Wonder

The most important thing in education is missing from education. The truth of this can be seen in fact that it is missing from almost all of us. This thing is, wonder.

Someone might think I am speaking dreams. For there is a similarity, in as much as dreams can be lost at some point between childhood and manhood. Some young boy or young girl might have a dream, but somewhere along the way to becoming a man or woman, their respective dream is lost by the person. There are plenty of books, plays, music, and movies about the loss of a dream, the holding on to a dream, the regaining of dream, the fulilling of a dream, etc. But this is not of which I speak. Dreams are about what someone wants to do. Wonder is about someone wanting to know.

Every child, it must be admitted, is born with it. Somewhere along way it is squelched. Wonder is the beginning, for wonder is in its nature a cause of a desire to enquire, and ultimatley to know.

Why is it, how is it, and when is it taken away from us?

Does it exist?

What is it?

How can we stop taking it away, having it taken away, and losing it? Also, for those of us that have lost it, how can we get it back?

I want to know.