- B) Note-Making. (4 Marks)
Read the following extract and complete the table given below:
Children are perpetually asking questions. As adults, we are awkward with questions. We link the act ofasking questions to ignorance. It indicates that we do not know; hence we may look stupid when asking questions.
Children have no shame, whereas adults sufferfrom layers and layers ofshame.
Because children have no shame, they are more capable offailing at something and moving on from it. Our sense ofshame makes us inhibited. So we do not try new things at work..
Children quickly make friends with strangers. Put two small kids alongside a few toys and they will start playing before they care to know about each other's antecedents. As adults, we seek the false comfort to known relationships before we agree to play with each other.
Children freely express their emotions; adults learn to suppress their emotional side. We come to the workplace and are frequently counselled. "Do not get emotional."
Children play. They find play in everything. Adults shun play and consider it the oppoiste of " serious work." To a child, every act is an act of play.
Traits Delinking Childhood andAdulthood:
