![]() We sat around in a rectangular arrangement in the room so that everyone could see everyone’s face. At the time I was about the same age as his mom. Her babysitter was not able to be with her son that night. Well I entered the room and he was sitting in a desk next to his mom and was looking in a book and later was coloring in coloring books. One night a young mother brought her son (age 7) to class at the college where I was teaching an evening class. We are rewarded for our acceptance and conformity to what is accepted by most people, for our adoption of whatever is popular. Unfortunately as a lot of us grow older we stop wondering and stop questioning and stop attempting to look at things in new ways or non-traditional ways. ![]() ![]() Wonder is some thing children do quite well. Queensborough Community College, City University of New YorkĪristotle thought that Philosophy begins in wonder. Busts of Sokrates, Antisthenes, Chrysippos, Epikouros / Photo by Matt Neale, Wikimedia Commons
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