A favorite question of mine, posed usually to my two children, who are at various stages of dipping their toes into that great ocean of education. Their intellectual fires have been kindled. It's my job to fan the flames.
"What did you learn today?" contains all the necessary ingredients to instilling in a young child a love for discovery. Encouragement, praise, interest. It's all there. And the answers given to me never fail to disappoint.
But.
The tables were turned recently when my children posed that question to me. "What did you learn today, Daddy?"
What to say? That I didn't learn anything? That at a certain age a person tends to feel they know too much and have neither the time nor the inclination to know more? That despite what I've told them, ignorance most definately is bliss?
No.
I can't expect more from my children than I do from myself.
Surely there is something to learn each day. Some new truth, however small. All you need is a little effort, a little time, and a lot of attention.
6 comments:
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Congratulations. Blessings
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