In my opinion, I think that what Albert Knox is trying to say is that when children grow up to be adults, they don't wonder about the world. For example, they won't ask questions like Why are we here? or Why does Earth exist? because they think that they have no need to think of these questions and all they need to care is about themselves and how to survive.
I partially agree with the quote "It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder about the world." because not everyone will lose the ability to wonder. Some people might not wonder about it, but then some people will still have questions that cannot be answered. Even when people are about to die, they would still wonder "Why was I here in the first place?". Just because adults have more things to care about doesn't mean that they lose the ability to wonder. ]
Children have a lot of queries about this world. They would always ask questions even scientists cannot answer. They are all very curious and children have the ability to wonder many different and mysterious things. So I don't think that age matters when people have the ability to wonder about this world, it just comes down to if people bother to think about it or not. Therefore, people don't "lose" their ability to wonder about this world even when they grow up, so i partially agree with Albert Knox's quote.
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In addition to this blog I believe that yes, as we grow up we think of ways to keep us alive and survive for our family. Time is also a major factor why people might’ve stopped to wonder; as we slowly realize how time is limited we lose the ability and will to wonder. However, I do agree with your point of view that even if we’ve grown older our ability of wonder is still there.
I agree with lenox in the fact that as we grow older, we are too busy trying to keep ourselves alive to think about anything else. However, I also believe that this does not mean that we lose our ability to wonder and i agree with your point on that aswell.
With school and work, many people lack the luxury of having time, time to think about questions they always had about the world during their lives.
As I've said in my post the main reason for this has been the introduction of school and the education system.
I agree with you that we dont lose the ability to wonder.
It is absolutely true that we would not 'lose the ability to wonder' because to wonder is very natural to people. Being inquisitive is only normal for anybody. Maybe we would wonder to a different extent than we were kids but that doesn't mean we would lose the ability altogether. As I said, it is all natural, sort of like how me and you were born with the ability to breath automatically. We won't ever be able to lose that ability, so why would we lose the ability to wonder?
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