Children should be seen and not heard because they lack education-based knowledge, experience-based understanding, and maturity-based wisdom. Slothful Christians who don't know the Bible should likewise keep their ignorant, opinionated, tradition-bound, and boringly-predictable mouths shut. Or, as Jean de la Bruyere said: “It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to remain silent.” |