This reminds me of a lesson that I learned, I’m embarrassed to admit, from Tom Brown Jr. (who later threw me out of his school for trying to verify his autobiographical claims).
If you’re walking through the woods with a child, and they’re interested in all the different plants that they see, they’ll ask you what each one is. And, often, they lose interest in each plant after you tell them its name. They still don’t know anything about the plant, but they think they do, and it’s no longer mysterious and exciting to them.
This is the fault of the child, not the fault of the person who gave the plant its name.
This reminds me of a lesson that I learned, I’m embarrassed to admit, from Tom Brown Jr. (who later threw me out of his school for trying to verify his autobiographical claims).
If you’re walking through the woods with a child, and they’re interested in all the different plants that they see, they’ll ask you what each one is. And, often, they lose interest in each plant after you tell them its name. They still don’t know anything about the plant, but they think they do, and it’s no longer mysterious and exciting to them.
This is the fault of the child, not the fault of the person who gave the plant its name.