The meaning of education is to raise students that will one day know as much as their teachers--and in the future, know even more. Not now, of course, as children. But when you have grown older and wiser.
That is the nature of humanity's progress. They would be otherwise doomed to repetition--learning and relearning the same things, again and again. It is no insult to your Doctor Stein--she has learned what her generation is capable of. Your generation will make strides that hers simply cannot. Your generation's children will learn and develop technology and things you could never comprehend. That is how knowledge works.
[Once again, Kid is calm and matter-of-fact, level-headed and simple. He means no insult and he doesn't want to be rude. To him it is simple cause and effect--Kid's analytical mind simply views learning as building blocks. Steps. One generation laying the path for another, and so on.]
Literacy need not be the primary source for learning. For many centuries the bulk of the populace did not read. Finding an alternative or workaround would be beneficial in that it permits you access to works of literature you might otherwise not see, but...
[His rambling tapers off as she presses on, and he can hear the doubt in her tone. Tension crawls into his stomach, and he shifts nervously.]
I...do not believe I understand your question. Incarnate son of Death is a bit...extravagant. My father and I are both quite physical and live in a very real locations. And it is quite important we not meddle--Father constantly reminds me it is not my place to get involved. There is an order to the world that we are not to get involved in.
[INow short, Kid has no concept of Christianity. Kesara's comment alluding to it is meaningless to him. And to directly refer to either him or his father as a god has clearly made him uncomfortable as he stumbles over his reply to her question.]
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That is the nature of humanity's progress. They would be otherwise doomed to repetition--learning and relearning the same things, again and again. It is no insult to your Doctor Stein--she has learned what her generation is capable of. Your generation will make strides that hers simply cannot. Your generation's children will learn and develop technology and things you could never comprehend. That is how knowledge works.
[Once again, Kid is calm and matter-of-fact, level-headed and simple. He means no insult and he doesn't want to be rude. To him it is simple cause and effect--Kid's analytical mind simply views learning as building blocks. Steps. One generation laying the path for another, and so on.]
Literacy need not be the primary source for learning. For many centuries the bulk of the populace did not read. Finding an alternative or workaround would be beneficial in that it permits you access to works of literature you might otherwise not see, but...
[His rambling tapers off as she presses on, and he can hear the doubt in her tone. Tension crawls into his stomach, and he shifts nervously.]
I...do not believe I understand your question. Incarnate son of Death is a bit...extravagant. My father and I are both quite physical and live in a very real locations. And it is quite important we not meddle--Father constantly reminds me it is not my place to get involved. There is an order to the world that we are not to get involved in.
[INow short, Kid has no concept of Christianity. Kesara's comment alluding to it is meaningless to him. And to directly refer to either him or his father as a god has clearly made him uncomfortable as he stumbles over his reply to her question.]