Dr. Ellen Langer
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I put my hand next to it.
His hand is three inches bigger than mine.
And then I ask a simple question.
Should we be doing anything the same way?
Anything physical?
It seems silly, right?
And so it is with everything else, you know, that people, who are the people who decided these are the things we should know, these are the ways we should know it.
You know, it gets to the point where imagine you're in school and you're asked the question, how much is one plus one?
And little Johnny says one.
What's going to happen?
In today's schools... The teacher is going to say, no, that's not right.
Exactly.
And the child is going to be looked down on by all the other kids.
Ha ha.
And then grows up feeling less than.
And sometimes less than is because you actually know more than rather than less than.
Interesting.
It's interesting that when we're putting people down...
And talk about three levels here.
So let's imagine we have a little kid who's uninhibited.