Introduce the Child to the Clock An office-messenger who was...

Introduce the Child to the Clock An office-messenger who was sent to collect some important papers was asked to come back for them precisely in 20 minutes because of the urgency. When he came back in ten minutes instead. he was asked to return once again in ten minutes. He reappeared much later. He should have been given the exact time. It would have been easy for him to keep a track of it by consulting those who kept a wrist watch.

He never kept one and therefore he had never gained a dependable sense of the pas- sage of time even if it were for a small span of five minutes. When the messenger is idle and anxiously waiting for a due time for an assignment, the…