Elderism #97

December 11th, 2010

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

Albert Einstein.

I wholeheartedly agree. At age 16, desperate to be liked by my peers, I was a bit of a goer, and managed to get myself kicked out of the boarding school, Hotchkiss, for party animalism. It took only a year or two more of maturation for me to crystallize many of my prejudices.