Many children are so crammed with everything that they really know
nothing.
In proof of this, read these veritable specimens of definitions, written
by public school children:
"Stability is taking care of a stable."
"A mosquito is the child of black and white parents."
"Tocsin is something to do with getting drunk."
"Expostulation is to have the smallpox."
"Monastery is the place for monsters."
"Cannibal is two brothers who killed each other in the Bible."
"Anatomy is the human body, which consists of three parts, the head, the
chist and the stummick. The head contains the eyes and brains, if any.
The chist contains the lungs and a piece of the liver. The stummick is
devoted to the bowels, of which there are five, a, e, i, o, u, and
sometimes w and y."