I was at a restaurant with my family some time ago, and I had a weird insight. We were sitting at our table, and I looked over at the empty table across the way. There were four chairs on the far side of the table. Three of them had straight, vertical rails for the backrest, but one had two vertical rails, and they curved to create a loop near the top.
For some odd reason, I thought about those old tests I used to take in school where you're given several items, but one of them has something different, and the question is: "Which one does not belong?"
The figurative lightbulb went off over my head when I wondered why the question was phrased in such a manner. It wasn't asking which was unique, special, or had something the others lacked. The question specifically drew the conclusion that what was different didn't belong in the group. Have we been unknowing teaching kids in schools to reject things that are different?
I think it's time we rephrased the question.
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