virus: remove from list
Francis Ciarrocchi (metrosection@hotmail.com)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:41:03 PDT
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>hey,
>
>Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> But as a species who're not just
>> intelligent, but also highly social, we have
>> evolved safer ways of handling such situations,
>> and we tell kids what to do, instead of letting
>> them find out for themselves. Not only that,
>
>I would change that to read "as well as LETTING the find out for
>themselves, if that is what they want". Not too many kids, I'd bet,
would
>actually go running out into the street to get themselves run over
after
>you've told them about what could happen.
>
>> but we tell them at an earlier age than that at
>> which they're capable of comprehending things
>> like inertia and relative velocities, simply
>> because we're realistic about the ages at
>> which they become so capable, and at which
>> they're likely to be around traffic, recogising
>> that the latter is likely to be somewhat less
>> than the former.
>
>Again, I don't see why, if the child asks, you shouldn't provide as
much
>information about the situation as they want. If the child of 5 wants
to
>know WHY cars hurt, I'm quite sure I could convey to them concepts like
>inertia, force, acceleration, etc. without much trouble. They really
are
>all intuitive things anyhow. Of course, it's not really likely that
the
>child will be that interested.
>
>ERiC
>
>
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