Recently I was watching The Colbert Report and one of his guests mentioned the fact that he didn't teach his kids all the rules that you need to follow, but he taught them the framework under which those rules exist. For instance, you teach the child that warm wet things (like tongues) have a tendency of sticking to very cold things like metal. You don't itemize the complete list of metal objects like: mail boxes, soccer posts, cars, lamp posts, bus stop posts, fire hydrants, handrails, flag poles, bike racks, chain link fences, etc. You teach them the framework and they get to interpret each circumstance on their own. Darwinism at it's finest.
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