 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
This impulse (Children's thirst for knowledge ) grows weaker with advancing years, until at last what is unfamiliar inspires only disgust, with no desire for a closer acquaintance. This is the stage at which people announce that the country is going to the dogs, and that 'things are not what they were in my young days'.
Source: Bertrand Russell: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, chap. 2 The Aims of Education
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However, adults will have fewer objects (quantity) to be curious about, but it is possible to increase ‘quality’. It is ‘only possible’, but there is hope (laughs).
In addition, when we asked ChatGPT why it is likened to ‘dogs’ as in ‘going to the dogs’, we received the following answer.
ChatGPT's answer: ‘Dogs are much-loved pets today, but in the past they were often wild dogs and were seen as scavengers of rubbish and waste. The expression ‘to the dogs’ suggests the image of something no longer useful or abandoned falling into the hands of wild dogs.’
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