Do we really loose the "ability to wonder" as we grow up or do we just forget about it for a long period of time until we can find the ability again? I have asked this question several time as I have been reading this book. In Sophies's world Sophie's philosophy teacher Albert Knox talks about how we loose the ability to wonder. I actually disagree to his words. In my opinion we do not loose the ability to wonder but instead forget about it for long long time. This is because as we grow up we tend to learn more and more things and once and have the academic work which doesn't give time to wonder about the world. If we try to even wonder and talk about the world like Sophie talked to her mom, our parents will react just like Sophie's mom.
One of Knox's example of child seeing his dad flying and his mom in shock with medical attention needed. In my opinion this doesn't make his mother having no ability to wonder but approaching wonder in a different way. She could have wondered how on earth did my husband get to fly and matching this up with the scientific explanation but in other hand her son Tomas could have been wondering his dad could be a super hero and look at him with astonishment. Tomas is still young so he didn't learn that human cannot fly unless with gadgets but for his mom she had learned that long time ago and wonder in a different way how her husband can fly.
"crawl deep in to rabbit's fur" this quote which I really don't get it but I will say something in my point of view. What Knox said how we tend to "crawl deep in to rabbit's fur" as we get mature and "stay there for the rest of their lives" which in my point of view is wrong. What I think is that we do crawl deep in to rabbit's fur but we don't stay there for rest of our lives but instead crawl back out as we get older. As we get older like our grandma and grandpa we do wonder more and more since you have lots of time to rest. They especially wonder what is death and why are we living, what is this world and how are we living. This shows how we don't loose the ability to wonder but forget wondering until you are ready to wonder again.
In conclusion I Sean Seo disagree to Albert Knox's philosophical teaching of "loosing ability to wonder".
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I completely agree with you when you stated that we crawl back out when we get older to wonder about life. Old age comes with a lot of free time and so the mind has a lot more time to wonder about various things especially about life when one is coming close to death. However, I think that an elderly who would think about life when close to death only reflects how they spent their lives being ignorant towards things beyond the materialistic world and wasted their ability to wonder.
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