Re: "Rage to Master" from Dr. Winner

From: Aaron Swartz (aswartz@swartzfam.com)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 08:54:13 PST


kragen@pobox.com <kragen@pobox.com> wrote:

> Similarly, it's easier for an average adult to imagine that young
> Kragen (or Aaron Swartz, or Albert Sittler, or any of a number of
> other kids I could name) is really an adult mind that has somehow
> transmigrated into a child's body than to really understand the person
> before them.
>
> Gifted children no more have "adult minds" than adult dwarfs have
> "children's bodies".

I can't resist responding! Perhaps it's not that some children are "gifted",
but that the trivial busywork and nonsense of school and society destroy
most other children.

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[ Aaron Swartz | me@aaronsw.com | http://www.aaronsw.com ]



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