Since computer simulation of just about anything is now possible, one need not learn about a frog by dissecting it. Instead, children can be asked to design frogs, to build an animal with froglike behavior, to modify that behavior, to simulate the muscles, to play with the frog. Street Smarts on the Superhighway Think back to your best teachers. If you are a teacher, think of your best students. Passion expresses itself in many forms of excitement and curiosity, it is frequently playful, and it is always consuming.
Passion is OK in sports, even wanton abandon.
But not in intellectual activities. In some countries children are still to be seen, not heard. On the Internet, by contrast, a child's voice knows no boundary. And nobody can surely identify children there. I expect that number to drop to 15 by the year 2000.