READING PRACTICE : GETTING OTHER PEOPLE OPINION AND IDEAS

When I was a child there were some people whose ideas I respected. My Uncle John, I thought, knew everything about the world. He had traveled and seen all there was to see. I believed anything he told me about places like Japan, Australia, and Brazil. When I wanted to know anything about baseball I asked our neighbor, Mr. Fulton; there wasn’t anything he didn’t know about that game. My teacher, miss Ellis, was an expert on nature and I always believed all of the things she told our class about plants and animal.
When I was sixteen years old I got the idea that my parents, while they were very nice people and I loved them, really didn’t know very much. I, of course, knew everything. Then when I was eighteen, I realized my mother and father had learned a lot in just two years. I now respected their opinions on different subjects. It took two years of growing up for me to realize that they had had these opinion on every subject. Others have none. The best kind is the person who studies the subject before giving an answer to the question,”What do you think ?”