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Article: Common sense issue is uncommonly confusing
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 12, 1987
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Dear Readers: Can common sense can be learned, or do you have to
be born with it? "Hoping I'm Right" wins a night on the town if you
have to be born with it. I passed the question on to you. The
envelopes have been opened and the answer is, sadly, not clear!
First, those answering,"You have to be born with it":
Dear Diane: Common sense is not common. I know highly
educated people who lack basic common sense. It can't be learned;
it is inborn and improved upon with maturity. You either have it or
don't. DEFINITELY RIGHT
Dear Diane: I think a person is born with common sense. It
is an awareness function one uses, or doesn't use. Like memory, you