Sorting Through the Clutter
If you somehow were able to unearth my diary amidst the clutter of my room, then you would probably find something like this...
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Sorting Through the Clutter If you somehow were able to unearth my diary amidst the clutter of my room, then you would probably find something like this... |
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Saturday, August 26, 2006 It's a really uncomfortable feeling when something you've been taught as true since childhood becomes false. Perhaps I'm using the wrong word. I don't necessarily mean 'false', but maybe 'not so true'. I guess what I'm trying to say is that things you learn during childhood (especially in school) are things that you deem as absolute. Things like the multiplication table, the colours of a rainbow, the solar system. But when a bunch of people meet in Prague and change the definition of a planet and you find out that Pluto no longer counts, it just makes your whole world a little more shaky and uncertain, and well...just not so absolute. It never occured to me that what we learn as a child, we take as truth without question. It is not until high school or university, we are taught to question what we learn. We learn to debate philosophical truths and we want proof of scientific laws. It makes sense in retrospect, because as a child, we lack the logic and capacity to question what we learn. So shouldn't what we learn in elementary school be absolute? I remember the first time a crack appeared in my absolute childhood truths: "What do you mean we have THREE territories in Canada?! There are only TWO: Yukon and Northwest. We learned that in grade 5 Geography class. What the heck is Nunavut?!" Or what about when I learned that there's no such thing as a Brontosaurus? The gentle giant of a herbivore is actually called an Apatosaurus. Should I throw out all my childhood artwork of the giant dinoasaur with the proud caption of "BRONTOSAURUS" in capital letters. (Well, if I HAD actually kept my childhood artwork). Eight planets?! What is this world coming to? Actually, what is this solar system coming to? Makes me want to question everything I learned as a child. Labels: Ranting and Raving posted by Jenn | 10:48 AM | |
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