“One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing” - Socrates

In my opinion, Albert Knox is trying to emphasize that when we grow up we do not perceive things the way we would when we were young. In other words when we grow up we take things for granted. What is there shall remain there and nothing that is not usually seen or not proven to be real should appear. As stated in the book, when little Thomas’ reaction differs from his mom's, it shows that as we grow older we have already made a world of our own. Our own world of what is correct and what is incorrect. For example, the things that we learnt through school of what is provable and what exists will remain there. So when something out of the ordinary happens we will be at shock.

Therefore as time passes these limits our ability to wonder what other miraculous things could be happening in the world we live in. But we are too use to the world as it is. We perhaps want to stay in this safe zone or area where everything is still, calm, and what we would address to as a “peaceful” place or world.

No, I would choose to not agree with Albert Knox. A philosopher discussed about in the book Socrates, said “One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.” As an adult it proves that he had not yet lost the ability to wonder about things in the world. He is keen on learning more fascinating things that has not even been proven. The fact that he lived over 2000 years ago where technology was not invented showed us that he had a mind that is able to wonder and he was an adult , therefore this contradicts Albert Knox's theory.

During the process of growing up we tend to learn a lot. We learn how to communicate with people, learn, write, read… and much more. By learning about what society perceive to be correct or incorrect we would be tied to a restricted area, a limit that prevents us from wondering about the world. For example if that we learnt that war is bad. But if we were brought up in a place where resources was scarce and that without war we would not have obtained food, and we would have been starved to death, at that time would we still say war is bad or wrong? Because we were told what we should and should not do, or what is correct or incorrect in our society, we have been restricted by what we can wonder about. We would not wonder if a superhero will appear and save the world because this just cannot exist …etc.

Basically I believe that our ability to wonder about the world differ between people. Because what they learnt through the society is different. Some would think that we were brought up with a reason, a reason to survive and would consider it pointless to wonder about things such as why were born on earth...etc., as it is a waste of time. But there are exceptions, as mentioned in the book, Sophie and lots of other people in this world.

I also think that those that were inspired in anyway to wonder about the world would not easily lose this ability and I consider those who become materialistic will lose their ability to wonder, because what they are demanding and seeking for is not what wondering about the world can bring.