Learning from children
Zach Plair’s column (“Nature versus nurture,” Aug. 4) was dead on. As Tom T. Hall wrote, “God bless little children while they’re still too young to hate.”
Children learn everything from their parents, older siblings, and peers. Erasing all “isms” will probably never happen, but that doesn’t mean we should try.
Somebody, somehow, in pre-historic times, probably started many “isms.” It is human’s folly to elevate oneself above others of a different skin color, religion, height, gender, or whatever else.
We adults can learn a lot from the little children, if only we will.
Cameron Triplett
Brooksville
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