, how was God created? Again, these questions were never really answered.
And is it true that people don't wonder about the world again until death approaches? What if one day, just like Sophie, we were asked the same questions. Would we not give time to think about the questions and wonder?
As child, i did exactly what you said in your blog - our teachers, parents etc. are who we trust in the most, so therefore, whatever they say must be correct.
However, as we grow older, school and science teach us that stories and what our parents say may not be necessarily true. For example, as a child, our reluctance to finish our veggies would be countered with comments such as 'you'll only see the green colour if you eat vegetables' etc. Now we know that this is not true, but these white lies were only told to prompt us to do whatever our parents had wanted us to do. I think this is the point where we stop trusting everything our parents say.
i agree with that you said about children believeing what adults say, which therefore affects how the child wonders about something. It makes a lot of sense.
I agree with what you said about children believeing what adults say. But what do the children do when they find that something from books, internet etc is completely opposite from what our parents say? Do they stop believeing in parents for the rest of their lifes? Or do they just not ask their parents things anymore?And I agree with Bianca on how education can't answer any of the major questions in life; education can only give us answers where there's evidence to prove the answer right.
Great points Owen! You said that it may not make any difference even if we knew the answer to what we are wondering about, and to a certain extent I think that is quite true. What IF we found out everything we needed to know and wanted to know about the world? Does this mean we will no longer 'wonder' and as Albert Knox suggested- lose the ability to?
But then again, that would probably never happen. Most of our life important questions and questions about life after death will not have an answer, which is also why we DO and WILL always wonder.
i agree with what you mentioned about education and how as you mature, you find more and more of the answers which you always wondered about. This i believe is a strong factor as to why Knox explains that we lose our ability to wonder.
I also like how you mention about as we near the end of life, we re open our ability to wonder because it would be logical for someone to want to know all he/she could about life's mysterys before their life would end.
I also think that u made a good point that childrean will always believe what parents says and also while we have education we would be too stressed to wonder
I agree the whole childrens and adults concept, the childens' thoughts are learnt from the environment, which is what the adults say
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