The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been blind in my mind since the age of three.
Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.
Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wait for them to go to school and hope for the best.
That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.