Article June 22, 1968 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Walter Harrison

From an editorial in the Evening Echo
Bournemouth, Hampshire, England

How far are we wasting our talent by the arbitrary and artificial method of ticking off our years and assessing our abilities by numbers? Well, certainly there is evidence that we are somewhat obsessional about the figures we attach to our progress through life.

Not long after we learn that one and one makes two we are boasting to six-year-olds that we are seven. Later on, of course, the attitude reverses and we cling, grimly in some cases, to our thirties.

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