How do they know that?
We had a friend to stay recently. As we were cooking together in the kitchen, D (13) and E (11) were chatting with us. The conversation was wide ranging, and encompassed gun control in the US, whether Fidel Castro was a 'good dictator', best voting systems, and favourite Roman emperors. Their reasoning was sound and often backed up by interesting data and anecdotes. As always, they ran circles around me. But how do they know all of this? my friend asked me. Well I don't reall