Way, way, way back in 1985 - a good year for me by the way - I made up the following thesis:
If you educate someone, you'll get dumber yourself!
It means that when sharing a piece of your information with someone, the average wisdom in the world grows - while yours stays the same. Simple. The meaning of this post was not to brag about ancient wisdom I used to possess, but the following news I read today game me the reason to use my anthiques, LOL!
According to an article I just read, physical violence against children makes them dumber. Their IQ can reduce even by 5 points. That's much. Hell, I could have been a colleague of Mogli with those points, LOL! Or his boss.
Well, back to the thesis. Now it can be moulded into this form:
If you punish your child physically, you'll get smarter!
The same logic: while your child gets dumber and thus lowers the average wisdom in the world, yours stays the same. Sad but true. Personally I think that people who see violence as a solution, are stupid, but maybe I have been wrong all along?
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That is probably why many teachers like to physically punish their pupils to even out. I should perhaps start spanking my students,,,but since I'm teaching in the university level and most of my students are of the opposite sex, I am afraid I'll be charged of sexual harassment. well, i think i'll just drink more beer to get smarter. there's a theory that survival of the fittest is also happening in the brain so the stupidest brain cells got to die first when consuming alcohol. LOL!
ReplyDeleteA good one! Although beer is quite mild a way to proceed with it. If you get caught with the spanking, you can always say: "I thought the 80's were back". Your outfit certainly would support your statement :)
ReplyDeleteBTW, have you already changed Bush to Obama in your Darwin slideshow? He with his 'jackass' offline comments is really catching up, LOL!