Getting Other People's Opinions And Ideas

When I was a child, there are some people whose ideas I respected. My Uncle
John, I thought, knew everything about the world; he had travelled and seen all there was to see. I believed anything he told me about places like Japan, Australia, and
Brazil. When I wanted to know anything about baseball I asked our neighbor, Mr.
Fulton; there wasn’t anything he he didn’t know about that game. My teacher, Miss
Ellis, was an expert on nature and I always believed all of the things she told our class
on plants and animals.
When I was sixteen years old I got the idea that my parents, while there were very nice people and I loved them, really didn’t know very much, of course, knew
everything.Then, when I was eighteen, I realized my mother and my father had
learned a lot in just two years. I now respected their opinions on different subjects. It took two years of growing up for me to realize that they had had these opinions and
ideas all the time.
Some people have an opinion on every subject, others have none. The best kind
is the person who studies the subject before giving an answer to the question, “What
do you think?”