h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Basking in the light of a child's admiration.
I was playing solitaire on the computer...
After some time, the game just flows naturally, sometimes swiftly...

My six year old niece steps in and watches the cards moving across the screen...
"My, how you're intelligent," she says, and leaves the room. She still is struggling
to learn how to order numbers and do simple sums and subtractions and such. She and
her sister were very good at understanding the principles of math when they were much
smaller -- but schools tend to do away with that.

Problem with some teachers is the "I know so much more than you do -- or can -- or will
ever be able to learn."

I still have to explain my 'solitaire' proficiency to my niece. And tell her she
must learn how to 'build' her own universe. Of course we must learn from others - but
it's so much important to learn how to observe and do things on our own