Venus De Milo, Leopard, And The Thinker, By William Golding

Human beings are gifted with one thing that no other creature in this universe is: the ability to think. Thinking is one of the best things we as humans get to experience and share. That being said, I never grokked the concept of thought; how it held so many layers beneath its surface. Through reading different articles about it and its similar concepts, my thought about thought—no pun intended of course— has become more complex, to say the least.
Throughout our course of life, the way we think changes as we go through different points in our lives. This was briefly explained by William Golding in his article, The Way of Thinking. He smartly classified people based on their way of thinking and embodied the three groups in the statuettes found in his headmaster’s office—Venus De Milo, Leopard, and The Thinker. The first statuette embodied those who do not question; third-grade thinkers as he likes to call them. Stampede in nature, these are the ones that haven’t really understood their core beliefs evidently making them contradict their own beliefs. The second statuette embodied those who question. They—second-grade thinkers—offer a contradiction. The major problem with this group is they question everything which might lead to destruction than creation.
The same goes for Isaac Asimov in his article, What is Intelligence, Anyway? He wrote about how being book smart doesn’t necessarily mean you are smart in all. In this article, Isaac talks about his mechanic and how he challenged him with a very easy but yet tricky question. The mechanic said being too educated can strip you out of your natural instincts and thinking abilities given to you as a human. It can decrease your flexibility in logical aspects of day to day life. One quality of his I admired was, though he thought highly of himself, he was humble enough to admit that he wasn’t good at