arabnews - Food & Health —
As children, we were made to believe that our brains remain static, once they have been programmed and fed information or exposed to the necessary knowledge or language during childhood. Another misconception is that when we are young, our brains are capable of learning and developing, but after a certain age, our mental faculties automatically decline, get wasted and shut down. An old Arabic saying was drilled into my head as a child. It says: “While childhood learning is like engraving on stone, adulthood learning is like writing on sand.” It sounds plausible, because we see older people around us rapidly declining physically and mentally.