Can Common Sense be Taught?

Blog #2: I've given this a lot of thought. Now I'm wondering: Can Common Sense be taught? I mean, are you just born with it, or is it cultivated through interactions with a very away (full of common sense) individual? Can it be taught in school? Can it be found in a book? Or does reading certain types of books give one Commhthton Sense? All good questions. Well, I've come to a few conclusions of my own in my endeavor to understand the veyr personality of Common Sense. I've concluded that: Yes, to a certain extent, Common Sense CAN be taught! That's good news.It means one does not have to go through their entire life being a dolt. Feeling left out, or just standing there with no conept of what the world around them is doing (MY definition of having no common sense). You can learn it! Some of it, anyhow. When you associate with a person (be it a parent or teacher) who has common sense, if they explain each step when you are confused, you are building "memory muscle." Memory muscle is when you do a thing repetitively until it becomes natural or instinctual to you. That can happen with physical muscles - such as when you drive a car. Driving for a long time will lead to you no longer have to remember, or think about using your mirrors, you stepping on the brake before you need to stop. It becomes part of "remembered" muscle actions. You have strenthened that muscle from memory and it just does it automatically. I believe, your brain being one of the largest muscles in your body, can be "programmed" to remember things as well. Training THAT muscle to automatically do certain things in certain instances is what leads to automatically knowing what to do, or - "using Common Sense." Again, let us think about some behaviors that memory muscle or Common Sense, will build up in you. For instance, most of us know NOT to touch a hot stove. A small child doesn't understand or comprehend that the stove is hot and that means it will burn, create pain and possibly scars or worse. Learning to stay far away from a hot surface can be called learning common sense. That was an easy one! There are others, some easier than others. Another example: knowing to move away from a busy street or not dash into a street in front of motor vehicle. "But that sounds like something you will learn from your parents," you say. I agree. The problem is, many (maybe most?) parents today to not teach these survival skills to their children. Why? I'm not sure, but when I see parents - with small children taggin along behind - looking into their phone screen while walking through a crowded parking lot, I get the feeling those parents are not particularly interested in spending time teaching their children something as "sensible" as looking out for cars. The cars are supposed to look out for THEM, dontchasee?? It's commonsense to be afraid of being hit by a moving vehicle. But if the parent has no sense of the danger, how then will the child learn? My guess it, they won't! It'll be a life lesson missed, and an opportunity to have some common sense avoided. Why would a parent act that way toward their child? You may ask. I hesitate to step into that realm, because - in all honesty - I don't want to jump down that particular rabbit hole as I have very strong opinions on why that happens. No, let's just stick to the current topic: Common Sense ( or UNcommon sense - since that's what most people have) or what most people are lacking. So, in conclusion for today, I will leave you with my final opinion on the subject of whether it can be taught....I believe it is taught, to some extent. And when parents are interested in making their children well-rounded and intelligent, they guide them and give them lessons which can be called "Common Sense." If they do not, I wonder why they even bother having the little ones around. But, again, that is definitely a topic for another post. Words to thinhk on. Good-bye for now!