Tijdens mijn voordracht voor Insites afgelopen week (een schitterend team overigens) hield ik een vurig pleidooi om ons rechterbrein te reactiveren. Uitgerekend kinderen zijn daar zeer goed in.
Na afloop kwam iemand me dit gedicht van Rudyard Kipling brengen. Het vat het perfect samen.
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.
I let them rest from nine till five,
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men.
But different folk have different views;
I know a person small—
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!
She sends’em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes—
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!
The Elephant’s Child
JEAN PHILIP DE TENDER 
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