The Nature of Good & Evil...

From the Mouths of Babes

Two young boys at a Montessori school were involved in a serious discussion about whether "bad guys" existed or not.

In Montessori teaching, they don't let the young children play bad guy/good guy at school, or emulate superheroes or play with guns.

One of the boys insisted to the other that "bad guys did NOT exist!"

The other boy was saying "they DID exist," very adamantly.

The boy who believed in bad guys turned around and said to his teacher, "Bad guys do exist. My dad told me."

The teacher responded, "what did he tell you?"

"Well," he answered, "my dad said a person stole money from a bank and he was a BAD GUY!"

By this time the whole room was listening intently. Their teacher was conflicted: will I admit that bad guys exist or not? she thought.

"Are bad guys real?" the disbelieving little boy asked.

The teacher answered, "I think sometimes there are people who make bad decisions, or bad actions, or bad choices... but that does not necessarily make them a BAD GUY... it means they made a very bad choice..."

Ellie, a three-and-a-half year old girl who was listening jumped up: "Yes! Like George Bush!"


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