The Marvelous Plasticity of Childhood

Here is Charles Sanders Peirce delivering a sermon every Christian should hear: "Perfect readiness to assimilate new associations implies perfect readiness to drop old ones. It is the plasticity of childhood...To be a philosopher, or a scientific (person), you must be a little child, with all the simple-mindedness of the child's vision, with all the plasticity of the child's mental habits." From Peirce, Reasoning and the Logic of Things, Lecture Five
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