Showing posts with label precociousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label precociousness. Show all posts

15 Dec 2012

A Short Meditation on an Old School Photograph


An old b&w photograph of two little boys, one of whom has said to the other: 'Pretend to be reading and we'll look clever.'

Could it be then that intellectualism is just a pose?

Well, yes. But to realise that as a five -year-old is pretty smart.

As for the third young boy, completely oblivious to the presence of the photographer - and the two girls at the back of the class - who's to say they're not happy and their parents weren't right to love them?