In talking to one of my colleagues about how wonderful children are in learning, discovering and not having to worry about the "cost" of trying different things and how we (grown-ups) can never even hope to be like them again, Kahlil Gibran's "Prophet" came up. http://www.katsandogz.com/onchildren.html
>From the chapter on Children: "You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday." Enjoy! Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
