Hi, Barb.

--- Barb Jernigan  wrote:

> [Michael, you'll particularly appreciate the Robert Kennedy quote
> WAY down the list.]

Thank'ee kindly.  Scarfed the lot.  Here's one or a couple in
exchange.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I
ever met.
--Abraham Lincoln

First off, older does not necessarily mean wiser.  Neither
knowledge or experience alone -- or together even -- constitute
wisdom.  Wisdom is an entirely separate attribute.  The greater
one's knowledge and experience the greater one's ability to
practice wisdom.  However, the desire to be wise is not
instinctual; it does not just happen.  Wisdom is not a passive
process that kicks in automatically at some point -- definable or
otherwise -- in time.  It is an active growth process which the
subject must initiate and encourage at all times.  And the first
step along the path to wisdom is to acknowledge how little you
yourself actually know.  And that first step cannot be taken by
someone who believes that his or her knowledge is sufficiently
comprehensive to make choices for other people.
--Michael Nellis, 13 Jan 2003, in the essay Prior Restraint and a
Fundamental Disrespect

[...] children are not stupid just because
they are uneducated.  Their minds are similar to dry sponges:
mostly empty, but eager to suck up knowledge and expand.  
--Michael Nellis, 13 Jan 2003, in the essay Prior Restraint and a
Fundamental Disrespect

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Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is 
the loftiest of cowardice. --Holbrook Jackson

>From the Lair of Fang-Face DreamWeaver
and The Encyclopedia Michael Nellis
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/dreamweaver/index.html

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