"It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder about the world." Angela Kim

This is a very motivating question where Albert Knox informs us that the ability to question about the world decreases as we grow due to age and i agree with this question as teenagers now aren't that fascinated about the things they have wondered like they did when they were young. This might be because in our everday life, we are recieving lots of informations and are learning more than we did when we are young. When we were young we aren't familar of the world and everything is new so we ask ourselves many questions and wonder more than we are now. For example, we all wonder why it snows during winter only and not summer, but now we learn more and have scientific evidence so we stop quesitoning ourselves and just admit the fact which makes us stop wondering.

In the book it tells that 'babies have this faculty but as they grow up it just appears to be diminish'. If a newborn baby could talk then it would say something like what an extraordinary world it had come into but they don't so this makes them wonder. Looking back at page 17 it shows us about a boy named thomas pointing up at his father saying 'Daddy's flying', thomas is very suprised by it but doesn't know if humans could fly but now contrasting it when the mum see's it, 'how do you think she reacts to the sight of Dad floating over the kitchen table?', she drops the jam jar on to the floor and this is because she understands that the dad can not fly. This is the reason why Thomas and his mother react so differently.

Also when we are young, when magicians do magic we wonder how he does them and think magic as real. However as we grow up we would understand that magic is not real at all and all magic is about tricks. This is likely that the next time you see magicians do magic, you would not wonder how he did it as the question you always wondered have been answered, he has done a trick. Like the example above, these are why we lose ability to wonder when we grow as we know the world better now than we are young and we are not curious anymore. Also there might be somethings that disturbs us from wondering.

Overall i agree with Albert Knox that we lose ability of the world due to age as we get a better understanding of the world because in our everyday life, people and other resources provide us with information but this doesn't mean that we do not wonder, teenagers still wonder about things they want to know and thats why we are still learning new things that have not been answered yet. We still investigate about the world but not much as we used to when we were young so this is why we don't wonder usually and it will decrease when we get older.