It's a basic learning step...
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It's a basic learning step, to discern larger from smaller, more from less. Children don't learn this until they are three or four, and until the brain is ready, we cannot learn it, no matter how skilled the teacher may be.
Another step is to learn that size does not equal value. Offer a small child two dimes or a nickel, and the child not ready for this understanding will choose the nickel, because it's bigger! Offer that same child two pennies for the nickel, and he's liable to make the trade, because the pennies and the nickel are about the same size, and he figures he's getting more in the two coins than the one
Numerous sociological studies indicate that in choosing leaders, we all tend to choose those who are taller, larger and with deeper voices. It seems a hard lesson to learn that size really is not a good indicator of the most powerful, or "the best" to choose.
Another step is to learn that size does not equal value. Offer a small child two dimes or a nickel, and the child not ready for this understanding will choose the nickel, because it's bigger! Offer that same child two pennies for the nickel, and he's liable to make the trade, because the pennies and the nickel are about the same size, and he figures he's getting more in the two coins than the one
Numerous sociological studies indicate that in choosing leaders, we all tend to choose those who are taller, larger and with deeper voices. It seems a hard lesson to learn that size really is not a good indicator of the most powerful, or "the best" to choose.
