"The soul of a child, as it reaches out toward understanding, has need of the treasures accumulated by the human species through the centuries. We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of the purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical [secular] education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up these treasures and those of Christianity as well." Simone Weil

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Smart or Social

A MomsLikeMe poll asked moms if they would rather have a smart child or a social child that was good with people. Many moms weighed in and said the would like to have a smart child. Many others said that it didn't matter if they were smart or not, that if they couldn't manage to navigate the social world the would never get to use their intellect and would be lonely and sad adults.

I asked my son, who was in the room, what he thought. His response was that he would like to be smart, of course, and that if he was, he would be smart in all areas in life including how to deal with people.

Sounds pretty smart to me, and I think he communicated his thoughts quite well.
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